Ingredients
4 pounds very ripe plums
2 cups of sugar
2 cups of brandy (approximately)
Instructions
Wash and stem the plums. Cut the plums into slices or roughly chop them, whichever is easier.
Mix the plum pieces with the sugar coating, each plum slice well with sugar. The sugar will pull juice from the fruit and begin the fermenting process.
Place the sugared plum mixture into a wide-mouthed glass jar, filling it to within a few inches of the top. Fill a quart-sized freezer bag with water. Press the bag into the top of the jar to push the fruit below the juice. (If you have a jar for fermenting projects, use that).
Keep the fermenting fruit at room temperature for two weeks. In a really active ferment, the juice may spill over the top of the jar. Keeping the jar in a bowl will help to keep this process cleaner.
At the end of two weeks, strain out the juice and mix with equal amounts of brandy.
Keep this drink in the fridge. It will stay for about a month or longer.
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