On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 08:18:08 +0300, Opinicus
> wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:33:00 -0400, wrote:
>
>> Years ago I used to do apricots in brandy, also prunes in brandy -
>> sounds odd but they were good.
>
>My wife used to do this every year with morello cherries from a tree
>in our backyard until the tree finally gave up the ghost a decade ago.

Cherries sound very good for purpose. Liked your sig line about St
Francis preaching to cats, does that mean it made the cats biddable?