Blood Cordial

[azurelunatic]

Back before Christmas, I started some Blood Cordial, so called because it's deep red and thick and a little scary for the uninitiated. Tonight, it is finished (or so we think). I decided to decant it from the large iced tea jug that it's been brewing in for the last several months into a final bottle.

Since there were still fruit bits in it, I had to strain it. Since I was already slightly intoxicated, this became a slight issue. HOwever, I managed, quite well, and the end product is remarkably free of little floaty things. There wasn't quite enough to fill the entire three-liter bottle, and it was more runny than I'd wanted, so I I added almost three cups of sugar, to help thicken, sweeten, and make more evil.

It's also remarkably thick. In the bottle, it looks almost black, maybe a bit red-purple around the edges if tilted. I wanted to know if it would glow red if held up to the light. No soap. It is always dim in my room, so I got the big bonky flashlight and shone that through. Amazingly, it only lit part of the bottle, instead of making the entire thing light up.

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[juuro.livejournal.com]

Indicative of the fluid being, indeed, a solution, instead of a suspension -- even a colloidal suspension. Even the colloids have something of a scattering effect while in solutions the ray traces a straight path.

Hmm... if there was a way to get pectin in the mix, perhaps that would give rise to some scattering. (Pectin? whatever it is that makes blackcurrant juice gel by itself.)

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[azurelunatic]

Hmmm... I wonder where marxdarx put his laser pointer.

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[azurelunatic]

And yes, pectin. Mama would toss in some of the less ripe cranberries to make the cranberry sauce thicken more.

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

Uh, that stuff. It scares me. a lot.

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[azurelunatic]

Yep.

It looks more black in person.

[sraun]

So - do you have recipe for this? It looks very much like something I shouldn't have, but would love to try.

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[azurelunatic]

Take a large container, maybe a gallon container. Dump maybe 5 small bags of frozen dark red or purple fruit in. Add maybe 4 pounds of white sugar. Pour in the bulk of a 1.75 liter container of vodka. The resulting mess should fill most of the container. Leave it around, stirring fairly regularly, for a month or so. If the fruit starts to look white, strain it out and put in some new fruit.

Results: pure evil.