Cordials from Your Kitchen: Easy, Elegant Liqueurs You Can Make and Give by Pat Vargas, Pattie Vargas, Pamela Lappies (Editor)

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Synopsis

Create delicious, elegant liqueurs for entertaining or gift giving. It's easier than you think!

This complete guide serves up more than 100 easy recipes for delicious cordials to suit every occasion, including fruit-, nut-, herb-, and cream-based liqueurs, "candy cordials," coffee liqueurs, and flavored brandies, vodkas, and rums.

Recipes include:

-- Cinnamon Coffee Liqueur, Creme de Cacao, and Ouzo

-- Mint Julep, Rosemary-Tangerine, and Ginger Liqueurs

-- Black Walnut, Hazelnut, and Vanilla Butternut Liqueurs

-- Black Currant, Strawberry, Peach, Apple, and Melon Liqueurs

-- Spiced Blackberry Brandy, Peach Brandy, Lemon Vodka, and Pineapple Rum

-- Peaches and Cream, Dreamsicle Liqueur, and Chocolate Covered Cherry Cream

Cordials from Your Kitchen offers home-crafted versions of popular and traditional favorites, along with an astonishing array of original recipes. This thorough guide also presents simple recipes for using cordials to make deliciousdishes, desserts, and spirited fruits, and suggests creative gift-giving ideas.

Biography

Pattie Vargas is an avid home winemaker. He is co-author of several books on the subject, including Cordials from Your Kitchen and Country Wines, which has been revised and is now titled Making Wild Wines & Meads. Pattie is the Editorial Project Manager at Mazer Corporation and has won several awards. She is a member of the National Press Women's Association and National Council for the Social Studies. Pattie has three children and four grandchildren.

Besides working as an Internet consultant, She lives in Ohio.

Richard Gulling is an avid home winemaker. He is co-author of several books on the subject, including Cordials from Your Kitchen and Country Wines, which has been revised and is now titled Making Wild Wines & Meads. Richard is a pharmacy manager whose background in chemistry helped refine and modernize their winemaking process. He lives in Ohio.