Put on the rum pot: Here's how

You can either buy a delicious rum pot ready or prepare it yourself at home. In this article we show you what you need and how to make a classic rum pot.

Put on the rum pot - you need that

If you start in May, you can enjoy your first homemade rum pot in winter.

• A rum pot is placed in a 5L earthenware container with a lid. Alternatively, you can use a large mason jar. It is important that you clean the vessel thoroughly beforehand.
• You need different fruits. Depending on the season, these are placed in the rum pot. You start by making the rum pot with strawberries in May. The end is then pears in October.
• The fruit is layered in the rum pot. For each layer you need sugar and of course rum. This should have 54 percent by volume.

How to put your rum pot on

The preparation of the rum pot begins at the end of May with a layer of strawberries.

• First wash and clean 500 grams of strawberries and put them in the clean rum pot. Pour in 500 grams of sugar. Let the strawberries steep for half an hour.
• Now pour enough rum into the jar that the strawberries are covered with the alcohol about a finger's width. Tip: Sometimes the fruit floats up. You can prevent this by weighing the fruit down with a small weight.
• The first batch of the rum pot now pulls in a cool and dark place for about a month. During this time, check daily whether all the strawberries are still covered with rum. You may need to fill up with some alcohol.
• The stone fruit follows in June. You need a total of 500 grams of apricots and peaches. Peel the fruit and remove the seeds. Then halve the apricots and quarter the peaches. Put both in the rum pot.
• This time, 250 grams of sugar are added. Refill enough rum so that the fruit is covered with your fingers.
• Proceed with the other types of fruit in the following months: 500 grams of fruit to 250 grams of sugar and then fill with rum.
• Here is the order for the fruit: After the stone fruit, the cherries follow in July, which you don't have to stone. In August, halved and pitted plums go into the rum pot.
• The next layer is blackberries in September. At the end of October, pears are on the plan: peel them, remove the core and cut the fruit into bite-size pieces.
• The rum pot must always pull for four weeks between the individual layers. It is very important that the fruit is always completely covered with rum.
• At the end of November the rum pot is pulled through and can be enjoyed. It goes well with ice cream or other desserts, but also tastes very good on its own.

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