People who appreciate the taste of alcoholic drinks, love homemade tinctures, will like the tincture of lingonberry. Experienced housewives appreciate this juicy berry: for its benefit, brightness, taste. In addition, it softens the smell and specific taste of any alcohol, whether it is alcohol, vodka, cognac, moonshine.
Lingonberry tincture at home - general principles
Truly cowberries are great for making homemade tinctures. A drink is prepared from fresh berries, and from frozen, canned fruits. Some even specially freeze slightly lingonberries, believing that this way the berry gives off more juice, which makes the taste of the finished tincture and its color especially bright.
The principle of any tincture is the same: the berries are washed, poured with an alcoholic drink, removed for infusion for a while, then filtered and poured into a container.
Often they use sugar, sugar syrup or honey so that the drink is not too tart and viscous.
Other berries, leaves of berry bushes, vanilla, cinnamon and other ingredients can be added to the taste of cranberry tincture.
Tincture has a beautiful rich color, indescribable aroma and taste. And even men who believe that homemade alcohol on berries is a female drink will not refuse tasting. Consider the most favorite and common recipes.
1. A quick recipe for lingonberry tincture at home on vodka
Ingredients:
• canned lingonberries in juice - three jars;
• five glasses of sugar;
• any vodka - one liter bottle;
• liter can of filtered water;
• five fresh mint leaves.
Cooking method:
1. Open cans with canned lingonberries, drop the berries in a colander to stack the juice (instead of canned lingonberries, you can take natural lingonberry juice). Do not pour the juice, but drain into a separate cup.
2. Cook sugar syrup: pour water into a metal container, add sugar, put on a stove, turn on medium heat and boil until sugar is completely dissolved. Turn off the fire, leave the syrup for a while to cool.
3. Rinse the mint leaves, place them on a paper towel to dry slightly.
4. Pour chilled sugar syrup into the cranberry juice, add mint leaves, pour vodka, close the lid, stir well and leave for forty-eight hours to insist.
5. After two days, strain the tincture through a sieve, bottle and place in a dark place, store at a temperature not exceeding fifteen degrees.
6. This tincture is very sweet and fragrant, can be used as a dessert drink.
2. Tincture of cranberries and cranberries at home on vodka
Ingredients:
• lingonberry berries - half a kilogram;
• cranberry berries - half a kilogram;
• vodka - seven glasses.
For sugar syrup:
• granulated sugar - eight glasses;
• purified water - a little more than one glass.
Cooking method:
1. Sort cranberries and lingonberries so that extra leaves and twigs do not come across in the finished tincture, rinse under running water. Instead of fresh fruits, cranberries and cranberries, you can take freshly frozen berries, only before preparing tinctures, defrost them well.
2. Grind all berries in any way (in a blender or crush) to make a puree mass.
3. Pour granulated sugar into the berry puree, pour vodka (you can use alcohol instead of vodka), close the lid, let it brew for a few minutes.
4. Cook the syrup: pour sugar into a deep saucepan, pour water on it, set it on the stove and boil for about ten minutes over moderate heat.
5. Do not cool the syrup, but pour it directly into the pureed berry puree with vodka and sugar, stir well.
6. Pour the tincture into a three-liter jar and close it with a plastic lid, put in a dark place and leave for ten days.
7. Filter lingonberry drink through a sieve or cheesecloth to remove excess cake and bottle, put in a darkened cool place for storage.
3. Tincture of lingonberry at home on alcohol
Ingredients:
• fresh lingonberry - 12 glasses;
• liter of alcohol;
• currant leaves - eight pieces.
Cooking method:
1. Sort fresh berries, rinse in a colander with cold water (you can use fresh frozen fruits together with fresh lingonberries), lay them on a clean, dry cloth to dry slightly.
2. Transfer the berries to three-liter jars.
3. Rinse currant leaves, dry slightly on paper napkins (you can use a leaf from raspberries, rose hips or any other berry trees).
4. Pour the berries with alcohol, add the leaves of currant, cover with lids and put in a dark cupboard for one month for insisting.
5. After a month, strain the tincture and bottle.
6. This tincture is strong, so take one teaspoon as a medicine for diabetes, rheumatism, diseases of the urinary system, diarrhea, gout.
4. Lingonberry tincture at home with honey
Ingredients:
• top quality vodka - one liter bottle;
• a little less than a pound of fresh lingonberry;
• natural honey - one glass;
• cinnamon pod.
Cooking method:
1. As in other recipes, be sure to sort out fresh lingonberries, wash thoroughly, pour into a large jar or other suitable glass container.
2. Add honey to the berries.
3. Pour in the vodka.
4. Put the cinnamon pod, mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon.
5. Close the plastic lid and place in a dark place for thirty days to insist.
6. Strain the prepared tincture, bottle and consume in small doses as a medicine against dysentery, with rheumatism.
5. Tincture of lingonberry at home on cognac
Ingredients:
• a small bottle of any brandy;
• one glass of fresh lingonberry;
• sugar - three large spoons.
Cooking method:
1. Pour the prepared lingonberry fruits into a two-liter jar, crush with a crush (you can chop in a blender).
2. Pour cognac into the lingonberry puree, add sugar, stir well, close the lid and place in a dark warm place for insisting for half a month.
3. After 2 weeks, strain the tincture, squeeze the squeezes a little.
4. Bottle, cap and place in a dark, ventilated area.
5. Such a tincture is obtained of medium strength, therefore, it must be consumed in small doses for the treatment of diseases associated with the urinary system, and for diseases of the joints.
6. Tincture of lingonberries with cherries at home on cognac and vodka
Ingredients:
• any brandy - a small bottle;
• any vodka - one liter bottle;
• fresh lingonberries - a little more than three kilograms (you can also freshly frozen);
• fresh fruits of cherry - five glasses;
• sugar - a little less than one glass (can be replaced with natural flower honey);
• two lemons.
In addition, prepare a few leaves of currant, raspberry, cherry.
Cooking method:
1. Sort the lingonberries and cherries thoroughly, individually pour into a colander and rinse with water, put on paper towels, leave for forty minutes to dry well.
2. Put all the berries in a common glass dish. Do not take out the seeds from the cherry.
3. Pour cognac, vodka into a bowl with berries, add sugar.
4. Wash the lemons, do not peel the peel, do not remove the seeds, cut the fruits into small slices, put them in a container.
5. Stir thoroughly, cover the dishes tightly with a lid, leave in some dark cupboard and leave for ten days at room temperature.
6. At the end of the allotted time, strain the tincture, bottle it, put it in a dark, well-ventilated room.
7. Such a tincture also turns out to be strong, therefore it is worth using it exclusively in small doses, as a medicine.
Lingonberry tincture at home - tips and tricks
• To prepare a quality drink, you must carefully approach the choice of raw materials. The berries are not required to be whole, but they certainly should not be spoiled, with obvious signs of rotting, moldy. Secondly, the fruit must first be sorted and washed: the remaining dirt can adversely affect the taste of the finished drink.
• Tincture prepared according to the above recipes can be not only an excellent aperitif, medicine, but also an excellent culinary product. It is often added to the dough, where it improves the mass structure, gives the product a special aroma, making products softer, more airy. It is used to prepare impregnation for cakes, biscuits.
• Alcohol tinctures have a long shelf life, unlike drinks that do not contain an alcohol base. But nevertheless it is necessary to observe storage rules. It is recommended to store the product at home for no more than one year, yet tincture is not an aperitif, but rather a drug that, after a certain time, loses its properties.
• It is forbidden to store tincture in a container made of metal or plastic; it is ideal to use any glass containers for both preparing and infusing, storing.
• If, upon opening the lingonberry tincture, you find that it is not hermetically closed or that a large amount of rain has accumulated at its bottom, refuse to use it.
• Before using alcohol for medicinal purposes, it is important to obtain specialist advice.
