The guelder-rose red ordinary is rich with useful substances, in it there is a lot of valerian acid and also vitamin C. It is eaten, tinctures and fruit liqueurs on the basis of a guelder-rose have health giving qualities.
It is required to you
- Guelder-rose, honey, cognac, sugar, glasswares.
Instruction
1. Kalinovy tinctures on cognac strengthen immunity, take off fatigue, take them at problems with a digestive tract. More often the guelder-rose is eaten after freezing, frost-damaged berry develop pleasant, slightly astringent taste and at the same time keep useful properties, but for tincture it is possible to take also fresh fruits. Take a 3-liter jar and fill ½ volumes with berries. Add 500 g of honey and cognac, add to top boiled chilled water, close a kapron cover and remove to the dark place for one month. After term filter liquid, pour on bottles and their zakuporta. Tincture turns out toothsome, with light notes of aroma of a guelder-rose. Use it in the small portions – on 30-50 grams before a lunch, it saves from headaches.
2. It is possible to make tincture and without honey. Wring out juice from berries, it is possible to use the juice extractor, but it is better to make it in the grandmother's way. Put berries in a sieve, take a spoon and, having applied a certain force, wipe a guelder-rose. Mix 0.5 l of juice from 300 g of granulated sugar, fill in mix of 0.5 l of cognac (it is possible to replace with vodka) and 0.2 l of water, put to the warm place to infuse. In two weeks, kalinovy tincture is ready-to-serve, and having given it endurance in 1 month, receive divine drink with unique properties. It is possible to use it as aperitif or medicine at a hypertension and insomnia.
3. For the medicinal purposes drink can be made more concentrated. Touch berries, wash out, put in the prepared glass container, having filled it half, fill in with cognac so that it covered a guelder-rose, and leave for day. In 24 hours add ware alcohol to top and let infuses. The more the endurance, the is better quality of drink. Tincture on cognac expands and cleans vessels.
4. If fill ware with berry on 2/3, then health giving qualities of tincture will amplify to the detriment of quality. Drink will develop a bitterish taste and a pronounced sharp aroma of a guelder-rose. For improvement of a bouquet resort to such reception: in two weeks merge the first infusion in clean ware, and again fill in berries with an alcohol-containing product, sustain 14 more days. Mix the first and second infusion, filter.