Cherry liqueur is considered one of the most delicious home-made alcoholic beverages. In addition, it is made extremely simple. You just need to be patient and let her mature well. On how to make cherry filling yourself, we will now tell you. And then you will surprise your guests by putting carafes on the table with a beautiful and tasty dark red drink.
How to make cherry filling
First you need to stock up with enough cherry. Each for himself determines how many berries will be needed to make the required amount of drink. For the most economical owners, we will give a recipe for a pure cherry alcoholic drink, and then we will talk about how to increase its quantity. As a result, you will get both cherry liquor for alcohol and tasty wine.
It is best to take the Podbelsky variety - the most juicy and delicious. Berries need to be washed in running water and it is desirable to chop each. You can do this at will, because the cherry will still let the juice. The bones are not removed - they give the product a pleasant astringency.
Washed cherries are poured into bulk bottles or in three-liter jars for about three quarters - on the shoulders. Every 3-5 centimeters of cherries should be sprinkled with about two tablespoons of sugar. This proportion is also conditional, since you can make cherry filling more sweet by increasing the amount of sugar, and more tart. As they say, taste is a private matter.
After filling the cans with berry and sugar, they are then covered with a lid with a water lock. It is simple to make a water lock - a hole is made in the polyethylene cover, into which about half a meter of a regular medical tube is inserted. The place where the tube enters the lid is covered with plasticine for tightness, and the whole structure is put on the neck of the can. The free end of the tube is placed in a jar filled with water. It is necessary to ensure that the auxiliary tank always has the proper water level, that is, that the end of the tube is always below the liquid level. However, to ensure that oxygen does not get into the container with cherries can be done in simpler ways. For example, no one bothers you with acquiring a shutter manufactured in an industrial way, or simply putting a surgical glove on the neck of a can. In one of the fingers, a tiny hole is simply pierced with a needle. When the liqueur is fermented, carbon dioxide will inflate the glove and will slowly bleed through the puncture, not letting oxygen in, while at the same time not bringing the pressure to a critical level.
In order to speed up the process, it is advisable to shake the jar at the very beginning. This will allow sugar to dissolve faster in cherry juice. After the berries give the juice, and all the sugar has dissolved, the most difficult period begins, since it is impossible to make cherry liquor without the proper supply of patience. You will now have to forget about your cans with berries for about one and a half to two months, placing them inaccessible to direct sunlight.
But at the same time, you do not need to finally throw cans or bottles, as you need to monitor the fermentation process. As soon as the glove “deflates” (or gas bubbles no longer stand out from the aqueous solution), the first stage can be considered completed.
The liquid is filtered, bottled. You can conduct the first tasting. Just do not get carried away, since making cherry filling in this way is half the battle. We still have berries. You can eat them, you can make a pie with them, or you can ... increase the amount of drink. It will already be cherry liquor with vodka. It’s only advisable to remove the seeds from the berries, because they can give an already excessive bitterness and a pronounced taste of hydrocyanic acid. Although this is an amateur. But many drink with pleasure the Amaretto liquor.
Fill the cherry with vodka, add a little more sugar, you can put a little cinnamon and a few clove inflorescences, put a water shutter or put on a glove and forget about it for three weeks again.
After this period, we drain the liquor, we invite guests to the holiday! Enjoy your feast!