Amazing berry - clucking. In Russia, it is famous for its ability to lower people’s temperature and nourish the body with vitamins. Northern lemon - this is what the inhabitants of Siberia call it. The cranberry season usually begins in September. This month, the berry is picked and sent for storage. Unique fruits perfectly survive the winter and subsequent seasons in containers with water hidden in a dark place. Unripe berries can ripen when assembled. Sprinkle a thin layer of berries somewhere in a bright and cool room. They will reach maturity after a while. Frosts are not a hindrance for the berry season in the case of cranberries. After frost, the berries continue to be beautiful and healthy. They only make it tastier.
Healthy berry
This northern berry, filled with useful trace elements and vitamins, makes an excellent liquor. The drink takes into its composition all the benefits of cranberries and passes them to someone who drinks a tasty tincture. Cranberry is considered a purely female drink. She is drunk easily, she has a pleasant taste and color. But men, too, can’t resist, so as not to try cranberry tincture.
Good cranberry! And a natural drink prepared at home is several times better, and most importantly - more healthy! Right now, we will begin to consider recipes for homemade cranberry tinctures. We will tell you the secrets of how to create a healthy elixir from these magic berries and alcohol base. If you live where cranberries do not grow, but really want to taste cranberries, this is not a big deal. The berry is well tolerated by transportation and is often sold in the markets. Do not trust market traders? Then go straight to the supermarket and look for cranberries in the freezing department. She will definitely be there.
Well, now we proceed to the secrets of making homemade tincture on the stick.
Cranberry Tincture Recipes
We make the first liqueur from a small number of ingredients:
- One glass of ripe juicy cranberries.
- 0.5 l (bottle) of vodka.
- One tablespoon of sugar.
- 50 milliliters of boiled water.
This recipe for cranberry tincture on vodka is the simplest and therefore very famous.
Let's start cooking:
- The most important point is the carefully inspected and sorted berries. We take only mature and juicy. We place fresh berries in the freezer for about a day. If the berries have already gone through this preparatory process, removing the bitterness from them, then they need to be washed and poured into a glass container. The volume of dishes in which cranberry tincture will be made from a given number of ingredients is about one liter. The most ordinary liter glass can is perfect.
- Chop the berries in any way possible. You can use a wooden pestle (crush), a meat grinder or a blender. An ordinary fork will also deal with crushing cranberries. The more you grind the berries, the more they will give the juice for cranberries.
- Pour vodka directly into the jar and mix the contents. We remove the dishes with the future tincture in a dark place. And one more important condition: this place should not be cool. Our cranberries should begin the fermentation process.
- 14 days you have to wait. So much time is needed for high-quality ripening. But two weeks later, it needs to be filtered.
- In order for the drink to have a pleasant appearance and be not only tasty, but also transparent, you need to get rid of the cake in it. We will be sewing several times. The very first stage will help to remove all large elements from former berries. To do this, use three layers of clean gauze. And to get rid of very small particles in the drink you need to use a cotton pad. Pour tincture into another dish through it.
- Now she is ready for further action.
Syrup for tincture
Cranberry tincture on vodka, made at home, is ready, but the cranberry flavor is famous for its acid. It must be ennobled with sugar syrup. We cook syrup from fifty milliliters of pure water and a tablespoon of granulated sugar. Cool it and add to the tincture. Mix the syrup and the liquor. Everything! You can start tasting the drink.
Male cranberry
The option of a more "brutal" tincture implies the use of homemade moonshine as the basis. If you do not have a shortage of this product in the cellar, then we recommend that you make homemade tincture on cranberries and moonshine. Treat this basis for cranberries very responsibly. Do not use moonshine of dubious quality. Before mixing the berries and the base of moonshine, it must be cleaned. Cleaning involves filtering this drink through cotton pads and crushed activated carbon. Tablets of such coal can be purchased at a regular pharmacy. So: you brought the moonshine to perfect purity, freeing it with activated carbon from harmful fusel oils.
We start cooking cranberries on homemade moonshine
Take a glass of ripe cranberry, one hundred grams of sugar, one liter of peeled strong moonshine. First, prepare the berries: sort, rinse, dry. Then chop the cranberries in any way you can. Put them in a glass bowl and sprinkle with sugar. Pour the whole norm of moonshine. Stir the berry gruel and moonshine vigorously. Close the dishes and put them in a warm and dark cupboard for a week. Every day for a week you will need to mix the contents in this bowl. As soon as 7 days have passed, the drink can be filtered. Let the strained liquor stand for a day in the refrigerator.
Cranberry Ginger
Tincture on cranberries and alcohol with the addition of ginger root - an option for gourmets.
To prepare this filling you need:
- 400 grams of berries;
- half a teaspoon of ginger root (through a fine grater);
- 150 milliliters of alcohol;
- 100 milliliters of boiled water;
- 100 grams of sugar.
Cooking technology
Berries subjected to a thorough inspection and selection. Grind them with a blender or meat grinder. Pour berry gruel into a jar and put grated ginger in it. Mix the mixture and pour the entire norm of alcohol into the container. Now mix the entire contents of the jar and, covering it tightly with a lid, remove for fermentation in a warm place without the penetration of sunlight. After a seven-day stay in such conditions, it is imperative to strain the filling through several layers of gauze. To achieve the transparency required by cranberries, you can use cotton pads . The first stage of preparing a useful tincture of cranberries and ginger is finished.
Now the second stage of cooking. Need syrup for filling. Boil water with sugar for several minutes, but removing the scum formed on the syrup. Cool the syrup and only then mix with tincture. Remove the resulting drink in a cool place (refrigerator, cellar) for at least a day. After this time, you can try aromatic and tasty tincture with ginger.
Quick cranberry
This recipe is good when you want to taste tinctures as soon as possible. Three hours is enough for its full readiness.
We collect the ingredients:
- Four hundred grams of cranberries.
- 150 grams of granulated sugar.
- 700 milliliters of quality vodka.
- 180 milliliters of water.
And now in a quick way we are preparing express tincture:
- Rinse the berries, pour boiling water for a couple of minutes.
- Drain the water and add all the sugar to the berries.
- Stir the sugar in the cranberries and put on a very slow fire for about three minutes. Do not forget to mix the sugar-berry mixture if necessary.
- Once the sugar has dissolved, put the mass in a fine sieve and wipe through it. To prevent burns, allow the mixture to cool slightly. Squeeze the remaining berry syrup with gauze.
- Pour vodka into cranberry syrup. Combining the syrup and the base, put the liquor in a cold place for three hours.
After the specified time, you can treat yourself to cranberries and treat them to your dear guests.
Cranberry tincture is drunk not only at moments when it is necessary to prevent colds and warm the body from the inside. It is perfect for uplifting. When using this drink, do not forget that you prepared it on an alcohol basis. The fact is that drinking cranberry is almost the same as drinking cranberry juice, it’s so easy that the drink “enters”. Be careful and do not forget about a sense of proportion.