When heat processing berries of mountain ash do not lose their useful properties and therefore they prepare the liqueurs and alcohol tinctures. Such tinctures, in moderation, are very useful for heart diseases .
Tincture of chokeberry - a feasible recipe for home cooking that does not require much time.
Tincture of black chokeberry on alcohol
Ingredients:
- berries of chokeberry - 900 g;
- alcohol (40%) - 900 ml.
Preparation
Before you make a tincture of black chokeberry, pick berries, selecting the largest, ripe and whole of them, the ones that are assembled after the first frosts are ideal, and therefore they easily give the juice when pressed.
Disassembled berries rinse, dry and dry in a clean container of glass, food plastic or wood. Fill the contents of the container with alcohol, so that the liquid level is 3 centimeters above the level of berries. We mix the ingredients, and then place the jar covered with a lid in a dark room with a temperature of no more than 22 degrees for 70 days.
Shake the cans twice a week. After the aging period strain the tincture through the cheesecloth. Pour the drink into bottles for further storage, the term of which is not limited.
Tincture of black chokeberry on cognac
A popular scarce retro drink from the Soviet era, a recipe that no one could repeat in our time. A prepared tincture on cognac at home will bring us a little closer to that very drink of the times of the USSR.
Ingredients:
- Aronia argentaceous - 280 g;
- cognac - 450 ml;
- sugar - 25 g.
Preparation
Go through, rinse and dry the rowan berries, spread them on a flat paper and go with a rolling pin, slightly pressing, so that the berries soften. In a frying pan heat the sugar until the crystals turn into brown caramel. In glass containers, shift berries of ashberry with caramelized sugar, pour cognac so that the liquid covers the layer of berries for 3 cm. Cover the container with a lid, shake and insist the drink for 25 days in a cool, mixing it weekly. After a mature period, strain through gauze and pour over the cooked bottles.
Homemade tincture of black chokeberry with cherry leaves - recipe
Ingredients:
- chokeberry - 250 g;
- cherry leaf - 115 g;
- sugar - 250 g;
- water - 500 ml;
- citric acid - 1 teaspoon;
- vodka - 450 ml.
Preparation
Washed and dried fruits of mountain ash are filled with water along with cherry leaves and boiled for 15 minutes. We put the chill, remove and squeeze cherry leaves, add sugar, citric acid and boil for 20 minutes. After filtering the liquid through a double gauze, cool and add the vodka, carefully mixing the tincture, pour on the containers and place in the cold.
Preparation of tincture from black chokeberry without vodka
Ingredients:
- chokeberry - 490 g;
- sugar - 1,4 kg.
Preparation
Prepared berries are placed in a glass container and mash them with a pestle, after which we pour the berry puree with sugar. We close the container with gauze and place the raw material for fermentation at a temperature of 25 degrees for 50 days, with every day we do not forget to mix berries with a wooden spatula. After this period, we filter the tincture through gauze, pour into prepared bottles and store in coolness for about 70 days. After the storage time, you can start tasting the tincture.