Cordials from Your Kitchen

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Summary: This is a great beginners book!
Review: I'd never made liqueurs before and this book was awesome in explaining the basics. After making several of the recipes, some with great success and others not so successful, I began modifying them to my own tastes and the tastes of my friends. I now have a list of my own recipes that work wonderfully. I highly recommend this book, especially if you're someone who likes to tinker with recipes in the kitchen.

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Summary: Great book, great fun!
Review: I've made about a dozen of the cordials in this book. They are easy to make whether you use fruit or extracts and they look and taste great! I'm including some in all my holiday gift baskets this year and we are going to feature them at our Holiday Open House. Personally, I'm not a drinker but I use cordials frequently in cooking, especially desserts. This book has saved me a lot of money considering I can make a bottle of walnut liqueur for a few dollars instead of buying it...

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Summary: Awesome...buy it and be creative...
Review: In an effort to save money this past Christmas, my husband and I decided to get back to homemade gifts. What a hit our homemade liqueurs were! So, we decided it was worth the investment of buying this book and adding to our collection of recipes.

This book contains delightful and different recipes that we are anxious to start making. Things like mango rum, pineapple rum, pear liqueur, cherry liqueur, the list goes on. Our friends and family are now always asking "what's brewing?" and putting in their requests for next Christmas!!!

My only concern is that many of the recipes in this book contain a lot of sugar (which we try to limit.) For gifts, we use the proper recipes, but for home we do experiment with less sugar or equal (next I'll try Splenda) and have had some success.

This book is fun and worth buying, but I won't share it! We've even started making fun and quirky labels on the computer (with a logo too!) to dress up the gifts. People love it! And, we now save all of our small screw top bottles (200-400 mls are perfect) so that one batch of liqueur will yield 4-6 gifts for giving.