My husband would rather be dead than caught in Lederhosen.
When he saw the picture he laughed about 5 minutes and said, "My family can never see this".....
We look creepy, I think.
M.
Oh, here's the recipe;
CJJ Berry's recipe, p. 165ish.
"All you need is a capacious glazed earthenware jar with a heavy, well-fitting lid, or some such container. Mine hols just over a gallon.
The idea is to use a mixture of soft fruits as they come in season, and the basic "recipe" is a pound of fruit, half a pound of sugar, and cover it a finger's width with Jamaica rum. In our rumpot we use blackcurrants, red-currants, strawberries, black cherries, peaches, blackberries and plums, and one and a half bottles of rum. It scents the whole kitchen when the lid is lifted, an as for the taste...!
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This is the way to pack summer into your pot.
Start with strawberries, the first fruit of the summer. Wash the fruits and let dry. Place the fruit in a dish and add sugar, the quanitiy should be half the weight of the fruit. Leave it for a full hour so the sugar is well-absorbed and the flavor extracted...."
Well, He makes it a bit more complicated than you need it. I just dump in the rum, dump in any fruit (apples, pears, kiwis, grapes) and add the sugar. The first year I made it, it was too sweet for me. I lowered the sugar by a little (more to taste than anything).