Summary

Ingredients

• 750 g blackberries
• 250 g elderberries
• 400 g suar
• 1 packet vanilla sugar
• 1 bottle red wine, drier, e.g. Dornfelder
• 1 bottle schnapps, (grain or vodka (38%))

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Instructions

1. Wash the blackberries and elderberries, sort them, and place in a saucepan.
2. Add the sugar and vanilla sugar to the berries.
3. Pour in the red wine.
4. Heat over medium-high until the mixture comes to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
5. Let the mixture steep for 24 hours.
6. After 24 hours, add the schnapps and stir well to combine.
7. Pour the mixture through a cloth filter into clean bottles, allowing the liquid to drain without squeezing the berries.
8. Seal and store the liqueur in the bottles.