• Shrubb ou liqueur antillaise de Noël

    Shrubb or Chrismas West Indian liqueur

    Cocktail, liqueur

    Préparation

    10 minutes

    Cuisson

    0 minute

    The shrubb is the quintessential Christmas liqueur. It is also an opportunity to enhance the seasonal fruits and in this case the citrus fruits which are in abundance in the trees. It is the (alcoholic) drink that families share on Christmas Eve and even before. Martinican shrubb can only be prepared with local oranges. Oranges found in stores in northern hemisphere countries are processed and not suitable for this recipe.

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Ingredients

For 2 bottles:

  • 1 liter of white rum (if possible agricole white rhum from Martinique)
  • 5 to 6 local orange zests (difficult to find outside the Caribbean, you can take untreated oranges)
  • 1 kg of cane sugar
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 1 Ceylon cinnamon stick
  • 1 clove (optional)
Preparation
  1. Scoop the zest from the oranges with a knife, being careful to remove the bitter white skin.
  2. Dry the zest in the sun for about half a day.
  3. Macerate the dry zest in white rum, with the vanilla cut in half lengthwise, the cinnamon stick and possibly the clove, for a minimum of 3 days to 1 week.
  4. Filter the resulting mixture.
  5. Mix with the rum flavored with the cane sugar syrup, pass through the filter and pour into an airtight carafe.
  6. Add the cinnamon stick and vanilla.

Plus d'infos

  • Conseil
    • If you cannot dry the lemon zest in the sun, use your oven at 30°C maximum