Tincture of blackberry on vodka at home: a recipe
In chokeberry aronia, like the red ashberry,there are several remarkable qualities: it bears fruit almost every year, but so abundantly that you marvel; to collect conveniently, yes what there to collect, to choose the best and largest berries. To go to the distant forest or to the marshy swamps, as for cranberries or cranberries, it is not necessary - everything is at hand.
Do not you need jam or syrup from theseberries, but you can hardly refuse to create a healing balm made of black chokeberry, which is infused with simple Russian vodka, if, of course, you tried it. Dear citizens, now is the time to collect these amazing berries and prepare tinctures, liqueurs, liquors and wines from the juicy, tart and tart seeds in the home, and I assure you, very useful fruits grown by nature without any of your participation. Collect and use!
Make tinctures on alcohol, vodka (for gourmets -on cognac) is able to any Russian older generation. And it's not about the lack of a wide range of drinks in stores. Simply everything done by yourself, a priori, is more useful and tastier than what the soulless machine spills. Tincture of aronia blackberry on vodka belongs to the category of strategic state secrets, so we will share with you only the simplest recipes.
A classic recipe for vodka
Absolutely no complications and tricks inThere is no preparation for this drink if you do not have secret ingredients in the zagashnik. Berries of aronia can be harvested even in the northern regions until the end of October, so you still have time to finish reading our article. By the way, the best, ripe black-cherry for infusion is taken just after the first frost.
Accurately collect the quantity you needselect berries and, having cleared from pedicels and leaves, fall asleep them in the prepared utensils (bank, a bottle) on 2/3 volumes. Carefully fill the container with vodka, close it and forget about it for three weeks. Put the vessel better in a dark place at room temperature.
Ready-made infusion of amazing color can bedilute sugar syrup at the rate of 100 g of sugar per 200 ml of water, which you can add to the prepared tincture of chokeberry, based on your own taste preferences. But with these additives you will translate the medicinal tincture into the category of liqueurs from mountain ash.
A bowl of black chokeberry with cherry flavor
Often one can meet illiterate recipestinctures of mountain ash, which are created by mechanically mixing berry syrup and vodka. Excuse me, gentlemen, this is called pouring. Strictly speaking, there is nothing new in these recipes: cherry leaves, citric acid, soaking berries for a day, then boiling the syrup from the squeezed juice with boiling water in a ratio of 1.3 kg of sugar per 1 liter.
Add to this batch you can do anything: honey, clove, pepper, horseradish, but this product will never become a tincture. The more ridiculous the other, the addition of cherry leaves or spices to a tincture made of black chokeberry on vodka can significantly change its taste qualities. Try to check.
Tincture of red mountain ash
Drink this is terrible to say how old, onlyinsisted the berries are not on vodka (it was not in Russia), but on the half-heap. Healing properties of mountain ash are well known: a sea of vitamins, organic acids, essential oils, pectins and the like. It's a shame that eating fresh berries is extremely unpleasant: they are bitter and bitter. So our ancestors learned how to extract this natural drug store into alcoholic infusion. The recipe and the preparation procedure in the classical version are very simple.
Collect the best berries, separate them from the cuttings,fall asleep in a prepared bottle or jar about two-thirds of the volume and fill the container with vodka. In this form, the corked dishes stand in a dark and warm place for about 2-3 weeks, after which the home tincture of rowan is filtered, bottled and hidden from the husband.
Tasty tincture of ashberry
As in the case of chokeberry chokeberry,The quality of the drink can be improved or expanded by using additional ingredients. Here are the simplest options that you can combine. First of all, sugar: 300 g per 1 kg of berries, all this is crushed, left for 12 hours, and then poured with vodka.
Tincture will be moderately sweet with a spicybitterness. Spicy herbs and spices: lemon balm, mint, cloves, cardamom, simply put, everything you like is added to the bottle for the entire infusion period. Here everyone is free to choose his own proportions, based on personal tastes. It was in such experiments that ancient family recipes were born.
Author: Katerina Sergeenko
