Palincă

This is Nuţa.  She makes palincă.

This is palincă.

You can drink it straight from the bottle if you're that sort of person but the rest of us use these cool traditional pottery cups.
If you are not very careful, it will get you drunk in the amount of time it takes to say "I can hold my liquor."  It will also burn the topmost layer of cells right off your tongue and lips.  Remember the blood from the alien in the movie Alien?  You get the idea.
This is the recipe for palincă: fruit. fire. time.
Nuţa isn't the only one who makes palincă, most women of her generation do.  Because one of her hands is compromised, it's difficult for Pia to make her own so this week Nuţa came over made ours.
It's usually made in the fall and enjoyed all year.  In Obedin it's often palincă o'clock. We in Villa Ionescu imbibe far more moderately. There is a pear version that is wickedly good.  Its better left alone.  The plum variety is harsher but safer.

Nuţa made 16 liters from the plums off our trees.
Wow-za.