Grapes Preserved in Alcohol

Fruits preserved in alcohol make a great addition to desserts and cocktails, enriching and refining their taste. You will need only ripe sweet grapes with firm berries and pure 96% alcohol to prepare grapes preserved in alcohol. You can use cherries, sweet cherries or other fruits instead of grapes.

Ingredients for Grapes Preserved in Alcohol

  • 2.2 lb grapes
  • 30.4 fl oz/ 3.8 cups/ 1.9 pt 96 % alcohol
  • 3.4 fl oz/ 0.4 cup/ 0.2 pt/ 100 g water
  • 0.2 lb/ 7 tablespoons/ 100-150 g sugar

    Ingredients for Grapes Preserved in Alcohol

    Ingredients for Grapes Preserved in Alcohol

Cooking Instructions

  1. Separate grape berries from the raceme cutting them with scissors so that every berry has a small piece of stalk of about 0.4 in length.
  2. Put berries into a colander and rinse them in running water well.
  3. Then arrange grape berries on a pure towel and leave them for 30-40 minutes to dry.
  4. Acepticize jars and covers.
  5. Put the dried grapes into the jars so that they come a little below the neck.
  6. Pour water into sugar and boil it, then cool the syrup.
  7. Then pour the syrup into alcohol, mix and fill in the jars with the grapes. Alcohol must cover the berries. It is important to save the grapes from going bad.
  8. Fix the covers hermitically and put the jars in a dark cool place.
  9. Let it steep for 2 months, and it is ready.
Grapes Preserved in Alcohol

Grapes Preserved in Alcohol