Even home-made cognac tincture can delight those who don't love alcohol. Such drink can be taken as aperitif or to add to dough, creams and ice cream.
It is required to you
- - cognac;
- - sugar;
- - water;
- - raspberry berries;
- - cranberry berries;
- - sloe berries;
- - petals of roses;
- - coriander;
- - carnation;
- - cinnamon;
- - nutmeg;
- - partitions of walnuts;
- - oak bark.
Instruction
1. For preparation of home-made tincture any fresh or frozen berries are required. Fresh give stronger aroma, but frozen don't produce a lot of fruit acid. Usually the recipe of tincture on cognac includes sugar that makes drink similar to liqueur or berry fruit liqueur. Judges of traditional alcohol can refuse sugar.
2. Raspberry tincture on cognac is in great demand. Berries need to be poured in glass capacity, having filled with them ¾ volume. Then to fill in raspberry with cognac and to allow to infuse 48 hours. It is longer not recommended to insist as drink will turn out sour. After that it is necessary to merge alcohol, and then to prepare syrup from the used berries. A ratio of berries and sugar – 3:1. Mix the cooled-down syrup with cognac tincture. Pour the received structure in a glass container, to close and leave densely in the dark place for half a year.
3. Home-made cognac tincture with a cranberry differs in special aroma. It can be prepared both with sugar, and without. Same technology. The washed-up berries connect to sugar and cognac in a proportion 1:1:2. Mix is put on slow fire and weary to full sugar remelting. Then remove and allow to cool down a little. Weight is spilled on banks, wrapped up and put to the dark cool place for 7-10 days. After this period tincture is wiped through a sieve and several times filtered.
4. Very refined recipe of tincture on cognac turns out with petals of roses. The fresh dismissed buds (2 glasses) are put in glasswares. Then they are filled in with cognac (200 ml) and left in the sun for 3-4 days. Then alcohol is decanted, and petals fill in 200 ml of cognac again. In a week the procedure is repeated last time, only this time buds fill in 100 ml of alcohol. After that all infusions connect in one ware and dilute with the syrup prepared from 0.5 kg of sugar and 0.5 l of water.
5. The original taste turns out at a cognac combination (3 l) to a coriander (1 tsp), oak bark (3 tablespoons), partitions of walnuts (2 tablespoons) and sugar (1 tablespoon). Mix infuses in the dry place of 7-10 days.
6. Preparation of the following tincture will require 1 l of cognac, 1 kg of berries of a sloe, 5 features of a carnation, 0.5 tsps of nutmeg, a pinch of cinnamon, 0.5 kg of sugar and 1.5 glasses of water. The washed-up berries need to be touched, and to get stones from 3-5 pieces. Then stones to shatter, put in a glass container, to mix with berries and spices, to fill in with alcohol and to leave to wander within 10 days. After this time to filter tincture, to pour in it in a sugar syrup and to insist even day. Store in densely closed bottles.