The excellent ability of berries to neutralize the unpleasant taste and smell of alcohol is effectively used for cooking tinctures. Today we will tell you how to cook one of those cranberries and offer a couple of recipes for a popular drink.
How to make tincture from cowberry on vodka or on diluted alcohol?
Ingredients:
- fresh cowberry - 0.6 kg;
- quality vodka or alcohol, diluted with water to a strength of 40-45 degrees - 1 liter;
- Fresh lime or buckwheat honey - 100 g.
Preparation
- Cowberry for making tinctures choose ripe and high quality. Decayed and moldy specimens are thrown away, and the past berries are washed, well dried and crushed by a crush or rolling pin.
- We put the received berry mass in a jar and fill it with vodka or diluted alcohol. Close the vessel tightly with a lid and place it in a darkened but warm room for thirty to forty days, shaking it weekly.
- After a lapse of time, tincture is filtered through a folded triple or four-fold gauze cut, wringing out the flesh thoroughly, adding honey and mixing until the latter dissolves.
- Now we filter the drink through a cotton swab and pour it on the bottles.
- After capping, we transfer the vessels with the tincture to a cool place and let us rest for a few more days.
Tincture of frozen lingonberry on alcohol
Ingredients:
- cranberries frozen - 1,4 kg;
- pure alcohol - 1 l;
- Fresh lime or buckwheat honey - 50-100 g or to taste.
Preparation
- In this case, for the preparation of tinctures, we will use frozen berries cranberries and pure, undiluted alcohol.
- Passed the strict selection of quality berries washed, dried and completely put in a jar. They do not need to be kneaded beforehand, since pure alcohol during the infusion of cranberries in it promotes the rapid natural secretion of juice by the berries.
- Add the necessary amount of alcohol to the can of cranberries, close the container tightly and leave it in the warmth and darkness for ten to twenty days. The first three days shake the tincture every day, and then two days later the third.
- On readiness, strain the tincture, squeeze it, sweeten it with honey, and then filter and dispense into bottles.
- After cooling the drink, the first sample can be removed.
- The strength of the obtained tincture is quite high, so this drink is more suitable for a male audience.