 Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another Likyur video or Likyur related video. Okay and what we're gonna do right now is make some more Cornelian Cherry Likyur and if you've watched, I think we've got like three or four Likyur videos out there, you would have seen the Cornelian cherries. These are the Cornelian cherries that I have in my Likyur cabinet right now and they're pretty much spent and I've shown you guys these ones and I mentioned I believe during the previous Likyur video that these guys were spent and I had to get my hands on some more Cornelian cherries and whatnot and luck be. During one of my walks around the neighborhood, I came across a Cornelian cherry tree. Okay and the timing was fantastic because Cornelian cherries ripened towards the end of fall, end of summer, beginning of fall. Right so this is the perfect time. September is really September. October is getting a little late. August is too early so September is when Cornelian cherries ripened in my part world anyway. So I came across some Cornelian cherries okay and I picked some and I made some Cornelian cherry jam and let me show you the Cornelian cherries when they're raw and I'll show you in the jar that we're going to make okay. These are the Cornelian cherries and I have a handful just this much out to eat and it's very very tart and it has a seed in it so you're looking for if you're eating them you're looking for the more red more darker colored ones because those are the ones oops those are the ones that are a little sweeter they're not as tart okay you can just pop them the ones that are delicious the ones that are more orange color let me show you beside each other so if you ever come across one you know what to eat and what not to eat right or these ones are good too they're tart take a look at the color difference right so this is the right one and hopefully this will focus and this is the more tart one so you can eat the tart one as well and let me show you the seeds this is the seeds that they have and I've been keeping some of these seeds on the second batch because this is the second time I went back to the Cornelian cherry with the first batch we ended up making some jams but the tart ones you can eat as well very tart like really very tart if you like tart Cornelian cherries is the way to go and this is the right one okay very delicious let me put this guy here what I'm doing with the seeds right now because a few years ago we picked some Cornelian cherries and we make Cornelian cherry jam stuff like this and we took some of the seeds that were eating so these are the seeds right dry them and then planted them for the next season and we ended up planting I believe four seeds two of them sprouted we had little trees like this like little what do you call them I forget what they're called when they're just coming up right so two of them came up like this big one of them died off one of them lived and we planted that in one of our families home and that's like a young tree now and that's giving Cornelian cherries as well so Cornelian cherries is something that we really do love and they are hard to come by in my part of the world anyway it's something that if you're Iranian Persian in the Arab world I believe too and I believe in Indian stuff Cornelian cherries are treasured sort of right and what did I ended up doing was in the first batch that I picked like about three weeks ago three weeks ago couple of weeks ago ended up making some Cornelian cherry jam right and this is phenomenal like there are certain parts of the world that they will kill for this it's super delicious right you sort of eat it with a spoon you can put it on use it for pastries as well we do but we have to deseed it right so if we end up getting end up getting large harvest we do make the jam and run it through the mill and take out the seeds and we use that for some of the pastries that we end up making right but this is what it looks like when you pull it out of the jar the jam jar right and it's fairly solid like a mine became you know it wasn't I let the juice evaporate I wanted I wanted this to be sort of a complimenting the tea right and this is what it looks like and there are seeds in there of course right and what I do is when I'm drinking tea if I need something sweet as well as tart because it does still have that tart flavor to it I just you know take a little bit of this sometimes you can throw this in your tea as well and mix it up and it gives it a sort of a carnelian cherry taste right phenomenal like really absolutely phenomenal so instead of pastries you can just eat the jam if you want to have some with a spoon now I have a couple of seeds in my mouth right and I want to spit this out those out as soon as I show you this part what you can also do is take the carnelian cherries and just put them in your tea and mix it up and it gives a little bit of tartness to it and just drink the tea and eat the carnelian cherries every now and then right take a look you can just grab a carnelian cherry and just eat this basically what you're doing is flavoring your tea right now I didn't go through you know we didn't do a live stream for this carnelian cherry when we meet the jam but I did post up the pictures of how much we harvested how much jam we got okay and these are seeds you end up getting and these ones you can't plant you cook them up right so you just throw those away and I sort of keep this little container out when I'm drinking tea when I make the jam I sample it right as far as the liqueur is concerned I'm gonna consolidate these right now take a look at the color this one is sort of pale it's spent right so I'm gonna get rid of this one I tasted this one and it wasn't it didn't have the carnelian flavor to it the fruit anymore right the fruit was still very sharp alcoholic this is a little bit darker here let's do a comparison take a look I'm not sure if you can see it through reflections but this one is darker than this and this one is the darkest one I have right now so still retains a little bit of the flavor so I might keep this I'm gonna sample these so I gotta take care of that regarding the liqueur cabinet reason we're gonna take care of it because we're about to make some more carnelian cherry liqueur and this is how much we got right this is the second time that we went picking so let me show you this so this is almost a two liter jar right take a look so all I'm gonna do now is just add sugar to this cane sugar and pour the vodka on top okay so let's do this let's bring our plate here so we're pulling this pouring the sugar we don't get spillage all over the place it contains into the into the plate here right so this is a two liter jar almost a two liter jar I believe they're 1.9 liters and that comes out to what is 1.9 liters and I picked this batch yesterday and I just put it in the fridge I we gave it a wash laid it out to dry and then put it in the fridge so if you see it you know there's a little bit condensation here that's because they were cold in the fridge okay and obviously when we're making the cure we're not gonna put it in the fridge we're gonna leave it out okay I just didn't want you know I wasn't sure if I was gonna get to making the liqueur today or I was gonna make it tomorrow so I didn't want any of these things because some of them are very right so it's gonna give a nice flavor out I didn't want any of them to go moldy right it's while sitting out waiting for me to make enough time to make this liqueur okay so 1.9 liters I come out to let me see if I brought where's my glasses here's my glasses let's see if we can figure out how many ounces that is 56 ounces probably a little bit more okay but it's got 56 here and that takes it to the rim really right so I got a basically a 1.9 liter jar or whatever that is 60 ounce jar and I'm filling it up full of Cornelian cherries up to the 56 ounce line here right and liters wise that's gonna be about the one point or one point two four one point seven liter mark okay and what I'm gonna do right now is I'm gonna put at least one cup of cane sugar in here okay so we got our cane sugar here as before right organic cane sugar and I find cane sugar is sweeter than just processed white sugar and it's better for you I don't like process white sugar so I'm gonna take this is one cup I'm gonna take one cup of this let's put this guy down make sure we're not gonna do any sugar spillage right so that's one cup not a little bit of spillage on the side I'm gonna put another half a cup in this okay so one and a half cups and this is my half a cup is it half a cup it's a little bit more than half a cup and this thing is gonna be good for us for a few years right these ones that we see here the older jars that we have with the Cornelian cherries they're basically the oldest one is around probably nine years old the newer one or the most recent one I have this one's probably at least six or seven years old right so this guy here that we're about to make this thing is gonna last us about five years okay depending on how fast we go through it then Cornelian cherry liqueur absolutely phenomenal really it does a very unique taste to it okay so all we got to do right now is and as before I'm just using just straight out absolute vodka I know people have recommended for me to go to what is it Costco and stuff and a lot of the cure videos that we put out and I think I've got four the cure videos out there a lot of people have been commenting that I should just go to Costco and buy their generic vodka because it's great goose that makes it but in my part of the world in British Columbia you can't buy spirits in the Costco so I don't get that's fantastic deal alcohol is extremely expensive here this is a 40 ounce sir okay 1.14 liters should be 40 ounces okay and this thing cost me here I just bought it today $40 approximately $36 plus the taxes and whatnot right so it's quite expensive so all I'm gonna do is just pour this on top right and if we have any vodka left we're gonna top up and we will have vodka left we're gonna top up the lemon liqueur we have okay and you top it up to the top right so all the Cornelian cherries are buried are under the alcohol okay now put the lid back on it and you can give it a little shake if you want I don't shake it too rigorously it's nice to have this back I was very pleasantly surprised to find the Cornelian cherry tree and no one in my this part really knew what it was when we're picking it people are like what is that what do you do with it and I said I'll make jam I'm gonna make liqueur in the second pic that we did and they're like oh wow that's cool and gave them a taste of the of the cherries and it's really tart and they're all like so tart so tart right and you can give it a shake but that's okay right now take a look the sugar is there and this is set I'm gonna put this in the Sun it's right now we're in fall solstice the September 21st right so last day of fall first day of last day of summer first day of fall so the Sun is not as strong we're not getting as many sunny days so I'm gonna leave this out in our sunroom so it gets you know a day or two of Sun I think tomorrow supposed to be sunny next couple is supposed to be sunny and that'll help dissolve the sugar right and I'm gonna give it a shake or two in the next couple of days and get all the sugar dissolved in there and just let it sit for a while okay so that's our most recent addition to our liqueur cabinet and we got some vodka left now take a look at that that was 40 ounces so we used about half of that so 20 ounces went into that okay and this one is the lemon liqueur that I made how many years ago I don't know 10 years ago now right and it's got vodka up to there it's very sweet so I'm gonna fill it up okay so let's do that because this one is amazing it's totally medicinal and it's been a while I've been meaning to get some vodka to fill this up and I've just been running out making other types of liqueurs so all we're gonna do is just fill this baby up and once I fill it up I'm gonna give it a gentle shake now this thing's missing the seal I gotta go get myself another seal and I'm gonna give it a gentle shake not too much because it will leak out and it's enough to fill it up very nice very nice that's good we'll keep this much vodka for later use where did we put the lid okay and what I'm gonna do is once I get the seal for this I'm gonna give it a little bit of a shake okay and then I'm gonna taste it and if the sweetness is not there if I need it to be a little bit sweeter I doubt it if I'm gonna add any more sugar but if I need to make it a little bit sweeter I'll just add half a cup of sugar or quarter cup of sugar and let it sit in the sun and give it a shake okay so our lemon liqueur is back very nice very nice it's always good to keep the liqueur cabin a stocked up because every now and then when we have friends coming over and stuff they sort of sit there and you know they ask us what type of I affirm liqueur and they say hey what type of liqueur you have well how about some lemon liqueur right it's beautiful and you can eat these lemons of course right taste fan fantastic okay so we ended up getting ourselves let's put this guy here and definitely gonna be giving this a little shake here and there and the next couple of days just said get the sugar dissolving we can do it even more now the more you do it you can actually do a fair bit of shaking right now to get the cornelian cherries or to get the sugar dissolving in there right and the sugar slowly starts selling down the bottom it's not gonna dissolve too much because the cornelian cherries are came out of the fridge so they're cold okay but very happy to have a new supply of cornelian cherries going for making jam and for making the cure this liqueur is gonna last us a while so if I get the chance next year maybe I'll make another batch of this because we do go through this fairly rapidly when we do have it right we you know the old ones have been spent for a couple of years but I've still been sampling them because they still have the cornelian cherry flavor to them it's been decreasing a lot over the last couple years two or three years but they still had it in there so I was still replenishing them a little bit with a little bit of alcohol but they're very happy to have a fresh fresh batch going we'll probably do it again next year once we in September once we harvest again for the next season all right aside from that I just want to show you guys this we did shoot I did edit not edit but we did a live stream of our previous liqueur video and I uploaded the live stream version but I haven't edited that version yet where we made the pineapple liqueur and what was the other liqueur we made pineapple and blackberry liqueur right so at some point I'm gonna go and edit that video and upload that video as well so they might be a liqueur video coming up sooner rather than later but I thought I shoot this you know quick video just to show you the cornelian cherries being prepped and turning them into liqueur because the odds are you're gonna see me drinking some cornelian cherries either in the videos that we're editing or during the live streams right I'm gonna start sampling this probably within the month that's about it that's what I wanted to show you guys just so you know when you see the cornelian cherries liqueur pop up when we made it and today September 21st 2019 and the odds are we'll have at least at least five six seven years of good cornelian cherry drinking to do with this batch and next year and for sure next year I'm gonna go get myself another harvest and have a companion jar to this as well that way we've got two cornelian cherry jars going because this is one of the liqueurs when I do have it I do sample it a fair bit it's good for the tummy it's good for digestion and it's got a very very unique flavor and very few people have ever tasted anything like this so when we get friends coming over I mentioned a little bit of cornelian cherry most people are like what's a cornelian cherry and I show it to them we give them a little sample and they're they're like wow absolutely amazing right absolutely amazing okay I hope you're gonna enjoy your fall thank you for being here I hope you enjoyed your summer of 2019 and for those of you who've been building your liqueur collections I hope you're enjoying the process and enjoying the flavors okay that's it for now gang I'll see you guys in the next video