Chuckleberries

How to infuse your favourite spirit with soft fruit

Infusing your favourite spirit, we would recommend gin or vodka, is a great way to experiment with flavours or diversify your drinks trolley, plus they can make perfect gifts or wedding favours!

For some fruit inspiration, we'd recommend trying some of the below, but you can trial most fruits and see how it goes:

• Raspberries
• Blackberries
• Strawberries
• Rhubarb
• Damsons
• Plums
• Blackcurrants
• Seville Oranges
• Gooseberries
• Chuckleberries
• Blueberries
• Cherries...

The Chuckleberry is not a commonly known fruit and for that reason, often results in people not knowing much about it or how to even use it. We understand this struggle so we are here to help you learn about this incredible fruit, and hopefully inspire you to use it in your cooking or baking.

First things first - what is a Chuckleberry?

A chuckleberry is a hybrid between a redcurrant, gooseberry and jostaberry (a jostaberry already being a hybrid of a gooseberry and blackcurrant). This large mix...

Serves 6

Ingredients

• 350g British Chuckleberries defrosted
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 300ml double cream
• 175g caster sugar

Total time required: 25 minutes

Preparation time: 25 minutes

Method

1. Add the chuckleberries and 3 teaspoons of water into a pan, and cook over a low heat until soft. Remove from the heat and add the sugar, mix until dissolved.
2. Leave to cool then blend the mix. Sieve this to make a puree.
3. Add the lemon juice and stir well.
4. Whip the double cream using a hand whisk; it should have a...