Chokecherry Liquor
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2022 2:29 pm
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?
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?