Recipes of tasty tinctures on vodka are simple, demand ingredients a little, and the drinks made according to their descriptions are permanently attractive externally, fragrant and pleasant for the use. Preparation of tinctures on berries, fruit, herbs and roots was business creative at all times. According to even official classification distinguish tinctures strong, slabogradusny, bitter, sweet, semisweet, dessert, etc.
Cherry tincture
Ingredients for tincture: - juice cherry natural – 250 ml; - water boiled – 250 ml;
- vodka – 500 ml.
For preparation of cherry juice take 1 kg of fresh berries with destemed and 700 g of granulated sugar. Wash up berries, put in capacity with a wide throat, fill up with granulated sugar, cover with a gauze or a cotton napkin, tie a cord and put to the warm place, it is possible in the sun, for 30-40 days. From the turned-out rewandering juice take necessary quantity (in this case it is 250 ml), and mix with boiled water and vodka. Pour in a beautiful large bottle or a decanter. You store tincture in the cool place.
Autumn tincture
Ingredients: - a rowan red – 500 g; - apples – 1 kg; - granulated sugar – 300 g; - vodka – 1.5 l.
Apples have to be ripe, fragrant, juicy. For example, such grades as Rennet, Schafran, White filling, Golden делишез, Gala, etc. It is better to collect a rowan for tincture after the first frosts.
Touch a rowan, remove garbage, carefully wash out and cast away on a colander that all water ran away. Wash up apples, dry, remove a core and cut with rings. Lay serially layers the prepared apples and a rowan in suitable capacity, pouring each layer granulated sugar, and fill in with vodka so that it covered fruit mix completely. Cover with a gauze or a napkin and leave "ripen" for 2-3 months at the room temperature. Drink is considered ready when rowan berries completely became colourless. Filter, pour in bottles, stop up with traffic jams. You store in the dark cool place.
Natural tincture
Ingredients: - bark oak crushed – 1 tsp; - coriander seeds – 0.5 tsps; - a thyme – 1 tablespoon; - a St. John's wort – 1 tablespoon; - a melissa – 1 tablespoon; - natural honey – 3 tablespoons; - vodka – 500 ml.
Herbs, bark and seeds it is better to take dried up. Before application follows потолочь them in a mortar before emergence of aroma.
Fill in honey with vodka and carefully stir. Pour in a large bottle, attach all other ingredients (the recipe allows addition of other herbs which are pleasant to you), shake up, and then strong to a zakuporta and remove to the dark cool place for 2-3 months. Filter, pour in a bottle or a decanter, you store in the fridge.
Berry tincture
Ingredients: - berry; - granulated sugar; - vodka. Take juicy ripe berries (it is possible even overripe, but not begun to rot) – strawberry, a wild strawberry, raspberry; black, white and red currant also wash out their baking plate the crane. In convenient capacity fill berries layers, pouring each layer granulated sugar into proportions 1:1. If you want tincture to turn out sweet, increase amount of sand. The last layer of berries has to be completely covered with sand. Cover ware with a leaky cover or a napkin and put to the warm place. It is possible in the sun. In a day or two berries will emit juice. Merge it through a gauze or a sieve and remove in the fridge, and over the remained berries fill granulated sugar – a half of that quantity which was filled for the first time. In a day or two again merge juice and connect it to already available, and again fill up berries with sand (twice less previous quantity). When for the 3rd time you merge a berry juice, you can start direct preparation of tincture. For this purpose connect the received filtered juice and vodka in the following proportions: on 1 l of juice take 200-250 ml of vodka. Mix, pour on bottles, close traffic jams and remove to the cool place.