The fruit (2 kg) was placed in jars and soaked with the same mass of 65% vol. ethanol. Maceration was carried out at room temperature for 21 days without light. The contents of the jars were stirred every day. Then the fruit extract was separated from the fruit, divided into two parts and one of them was amended with sugar in the amount of 1=4 of the fruit extract mass, and the other one with the same mass of water. After the dissolution of sugar, each liqueur was divided into two parts and stored at 15 C and 30 C for 6 months. The liqueurs prepared with sugar were labeled 15s and 30s, and these without sugar – 15 and 30 ns – respectively