Booze Recipes
Moscow Mule Mocktail: sunshine in a copper mug
What is a Moscow Mule? Simply put, a classic Moscow Mule is a cocktail made with vodka, ginger beer, and lime served over ice in...
Herbal Hot Toddy [with Mint-Infused Bourbon]
A traditional Hot Toddy only takes a few ingredients: whiskey, honey, water, and lemon. It is simple, but it's good to have a simple recipe...
Elderflower & Lemon Cordial Recipe (The Boozy American Kind!)
The summer solstice brought many things alive in the garden, plants I'd been waiting to see bloom to know that summer was truly upon us...
Cherry Cordial: Dark, Sweet, and Delicious!
When cherries went on sale this year, I grabbed as many as possible and set to work on making all sorts of goodies! Eric and...
Creating cordials – preserving memories as well as the harvest
A few times every year, on the equinox and solstice, at Beltane and at Samhain, I gather with my like-minded friends and family and raise...
Making Cordials
Thanks for watching the very first livestream video from Pixie's Pocket! You can skip ahead to the five minute mark for the cordial making portion...
Pear Cordial: DIY Delicious Booze!
Earlier this fall, a dear friend of mine became a homeowner. Her new bit o'earth is a lovely place - it boasts an old flower...
Kudzu Flower & Muscadine Wine
I went foraging in downtown Asheville, right smack dab in the middle of the city. Normally, urban foraging isn't my favorite way to gather edible...
Goldenrod and Ginger Wine – One Gallon Recipe
I'm a fan of weeds and wine, as you well may know. I'm particularly a fan of foraging wild weeds and invasive plants for herbal...
The Magic of Mimosa: Cordial and Tincture Recipes
My love and I went a-foraging in the wild forest of invasive plants that covers the empty lot next door. This lot would be almost impassable...
Valerian Mint Cordial
Valerian Mint Cordial or as it is called in my home: "Shut Up and Go To Sleep!" No matter how hard I try to maintain a good...
One Gallon of Mint Wine {Recipe}
Mint, mint, mint. Once you get a good patch of mint planted, you should quickly have more mint than you can ever figure out how...
Recipe Box: Creamy Coconut Cordial
So, here's another mad kitchen-science experiment that has been a consistent success in our home - creamy coconut cordial. A few years ago, my housemate and...
Wild Fermented Dandelion Wine Recipe
It is a beautiful spring, but I'm singing the blues. I'm down to my last bottle of dandelion wine from last year, and now I...
I made Blackberry Fizz!
MOST of them are labeled! I was just tidying my apothecary, and while doing so, I re-discovered an experiment that I'd...