Spotkach is an alcoholic homemade drink that is considered exclusively ladies': sweet, not very strong, easy to drink and, judging by the name, acts harmlessly, but surely. What else does a woman need to relax and have a great time in good company?
In preparation, the miraculous tincture is quite simple and consists of a minimum of inexpensive and affordable ingredients: ripe berries and fruits, alcohol or vodka, sugar and spices. You can do it all year round; the basic principle is to insist on vodka, and then mix them with sugar syrup.
Walnut Spotter
To make this drink, which will subsequently be appreciated by homemade ones, you will need ½ kilogram of unripe walnut kernels, cut into 4 parts. Prepared raw materials must be filled with vodka (3 cups) and insisted for 1 month. And the place for this process is better to choose a sunny one. Then vodka should be decanted, add half a glass of granulated sugar, cherry seeds (15-20 pieces), cinnamon on the tip of a knife and 3 cloves. Insist for about a week until sugar is completely dissolved. To speed up the process, the container with contents can be shaken periodically. Strain the finished filling again and pour into clean glass containers. The result is an excellent spotkach (a classic recipe and tested by more than one master of homemade liquor production).
Coffee-based spotkach
It is nice to get together with friends and discuss pressing matters over a glass of coffee-based ladies' drink.
The process of its preparation brings true pleasure, fueled by anticipation of the final result. Coffee stumbler ... A classic, time-tested recipe ...
Ground coffee in the amount of 6 tablespoons should be poured with six glasses of unboiled hot water, insist for a day, then strain and add 2 cups of sugar. The resulting composition must be heated over low heat, almost brought to a boil. Then remove the hot coffee syrup from the heat and pour 500 grams of vodka into it with a thin stream. Put it on fire again, while carefully monitoring the heating process. At the first appearance of steam, remove the container from the stove, cool the liquid, pour into bottles.
Ladies Cranberry Drink
Original, easy to drink and able to become a favorite drink of the festive table. To prepare a cranberry spotkach, you will need 1 kg of cranberry, which must be carefully sorted, washed thoroughly under running water, knead with a spoon, and placed in a linen bag for draining juice. Then, from the water (3.5 cups) and a kilogram of sugar, prepare sweet syrup, which is required to constantly stir and remove the foam during the cooking process. Next, in the prepared liquid, you need to add the juice, bring the resulting mass to a boil, then remove from the stove and pour 750 grams of vodka previously infused with vanilla (for 2 days). Stir the magic potion well and boil over low heat. Do not bring to a boil. Cool and bottle. A cool and dry place - it is in such conditions that it is recommended to determine a cranberry spotkach. The recipe is classic, which means that you need to store the prepared liquor in a classic way.
Raspberry Potion
Fine raspberry tincture should be in the bins of each mistress. It takes a little time to prepare it, many times more pleasure from savoring such a pleasant drink as a stumbler.
The recipe is classic: 1 kg of raspberries need to be sorted, washed thoroughly and dried. Then place in a container and cover with a mortar to separate juice. From 1.3 kg of sugar dissolved in 3.5 cups of water, cook sweet thick syrup, stirring constantly and removing the froth. Add raspberry juice to the sweet mass and boil again. Remove from heat, dilute the resulting composition with 700 grams of vodka, stir and re-boil over low heat, not boiling. The resulting tripod must be cooled, poured into glass containers, corked and stored for storage in a cool, dry place.
Tasty aronia tincture
Rowan stumbling. The recipe is classic and will not leave indifferent even the most picky gourmet. The cooking process is similar to the previous recipes, only the berries of black chokeberry, a valuable source of a large number of useful micronutrients recommended for people with digestive disorders and thyroid diseases, are used as raw materials for the spotter. In one cluster of berries, a whole vitamin-mineral complex is collected, which has a beneficial effect on increasing immunity and normalizes the work of the respiratory and cardiovascular system. For people living in ecologically disadvantaged areas, the fruits of mountain ash are just a find, since they are able to remove heavy metals and radioactive substances from the body.
To prepare a tasty and healthy spotkach, it is necessary to sort, qualitatively wash, dry on a paper towel and ceiling in an enameled bowl 1 kg of chokeberry. Fold the resulting mass into a linen bag and drain the juice. In parallel, you need to cook sweet syrup, the components of which will be 3.5 cups of water and 1.2 kg of sugar. During the cooking process, foam should be removed all the time. In the obtained syrup, pour juice from mountain ash, boil the liquid mass again and remove from heat. Then dilute the future drink with 750 grams of vodka, put it on a small fire again and boil it without boiling. Cool the finished drink, bottle, carefully cork and wait for a suitable occasion for its tasting.
The highlight of the dining table is plum stumbler (classic recipe)
From plum tincture is a separate topic for conversation. Or rather, the other way around: a plum spotkach will talk to anyone! To prepare it, you need to wash 1 kg of plum, dry, cut in half, remove the seeds and simmer with 0.7 kg of sugar and 1.5 liters of water over low heat. Allow to boil and simmer on low heat for another 20 minutes. Then cool, pour ½ liter of alcohol and pour into bottles.
The result of such persistent efforts will be a well-prepared and well-insisted stumbler.
Classic recipe: currant
Rinse, peel and ceiling 1 kg of black (or red) currants. In order to obtain juice, the berry mass must be squeezed out properly. Along the way, cook thick syrup (1 kg of granulated sugar + 4 cups of water), pour currant juice into it, previously squeezed.
Boil the liquid again, remove from heat, dilute with four glasses of vodka and cool. Bottled drink, cork well and identify in a dark and cool place.
Classic Spotter Recipe
Pour 0.7 liters of vodka and insist in the dark place for 2 weeks the following ingredients:
- 10 grams of nutmeg,
- 5 grams of cinnamon
- 5 grams of saffron,
- 5 grams of cloves,
- 20 grams of vanilla.
Be sure to shake daily. Strain and boil with 1 kg of granulated sugar, not allowing the sweet mass to boil. Cool, filter and pour into glass bottles. The output is fragrant, with the smell of vanilla and spiciness spotkach. The recipe for a classic tincture is not complicated and for a beginner in the preparation of drinks can be a good start.