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Homemade chocolate liqueur – recipe
A couple of years ago I was really into liqueur making – I read a lots about it, I tried out quite a few different recipes, experimented with my own versions… Probably the greatest site on liqueur making I’ve discovered back then is Gunther W. Anderson’s website, part dedicated to liqueurs. Don’t be fooled by [...] -
Photos of homemade višnjevača
In case you wonder what višnjevača is – it is traditional Serbian homemade liqueur from sour cherries. It’s best made with ripe cherries. The process of making starts right after they’re picked from trees, and lasts about 40 days. You can read more about the process and the actual recipe in one of my previous [...] -
Lemon balm and mint syrup
There’s a kind of tradition of making homemade syrups in this part of the world. Most usual is sour-cherry syrup, but you can also find strawberry, blueberry, blackberry, raspberry and even elderberry-flower syrups on basement shelves in many homes in Serbia. On the other hand, I’ve read a lot about mint syrup and how its [...] -
Višnjevača – Traditional homemade sour-cherry liqueur
As far back as my memory reaches, sour-cherry liqueur (called višnjevača because sour cherry = višnja in Serbian) was made in my family. And not just in my family, but in many other families. It is a kind of a traditional liqueur here in Serbia. It is not strange, since sour cherries are pretty common [...]