Walnut – liqueur made from green nuts

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 8 green walnuts (harvested in June)
• 1 handful of sour cherries
• 1 liter of spirit (96%)
• 1 ½ kg sugar
• 1 ½ liters of water

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Total time approx. 30 minutes

(Grandma’s recipe)

Quarter the green nuts, crush the sour cherries, and also break up the stones. Empty everything into a bottle or container with a sufficiently large opening. Top up with the spirit and let it stand in a warm place for three weeks. The mixture will then turn a lovely dark brown. Then filter and pour it back into the bottle or container. Boil 1.5 kg of sugar with half a liter of water until syrup is formed, let it cool, and then add it to the mixture. Let this mixture stand for another three weeks. Then top up with about 1 liter of water and bottle it nicely. This liqueur will keep for at least four years (if you’ve done it properly). I forgot a bottle in the cellar, and it was absolutely fantastic. Since then, I’ve never had anything in my glass that isn’t at least a year old. But it tastes delicious straight from the bottle, too. Tip: I have also made this recipe with 1 liter of Doppelkorn and then reduced the sugar to 750 g, since in this case the alcohol content only needs to be reduced with 750 ml of water.