Cranberry tincture is loved in many families, often the house even has its own special recipe for this drink. Cranberries on cognac are considered the most common liquor, but sometimes berries are insisted on vodka or alcohol. The recipes of this drink can not be counted. Someone makes a tincture with sugar, and someone loves it is not sweet. By the way, if sugar is not added, the drink will have a strong fresh acidity. Shelf life of home tincture is no more than 12 months. And it's better to leave it in the refrigerator.
Whip up recipe
Cranberry Cognac tincture has long been sold in supermarkets. It can also be found in smaller stores. One of the most famous manufacturers of drinks of this class is Nemirov. Cranberries on cognac, however, are easily prepared at home.
There is a way to prepare tinctures, in which you do not have to wait long for the result. The composition is also quite simple. So, cranberries on cognac are made from brandy itself (0.5 l), cranberries (250 g), water (2/3 tablespoons) and sugar (2/3 tablespoons).
Cooking process
Dip the berries in boiling water, and then transfer them to a jar. Sugar must also be sent there. Take a wooden pusher (it can be replaced with a regular rolling pin) and knead the cranberries thoroughly. Now pour this crushed mass with our strong alcoholic drink. Seal the mixture tightly with a lid and put in a warm place for a couple of hours. The resulting tincture needs to be thoroughly filtered, it is best to do this through cheesecloth, folded in several layers.
Next, bring the water to a boil, and then cool it to 35-40 degrees. Add it to the drink. Then the tincture must be cooled to room temperature. That, in fact, is all. Now you can bottled and sent to the refrigerator. Such a drink can be stored for a little over a year.
Delicious drink
For cooking, we need the following ingredients:
- Cranberries - a little more than a pound.
- Vodka - 1 cup.
- Cognac - two glasses.
- Water - 1 cup.
- Sugar is a pound.
- Cinnamon - 1 stick.
- Carnation is a pair of buds.
- Honey - 60 grams.
How to cook
Rinse the berries thoroughly and put in a saucepan. Pour cranberries with sugar and squeeze a little so that the berries give juice. Now you can forget about cooking for a day. Just cover the container and transfer to a warm place.
After a day, you can begin to prepare berry syrup. Add purified water to the already prepared mixture, you can even use distilled water. Mix well and place on the stove. After the syrup boils, pour it into a jar and insist for at least three more days. At the end of this period, strain the infusion through cheesecloth. Then mix the purified liquid with cognac, and squeeze the berries with vodka.
Two little secrets with big consequences
The quality of the drink and your health the day after drinking the tincture depend on these small tricks:
- When you mix alcohol with water, pour alcohol into the water. On the contrary, it’s not worth doing.
- The quality of the spirits on which the product will be infused. With cognac, everything is simple: it is better to take alcohol is not the cheapest, but to choose too high a class of this drink is completely useless. But it’s better to be careful with vodka. It is ideal here to use grape vodka or chacha. The thing is that chacha not only has a pleasant aftertaste and fruity aroma, but also one base with cognac, namely grape spirit. This is the key to a light head and good health instead of a hangover. But if this moment is not key in the manufacture of tinctures, then you can use ordinary vodka.
Berries with vodka and syrup with cognac are laid out in different banks and infused for about another two weeks. But just do not lower the banks into the cellar, they should be in a warm place. After the process of infusion comes to an end, you will need to drain the liquid from the berries and mix it with alcoholic syrup. For a brighter taste, honey, cinnamon and cloves are added to the tincture. All mix thoroughly and insist for at least another month. And only after this cranberry on cognac is considered ready. Such an alcoholic infusion can be stored in a cool place for up to 18 months. Approximately 1.5 liters of tincture comes out of the above ingredients, the strength of which is from 20 to 22 degrees.
Cranberries on cognac from the store
Now, many manufacturers of alcoholic beverages began to produce popular tincture. But the most famous and best-selling for many years is Nemiroff. Cranberries on cognac of this brand are especially popular.
This alcoholic drink is not only consumed by the weaker sex, many men also prefer it to stronger products. In order to get maximum pleasure from tincture, it must be well cooled before use and drunk in very small sips.
But do not abuse too much cranberry tincture, as, indeed, any other alcoholic drink. Since the taste of this liquor is incredibly pleasant, and the degree is almost not felt, it seems that it does not cause significant harm to health. But these feelings are very misleading.