Almost 2 weeks ago, on our way back from Niagara Falls, we stumbled upon  D.Smith&Son Two Century Farm – a Pick Your Own (PYO) cherries place that was still open, although it was quite late in the evening. We met a lovely girl, Elissa, who very politely told us that actually they are closed but as we are there already we can pick sour cherries there and black cherries, she will show us where, when we finish with the sour ones! While she was talking with us her grandmother appeared very apologetic, she forgot to close the gate, it is all her fault that we are there, but she hopes we will enjoy what we will get if we are already there (very nice family).

We picked quite a few kilograms of these:

And some more Kilograms of those:

I wanted the sour cherries to try and recreate something that is a very sweet childhood memory: Vishniak – a cherry liquor my parents used to make when I was very young. I remember the demijohn standing on top of their closet in the bedroom and some very delicious cherries that came out of it and were given in very small portions and only for special occasions.

After consulting the internet and finding many recipes and advice (some quite contradictory to each other) we set on making our version:

The cherries were carefully washed:

We put them in the demijohn:

Then we added quite a lot of sugar and the strongest Polish Vodka we could find and got this:

Now we can only swirl the demijohn from time to time and wait and wait and wait,,,,

In a few months I will let you know how it turned out!

And I will have to show you the products of the sweet black cherries some other day as this post is becoming too long and I still have to show you some FOs!

Yes, I finished the Simple V Neck Sweater and two pairs of Noro socks in time to gift them to my sweetheart for his birthday:

The wonders of Noro yarn, the first pair has almost identical socks the second 2 quite different ones. I only changed the rib from 2×2 to 3×2 and the heel, go tell!