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In How to Make Your Own Drinks - Create fresh seasonal drinks from elderflower cordial to Cinnamon Schnapps award-winning author Susy Atkins gives the low-down on how to create delicious cordials, wines, infusions, liqueurs and health-giving juices from fresh, seasonal home-grown or locally sourced ingredients with minimum fuss and maximum results. Recipes for more than 100 drinks include thirst-quenching Apple Juice, rich Blackcurrant Cordial, tasty Limoncello and enticing Sloe Gin. Whether you are a gardener with a glut of summer berries, a forager seeking inspiration for armfuls of hand-picked elderflower or a farmers' market devotee wondering what to do with a bulk-buy of late-season apples, How to Make Your Own Drinks - Create fresh seasonal drinks from elderflower cordial to Cinnamon Schnapps will guide you in the right direction, giving tips, advice and recipe ideas on how to make easy, cheap, mouth-watering and additive-free drinks from the bounty of natural ingredients available.
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Susy Atkins is an author and broadcaster who is known for her no-nonsense, down-to-earth and often humorous approach. She appears regularly on BBC1's flagship cookery programme, Saturday Kitchen, and speaks at food and wine festivals around the UK. She writes the weekly 'Sauce' drinks column for the Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine and is wine columnist for the new National Geographic magazine supplement Green. She has won awards for her writing, including Glenfiddich Book of the Year for Drink!, Champagne Lanson Book of the Year for the Which? Wine Guide (twice) and International Wine and Spirit Competition Communicator of the Year.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
From the arrival of this new book by Suzy Atkins (you may know her as one of the wine experts on Saturday Kitchen), combined with a renewed interest in foraging, growing your own, seasonality, using local produce, healthy eating and thriftiness, I think there's going to be a revival of the home-made drink industry. The ingredients are cheap (if not free), the methods quick and simple and the results often spectacular.
The variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks you can make at home is astonishing. There are several suggested recipes for cordials, wines, champagnes, beers, vodkas, gins and teas in each chapter but once you've got the know-how and the inspiration, there are countless possibilities to try.
The book is thoughtfully written with information on how to get started and equipment needed as well as tips on presentation so that you can make drinks to give as gifts and notes on which drinks freeze well enabling you to enjoy a glut of produce in drink form right through the year. Not only are there recipes for the drinks themselves but ideas on what to do with them - cocktails, desserts and food pairings, for example.
There are chapters on drinks you can make with foraged ingredients such as elderflowers, elderberries, blackberries, nettles and even oak leaves. There are recipes for citrus, orchard and summer fruit drinks, floral drinks, wines and grape drinks, teas and even store cupboard infusions. Something for everyone and any occasion.
Armed with my new book I whipped up my first batch of elderflower cordial within half an hour. Just 24 hours later and I was sipping the fruits of my labour mixed with some sparkling water.
I've been eager to try making my own ginger beer but have been put off by complicated methods, the need for a plant and the amount of time required to make it. I was pleased to read Suzy's quick and easy recipe using fresh ginger and fast-action yeast, ready in days?! 20 minutes or so of effort and I now have my own ginger beer fermenting.
I don't yet have the equipment to make the wines and champagnes in the book but I've still got plenty of cordials to get through. Inspired by the recipe for rhubarb wine and spurred on by the success of the elderflower, the next harvest of rhubarb from the garden is destined for the bottle in the form of rhubarb and ginger cordial.
I've often thought of making your own drinks as the pinnacle of domesticity. Something I've dreamed of doing but never put into practice. My dream has become a reality and I've a feeling making my own drinks is going to get addictive. Bottoms up!
The variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks you can make at home is astonishing. There are several suggested recipes for cordials, wines, champagnes, beers, vodkas, gins and teas in each chapter but once you've got the know-how and the inspiration, there are countless possibilities to try.
The book is thoughtfully written with information on how to get started and equipment needed as well as tips on presentation so that you can make drinks to give as gifts and notes on which drinks freeze well enabling you to enjoy a glut of produce in drink form right through the year. Not only are there recipes for the drinks themselves but ideas on what to do with them - cocktails, desserts and food pairings, for example.
There are chapters on drinks you can make with foraged ingredients such as elderflowers, elderberries, blackberries, nettles and even oak leaves. There are recipes for citrus, orchard and summer fruit drinks, floral drinks, wines and grape drinks, teas and even store cupboard infusions. Something for everyone and any occasion.
Armed with my new book I whipped up my first batch of elderflower cordial within half an hour. Just 24 hours later and I was sipping the fruits of my labour mixed with some sparkling water.
I've been eager to try making my own ginger beer but have been put off by complicated methods, the need for a plant and the amount of time required to make it. I was pleased to read Suzy's quick and easy recipe using fresh ginger and fast-action yeast, ready in days?! 20 minutes or so of effort and I now have my own ginger beer fermenting.
I don't yet have the equipment to make the wines and champagnes in the book but I've still got plenty of cordials to get through. Inspired by the recipe for rhubarb wine and spurred on by the success of the elderflower, the next harvest of rhubarb from the garden is destined for the bottle in the form of rhubarb and ginger cordial.
I've often thought of making your own drinks as the pinnacle of domesticity. Something I've dreamed of doing but never put into practice. My dream has become a reality and I've a feeling making my own drinks is going to get addictive. Bottoms up!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Perfect book to use to create drinks using ingredients that are in season & some of them can be found in your garden. Great mix of flavours, perfect for all tastes & I like that there are non alcoholic & alcoholic drinks available for you to make. I can't wait to try the Strawberry wine using home-grown strawberries :)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
We often worry about what is in the food we eat and then ignore the contents of the drinks we buy in the shops (or alternatively sip on plain water). Home cooking is the way to know precisely what goes into your food - Susy Atkins book is the way forward if you want to know what is in what you drink.
There are a few bits of kit you will need, especially if you are going to be making any of the alcoholic beverages - this is all listed and it's uses explained - however many of the simpler drinks can be made with everyday kitchen equipment.
There are simple infusions (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic); drinks requiring a little "cooking"; and, quite complex drinks some of which require fermentation - there is something for all levels of ability, and given the clarity of instruction I think I could easily tackle some of the more complex drinks successfully.
I have made two drinks from this book - lavender lemonade and cherryade (using shop bought cherries - but I will be making it with our own grown cherries later in the year). Both were delicious and really simple to make - and I know that I am giving my family a drink made from natural ingredients with nothing artificial at all. I'm looking forward to making more of these drinks as the summer produces more flowers, fruits and herbs for me to use. Really enjoying this book!
There are a few bits of kit you will need, especially if you are going to be making any of the alcoholic beverages - this is all listed and it's uses explained - however many of the simpler drinks can be made with everyday kitchen equipment.
There are simple infusions (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic); drinks requiring a little "cooking"; and, quite complex drinks some of which require fermentation - there is something for all levels of ability, and given the clarity of instruction I think I could easily tackle some of the more complex drinks successfully.
I have made two drinks from this book - lavender lemonade and cherryade (using shop bought cherries - but I will be making it with our own grown cherries later in the year). Both were delicious and really simple to make - and I know that I am giving my family a drink made from natural ingredients with nothing artificial at all. I'm looking forward to making more of these drinks as the summer produces more flowers, fruits and herbs for me to use. Really enjoying this book!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A book to get the tastebuds tingling
A collection of over seventy alcoholic and soft drinks which can be made at home, many using home-made or foraged ingredients. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Country Publications
Brilliant book!
We purchased this as a wedding gift for a couple who make their own sloe gin every year and had a glance through it before wrapping it up. Read more
Published 4 months ago by mousiemcp
delicious!!
easy to follow and lots of fun. Im going to make loads for xmas and xmas presents.This book is well worth the cost. A bargain...
Published 7 months ago by jbee
Making your own drinks just got easier!
Fabulous easy to follow book, containing all the information you need to make your own drinks! The book has a section dedicated to what you might need in order to make drinks, and... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mrs Goriami
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