First, a little about the berry itself. Chokeberry is the second name for chokeberry. In our area, it grows everywhere. It is very unpretentious to temperature conditions, does not require special care and often lives not only in the vegetable garden or garden, but simply in the city or forest. The rich color and taste of this berry provided it with popularity in cooking, and not only. Many respect her for the beneficial properties that she has on the human body.
It is believed that the filling from chokeberry has the same effect as a fresh berry. Only here it is important not to overdo it, but to perceive this drink as a prophylactic for many diseases, and not as alcohol. By the way, the liquor from chokeberry has a high degree, so you need to use it in small quantities. Someone adds it to a tablespoon in tea, others like to breed about the same amount of drink in compote or juice. And you can drink twenty to thirty grams for an appetite before eating. In such doses, a filling from chokeberry will only benefit.
In a classic form, this drink is prepared on the basis of berries, vodka and sugar. Using only these ingredients, you can prepare a tasty and healthy liquor. For one kilogram of berries you need to take a pound of sugar. Vodka will need a liter. In a glass jar you need to grind the berry with sugar. After covering the dishes with gauze, leave them in a dark place for two days. Then you need to add vodka to this mixture.
Cover the jar tightly with a lid, leave it in the same place for another two months. After this time, a filling of chokeberry is ready for use. It remains only to strain it and bottle it.
You can add spices such as cloves to the recipe for chokeberry, which will allow you to play with taste a little. 3-4 buds should be put in a mixture of sugar and berries immediately when mixing them. Clove gives the drink a piquant flavor.
Mountain ash recipe is also very popular, in which honey is present instead of sugar. In this case, it turns out to be less sweet, but at the same time tasty and hoppy. For 2.5 cups of berries you need to take three tablespoons of honey. In addition, you will need a liter of vodka and a pinch of oak bark. Mix honey with berries. If it is sugared, melt it in a water bath. Add washed oak bark and pour vodka. Having closed the lid, we send the future cordial for four to five months to insist in a dark place. Then we filter the drink, bottle it and enjoy the rich taste.
By adding cherry leaves to the recipe for making chokeberry , we get an even more interesting drink. To prepare it, you need to take three kilograms of berries and, shifting them with cherry leaves, pour boiling water. In this form, mountain ash should be infused for a day, after which it must be filtered. In the resulting syrup, add a kilogram of sugar, 2 tablespoons of citric acid and cook in a saucepan over low heat for about 15 minutes. Having cooled to a cool state, the liquid must be diluted with vodka and bottled. The amount of alcohol depends on the strength you want to get the liquor.