kumquat liqueur

Kumquat & Lillet Gelée

By jgreghenry Published September 22, 2009
Prep time: 90
Yield:1 ()

Ingredients:

  • 2 (1/4-ounce) envelopes unflavored gelatin
  • 0 red and yellow food dye
  • 0.25 cup fresh squeezed orange or kumquat juice
  • 0.25 c lillet blanc
  • 0.5 prosecco
  • 0.75 kumquacello (you could substitue limoncello or any orange liqueur)
  • 0.5 c sparkling water
  • 0.25 c sugar
  • 4 hin orange or kumquat slices, for garnish
  • 0 fresh mint sprigs, for garnish

Directions

1. Sprinkle gelatin over the cold orange in a small bowl. Add 1 drop each of red and yellow food dye. Let this mixture stand about 5 minutes. Then whisk the ingredients to dissolve the gelatin as much as possible. 2. Add the Lillet, Prosecco, kumquacello, sparkling water, and sugar to a microwave safe bowl. Heat on high for 3 minutes, until almost to a boiling point. Remove the bowl carefully and whisk the mixture well, until sugar dissolves. Pour this over the softened gelatin, and whisk until gelatin dissolves. 3. Pour mixture into an 8-inch square baking dish, or individual sized clear glass bowls. Refrigerate until set, at least 3 hours . Cut into 4 portions if you like, and garnish with fruit slices and mint.

Notes:

serves 4

Last Call- Kumquacello Gelee

08 May 2009

kumquat geleeMy Kumquacello is done. Fini. Terminé. Complet.

We had another tasting and again it did not fare well with my friends. I served it at the end of a small dinner party and I was the only person who liked it just as it was. 

It might suffer from the ugly child syndrome. Maybe I am like one of those parents who show you a picture of their still puckered up infant, or their gangly teen-ager and say 'isn't he adorable?"

"Yeah, a real heartbreaker", is always my safe answer.

Well maybe my kumquacello is some version of a "heartbreakingly" endearing offspring. Of course I love it, because I just spent 8 weeks making it! But it seems nobody else can embrace its charms.

But honestly. I think it's delicious. I really do. So we will never really know the answer. It's probably my stunningly sophisticated palate. It gets me every time...

But, you should have heard some of the remarks. Mostly non-committal. But I am not stupid. I can read between the lines. Even though people's "suggestions" about what I could do with my kumquacello made me mad, they did get me thinking.

Sippity Sup Continues »
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