Rum Toff - What to do with all that fruit

[crashdive123]

1 c. fresh fruit
1 c. sugar over fruit, leave for one hour

Pour enough rum over fruit and sugar to cover well. Add 1 cup fresh fruit covered with 1 cup sugar each week. Let ferment 3 months in crock with lid. Great over ice cream. Use fresh:

Strawberries
Peaches
Blueberries
Cherries
Melon balls
Cantaloupe balls
Pear
White grapes

DO NOT USE BLACKBERRIES OR APPLES.

[GVan]

Now you're wasteing good rum.

My aunt in Illinois use to do the same thing, except she used brandy. The old bitty was smashed every time I saw her, and I never saw her take a drink only aet preserved fruit.

[canid]

at those ethanol concentrations, there is no way in high heaven that fruit is fermenting.

[nell67]

How is it a waste?? It's still going to be ingested,and thats the point,right?

[BraggSurvivor]

I make it in a pumpkin. Buy as big a pumpkin as you can find (dont clean the inside), add all the fruit, sugar, water and yeast. Seal the pumpkin top with wax and store in a cool dark area.

I once left in a couple weeks too long and the pumpkin started to leak a bit. Peeled the paint right off the basement floor. Powerful stuff!

;)