OK Rumtopf talk please......I sugared some berries.....

J

joanietoo

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black, rasp, goose, (and another type I don't recognize) berries, cherries (no pips) and sliced some apricots....I will get strawberries tomorrow....and after soaking these berries popped them into a jar with Mount Gay rum to cover. Then, as I have plenty of granadillas, I pulped some and added that to the rum...I feel this may have been a mistake as the lovely clear red coloured liquid has gone murkey and the fruit now all seems to float to the top. I keep pouring in rum but can't get the fruit to stay down and now there is "spittal", small white bubbles, around the edge of the glass bottle.

Will this age with-out going off?

Was it not a bad idea to add the pulp.

Can I still add strawberries that have been sugared?

Does the end result end up as a thick sauce or is it still all liquid and floating fruit?

Thanks for the help

J

 
Joanie, you can't do this all at once. It is a "step" thing.

You put some fruit in, sugar it and top with rum. In 5-7 days you put more fruit in and repeat. You usually put in just one kind of fruit at a time. I am afreaid yours needs to be refrigereated and used now--and start over.

 
OH Dear< Thanks Gretchen for answering...I did feel the necessity to...

put it in the fridge but even tho I've been in and out of there haven't had time to think of looking at what's happening to the fruit.
I will just as soon as I've finished reading all the posts I've missed.
I will do another soon. this one will not get strawberries if you think it is a bit late. The new one will start with strawberries. I used Mount Gay rum, do you think that is a good one. What about using brandy instead?
I have some of the best S African brandy sitting here.

 
Don't know that I would use a really good liquor--it's gonna get a lot of

sugar and fruit to disguise it. I just use "rum".

 
I love Mount Gay, and so does Martha Stuart. It is perhaps the ONLY thing I agree with Matha about.

It's pretty affordable here at Trader Joes. How ironic if it were expensive there in the Carribean, where it comes from.

 
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