Love pálinka? Then you’ll like these ideas!

A more and more popular part of the culture surrounding pálinka is the home-made so-called “bedded” pálinka – reports sokszinuvidek.24.hu. It is quite easy to prepare, and the result will please all connoisseurs. And, as variations are endless, there is a lot of room to be creative.

Classical bedding

The secret ingredient – in fact, the base of it all – is a high quality, home-made batch of pálinka. As such, it has no added sugar before the decocting process, only fruits.

This can be any fruit, as the final taste will come from the bedded liquid.

However, as the saying goes, there is no accounting for taste, so every household may have different ways of preparing home-made pálinka. It depends on taste and available ingredients what kind of bedded pálinka gets made.

The standard recipe instructs a handful of raisins, dried plums, dried sour cherries, dried currants, dried apricots, a stick of vanilla and 3 to 4 tablespoons of honey (depending on tastes) to make one litre of pálinka. However, it is a valid question whether anything can substitute the somewhat pricey dried fruits for the bedding.

Luckily, the number of variation-options are only limited by having to pay attention to the harmony of the ingredients’ tastes.

A list of ideas for the bedding of 1 litre of pálinka

1. 2 pieces of ripe chilli paprika, a handful of washed, cut-up orange peel and the same amount of lemon peel (without its inner, white part).
2. A handful of blackthorn and a handful of rose-hip (preferably dried or picked after the first freeze), a handful of orange peel, a handful of lemon peel, a handful of raisins and 5 handfuls of dried elderflower.
3. A handful of lemon peel, a handful of orange peel, 1 stick of vanilla and 1 stick of cinnamon.