Often a party with friends is complete without alcohol. For complete confidence in the quality of products, preference should be given to home-made tinctures and wines. "What is the difference between these drinks?"
- you ask. There is not much difference, tincture is the same wine that is prepared on the basis of fruits, berries or herbs. Sometimes these homemade drinks are used for medical purposes to get rid of ailments and improve the condition of the body. One of the most common traditional medicine is rowan tincture. To prepare the drink, the berries of the plant are used.
Rowan tincture on vodka
To create a drink, in addition to berries, you will need vodka and sugar. First of all, the mountain ash should be washed several times (until the water is completely clean) and dried. Then the berries must be crushed using, for example, a fork or mortar. Next, the raw materials are placed in a glass container (bottle or jar with a capacity of not more than a liter), filling it almost to the top, not reaching the edge by about 3-5 cm. Pour the berries with vodka so that it covers them completely. We tightly seal the container and leave it for insisting for a couple of weeks. Occasionally you need a vessel in this
shake period. After the necessary time has passed, the drink must be filtered using a napkin made of several layers of gauze. Rowan tincture should be transparent in appearance and not have sediment.
The role of sugar in cooking
At this time, it’s the turn of sugar application - we make syrup from it. For this, the product is dissolved in a small volume of water. If you want to get a specific, bitter mountain ash aftertaste, then no more than half a glass of sugar should be added to a liter jar of tincture. If there is a desire to get a fairly sweet likeness of liquor, then the product will need more. In this matter you need to rely on your own taste. So, add the sugar syrup brought to a boil to the resulting tincture, pour it into a container, cork it and leave the drink alone for another week. In this way, a natural high-quality mountain ash tincture is obtained.
Properties of the drink and contraindications
In addition to a pleasant taste, tincture made from mountain ash has the ability to relieve severe colds and excruciating headaches. However, such a medicine has contraindications. Rowan tincture is strictly prohibited for women during pregnancy and lactation, as well as for people whose body has a tendency to form blood clots, and increased blood clotting.
How to make mountain ash tincture on cognac
For preparation, in addition to 500 ml of an alcoholic drink, you will need honey and sugar, oak bark in the amount of a tablespoon each and 2 pcs. dried cloves. Of course, the tincture includes rowan berries, which will require one glass. First of all, you need to boil oak bark in water for at least half an hour with the lid closed. After in the broth, add cloves and cool it. When the liquid becomes warm, you need to dissolve honey and sugar in it. Pre-crushed rowan berries with cognac are added to the resulting broth. Leave the drink for 3-4 hours for insisting. Then squeeze the mixture using a thick cloth. Rowan tincture is ready. It should be stored in the refrigerator, tightly corked in dark bottles.