Add your favorite flavors and sweeteners to vodka, brandy, whiskey, and rum to make delicious homemade liqueurs. Andrew Schloss shows you simple techniques for making liqueurs using standard kitchen equipment, providing hundreds of recipes for blending your own flavored spirits with cinnamon, chocolate, honey, peaches, or anything else that might suit your fancy. Learn how easy it is to make your own versions of Baileys, Triple Sec, and Kahlúa, or try your hand at creating new and unique flavor combinations. Cheers! Andrew Schloss is a well-known teacher, food writer, and food product developer. Schloss has authored many cookbooks and countless food articles. His first book, Fifty Ways to Cook Most Everything, was a Book-of-the-Month-Club Main Selection. The Science of Good Food (co-authored with David Joachim) won an IACP Cookbook Award, and their book Mastering the Grill was a New York Times best-seller. Schloss is also the author of Homemade Soda. He is a past president of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and lives outside Philadelphia with his wife, Karen, and their incredibly well-fed dog. Acknowledgments Preface 1: The Basics: Homemade Liqueurs and Tasteful Spirits 2: The Recipes Fruit Liqueurs Vegetable Liqueurs Herb & Spice Liqueurs Nut & Seed Liqueurs Floral Liqueurs Coffee, Tea & Chocolate Liqueurs Creamy Liqueurs Caramel, Syrup & Butterscotch Liqueurs Infused Spirits 3: Cocktail Hour Resources Index As simple as... Alcohol + Flavorings + Sweetener Liqueurs put the orange zing in your margarita and the coffee jolt in your mudslide. If your cocktail is fruity, nutty, flowery, or creamy; if it tastes of coffee or caramel, chances are there's a liqueur involved. Liqueurs are delicious to sip straight up, fun to give as gifts, and easy to make with 159 creative flavors, including clone versions of many of your favorite commercial brands. You'll also find recipes for unsweetened infused spirits and a selection of 80 creative cocktails. "Pour a man a liqueur and he'll drink for a day. Teach him to make his own and he'll live on DIY limoncello all year." "Truly, there's something here for every possible boozy situation."

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