I have two recipes and one called for cherry liqueor (sp?) and one calls for blackberry liqueor. Is that the same as brandy??? It's the only thing the liqueor store had. If it's not the same will it still work?
I'm making a strawberry filling with the cherry. and I'm making a rasberry ganache with the blackberry.
tia
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Liqueurs are generally sweetened, flavored drinks with a base liquor like brandy or vodka. You can make many of them yourself. I made about a twenty year supply (I'm not much of a drinker and I tended to forget about it.) of Kahlua. It was very good. I found this site for homemade liqueurs. I wouldn't use straight brandy in place of a flavored liqueur.
http://www.guntheranderson.com/liqueurs/raspber3.htm
It takes awhile because you have to let the mixture age, but it is certainly cheaper because you can use cheap vodka or brandy as your base, and you supply the sugar and flavoring. If you don't have anything else, a glass canning jar works fine as a bottle.
if the liquor is the primary flavoring agent, I'd get the best one I could afford.
brandy can be flavored, but if you just bought regular brandy it definitely isn't what you are looking for. It will taste like brandy - not like cherry or blackberry flavored brandy.
Chambord is a brand of decent nd commonly available blackberry liquor
Kirsch (generic term, not a brand name) is cherry flavored, and I've only ever seen it made from brandy, but there very well could be other bases for it. it also should be easy to find at any store selling liquor or spirits.
what i bought was cherry flavored and blackberry flavored brandy. I just wasn't sure if that was the same as the "cherry liquor" or "blackberry liquor" the recipes called for.
In one of the recipes It shows how to make "kirsh" but with the flavored liquor. Didn't know what exactly was considered liquor. (brandy...?)
thanks
Liqueurs are generally sweetened, flavored drinks with a base liquor like brandy or vodka. You can make many of them yourself. I made about a twenty year supply (I'm not much of a drinker and I tended to forget about it.) of Kahlua. It was very good. I found this site for homemade liqueurs. I wouldn't use straight brandy in place of a flavored liqueur.
http://www.guntheranderson.com/liqueurs/raspber3.htm
It takes awhile because you have to let the mixture age, but it is certainly cheaper because you can use cheap vodka or brandy as your base, and you supply the sugar and flavoring. If you don't have anything else, a glass canning jar works fine as a bottle.
thanks for the site... it's great information. I don't drink either that's why I don't know what to buy!! LOL 
Chambord is a brand of decent nd commonly available blackberry liquor
Ahh HA!! We bought some of this to try awhile ago and it had a fruity flavor, but I couldn't peg down exactly what! That is it, Blackberry!
I need to find some uses to use it up. I still have over 1/2 of it left.
Leily
Chambord is a brand of decent nd commonly available blackberry liquor
Ahh HA!! We bought some of this to try awhile ago and it had a fruity flavor, but I couldn't peg down exactly what! That is it, Blackberry!
I need to find some uses to use it up. I still have over 1/2 of it left.
Leily
over ice cream!!!
as a flavoring in tea
(of course, you could just send it to me!!!)
over ice cream!!!
as a flavoring in tea
Hmm.. maybe that will be desert tonight, with ice cream!
(of course, you could just send it to me!!!)
LOL yeah right! I like the stuff... just a not by itself all the time... Although it is pretty good by itself.... Hmm... It is time to refill my drink tonight!
Leily
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