This is a quick rumtopf recipe using winter fruits and ready to eat in after weeks
Author:Justina Sullivan
Prep Time:20 Minutes
Total Time:2 weeks
Yield:1500ml 1x
Category:Sweet
Method:Soaking
Cuisine:European
Ingredients
Scale
1kg of deseeded and chopped mixed autumn and winter fruits
500g sugar
1500ml of 54% Rum
3 x large pieces of orange rind
3 x 1 inch pieces of ginger
6 cloves
10 black peppercorns
2 star anise
1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
10 juniper berries
1 cinnamon stick
Instructions
After you have deseeded and chopped your chosen fruits into bite size pieces, weigh to ensure you have one kilo.
Add 1/4 of the fruit to your rumtopf pot and sprinkle with 1/4 of the sugar. Scatter over some spices, orange rind and ginger. Repeat this process until all the fruit, sugar and spices are in the pot.
Pour over the rum. Place the lid on top and keep somewhere dark and cool for 2 weeks.
Serve the rumtopf over ice cream (Such as this homemade Passionfruit No Churn Ice Cream), with cakes, waffles, crepes etc. Any leftover rum can be drunk like a schnapps.