Holiday Vodka

• Inexpensive Vodka (you don't need good vodka, just not the worst)
• Fruit

Delightful Deals:
Filter the cheap stuff through a Britta water filter - 3 times as it's supposed to make it taste like good stuff. Pour into neat glass bottles or quart canning jars and wrapped with a ribbon. These make fantastic last minute host/hostess gifts around Christmas.

Home*Sweet*Home:
I use gallon jars, added a few big handfuls of frozen raspberries and the lemon peels from about 5 lemons.

The filter we used was needing to be changed out of the Britta so it was no loss anyway...I figure it can't hurt?I haven't made lemon for this season but I did in the summer and my Son brought it with lemonade to a party. It was a hit!

I just use fruit!!! Any fruit. I just chop up whatever fruit is handy and put it in a container and cover it with vodka and TRUST ME filtering is not necessary unless you use POTATO vodka or something....let it sit for weeks and DONE! As long the fruit is never exposed to air* (i.e., completely covered with vodka) during that time it can sit for months.The longer the better but really, it doesn't matter that much. Just buy a pretty bottle and no one cares.

I've found NO you don't need to add sugar (but you can - about a cup per big bottle of vodka works well) and NO the fruit doesn't need to be fresh (I use frozen nowadays)

* I mean the vodka has to cover the fruit at all times. If the fruit is not covered with alcohol, it could ROT. So you keep it covered with the alchohol and it's fine. I stir mine every once in a while, just to be sure.