Anyone Making Boilo?
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Depends how you like it. I made a batch right after Thanksgiving. Gave most of it away and what I kept is all gone. I like mine citrusy. I don't use a ton of honey or any fruit other than lemons and oranges. I zest the fruit and put that in and then peel it too. Some guys just quarter it and throw it in peel and all. Nothing wrong with that either but peeling makes it smoother and takes the bitterness out.
Was at a gathering last weekend where I think three of us brought our boilos and we shared them all with everybody and they were all good, it's just a matter of how you like to make it. I don't mind a sweeter batch somebody else made. Some guys go in big on the cinnamon. Another thing, use good local honey. It matters. Don't buy that garbage on the supermarket shelf.
Now somebody like doublehaul undoubtedly would make a killer boilo!
Was at a gathering last weekend where I think three of us brought our boilos and we shared them all with everybody and they were all good, it's just a matter of how you like to make it. I don't mind a sweeter batch somebody else made. Some guys go in big on the cinnamon. Another thing, use good local honey. It matters. Don't buy that garbage on the supermarket shelf.
Now somebody like doublehaul undoubtedly would make a killer boilo!
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I had a bad case of that in my crotch. Vowed to stop w/ the Pitt girls
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That's where the two recipes that we use came from. We used the quartered fruit idea last batch and just cooked it until the fruit was basically just mush, which might have been either too long or not long enough! Also may have had a little too much honey. Don't know where to get local honey this time of the year so grocery store stuff wins by default.
Understood! It's a whole process..we spent a good bit of time talking boilo last week. For example, stick cinnamon is expensive as hell if you buy McCormick in the store. So the one guy was telling me he gets it at a farmers market in the summer and for cheap, too. Gets a whole lot and saves it for boilo. Same with honey. Next year get it in the summer and hold onto it for boilo season. Doesn't matter if it crystallizes.
Damn. This comes up every year, and every year I say that next year I am making this.
Please, someone remind me in advance next year that I need so prepare to make some boilo. I do not want to go to my grave next having not mastered this.
Please, someone remind me in advance next year that I need so prepare to make some boilo. I do not want to go to my grave next having not mastered this.
It's murderous if you drink enough of it. You may find Doritos in the fridge in the morning.
Using medium heat, bring to rolling boil for a few minutes. Remove from heat, let it cool below 150 degrees, then you add booze.
As for honey, any brand is fine. Remember, amount of honey determines sweetness.
True, but the citrus helps prevent scurvy. Seems like a fair trade.
