This complete guide serves up more than 100 easy recipes for delicious cordials to suit every occasion, including unique and luxurious fruit-nut-, herb-, and cream-based liqueurs; "candy cordials"; coffee liqueurs; and flavored brandies, vodkas, and rums. The authors show readers how to easily make their own home-crafted versions of popular and traditional favorites, along with an astonishing array of original recipes. Also included are simple recipes for using cordials to make delicious dishes, desserts, and spirited fruits. A selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's Good Cook Club.

Create delicious, elegant liqueurs for entertaining or gift giving. It's easier than you think!

This complete guide serves up more than 100 easy recipes for delicious cordials to suit every occasion, including fruit-, nut-, herb-, and cream-based liqueurs, "candy cordials," coffee liqueurs, and flavored brandies, vodkas, and rums.

Recipes include:

-- Cinnamon Coffee Liqueur, Creme de Cacao, and Ouzo

-- Mint Julep, Rosemary-Tangerine, and Ginger Liqueurs

-- Black Walnut, Hazelnut, and Vanilla Butternut Liqueurs

-- Black Currant, Strawberry, Peach, Apple, and Melon Liqueurs

-- Spiced Blackberry Brandy, Peach Brandy, Lemon Vodka, and Pineapple Rum

-- Peaches and Cream, Dreamsicle Liqueur, and Chocolate Covered Cherry Cream

Cordials from Your Kitchen offers home-crafted versions of popular and traditional favorites, along with an astonishing array of original recipes. This thorough guide also presents simple recipes for using cordials to make deliciousdishes, desserts, and spirited fruits, and suggests creative gift-giving ideas.

Using these easy instructions, readers can create fruit, nut, herb, spice, and cream-based liqueurs, as well as flavored brandies, rums, and vodkas. Two-color.

Pattie Vargas is an avid home winemaker. He is co-author of several books on the subject, including Cordials from Your Kitchen and Country Wines, which has been revised and is now titled Making Wild Wines &Meads. Pattie is the Editorial Project Manager at Mazer Corporation and has won several awards. She is a member of the National Press Women's Association and National Council for the Social Studies. Pattie has three children and four grandchildren.

Besides working as an Internet consultant, She lives in Ohio.

Introduction

1 Getting Started

2 Something Fruity

3 Something Nutty

4 Herb and Spice Cordials

5 The Cream of the Crop

6 Candy Cordials

7 Coffee, Anyone?

8 Flavored Brandies, Rums, and Vodkas

9 Spirited Fruits

10 Your Questions Answered

Sources for Flavorings

Metric Conversion

Glossary

Labels

Index