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Haalo of Cook (almost) Anything At Least Once is hosting this week Kalyn's Weekend Herb Blogging. I have already written about sloes for WHB #55. Sloes must get frost before you can pick them. We had some cold nights and we picked lots of sloes. I decided to made two kinds of liqueur. The traditional way takes two month, but than I found an interesting liqueur recipe called »Hexenschreck« that needs only one week. Kalyn helped me with the translation. In English this means something like witch-shocker.


This delicious sloe liqueur warms you up on cold winter days.

Wash and dry 500 g sloes	Put a few into a mortar
Crush some pits to get the bitter flavour.	Give whole and crushed sloes into a sauce pan.
Cover with water	and bring to a boil

Cool down, add 1 litre red wine cover and let undisturbed for one week. Strain and add 1 stick of cinnamon, 3 cloves 7 g vanilla sugar and 2 star-anise and 300 g sugar and bring to a boil. Let cool down again and add 1 litre of vodka and 5 tablespoons of rum. Stir well and bottle in.

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