Schnapps Recipes for Healing

[tiachica]

Lol at the book title, but I found an old book of mine when I visited my folks this weekend. It's in German but losely translates to:

Healing Schnapps for DIY - 100 simple recipes for your health....

Is anybody interested in any of the recipes, then I'll translate them and type them up. These are the chapters:

Clover
EggNog
Spicy Mixtures
Sweet Stuff
Chocolate
With beer
Koffee
Mead
Lemon
Orange
Banana
Mandarine
Cherry
Strawberry
Apricot
Pineapple
Walnut & Hazelnut
Juniper
Rowanberry
Sloe
Rose
Quince
Cranberry
Currant
Raspberry
Blueberry
Rosehip
Blackberry
Mixed berries
English Plantain
Achillea
Peppermint
Pinales
Lemon Balm
Masterwort
Mixed herbs
Dandelion
Caraway
Garlic
Chervil
St. John's Wort
Coltsfoot
Elderberry
Silverweed
Gentian
Ramsons
Arnica
Aniseed
Angelica

Let me know if there's any interest in a recipe and I'll translate it and post it.

TiaChica :-)

[zazen999]

Wow

*suddenly has a pain that needs attention*

I particularly like the sound of the third one

[tiachica]

Alrighty,...

Chocolate Liquor #1

100g Chocolate
200g Sugar
1/2l Milk
1/8l Cognac
1/8l Neutral grain spirit (not sure if you can get this in the UK, but you can just replace it with Cognac in this recipe).

Finely cut the chocolate and melt with the sugar in the milk, stirring continuously bringing to the boil.
Add the alcohol, let the liquid cool down completely.
Fill into bottle and leave 14 days in a cold environment.


Chocolate Liquor 2
150g Chocolate
5/8l Milk
250g Sugar
3 eggs
1/4l Neutral grain spirit (or replace with cognac)
1/4l Cognac

Separate the eggs, keep the yolks.
Prepare a big bowl with cold water.
Heat the milk in a small pot
In a second pot, gently heat the chocolate and very slowly dilute with the warm milk.
Add the sugar and the three egg yolks.
On a small fire, gently heat while continously beating until nearly boiling point.
Put into the bowl with the cold water, adding the alcohol.
Continue beating until completely cooled, fill into bottle.
Keep the liquor well corked and keep in a cool location.