Vyshnya (Cherry) Kompot & Vodka Mix coming up!

Hello Poopchik!

Time to get your zabava, party, started even if by yourself. Cherry vodka is one my most popular recipes, and is now tradition to send you this every Holiday season. Is really two recipe in one, as you can eat Cherry Kompot on its own. Cannot do that with stupormarket drink mix.

On to recipe:

Sour cherry is one those foods you can feel good about while you stuffing face. If you mix Baba's Kompot with vodka or tequila (I invent Nouveau Ukrainski Fusionski), will keep you and friends healthy all through holiday season. Is full of them anti-inflammatory anti-accidental phytochemical biotanical flavor-asteroid anti-cancer vitamin mineral they don't even have name for yet.

And so Whole Food can charge even more, sour cherry have melatonin to keep you knocked out after vodka quit!

You acting just little bit too anxious for vodka part, if Baba may permit herself to be less diplomat than usual.

Pretty easy recipe:

Do what you usually do in liquor store. Make sure give money to kobzar or kobzara playing music by door.

Get sour cherry. If you canned last Fall (as if), locate. If not, frozen food section often have. They also come in jar.

Throw one cup white sugar and two to two and half pound sour cherry in gallon of water. Use pot.

How much is gallon? About eight those plastic bottle of water corporation siphon from your tap, then sell back to you. Nestle is current at work in Canada.

Give one quick stir to get party started. Do not suddenly have midlife crisis and keep stirring. Or cherry will have bad breakup.

Heat to boil, then quick turn down to simmer.

Remove from heat. Taste tiny bit. Plastic spoon best choice if you want skin left on tongue. If too sour, add more sugar.

Let sit till cool enough to pour little bit in your vodka.

If you bought sour cherry in jar: melt sugar in hot water, let cool, add cherry. Or they also will make breakup.

Ukrainian is stylish people. Our garnish go in drink, not on top. If you is serving someone else, use spoon to drop several cherry in drink.

Children version: no vodka. You can mix cherries with 7Up or soda water.

Baba Warning: If same bunyak come to your party as last year, warn them that fresh cherry have pit. Ukrainian proverb say, "Do not start New Year on Judge Judy!"

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