Liqueur of black chokeberry: recipe with photo

One can understand the bewilderment of many gardeners: what about these clusters of black ashberries do? Everything is the same as what you did with a crop of raspberries, gooseberries, cherries or black currants.

Attentive housewives we have already triedto help cook a wonderful "cherry" jam from the black chokeberry and prepare for the winter a delicious and healthy syrup from the black cherry. The time has come to be included in the procuring process for the strong sex. It is men all over the world who are rightly considered the best winemakers and sommeliers. Russians, let us prove that our paddock rowanberry is no worse than the vaunted French vineyards.

Wonderful healing properties of this berry, we have alreadydiscussed, it's time to remember that most of the medicinal properties of aronia blackberry are perfectly preserved in any alcoholic infusions or young wine. Recipes of tinctures of black-fruit can be found on our website, but it's worth talking about ways of making noble liquors from this berry. Everyone knows that liquor is a sweet (more than 100 grams of sugar per liter) dessert alcoholic beverage.

The volume fraction of pure alcohol can fluctuate inwide range of 20 to 75%, so we would not recommend calling this drink "purely feminine". The composition is no different from the usual for us liquors: alcoholized fruit juice with the addition of various flavor fillers. This is the beverage we offer to all men to make at home from the ownerlessly grown in their summer cottages and already prepared for the winter cold choke.

Liquor from black chokeberry: an easy way

The recipe for making syrup from these berries was earlierwas discussed on our pages, so those who have already prepared it, for making liqueur do almost nothing. As it was sung in the old advertisement: "just a fraction of the water." In our case, of course, this is not water, but an alcohol solution of the fortress you need.

The optimal combination when diluting oursyrup with ordinary vodka 1: 3 in volume fractions. The strength of your liquor will be about 27o, and the sugar content will meet world standards. A more laborious way of making liqueur from black chokeberry at home is as follows. The berries, previously washed and shuffled, are blanched, then passed through a juicer or a meat grinder with a nozzle. The yield of juice in this case is about 800 g of 1 kg of berries.

Add sugar in a 1:1 and the syrup is left in a warm room until the sugar dissolves completely. This is the same basis for liquor. Attention! Drink a drink immediately after mixing the sweet base with alcohol does not make any sense. All components must live together, i.e. hold together for at least a month.

Liqueur of black chokeberry with cherry leaves

Cherry leaves, even being in the late autumnage, surprisingly affect the taste qualities of chokeberry in any way of its use. It's hard not to succumb to temptation and not make a cherry liqueur from a rowan liqueur. However, even here you have to work hard. To prepare the basis will need: 1 kg of berries, 1 kg of sugar, 1.5 liters of water and 200 grams (two full palms) of cherry leaves.

Black chalk and leaflets throw in boiling water andcook for 20-30 minutes, then cool and squeeze the remaining juice into the broth through gauze. Again, put the pan on a small fire, add sugar, and stirring with a weak boil, stand the syrup on the stove for another 20 minutes.

Then cool and proceed to sorcery, i.e. add vodka (alcohol) to taste, pour on beautiful bottles and clean them until the New Year. The most inquisitive men can advise in the process of making liqueur from black chokeberry at home, to throw various spices while cooking into the syrup. Sometimes it turns out very original.

Read also what can be prepared from chokeberry ashberry for the winter.

Author: Katerina Sergeenko