Foods Containing Booze or How to Survive the Holidays!

[Red Sonja]

Suggested by Knot Sweet in the Festivus airing of Grievances thread...


I'll start with the original inspiration: Rum Cake.

 

[midwestyankee]

I make a plum pudding every year. While the recipe does not call for any booze, I usually soak a clean tea towel in rum and then wrap the pudding in this towel for several days before serving the pudding.

 

[knot_sweet]

Inject a lot of oranges with vodka. Then every morning you can have fresh squeezed orange juice with no-one being the wiser.

ETA; Those little chocolate bottles that have alcohol in them seem perfectly acceptable at this time of year.

 

[kiwi_submissive]

Trifle or Rum truffles or vodka jellies. I would not recommend driving after any of those.

 

[seela]

Take a wheel of Blue Stilton and a bottle of port. Open the port bottle, make a hole (not all the way through) in the middle of the Stilton wheel, put the bottle in, let port ooze into the cheese, try not to eat too much of it. I dare you.

Black Forest cake.
Chocolate Guinness cake.

 

[knot_sweet]

my mum's rum balls.

real bundaberg rum (lots of it), crushed biscuit mix, glace cherries, cocoa powder, condensed milk, soaked for a couple of days then rolled into balls and rolled into desicated coconut.

 

[Red Sonja]

Take a wheel of Blue Stilton and a bottle of port. Open the port bottle, make a hole (not all the way through) in the middle of the Stilton wheel, put the bottle in, let port ooze into the cheese, try not to eat too much of it. I dare you.

Black Forest cake.
Chocolate Guinness cake.

OMG... Seela... the Stilton and port... that sounds amazing. We're big Stilton fans, and fans of port as well.

 

[Red Sonja]

Inject a lot of oranges with vodka. Then every morning you can have fresh squeezed orange juice with no-one being the wiser.

ETA; Those little chocolate bottles that have alcohol in them seem perfectly acceptable at this time of year.

This may be the only way to survive the obligatory gathering with the fundie side of ddh's family. Secret vodka oj... brilliant.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

I'm a bit of a traditionalist.

Eggnog, with either rum (her, mostly, though I won't turn it down) or bourbon (me).

I like the ease of just pouring two things and then drinking.

(Yes, I'm lazy.)

Now I'm thinking about banana or pumpkin bread with a bit of rum/bourbon soaked in via Yank's methodology. I wonder how that would turn out... ?

 

[Red Sonja]

I'm a bit of a traditionalist.

Eggnog, with either rum (her, mostly, though I won't turn it down) or bourbon (me).

I like the ease of just pouring two things and then drinking.

(Yes, I'm lazy.)

Now I'm thinking about banana or pumpkin bread with a bit of rum/bourbon soaked in via Yank's methodology. I wonder how that would turn out... ?

http://crepesofwrath.net/2012/09/10/banana-daquiri-bread/ It's not soaked in it... but, if it tastes good in this fashion... I bet it would go really well with Yank's. Or maybe a way to add just a bit more. I'd skip the extra sugar on the crust, though..

 

[Sir_Winston54]

http://crepesofwrath.net/2012/09/10/banana-daquiri-bread/ It's not soaked in it... but, if it tastes good in this fashion... I bet it would go really well with Yank's. Or maybe a way to add just a bit more. I'd skip the extra sugar on the crust, though..

Looks yummy. Sounds yummy. I think I'm going to be coming back to that page again fairly soon.

 

[midwestyankee]

Looks yummy. Sounds yummy. I think I'm going to be coming back to that page again fairly soon.

Ya gotta love the site name, too, if nothing else. I just passed the daiquiri banana bread recipe on to the household baker.

 

[seela]

OMG... Seela... the Stilton and port... that sounds amazing. We're big Stilton fans, and fans of port as well.

Stilton really is amazing. Especially if served with really thin gingerbread cookies and fig jam. Banyuls wines are excellent with stilton, too. Kinda like port, but not quite.

 

[Red Sonja]

Stilton really is amazing. Especially if served with really thin gingerbread cookies and fig jam. Banyuls wines are excellent with stilton, too. Kinda like port, but not quite.

*nods sagely, and adds to Christmas shopping list*

 

[knot_sweet]

I'm a bit of a traditionalist.

Eggnog, with either rum (her, mostly, though I won't turn it down) or bourbon (me).

I like the ease of just pouring two things and then drinking.

(Yes, I'm lazy.)

Now I'm thinking about banana or pumpkin bread with a bit of rum/bourbon soaked in via Yank's methodology. I wonder how that would turn out... ?

Is it wrong to say I prefer my eggnog with brandy, a little nutmeg and a tiny bit of cardamom?

The banana bread soaked in alcohol sounds like a plan. Maybe coconut rum for the tropical effect...

 

[Red Sonja]

Is it wrong to say I prefer my eggnog with brandy, a little nutmeg and a tiny bit of cardamom?

The banana bread soaked in alcohol sounds like a plan. Maybe coconut rum for the tropical effect...

Definitely not wrong!!

Found another source of inspiration on http://boozefood.com!

Drunken Berries:

Soak about a pint of strawberries in Chambord and port overnight. Top with melted dark chocolate, and whipped heavy cream.

 

[IrisAlthea]

One of my aunts used to make chocolate covered rum soaked cherries.
I remember them fondly because the grown-ups kind of forgot just how rum soaked they were and let the 13-year old Iris have free access to the bowl.

 

[seela]

One of my aunts used to make chocolate covered rum soaked cherries.
I remember them fondly because the grown-ups kind of forgot just how rum soaked they were and let the 13-year old Iris have free access to the bowl.

Classic! I have the same experience with rum raisins.

The cherries sound really good, though. I'll have to try them at some point.

 

[Niam1985]

I make an Irish black ginger cake that I'm thinking would be really good booze infused. Maybe espresso vodka...

 

[IrisAlthea]

Classic! I have the same experience with rum raisins.

The cherries sound really good, though. I'll have to try them at some point.

She still makes them byt I know my limits better now. =)
Just make sure you use half as much sugar as fruit (by weight) and that the rum covers the fruit.
You can add fruit all summer and then let it sit until christmas.

 

[Red Sonja]

She still makes them byt I know my limits better now. =)
Just make sure you use half as much sugar as fruit (by weight) and that the rum covers the fruit.
You can add fruit all summer and then let it sit until christmas.

Do you spice the cherries at all? I've made/canned brandied cherries as a gift from time to time because there are those in my extended family who really like Old Fashioneds. When I do that I add cinnamon, cloves, etc... would that work with the rum version or would it be ill-advised?

 

[IrisAlthea]

Do you spice the cherries at all? I've made/canned brandied cherries as a gift from time to time because there are those in my extended family who really like Old Fashioneds. When I do that I add cinnamon, cloves, etc... would that work with the rum version or would it be ill-advised?

I don't know if it would work really. I like them to much just as they are.

 

[knot_sweet]

Soak figs and cherries in Bols Parfait Amour and top your pavlova with it.