Lingonberry is an evergreen shrub with small red fruits that grow in inflorescences. The taste of berries is sour. According to the unanimous opinion of doctors, they contain many useful substances: vitamins with trace elements, which are necessary for our body to feel good and to prevent diseases. In addition, tincture on lingonberry (moonshine) has received truly national recognition, as it is a natural substance - an extract that embodies the best characteristics of the original product. Regularly drinking a drink (of course, in acceptable quantities) can prevent, even cure, many diseases. Tincture on lingonberries (on moonshine) will help the cores, people with weakened vessels, with anemia, can become an excellent home prophylactic. Well, try to cook?
Lingonberry tincture on moonshine: a recipe for cooking in home realities
Drinks and liquors from this berry and peeled moonshine can be prepared according to different recipes based on various methods:
- Often cold infusion is used (without heating), where dried berries are used as an ingredient.
- Fresh or freshly frozen fruits are introduced into strong alcohol.
- Lingonberry berries, together with moonshine, are heated using a water bath.
Also, in the preparation of such drinks, some additives are used that improve or even change the taste. For example, peppermint tincture on lingonberry (moonshine): we will talk about the recipe for making this kind of drink at home a little later. The most valuable are compounds prepared by the cold method. All vitamins are stored here, which can be destroyed by prolonged heating to certain temperatures. However, when the alcohol is heated, the lingonberry fruits give a greater amount of juice, and such a tincture on lingonberries (on moonshine) can persist for a long time. So, in what way to prepare a healing drink, decide individually. But to make the drink really healthy, try to buy berries that were collected in ecologically clean areas of the country.
Cold brewing method
To prepare the berry tincture in this way, we first need to slightly berry berries in the amount of one kilogram in the oven (drying at a temperature of no higher than forty). Or this procedure can be performed in a warm room where there is enough sunlight, but then it will take a longer time. Then we take a half-liter of moonshine (it is desirable to take stronger - 70-80 degrees, double distillation). We also raise a glass of sugar syrup (a classic recipe for proportions: one to one, that is, 100 milliliters of purified water should be taken per 100 grams of granulated sugar). And - we begin cooking tinctures on lingonberries on moonshine.
Step by Step Description
Pour slightly dried berries lingonberries in a container for insisting. Pour with strong alcohol (try so that the mass is not up to the dishes, so you need to take a 3-liter bottle for a given volume of ingredients). Close the lid. Shake the mixture.
Then we put the container for insisting in a warm and dark place. Shake a couple of times a day, without opening the bottle.
After about a week or ten days, the moonshine will completely choose the juice from the berries. The mass can be traced, additionally squeezed berries. After that, we breed as desired with prepared syrup. So the tincture of moonshine on lingonberries is ready. The recipe for it, as you see, is not complicated. But there are a few recommendations.
Useful Tips
Those lingonberry berries, on which alcohol was infused, do not need to be thrown out. You can additionally grind (crush), putting with their participation the next portion of tincture or strain on gauze, adding the juice to the finished home-made products.
Sugar syrup can not be added. Then the infusion comes out strong and less sweet - natural and natural. This is especially true for those who limit themselves in the use of sugar.
Hot Infusion Method
Such a healing composition will be more fragrant and concentrated than its previous version. We need: a kilo of fresh lingonberries, a liter of home-brew (take stronger: 70-80%), sugar and water syrup - half a liter.
- In the container for infusion, mix all the ingredients. We close it with a lid, but not too tight (or a lid with holes for removing steam), and send it to a water bath to warm it up properly. For the bath, we use an ordinary enameled pan half filled with water (in a liquid at room temperature we put a container with future infusion, and only then heat it over low heat).
- Do not bring the mixture to a boil, turn off the stove and leave to cool right in the water bath. This heating procedure should be repeated several times.
- Then let it settle for 2-3 days and pour on cheesecloth.
- Ready tincture (or liquor) has a strength of about 35 degrees. The longer it stands, the more pleasant and softer the taste and aroma of the final product will be.
Recipe for moonshine tincture on lingonberry with mint
Another option for obtaining a high-quality and healthy product is the addition of mint. To obtain a healing drink, you can use both fresh leaves and dry. And as the main ingredient - both fresh lingonberries and dried in the oven (and even concentrated fruit drinks from this berry). The secret to cooking is simple: take a kilo of lingonberries and a liter of good moonshine of a neutral taste. If you wish, you can use alcohol and with pronounced taste: apple, pear, grape, grain. With them, the aromas of lingonberries and mint will be perfectly combined, and this will not harm the end result. Still need to take grams of 100 mint leaves. In a large container, mix all the ingredients. We close the lid and insist in a dark and warm place for a week (preferably 10-14 days, then all the utilities will certainly go to the alcohol base). You should use the method of cold infusion, since with strong heating, the beneficial properties of mint can evaporate. The mixture should be shaken periodically. And after the expiration of the specified period - drain, squeeze and bottle, corking for storage. Let it stand in the pantry for a week - and you can use it!