It's no secret that, how many people, so many flavoringspreferences. This statement is true, not only when it comes to food and entertainment, but also alcohol. Some prefer expensive cognac, others - "live" beer, the third - the usual 40-degree vodka, the fourth - a variety of cocktails. Many admirers and at home wine, and no wonder. Tinctures, liqueurs prepared independently, differ rich, rich taste, they contain only natural berries and fruits and there are no chemical dyes and flavors.
What is most often made of homemade wine?From the black cherry (aronia), from the usual red ashberry, from the viburnum, apples, cherry, various jam and the usual grapes. Each family has its own, traditional recipe for making this wonderful drink.
For sure, many will have to taste the wine from the black cherry with cherry leaves on the following recipe.
It is necessary to take a glass of sugar, a largehandful of cherry leaves (at least 35-40 pieces) and 200 grams. alcohol. Washed and peeled berries and leaves are rubbed through a sieve or ground on a blender, then pour a liter of boiling water and put on fire. After the decoction has left a couple of minutes, it is removed from the plate, cooled at room temperature, filtered and poured with alcohol. Wine from the blackberry poured in bottles and left for a week to insist. It turns out it is saturated, a little bit tart and strong enough.
Lovers of sweet tinctures and liqueurs can try to make a wine from black-cherry by the following recipe.
For preparation it will be required:100 fresh cherry leaves, 60 berries of chokeberry, 600 gr. sugar, a glass of vodka and a bag of citric acid. The berries and leaves are thoroughly washed, the black ashberry is pressed in a mash and piled in a saucepan, poured with a liter of water, added sugar and boiled for a quarter of an hour. Turn off the fire, add a bag of citric acid and cool. Add vodka and bottled. The wine turns out to be fragrant, sweet and not strong, like a fragrant liqueur.
Strong wine from berries of chokeberry without cooking
Before making homemade wine on thisprescription, you need to take: a kilogram of berries, a half-liter bottle of vodka, lemon and vanillin. Rowan washed in a colander and allowed to drain water. They dump the berries in a basin or a pan and knead them with a pestle or hands. Pour the resulting mashed potatoes with vodka, cover with a lid and leave for a day for fermentation. The next day, squeeze a quarter of lemon into a tincture, put a pinch of vanillin and strain the berries through a fine sieve or hands. The resulting wine is poured into a half-liter bottle. It turns out to be dry, very strong and full. This wine is best suited as an aperitif for meat dishes.
The taste of wine from chokeberry can be improved if you add apples to it.
Preparing berry-apple wine on this recipeapproximately 2 months. It will require: a pound of apples and a kilo of mountain ash berries, 1.5 kg of granulated sugar and water. Seeds are removed from the apples, washed and rubbed on a coarse grater. The berries of the blackberry are also washed and kneaded with a pestle or chopped on a blender. Apples and berry puree are put in a three-liter jar and poured with water so that it turns out 1.75 liters. of wine. Put the jar in a warm place, pre-covered with a lid. To ferment it did not break, in the lid make a few holes. Berries are allowed to stand for a week, stirring them daily, after which they add 0.5 kg of sugar. A week later, with daily stirring, another 0.5 kg. After three weeks of daily mixing, the remains of sugar are added to the wine. Another 7 days the berries are mixed every day, then for a month they leave alone for natural fermentation. In 2 months after the beginning of preparation, the wine is filtered and bottled.
What will your home be happy about? Wine, if done correctly and with love, decorates any table.
