Take the tour ×  I've been looking for recipes for cherry
vishnick and most of them involve just putting the cherries into
a jar of vodka for several weeks. I'd been looking for a recipe
that involves fermentation. I found one:
http://pragmaticattic.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/homemade-sour-
cherry-brandy-visinata-or-vishniak/  The part that involves
fermentation:  Put 2 cups of cherries in a really large jar with
a cup of sugar. Do not pit the cherries, she warned, because the
pits are critical to the fermentation process. Let the fruit and
sugar ferment for 2 weeks.  Has anyone tried this before? I'm
thinking about doing this but I'm concerned that just putting
cherries into water with sugar could easily get mouldy. Should I
add some yeast too, to ensure that it ferments correctly? I'm
guessing this recipe depends on wild yeast but I've never had
any luck with that.   So I'm trying this out. After about a
week, the sugar had drawn out all of the moisture of the
cherries so now the wrinkly cherries are floating