Anyone ever try making umeshu? 'tis the season, so I've set up a jar. Now to wait for a year.

1kg unripe ume
400g rock sugar
1.8L shochu (35% alcohol)

I'm tempted to fill another jar with a different spirit, like brandy, or maybe a different amount of sugar, so I can compare the two in a year's time.

>>21405117 (OP)
I haven’t, how does it taste when it’s ready?

Semi related but I remember one time my parents went clamming and set the clams in a bucket outside the house. It was there for over a week and I got irritated by it (partly because clamps are gross) so I poured a bunch of 7Up in the bucket and when they finally ate it they mentioned that it tasted weird.

>>21405117 (OP)
>unripe ume
ume?

I've tasted umeboshi precisely once in my life. It was amazing. I thought "How hard can it be to pickle plums?" So I looked up the traditional process. Hoo boy.

Is that what it's called? My aunt and mum used to make this every late summer with all the leftover plums. In the later summer, they'd do it again with lemons.

>>21405117 (OP)
Use slivovitz for maximum plum recursion