Sea-buckthorn tincture is a healthy and delicious drink that can be used as a medicine or put on a festive table. Cooking it at home is quite simple. How to do this, as well as simple cooking recipes, you will find in the material.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
For tinctures, it is better to use large, dense fruits, well ripened, but not overripe. Berries must be carefully sorted, removed damaged and rotten, then washed and dried. If pure alcohol is used as the alcohol base, then it is diluted to a fortress of 40 ° with distilled water.
Important! Despite the fact that this berry has a number of healing properties, it can not be used for chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
The easiest way to remove impurities and a strong odor from moonshine is to clean it with activated carbon (50 grams of crushed preparation are taken per 1 liter of alcohol, placed on the bottom of the container, pre-wrapped in cotton, filled with alcohol and kept for 7 days, then filtered).
Video: cleaning moonshine with coal
Sea buckthorn tincture recipes
Due to the medicinal properties of the plant, drinks based on its fruits can be consumed regularly, in small doses. There are many recipes that use vodka, alcohol, moonshine, cognac, water. If desired, various spices are added to the drink. Each recipe is quite simple, contains completely accessible ingredients and a detailed description.
The classic recipe for sea buckthorn
1.2 L 30–40 min.
sea buckthorn berries (frozen)
400 g
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Thaw sea buckthorn, wash and dry.
- Put the berries in a deep container and grind to let the juice flow.
- Pour the billet into a prepared jar, add two tablespoons of honey to it.
- Pour a liter of moonshine.
- Mix everything well, close the jar tightly with a lid and put in a dark place for a month.
Video recipe
The classic recipe for sea buckthorn
Tincture of sea buckthorn and walnut partitions
2 l20-30 min.
walnut partitions
50–70 g
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Place walnut membranes in a well-closing container (this can be a regular glass jar with a tight lid), pour alcohol to completely cover the contents. Insist for seven days.
- In a three-liter jar, shred the berries, pour sugar and mix. Pour with the remaining alcohol, clog and also send in a dark place to insist on a week.
- After 7 days, combine the resulting workpieces and leave for another three weeks.
- Filter the finished product and bottle.
Did you know? In ancient Greece, sick horses were treated with sea buckthorn leaves. Thanks to this treatment, the animals not only got rid of diseases, their hair acquired luster and became smooth and beautiful.
Mint and sea buckthorn tincture on vodka
1.3 L20 min.
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Whole selected berries, wash and dry.
- Put in a three-liter jar, pour sugar and ceiling.
- Add mint to the resulting mixture, having washed each sheet beforehand, pour vodka over everything and close the lid tightly.
- Insist for two weeks in a dark place.
- Strain the finished tincture several times through cheesecloth and pour into bottles.
If you want the taste of the tincture to be softer, instead of sugar, put honey in it.Plain tincture with orange and spices
1.8 L 20 min.
dried cloves
25-30 pcs.
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Put washed and dried fruits in a glass dish, mix with sugar and grind.
- In citrus, make indentations in several places, place one piece of clove in each, and send it to the sea buckthorn.
- Then add cinnamon, vanilla and add vodka to everything.
- Close the container with contents tightly with a lid, insist in a dark place for four weeks.
- After the tincture is ready, strain it, after removing the orange. The finished drink is bottled.
- The tincture is sweet as liquor, so it is served with desserts or fruits.
Features of storage of blanks
Sea-buckthorn spirits should be stored in glass bottles in a cool, dark place.e, this is the main condition that should be considered. Thus, the workpiece can be stored for up to three years without losing its properties and taste.
Did you know? As a medicine, sea buckthorn was used in ancient China, it was first mentioned in Tibetan medical texts in the eighth century AD.
Sea buckthorn, like cranberries, is an autumn berry and has a similar sour-bitter taste and it produces a fragrant and sweet liquor. It is used not only in fresh form - it can be frozen or dried, the healing properties of this are not lost.
The alcoholic drink from sea buckthorn is soft, it can be prepared at any time of the year, if the fruits are prepared in advance. Berry juice contains oil, so tinctures are not transparent. To clear them of sediment, finished drinks are filtered several times.
