Fans of alcoholic beverages have long mastered their preparation at home. This does not mean moonshining, but the desire to ennoble the taste of ready-made drinks. Agree, it is much more pleasant to savor the contents of your glass than to use it with difficulty and grimacing. Aesthetes will surely like the mint tincture, which is prepared with ease (albeit for quite some time), and then pleases with color, smell and taste at the same time.
Useful in the kitchen
Any housewife knows how valuable mint can be in cooking. Especially in cases where lamb is cooked: the end result is great in taste, but can be fundamentally spoiled by a peculiar smell. And this modest weed is able to remove such a significant defect.
Mint is indispensable in baking, and when creating desserts, and in cocktails or liquors. Having appreciated its fragrant capabilities, it is quite difficult to do without fragrant herbs in winter. Of course, you can use dried analogues, but this is not quite right. But peppermint vodka can be an interesting drink option. Firstly, the aroma in it is expressed to the maximum extent. Secondly, just a few drops are enough, and if you want to be a bartender, no restrictions are expected at all.
Actually a cure
Mint tincture from ancient times is used as a versatile medicine. It is very useful for normalizing heart rate, stimulates and stabilizes blood circulation. Peppermint can relieve even severe vascular spasm and dilate blood vessels. Pretty quickly it reduces pressure and eliminates the effects of stress.
It is believed that mint has the qualities of an aphrodisiac, enhancing sex drive and opportunities in this area. So mint was strictly forbidden to Greek fighters, so that they would not be distracted from the target by outside occupations. True, modern medicine does not agree with this and believes that peppermint vodka can inhibit male power. Perhaps if you use it in large quantities, this opinion will be fair.
Of course, the miracle plant also has contraindications. So, it is categorically not recommended for hypotensives, since it reduces pressure effectively and sharply. For the same reason, you should not use mint derivatives for those who have problems with veins, such as varicose veins. Those who, due to their chosen profession, need attention and reaction speed, it is also better to avoid mint, which has a pronounced calming effect. But everyone else can, with a clear conscience, enjoy the aroma and taste of mint drinks.
Just mint tincture on vodka
It will require only two ingredients: alcohol and grass. There are more sophisticated recipes for tinctures, but we will start with the simplest. About 50 grams of fresh leaves will be required per liter of vodka. By the way, it is better to collect them in dry weather and take only the upper young leaves. They are washed, slightly dried and put into a bottle with liquid. Insist two weeks is enough. During this time, the drink will acquire a rich emerald color and a pleasant, but not overly strong aroma. The tincture is filtered on clean bottles and left until the solemn moment. It is better to store either in the dark or in darkened containers so that the color remains as bright.
Harder but more elegant
The next mint tincture on vodka will be more complex . But the taste is more refined: notes of additional ingredients will soften the aftertaste and smell of the main one, which seems to many to be too “medicinal”. For a liter of good, high-quality vodka, it is proposed to take 100 grams of fresh mint leaves, half this amount of dill seeds, a couple of spoons of juniper berries and a little cinnamon. After the first experience, you can change the ratio according to your tastes. Infusion is carried out for the same two weeks, and after straining, the drink can be sweetened if you are going to treat the lady: in taste, the tincture will not lose a bit.
Vintage drink
The recipe is the same one that was mentioned in the movie "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes the Profession." Anisovka with the same success may be called differently as “mint vodka”. The ingredients are administered in equal proportions. For two liters of "little white" (necessarily very high quality), 40 grams of mint, anise and crushed orange nuts are taken. The container should stand warm for 12 days (it can be a full two weeks), after which the drink is filtered. A thick can be again filled with vodka. For a re-production, only a liter of alcohol is already going on, and it will take a whole month to withstand. But to taste - no worse.
Peppermint Charm
The combination of these two components gives a truly charming result. True, mint and lemon tincture on vodka will require a little more attention and trouble. Four lemons (per liter of alcohol) are peeled, and you need to manage to remove only the zest, without a white layer. It should be cut smaller. Then the citruses are freed from the white shell and cut. In a container with a liter of vodka, both zest and pulp plus mint, taken to taste and chopped, are laid. For four days, the complex is kept warm, then the liquid is filtered (the cake is squeezed out in a new dish), a glass of sugar is poured, and the tincture returns to the heat for another 10 days. Once a day, it must be shaken well. The initial turbidity should not confuse - over time, the lemon-mint tincture will lighten and it will only need to be drained from the sediment. This must be done very carefully. If you shake it, you will have to wait at least a day until the turbidity settles again, and the drink can stand it.
Similarly, lemon-mint tincture for alcohol can be made at home. If you do not want an overly strong drink, you will have to dilute it. It is advisable to take exclusively clean water. And you need to pour tincture into it, and not vice versa, otherwise you will get a muddy and ugly drink. In addition, you can drink it only after a week. You may need one more filtering.
For lovers: mint with lime
Lime in our area has won recognition not so long ago. However, he had already managed to find fans who liked the inherent bitterness. Accordingly, they invented a mint-lime tincture, which is quite worthy of attention. To make it, you will need a can, where the average bunch of mint (not chopped) is laid. Two lime zest and squeezed juice are added here. It is advisable to add tablespoons of three cane sugar to soften the bitterness. The prepared ingredients are poured with a liter of vodka, and the lime-mint tincture is hidden in the dark and cool all for the same two weeks. Keeping longer is not recommended even more persistently than in previous recipes: overexposed mint with lime will give an impossible taste.
Mint drink
What kind of compositions people did not come up with in order to celebrate the holidays was not only fun, but also delicious! And among the recipes - a lot of very successful. In this list, we also included lime-mint tincture for alcohol at home. However, you can take moonshine if it is subjected to double distillation. Alcohol must be diluted to 45% before infusion. In the container with alcohol are laid: linden blossom and mint - on a spoon with a solid slide; licorice root (pharmacy is suitable) - a spoon; rosehip - pieces 30 berries; natural honey, of any origin - 60 grams; half a teaspoon of cinnamon and a little vanillin. A “cocktail” is infused for three weeks, after straining, rests for a couple of weeks. The taste is amazing.
Mint
Most recipes for tinctures are focused on fairly strong drinks. But do not forget about the ladies who prefer softer options. And here, peppermint rataphia will be most welcome. For her, three tablespoons of dried mint are poured into a liter of vodka. If the business is started in the summer - a bunch of chopped fresh grass. For three days, the tincture is aged in the sun. Or at least warm. Separately, a syrup is made from a glass of water with an equal amount of sugar. Close attention is paid to descaling - it can spoil both the taste and the “appearance” of rataphia. Syrup through a filter funnel is poured into a common container, and the mint tincture is placed in the heat for a week. At the end of the processes, the drink is filtered in a beautiful bottle and stored in room conditions.
Whichever of the recipes you choose, peppermint tincture will always please. Moreover, no one forbade experiments: you can well invent your own drink.