Forget jam, THIS is what you want to make with your blackberry glut. Fruity, sweet and deeply purple, it’s almost too easy to drink.
- 750g blackberries
- 200g granulated sugar
- 700ml vodka
- Wash the blackberries and tumble them into a sterilised giant kilner jar (or 2 smaller jars)
- Then tip in the sugar and lightly mash the blackberries with the sugar
- Pour over the vodka, seal the jar and shake to dissolve the sugar
- .Leave in a dark, cool cupboard for 3 weeks, taking out to shake it up every couple of days
- Strain the beautifully purple vodka through a sieve lined with muslin into a jug, then through a funnel into a clean bottle
- Seal and keep in the fridge to serve cold (if you put it in the freezer, it will form a delicous boozy slush, which I definitely not a terrible outcome)
- (And eat the vodka-infused blackberries over vanilla ice cream)
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