Cranberry liqueur recipe

Andrea, here's the alternative to your cranberry jello shooters, which is also the first step to making the best cranberry chutney ever.

• One pound fresh cranberries
• Sliced and scraped peel of 1/4 orange
• Sliced and scraped peel of 1/2 lemon
• 1 1/2 cups sugar syrup
• 1 1/2 cups vodka

Wash cranberries and coarsely chop in blender or food processor. Add all the ingredients to the alcohol. Steep 4 weeks. Strain and filter. If more sweetener is required, add more sugar syrup to taste and mature another week.

(Once you strain the liqueur, put the cranberries in a saucepan and cook them for about 15 minutes, until they're the right color, kind of dark magenta. At this point they're ready to be made into cranberry relish.)