Homemade Liqueurs [Hardcover]

Dona Meilach (Author), Mel Meilach (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1979

Create excellent simulations of popular liqueurs easily and inexpensively. How-to information and a discussion of ingredients instruct the novice.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 222 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary; First Edition edition (October 1, 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0809271370
• ISBN-13: 978-0809271375
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,599 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The cornerstone of liqueur-making knowledge, March 5, 2002

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Gunther W. Anderson (Pepperell, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Homemade Liqueurs (Hardcover)

If you want to learn to make liqueurs, start here. There are other books that can give you fancy recipes that purport to taste like all manner of commercial liquors, but if you want to actually know what you're doing, this is the book. Beyond its wealth of recipes, it's filled with knowledge and understanding about the process of liqueur-making. It gives you not only variations on its recipes but completely different approaches for some flavors. By reading and paying attention to the recipes, you will come to understand why some things work and some don't; you will come to understand what sorts of changes you can make to a recipe; and you will finally be able to make your own recipes with confidence - because no book can give you all the liqueur recipes there are. Other books can tell you how to make liqueurs, but this book teaches you how to make the recipes. I recommend it strongly to any liqueur-maker who wants more than just rote instruction.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Several fruit based liquors to make in your home., December 22, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Best 50 Homemade Liqueurs (Paperback)

Althought there were 50 recipes, they were very similar, just with different fruits. An addition to a liquor recipe collection but not for the beginner recipe collector.

26 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not very good, December 19, 1999

By 

Jonathan Addess - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best 50 Homemade Liqueurs (Paperback)

Not are the recepies similar to each other, most of them are not very good. Grapefruit - excellent Rosmary - OK Tangerine Brandy - Ghastly Better books are available.