Just spent about two hours picking, and another hour cleaning these chokecherries (Prunus virginiana). Got about a gallon and a half (roughly 8-10lb).
I’d like to do an eau de vie with these, utilizing only the sugars present in the fruit, but I would likely need at least four times this quantity to make a large enough wash to be worthwhile. Finding the free time to forage that much fruit will be a challenge before the cherries are gone by for the year.
So, my other options:
1. Run a sugarhead with these cherries as the flavoring/additional sugar.
2. Beef up the volume with a combination of unsweetened tart cherry juice and sweet cherries from the supermarket.
Thoughts?
Chokecherry Liquor
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Chokecherry Liquor
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If barley be wanting to make into malt,
We must be contented, and think it no fault;
For we can make liquor to sweeten our lips
Of pumpkins and parsnips and walnut tree chips.
We must be contented, and think it no fault;
For we can make liquor to sweeten our lips
Of pumpkins and parsnips and walnut tree chips.