Discovery!

I was looking around in the back of hard-to-reach places, looking for quart Mason jars. I'd bought half a dozen of them a couple of years back, to make cordials (take vodka, add fruit and sugar, seal, wait 3 months, remove fruit to put on ice cream, filter remaining liquid, and use small quantities for an aperitif or dessert or cooking).

Now I want to make brandied peaches - yes, I do have a thing about fruit and alcohol, I've got a dish of gin raisins on the counter right now - and finally located them in the back behind the alcohol on the very bottom. Behind a bunch of stuff that had been there forever.

So I start hauling out stuff, and get to the mason jars, and grab it to pull it out... and it's heavy.

Seem that someone (probably my sister) got tired of them being where-ever they were, and put them out of the way. Only problem is, I'm an out-of-sight, out-of-mind kind of person. I have my 'memory' systems set up so that something will sound, flash, or at least be in my line of sight before I have a chance to remember it more than a week at best. A day is closer to the mark; sometimes I can't make it past 3 minutes.

So now I have two quart jars full of some dark cordial (purple? reddish? Possibly raspberry?), one full of a light colored cordial (maybe the first of the peaches?), and 3 jars full of cordial with peaches, which I must now remove the peaches from, so that I can make my brandied apricots.

Goodness.

ETA: On tasting, I think this must have been one of my early batches, before I learned that frozen fruit just doesn't work. I may have to wait for peach season and retry. I'll see how it tastes once it settles again.