There are bumper-crop years on fragrant strawberry, the code gorged on with all members of household and friends much, preserved jam, jam and compote for the winter, froze on, dried, and strawberry everything grows and grows. Pies, cakes and cocktails bothered. It is a high time to pass to something original. For example, to strawberry wine.
Having the pleasant aroma and taste sated in burgundy-red color, strawberry wine is suitable as for a treat of ladies on a festive feast, and for preparation of cocktails, impregnation of biscuits, decoration of desserts.
Recipes of fortified strawberry wine
1 way. Its preparation requires glass capacity – a big can on 15 liters and a special plastic cover for wine fermentation. On 3-4 kg of strawberry it is necessary to take 2 kg of granulated sugar and 4-5 liters of clean drinking water of good quality. To bank on 2/3 to fill with berries, to fill up with sugar and to fill in with water so that it was below edge of capacity on 5 centimeters. Close a cover for insisting of wine.
In a cover to fill in water for definition of the beginning of process of fermentation: as soon as water in it begins to rage, it is necessary to deliver to bank to the sun. In 20 days when wine ceases to play and will be clarified, it is necessary to filter it, to add a glass of granulated sugar and again, having closed a cover, to put to wander. In a week or two when fermentation process comes to the end, wine will brighten, again accurately to filter, without shaking up a deposit and to fix by two tablespoons of vodka on drink.2 half of liter a way: Kilograms is fresher than some strawberry to wash, clean from fruit stems. Lay out on a towel and allow to dry. Crush berries in the blender or wipe through a sieve. To add kilograms of granulated sugar to the turned-out puree and to fill in a floor with liters of hot water. Having mixed, to pour in a vessel with a high neck and to put to the warm place. In 5 days it is necessary to remove a skin and to filter drink through the gauze put in several layers or paper filters. Add half of liter of good vodka, mix and pour on bottles which for a week clean up in a dark cold spot after – the product is ready-to-serve. It is better to store it in the fridge.
Recipes of a semidry strawberry wine
On 2 kg of berry 400 g of sugar undertake. Strawberry is carefully peeled from garbage and fruit stems, washed out, dried up and crushed by a masher or the blender at a low speed. Sugar is added to the kneaded berry mix, mixes up, and weight is shifted in a large bottle for preparation of domestic wine. Its neck is tied by a gauze, and it is put to the solar warm place. Approximately for the third day the emerged alburnum signals about need to merge drink in other capacity with a water lock and to leave for 3 weeks for fermentation. Then bank it is rearranged to the cool place for a month. Closer to the end of term, wine is checked for clarification. When it comes, drink accurately not to lift a deposit, by means of a rubber hose and a gauze or a paper filter spreads on bottles. The glass container is put to the cool place for a week then wine can be tasted.