How to make cranberry tincture on vodka
Autumnal berry harvest, grown on your dachaplot or presented to you by the wild nature, can be used in different ways. Part of the fruit you will certainly use fresh, and that's fine. When you still stock up with free vitamins for the long Russian winter, how not in the summer-autumn season.
Something to process for jam, compotes, syrupsand other winter blanks. And here it's time to remember for what purpose since ancient times most of the fruits and berries harvested (notice, with tremendous labor) are harvested in all the sunny countries of the world.
Do not guess from three times, the answer is obvious -winemaking and production of branded national alcoholic beverages. To attribute Russia to countries with a fertile climate does not work, so peaches, grapes and citrus fruits huddle in its territory in a very limited area.
Зhow many northern forests and impassablebogs with its unique flora. Speech, of course, is about a berry, which has become a Russian symbol: a branching cranberry. About its useful properties are written whole volumes, we just give some advice on how to preserve the unique taste of this northern gift in noble domestic alcoholic beverages.
A classic recipe for cranberry vodka
Berries are used only freshly picked, betterjust for the first frost. Cranberries are moved, leaflets and small twigs will not ultimately affect the quality of the tincture, but it is better to remove them. In the old traditions, the berries should be simply kneaded, but you can pass them through the meat grinder to speed up the process. The use of modern juicers and electric meat grinders is not recommended.
Ingredients: 0.8 -1.0 liters of cranberry, 0.5 liters of good quality vodka, 1 glass of water 1 glass of sugar.
Preparation. Put the mashed berries in a glass bottle,pour them with vodka in the specified proportions, cover the dishes with a dense lid and mix for 7-10 days. Can be longer, the taste of the tincture will only be richer. Tincture should be regularly, at least once a day, shake and mix. The resulting vodka infusion strain through gauze, squeeze and add sugar syrup.
The proportions of sugar and water in the solution can be changed,achieving a lesser sweetness of filling, but the traditional ratio of 1: 1 allows you to get a beautiful lady's dessert drink with a strength of 20 degrees. and a sugar content of about 20%. Cranberry tincture (pouring) on vodka is poured into cooked clean bottles, tightly clogged and sent to settle in a dark cool place for a period that will allow your patience.
Cranberry tincture on alcohol
From the point of view of the technology of preparation andproportions of the main components of the difference is almost none. Mixing in the ratio of 250ml of Lux brand and 250ml of water, you will have practically the same initial composition of the finished product. But the use of an alcohol solution of greater strength allows you to make cranberry tinctures at home, close in properties to strong liquors.
To stand for an infusion of alcohol should be morea long time (about 1 month). By reducing the amount of sugar in the syrup and adding unexpected ingredients, for example, juniper cones, you can achieve a more pronounced character of "male" strong alcohol based on cranberries.
Tincture cranberry on vodka: a glass recipe
The ingredients of this drink remain the same, butremember their quantitative expression is very simple: cranberries, vodka, water, sugar - only 1 (one) glass. The method of insisting differs from the classics, but is quite simple:
- The necessary volume of sugar syrup is brewed, it is cooled;
- the prepared berries are crushed in any way (they are pushed, passed through a meat grinder or a juicer, this one does not care), they are put in a bottle;
- vodka and sugar syrup are added to the dishes, after which the bottle (jar) is tightly closed and sent for 1 month to a dark place;
- ready "cranberry" is filtered through two layers of gauze and filter paper, bottled and sent to storage or to the table.
Note that the cranberry tincture in this casewill be very weak and not very saturated in taste and color. One thing remains unchanged: regardless of the chosen recipe and the result you achieved, and you can get a light liqueur, and very strong, over 45% liquor, regretting the time spent preparing them, you definitely will not. So, it's time to go for cranberries.
Author: Katerina Sergeenko
