Holiday Vodka

This year we filtered inexpensive Vodka through a Britta water filter 3 times as it's supposed to make it taste like good stuff. Poured into neat glass bottles or quart canning jars and wrapped with a ribbon, these make fantastic last minute host/hostess gifts around Xmas.

For a 1/2 gallon I'd say 4 cups or so of berries and the skins of 5 lemons for the lemon? It seems to come out no matter what you do.

Let sit for at least 6 weeks, however, I did 6 months and last year...it was good! So 6 weeks or more

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 (completely submerged in the liquid) during that time it can sit for months.

I *used* to think fancy recipes were necessary, but I've grown wiser in my years and 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) and NO you don't need good vodka! Just not the worst.

I use gallon jars, added a few big handfuls of frozen raspberries and the lemon peels from about 5 lemons.Include the fruit in the gift bottle or filter it out, it depends on the fruit and your bottle and your audience. Blueberries and raspberries and such are good for including, because they are small and will go through the neck easily. But melon is too big usually, unless you are really good at chopping. I found having just a bit of fruit that settles to the bottom is not a bad idea in the gift bottle. Kind of like flavored vinegars, you know

I think any fruit vodka drink tastes good with either tonic (if you DIDN'T sweeten it) or plain CLUB SODA if you did.But if you made lemon vodka (yum never did that) I bet adding it to, say, cranberry-lemonade would be DEELISH.Or even making a Bloody Mary with it!

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