Homemade cranberry tincture: recipes, cooking features and reviews

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Amazing berry - cranberry. In Russia, it is famous for its ability to lower the temperature in people and nourish the body with vitamins. Northern lemon - that's what the inhabitants of Siberia call it. Cranberry season usually starts in September. This month, the berries are harvested and sent for storage. Unique fruits perfectly "survive" the winter and subsequent seasons in containers with water, hidden in a dark place. Unripe berries are able to ripen in assembled form. Pour a thin layer of berries somewhere in a bright and cool room. They will reach maturity after a while. Frosts are not an obstacle for the berry season in the case of cranberries. After frost, the berries continue to be beautiful and useful. They only get tastier.

Useful berry

This northern berry, filled with useful trace elements and vitamins, makes an excellent liqueur. The drink takes inthe composition of all the usefulness of cranberries and passes them on to those who drink a delicious tincture. Cranberry is considered a purely feminine drink. It is easy to drink, it has a pleasant taste and color. But men, too, cannot resist trying cranberry tincture.

Good cranberry! And a natural drink prepared at home is several times better, and most importantly - he althier! Right now we will start looking at recipes for homemade cranberry tincture. We will tell you the secrets of how to create a useful elixir from these magical berries and an alcohol base. If you live in a place where cranberries do not grow, but you really want to taste cranberries, there is nothing difficult about it. The berry tolerates transportation well and is often sold in markets. Do not trust market traders? Then go straight to the supermarket and look for cranberries in the freezing section. She will definitely be there.

Well, now let's get down to the secrets of making homemade cranberry tincture.

Cranberry tincture recipes

Make the first liqueur from a small amount of ingredients:

1. One glass of ripe juicy cranberries.
2. 0.5L (bottle) of vodka.
3. One tablespoon of sugar.
4. 50 milliliters of boiled water.

This cranberry vodka tincture recipe is the simplest and therefore very famous.

Let's start cooking:

1. The most important thing is carefully examined and sorted berries. We take only mature and juicy. Place fresh berries infreezer for about a day. If your berries have already gone through this preparatory process, which removes bitterness from them, then they need to be washed and poured into a glass container. The volume of dishes in which cranberry tincture will be made from a given amount of ingredients is about one liter. The most common liter glass jar is perfect.
2. Chop the berries in any way possible. You can use a wooden pestle (masher), meat grinder or blender. A regular fork will also cope with crushing cranberries. The harder you grind the berries, the more juice they give for the cranberries.
3. Pour vodka directly into the jar and mix the contents. We remove the dishes with the future tincture in a dark place. And one more important condition: this place should not be cool. Our cranberries should start the fermentation process.
4. 14 days you have to wait. So much time is needed for the liqueur to mature properly. But after two weeks it needs to be filtered.
5. In order for the drink to have a pleasant appearance and be not only tasty, but also transparent, you need to get rid of the pomace in it. We will drink several times. The very first stage will help remove all large elements from former berries. To do this, use three layers of clean gauze. And to get rid of very small particles in the drink, you need to use a cotton pad. Pour the tincture through it into another bowl.
6. Now she is ready for further action.

Syrup for tincture

Cranberry tincture on vodka, made at home, is already ready, butthe taste of cranberries is famous for its acidity. It is necessary to ennoble it with sugar syrup. We cook syrup from fifty milliliters of pure water and a tablespoon of granulated sugar. Let it cool and add to the tincture. Stir in syrup and filling. All! You can start tasting the drink.

Male Cranberry

A more "brutal" tincture implies the use of home-made moonshine as the basis. If you do not have a shortage of this product in the cellar, then we advise you to make homemade tincture with cranberries and moonshine. Treat this cranberry base very responsibly. Do not use moonshine of dubious quality. Before mixing the berries and the moonshine base, it must be cleaned. Purification consists in filtering this drink through cotton pads and crushed activated carbon. Tablets of such coal can be purchased at a regular pharmacy. So: you brought moonshine to perfect purity, freeing it from harmful fusel oils with activated carbon.

Start cooking cranberries on home-brew

Take a glass of ripe cranberries, one hundred grams of sugar, one liter of purified strong moonshine. First, prepare the berries: sort, rinse, dry. Then chop the cranberries in any improvised way. Put them in a glass container and sprinkle with sugar. Fill with the entire norm of moonshine. Diligently stir the berry gruel and moonshine. Cork the dishes and put away for a week in a warm and dark cabinet. Every day for a week you will need to mix the contents in thiscrockery. As soon as 7 days have passed, the drink can be filtered. Let the strained liqueur stand overnight in the refrigerator.

Cranberry ginger

Cranberry and alcohol tincture with the addition of ginger root is a gourmet option.

To make this liqueur you need:

• 400 grams of berries;
• half a teaspoon of ginger root (through a fine grater);
• 150 milliliters of alcohol;
• 100 milliliters of boiled water;
• 100 grams of sugar.

Cooking technology

Berries subjected to careful inspection and selection. Grind them with a blender or meat grinder. Pour the berry gruel into a jar and put grated ginger in it. Stir the mixture and pour the entire rate of alcohol into the container. Now mix all the contents of the jar and, having covered it tightly with a lid, put it away for fermentation in a warm place without sunlight. After a seven-day stay in such conditions, be sure to strain the liquor through several layers of gauze. To achieve the transparency required from cranberries, you can use cotton pads. The first stage of preparing a he althy cranberry and ginger tincture is over.

Now the second stage of cooking. You need syrup for pouring. Boil water with sugar for several minutes, but removing the scale formed on the syrup. Cool the syrup and only then mix with the tincture. Remove the resulting drink in a cool place (refrigerator, cellar) for at least a day. After this time, fragrant and delicious ginger tincture can be tasted.

Quick Cranberry

This recipe is good when you want to taste tinctures as soon as possible. Three hours is enough for it to be fully ready.

Gathering ingredients:

1. Four hundred grams of cranberries.
2. 150 grams of granulated sugar.
3. 700 milliliters of quality vodka.
4. 180 milliliters of water.

And now, in a quick way, we are preparing an express tincture:

1. Rinse the berries, pour boiling water for a couple of minutes.
2. Drain the water and add all the sugar to the berries.
3. Stir the sugar in the cranberries and put on a very slow fire for about three minutes. Remember to stir the sugar-berry mixture as needed.
4. As soon as the sugar dissolves, put the mass into a fine sieve and wipe through it. Let the mixture cool slightly to avoid burning yourself. Squeeze out the remaining berry syrup with cheesecloth.
5. Pour the vodka into the cranberry syrup. After combining the syrup and the base, put the liqueur in a cold place for three hours.

After the specified time, you can treat yourself to cranberries and treat your dear guests with it.

Cranberry tincture is drunk not only at the moments when it is necessary to prevent colds and warm up the body from the inside. It's great for lifting the mood. When drinking this drink, do not forget that you prepared it on alcohol bases. The fact is that drinking cranberry is almost the same as drinking cranberry juice, the drink "comes in" so easily. Be careful and don't forget the feelingmeasures.