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If wobbly deserts don't yank your chain you can take a different approach - dissolving sweets in a bottle of vodka. Jelly Babies work quite well (UK version of Jelly, though. Early market research showed that Jam Babies would probably not sell too quickly).

It's best if you half fill a a small bottle with vodka and then stuff it full of the chosen confectionary. Leave it for a week or so to melt then mix the sticky result with lemonade.

Have you tried chilli vodka??
One bottle of vodka 2 or 3 green chillis slice and put in bottle,
leave in airing cubboard for 1 week,
strain all chillis out,drink neat and enjoy.....

You crazy. That sounds pretty minging - what's it like?

My brother once lived near a vodka bar in Coventry that I never got to try - apparently they only sold vodka and had a range of flavoured syrups (about 80-odd) that you could order. Some obvious ones were strawberry, blackcurrant and various other fruits but he also said they did an onion, a chilli and a pepper variety.

Who thinks up this stuff? They need help.

A Christmas version involves getting hold of cranberries (only available at Christmas where I live) and using these to make a kind of sloe gin, except without the sloes or the gin.

Surprisingly enough, this is called Cranberry Vodka, and tastes LOTS better than leftover turkey.

As an aside, I just mistyped "sloe gin" and instead invented "sole gin". This is obviously created by dissolving a pair of shoes in a bottle of gin for 3 months.

Hmmmmmm - time to shut up.

Or maybe a Dover Sole,
Fish Vodka !!!!!!
Could this be the next big thing???
forget "Alcopops" next time your in a bar ask for Vodka & Haddock !!!!

I heard somewhere that you have to let the jelly half-set before you can add the vodka, otherwise the hot water makes the alcohol evaporate...or something like that...know anything about this? Could it be true?

Given the low boiling point of vodka, I'd say that it was true. Anyone done any research into this?

Okay, I tried it...I waited until the water stopped looking so hot (it was still warm-ish) before I added the vodka, and it set ok, so I guess it must work!

Just a word of warning though...DON'T use 50% vodka...it's way WAY too strong...make it like you'd make a drink...unless you drink vodka mixed at 50%......ugggggggggggh!

Well, some people do drink it neat! But the only limitation (in my book, anyway) is getting it to set. Otherwise you have to freeze the hell out of it, and get a vodka slush-puppy. Thus speaks the (a) voice of experience.

Mine was actually a bit solider than regular jelly...don't know how I managed that one!

In Finland we've experimented with our vodka-like national drink Koskenkorva (Kossu amongst friends) and the result was Salmiakki Kossu(Salmari).

Salmiakki is a sweet not known around the world; it contains some (about 10%) of ammoniumchloride (spelling might be wrong - please, do not shoot me), which gives it it's distinctive flavour. Salmiakki is "salted liquorice" in english, to give You an idea.

Making it

- An empty bottle (~0,7 l)
- A bottle of Koskenkorva (Smirnoff will do) (0,5 l)
- A bag (or two) of Turkish Pebber (the best salmiakki for this use)

Put the candy in the empty bottle and then accompany it with the alcohol. Then - cause you're in a hurry - put the bottle into a dishwashing machine! Of course you need to cool it down in the icebox of your fridge for awhile, but it beats wating a week.

Oh, you should propably put the dishwashing machine on - and to be economical - with some dishes.

Trying to find some information on salmiakki, I stumbled (can one stumble on the internet?) across this place http://www.baresquare.com/play/connected/index.php?OldNodeID=86&NodeID=123
Nice.

-A