There are now three official liquorice lovers in the house, counting me and two of the three humans. The third human is in any case a fan of pastis (pictured), but I decided to take things into my own hooves and hit Google.
The recipe I found called for:
50 grams liquorice root
5 grams coriander seeds
20 grams cream of tartar
200 mL pure alcohol, or equivalent
5 L water.
Method: let the solid ingredients infuse for a few days in the alcohol and 1 L of water, before topping up with the other 4 L and storing.
My method:
Someone gave me a 20 g piece of liquorice root in an inspired moment at a party a couple of weeks ago. I remembered I'd brought back a litre bottle of food-grade alcohol from a trip to Italy a few months ago. There was, oddly, a jar of coriander seeds in the kitchen, presumably left by a previous flatmate.
Cream of tartar apparently can't be found in this strange country, so I decided to do without. You know you're stuffed if a recipe has footnotes suggesting ingredients may be found in a good pharmacy...but I digress.
The alcohol concentration of the original appeared altogether too weak, so I've combined in an empty Martini bottle:
20 g liquorice root
3 g coriander seeds
200 mL alcohol
top up with water.
I suspect it might need sugar as well, but I'll keep you posted.
3 comments:
ah! liquorice liqueur! fine idea, hugo.
So the two other humans and Hugo are no fan of Pastis :frown: ?
You must remember that hippos are much more generous and flexible in their thinking than humans: just because one member of the household likes pastis doesn't mean the rest of us don't!
That said, I do prefer to mix my pastis with water...
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