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Posted by paulns (My Page) on Fri, Sep 7, 07 at 9:09
| There's a recipe for chokecherry liqueur that calls for a quart/litre each chokecherries and sugar plus 750 ml vodka, shake daily for 30 days. According to reports it tastes like cough syrup, or at best very sweet, but improves with age.
It's chokecherry season here and my wife and I have been wanting to do something with them for years - the quicker and simpler the better. This recipe sounds perfect - except that neither of us likes cough syrup or liqueurs. What do you all think would happen if we halved the sugar? |
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RE: Chokecherry
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It would taste like less sweet cough syrup.
Why waste good vodka on a fruit you don't like?
Make cherry jelly and eat it with a vodka and tonic.
Linda C |
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| Hi Linda, thanks and sorry for the late reply - I'd given up checking here. We love chokecherries! And don't mind vodka (but rarely eat jelly). It sounded like it was the sweetness that would make it taste like cough syrup. I suppose the question ought to have been: what is the least amount of sugar we could use to make an easy chokecherry alcoholic beverage - something more along the lines of a fortified wine in sweetness. Well it's been a month so we're trying our 'liqueur' tonight, will report back. |
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| I see there's a 'beverages' forum as well. I'll take my question there. |
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| Btw! we brought the chokecherry liqueur last night to a birthday party and it was delicious, like cherry brandy. Strong though. A few sips led to discussions about designated drivers. |
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