Rowan tincture: useful properties and cooking recipes
Often a party with friends can not do withoutalcoholic beverages. For complete confidence in the quality of products, tinctures and home-made wines should be preferred. "What is the difference between these drinks?"
Rowberry tincture on vodka
To create a drink, in addition to berries,vodka and sugar. Firstly, rowan 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. Then we put the raw material in a glass container (a 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. Fill the berries with vodka so that it covers them completely. Tare tightly sealed and leave to infuse for a couple of weeks. Occasionally you need a vessel in this
The role of sugar in cooking
At this time comes the turn of the application of sugar -from it we prepare the syrup. For this, the product dissolves in a small volume of water. If you want to get a specific, bitter, rowan aftertaste, then no more than half a glass of sugar should be added to the pot of the tincture. If there is a desire to get a sweet enough likeness of liquor, then the product will need more. In this matter you need to rely on your own taste. So, the sugar syrup brought to the boil is added to the tincture obtained, poured into a container, clogged and leave the drink alone for another week. In this way, natural, quality rowan tincture is obtained.
Beverage properties and contraindications for use
In addition to pleasant taste, tincture, cookedfrom mountain ash, has the ability to save from a severe cold and painful headaches. However, such a drug also has contraindications for use. Strictly forbids rowan tincture to women during pregnancy and lactation, as well as people whose body has a tendency to clots, increased blood clotting.
How to make a rowan tincture on cognac
For preparation, in addition to 500 ml of alcoholicdrink, you need honey and sugar, oak bark in the amount of a tablespoon of each and 2 pcs. dried cloves. Of course, the composition of the tincture includes berries of mountain ash, which will require one glass. First of all, you need to boil the bark of oak in water for at least half an hour with the lid closed. After the broth, add the cloves and cool it. When the liquid becomes warm, you need to dissolve honey and sugar in it. In the resulting broth, pre-mashed berries of mountain ash with cognac are added. Leave the drink for 3-4 hours for infusion. After that, squeeze the mixture using a dense tissue cloth. Rowan tincture is ready. Keep it in a refrigerator, tightly corked in bottles of dark color.
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