Marrow Rum....

Would that work with a Giant Pumpkin ?

 

I've been looking for that recipe for the last 4 weeks. Any Jamaican I asked didn't seem to know.

My uncle used to make it in his shed when I was a kid but he's gone to the Great Garden in the Sky now, so I couldn't ask him.

Thanks, Marley. When you see me slurring my posts, you know that I will have been sucessful! :D :D :D

P.S. How do you get "the previously activated" yeast?

 

Don't be greedy now.

A marrowful is enough for you! :D :D :D

 

Put some dried yeast in half a cup of warm water with some sugar & lemon juice & put it somewhere warm for half an hour, when its bubbling & smells, its activated

 

we used to make beer when I was in boarding school ... we had a large plastic container that held approx 20 litres with a plastic screw on cap

Pineapple beer:

cut loads of very ripe pineapple including the skins in small pieces (small enough to fit into the container ... make sure that the container is at least 1/3 filled and make sure that the pineapple is over-ripe

pour in 1/2kg of brown sugar (sugar cane sugar, not beet sugar)

10 heaped tablespoons of dried yeast

pour water into the container but leave a bit of space near the top (leave about 3 inches clear

make a hole in the cap, and place a 2m length of plastic tube (the ones that are used for fishtank pumps

use some blue tack around the cap to seal and not allow air between the cap and the pipe

screw the cap onto the container and shake well

on the other end of the fishtank tube, tie something heavy (such as a metal washer)

place the end of the tube (with the weight) in a bucket of water .... this allows the 'fumes' to escape from the fermenting beer but does not allow air into the beer mixture

leave to ferment for 3 weeks .... strain the beer mixture through a cake flour sieve to remove the large pieces and enjoy .... even forms a head when poured ...

not sure of the alcohol content, but is potent stuff ... we were still young, and a couple of cups of this stuff and we used to 'stagger and stutter, (and sometimes vomit)!


we also made marula beer (a small fruit that grows in south africa ... when they fall off the trees and ferment, elephants and baboons eat the fruit ... has a high alcohol content and the animals get p*ssed ... they now use this fruit to make amarula cream
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Amarula_(1563541954).jpg

 

"Is this the way to Amarula ? I've been sleeping hugging my pillow"

I always use unrefined sugar, refined stuff gives you a hangover.

Used to make "unaccounted for" Alcohol in the back of the radiogramme, once valves had been replaced by transistors there was very little actual hardware in the cabinet. Just unscrewed the back, had a plastic gallon bottle on its side with a hole cut in one side for an airlock.

Nice & warm for it too

 

I heard that they move into the next day.

 

How much sugar would you need for a 934lb Pumpkin ?

 

Huh..... I DID wonder what you actually used marrows for........