Infusions of gooseberry at home. Cooking gooseberry tincture on vodka


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If the crop of gooseberries on the site exceeded your expectations, and all possible jams and jams from it are already rolled up, you can proceed to the preparation of pleasant alcoholic beverages using this tasty and healthy berries. In this case, it is worth starting with the simplest option - insisting.

Classic gooseberry tincture

For this not very strong (no more than 17 degrees) drink, good vodka or three-year brandy brandy is perfect. Also, in this case, any sort of ripe gooseberry will be appropriate (although, with increased aesthetic demands, it is better to dwell on its red variety).

Ingredient List

  1. Vodka / brandy - 0.5 l;
  2. Sugar - 300 g

Cooking method

Berry carefully, sorting out rotten and moldy specimens, separated from the cuttings and thoroughly washed. Put them in a three-liter container “hangers”, then add sugar and alcohol (alcohol should cover a layer of berries; if this has not happened, the dose should be increased). Close the jar with a tight lid and shake vigorously to dissolve the sugar as soon as possible.

To determine the capacity in a dark warm place for six weeks, continuing to shake it about once a week. After the specified period, filter the drink, bottle it and send it to a cellar or fridge for storage.

Strong gooseberry tincture

If you are impressed with stronger drinks (from 30 degrees and above), we advise you to stop at this recipe. The basis for the proposed tincture can serve as a well-purified double distillation moonshine or undiluted grain (or better grape) alcohol.

Ingredient List

  1. Gooseberry - the volume of three-liter jars;
  2. Alcohol / moonshine - 0.5 liters;
  3. Sugar - 300 g

Cooking method

The only, but rather significant for strong lovers, is the ability to fill the half of the berry-free space with alcohol, tapering to the top of the space.

Tincture on gooseberry and raspberry

Many alcoholic gourmands consider the combination of the above two berries to be at least worthy of attention. At the same time, if your raspberry is sweet enough - you can do without sugar.

Ingredient List

  1. Gooseberry (preferably red) - 2 kg;
  2. Vodka (40-degree aqueous-alcoholic solution) - 1.5 l;
  3. Raspberry - 400 g;
  4. Sugar (optional) - 300 g

Cooking method

Enumerated and washed berries without leaves and cuttings put in a three-liter jar. Shake the jar well to mix the raspberries and gooseberries. Add sugar if desired, pour in alcohol and close the container tightly.

Leave the jar for 5 weeks in a warm dark place. At the same time, the tank must be shaken once a week. Then, strain the drink thoroughly, taste it and, in case of insufficient sweetness, add sugar there, carefully dissolving the crystals. Finally, pour the tincture into bottles, seal the bottle tightly and send it to the cellar or refrigeration chamber to wait for the right occasion.

Homemade gooseberry tincture is made from ripe fresh or frozen berries. Ripe fruits give the drink a ruby ​​color and aromatic taste. Made gooseberry tincture on vodka. This is the most affordable raw material for home made   spirits, having the desired quality, which can be replaced by alcohol, moonshine, secondary distilled, or brandy.

Beneficial features

The berries of the plant contain a large amount of vitamin C, natural sugar, minerals and trace elements necessary for normal functioning of the human body. Vitamin P and pectic substances are present in dark fruits, which contribute to the elimination of heavy metals from the body. It is recommended to drink the drink to people with weak blood vessels, suffering from atherosclerosis.

Well helps drink cope with hypertension, heart disease. Drink it to dissolve cholesterol plaques. Serotonin contained in berries has antitumor properties. The drink can be used as a laxative and diuretic.

Contraindications

The classic recipe of vodka on gooseberry

Prepared at home gooseberry tincture of:

Gooseberry tincture

- 0.5 liters of vodka;

- 1 three-liter cans of gooseberry;

- 300 grams of sugar.

Preparing tincture on the gooseberry from ripe berries without mold, tails and rot. Washed under warm water   fruits recline in a colander in order to drain excess water from them. Dry berry is poured into a jar on the shoulders along with sugar and filled with vodka. Infused product 40-45 days in a dark place with room temperature. The finished product is filtered through gauze, bottled, corked and sent to storage, which should not exceed 2 years. The strength of the finished product is 14-17 degrees. On the preparation of a light drink is green gooseberry.

Tip: strength of the tincture of alcohol is regulated by syrup.

Additional taste can give the drink black or red currants.

Tincture of raspberries and gooseberries

The taste of raspberry blends perfectly with gooseberry. This assortment of berries gives the drink

rich color and amazing aroma. For its preparation is taken:

- 400 grams of raspberry;

- 2 kg gooseberry;

- 1.5 liters of vodka;

- 300 grams of sugar.

Tip: so that the drink is not sugary, the amount of sugar in the product is reduced to 150 grams or some of the red berries are replaced by green.

Vodka should cover berries for 2-3 cm. A drink is prepared for 30-35 days. The strength of the product is 14-16 degrees.

Tincture on the leaves

For therapeutic purposes, the tincture is prepared on the leaves. They contain a large amount of tannins. Currant leaves of the gooseberry, strawberry and strawberry twigs added to the product can give the drink a rich aromatic flavor. Bright color of the drink give ripe berries.

The old recipe of Russian gooseberry tincture

Five slices of rye bread are roasted in the oven, laid in a jar with the berries, filled with vodka and put in a dark warm place for 2.5-3 months. For 3 liters of vodka taken 3 kg of ripe berries. The finished tincture is filtered several times through cheesecloth, left to stand for several days and re-filtered.

Cognac liqueur

The taste of liqueurs differs from other drinks with a higher content of sugar, a richer flavor and aroma. When cooking gooseberry liqueur on cognac, additional spices are added to it - cinnamon, cloves, cardamom. Crushed fruits insist on cognac for 5-8 weeks and then mixed with chilled syrup, prepared to your taste. An excellent means to soften the taste of the drink is citric acid or the juice of this citrus.

Cooking secrets

The substances passing into the berries from the berries form unstable compounds, which are subject to destruction under the influence of sunlight. Therefore, the product is prepared and stored only in dark rooms. Otherwise, beneficial features beverage can be kept to a minimum. The instability of the compounds of substances in the product is the reason for the prohibition of its purification using carbon filters and a long process. The best containers for cooking and storage are glass jars and bottles.

For the preparation of homemade tinctures suitable fresh gooseberries, collected in the ripening period. You can take and previously frozen fruit, but then the drink will not so fragrant. The berries should be ripe, large, with no signs of damage and mold. Varieties do not matter in principle, however, the color of the tincture is more beautiful on red fruits than on green ones.

  Recommended alcohol base: vodka, alcohol, moonshine or inexpensive brandy. The best is vodka on gooseberry. Alcohol should be diluted to 40-45 degrees before use. Moonshine is pre-cleaned of impurities or a second distillation. To preserve the natural fruit flavor is very important.

Classical vodka on gooseberry

Ingredients:

  • vodka (moonshine, diluted alcohol) - 0.5 liters;
  • gooseberry berries - 1 three-liter jar;
  • sugar - 300 grams.

1. Fill the three-liter jar on the hanger with the washed and cleaned of the tails with gooseberry.

2. Add sugar and vodka. Vodka should cover a layer of berries.

3. Close the jar tightly with a nylon cap, then shake several times to dissolve the sugar.

4. Put the jar for 40-45 days in a dark place with room temperature. Shake once a week.

5. Drain the resulting tincture from the sediment and filter through cotton wool. Store drink in tightly closed glass bottles in a cool dark place. Shelf life - up to 2 years. The strength of the finished tincture - 14-17 degrees.

  Tincture of green gooseberry

Gooseberry and raspberry tincture

Successful combination of berries creates a drink with amazing taste and rich fruit aroma.

Ingredients:

  • raspberry berries - 400 grams;
  • gooseberry - 2 kg;
  • vodka (alcohol, moonshine) - 1.5 liters;
  • sugar (optional) - 300 grams.

Fans of sweet tinctures can add sugar, I advise everyone else to do without it, or, as a last resort, pour it at the last stage if the drink does not like it.

1. Gooseberries and raspberries to fall into a suitable glass jar and shake several times.

2. Add sugar (optional) and pour vodka into the container. Alcohol should cover a layer of berries at least 2-3 centimeters.

3. Put the jar in a dark place with room temperature for 30-35 days.

4. Drain the tincture from the sediment and filter through several layers of gauze and cotton.

5. Pour the finished drink into bottles, tightly close the stoppers and store in a dark, cool place. Shelf life - up to 2 years. Fortress - 16-20 degrees.

  Tincture of raspberry and gooseberry

Make gooseberry liqueur.

To make an exclusive fun drink, you will need patience: liquor will be prepared for as long as 30 days. In addition to a month of life, drinking requires the following investments:

1 liter of berries, 1 liter of vodka, the same clean water, 1 kilogram of sugar.

So let's go!

Make gooseberry liqueur.

1. clean the gooseberries from the stalks and sepals.

2. pour the berries into a glass dish, crush and pour vodka. Leave it for 7-10 days.



3. after a week the mixture will turn into a viscous syrup. It must be filtered.



4. In a separate saucepan, dissolve 1 kg of sugar in 1 liter of boiling water and then let it cool.

5. Pour in cooled sugar water into gooseberry syrup.

6. Now the resulting slush need to insist. Wait until a precipitate appears (it will take about twenty days.

7. in general, everything. Unstable (15-20 degrees) liquor is ready to eat. All that is left for you to do is to pour the drink into bottles so that the sediment does not get into them (it should be left at the bottom and discarded.

The recipe for making gooseberry wine at home.

Gooseberry wine is something like white grape wine. It has the same bouquet of aroma and delicate delicate taste. Among the home winemakers wine is very popular gooseberry. If you can collect the necessary amount of berries in your plot or purchase them in the store, then I recommend you not to be lazy, but prepare this delicious wine. The recipe for making gooseberry wine at home has been tested by many amateurs - the winemakers, and the cooking technology has been tested, so you won't risk anything if you follow the instructions clearly.

So, you need this amount of ingredients:

Sugar - 1 kg.
Water - 1, 5 liters ;.
Gooseberry berries - 1, 5 kg.
For the preparation of the most delicious wine is best suited large berries of red or yellow color. Please note that we select only ripe berries, as they contain the required amount of juice.

Attention! After you have picked the berries, immediately proceed to the preparation of the wine (in a pinch, during the day), since with a long lying they lose their aroma and become unsuitable for making wine.

Gooseberry berries, knead well with your hands or a wooden rolling pin, transfer the resulting mass into a container.
Prepare the sugar syrup and pour it into the container with the berries. To get sugar syrup, simply mix water and sugar in a saucepan, bring to a boil, boil for five minutes, while removing the formed white foam. Before you add the syrup to the berries, cool it initially.
Mix the berry mass well with sugar syrup, close the container neck with gauze and leave for four days to start the fermentation. To prevent the formation of mold, mix the wort once a day.
If foam, hiss or sour smell appears, carefully separate the juice, for this purpose, drain it through a tube into another container. Squeeze the pulp through gauze. In the filtered juice, you may find a small residue, do not worry, it is quite allowed.
Pour the juice into the fermentation tank, install a water seal or wear a medical glove. It is impossible for the air to penetrate the bottle, as in this case you will get not vinegar, but vinegar. The tank is filled only by two thirds, so that there is always free space for carbon dioxide, which will be formed during the fermentation process. If there is not enough space for him, the capacity may burst.
The water lock is in its essence a cork, in the center of which there is a small hole for the straw. One end is placed in a bottle, and the other is placed in a container with water. Such a device helps to remove carbon dioxide. The medical glove performs the same role.
Place the wort container in a room with a temperature of up to 25 \\ xB0C. after 25 days, the fermentation process stops (there are no bubbles on the water seal, the glove has dropped), the sediment is clearly visible at the bottom, the very young wine has brightened well. Drain the wine through a straw into another dish without affecting the sediment.
Fill the filled containers with wine tightly and place in a cool room (10-16 \\ xB0C) for 2 - 3 months.
Your work and costs will not be in vain, since you get a delicious gooseberry wine with a strength of 11-14 degrees.

Keep it for about a year at a temperature of 8-12 \\ xB0C. unfortunately, long-term storage adversely affects the taste of this product.

Save the recipe for making gooseberry wine at home so that next year you can enjoy your favorite drink again.

How to make gooseberry liqueur at home.

Gooseberry is a berry that has been loved by many and appreciated for many years. Even in Kievan Rus, gooseberry was revered due to its useful characteristics. From it you can make such drinks that everyone will be in admiration and bewilderment that such a delicious product is obtained so easily from the gooseberry.

For the preparation of gooseberry liqueur at home take gooseberry of any varieties. Here it is necessary to pay attention only to the size of the berries, since the more aromatic is the scent of large and ripe berries.

Fruits are surely sorted out to remove spoiled ones.

Components:

4 tbsp. Gooseberry berries ;.
1-3 glasses of vodka (if desired, you can use moonshine or 45-degree alcohol) ;.
3-4 Art. Sahara - sand .;
2-3 art. Pure water.
The proposed liqueur, where the quantity of ingredients indicated in the recipe is applied, is prepared in a can with a capacity of three liters. To obtain the desired strength and sweetness of the drink, adjust the addition of sugar and vodka.

Stages of cooking:

In the jar with a volume of 3 liters pour all the gooseberries, in it it is shifted.
Fall asleep sugar and pour vodka.
Water is added up until it reaches the neck completely. The jar is closed with a lid.
The pouring is transferred to the room, where for 4 months the room temperature will be provided and the light will be completely excluded.
After a specified period of time, the berries completely sink to the bottom, after which the drink is removed from the sediment and filtered, poured into prepared containers.
Closed bottles are moved to the basement, where for three years the drink can be safely stored.
Pouring gooseberry without adding vodka.

How to make gooseberry liqueur

Composition of products:

1 kg of gooseberry ;.
250 ml of pure water ;.
1 kg of sugar - sand.
Stages of cooking:

Unwashed gooseberry is placed in a jar and kneaded. Wash the gooseberry can not, so as not to kill the wild yeast, without which it is absolutely impossible to start the process of full fermentation.
Water and sugar are added to the total mass, the mixture is mixed.
The jar is covered with gauze and taken out for four days in the pantry.
At the beginning of the fermentation process on the bank water seal set. Thus, if the fermentation process does not start, then add 50 g of raisins and wait two days.
After 40 days, the fermentation process is completed, a dense precipitate forms at the bottom. The gooseberry pouring is removed from the sediment, filtered, bottled, closed with traffic jams. Pour gooseberry, which was prepared at home, about two years can be stored in the basement.

Useful properties of gooseberry were known during the times of Kievan Rus. Modern alcohol lovers have learned how to make these amazing drinks from these berries. We will look at two proven technologies for making homemade gooseberry liqueurs. In the first case, you will need vodka or any other strong alcohol, for the second recipe only sugar and water are needed.

  Any gooseberry variety is suitable: white, yellow, red, green or black. To make the liqueur tasty and fragrant, I advise you to choose large, ripe berries. Pre-fruits need to sort, removing spoiled, moldy and rotted, which spoil the taste.

Gooseberry pouring with vodka

Prepared by infusion of gooseberry on a strong alcoholic basis: well-cleaned moonshine, diluted with 40% ethanol, cognac, gin or whiskey. Instead of fresh berries, frozen (suitable with liquid released after defrosting) or dried (twice less) will do.

Ingredients:

  • gooseberry berries - 4 cups;
  • vodka (moonshine, alcohol 40-45%) - 3 cups;
  • sugar - 3 cups;
  • water - 2 cups.

Proportions are calculated on the preparation of liqueur in a three-liter jar. Add sugar and water to taste, depending on the desired strength and sweetness.

Recipe

1. Put the gooseberry in a three-liter jar, then mix the berries with a wooden rolling pin.

2. Add sugar and vodka. Stir, leave for 45-60 minutes.

3. Pour in water, mix, close the usual nylon cover.

4. Put the pouring in a dark place with room temperature for 90 days. Shake the first 2 months once a week.

5. After the cake falls to the bottom of the can (which indicates the beverage is ready), remove the pouring from the sediment, press the cake well (no longer needed), filter the liquid part through a triple layer of gauze with cotton and pour into bottles.

6. Tightly close with traffic jams and store in a dark, cool place away from direct sunlight. Shelf life up to 3 years. Fortress - 14-16 degrees.

  From white gooseberry with vodka

Classical gooseberry juice without vodka

More complex technology, reminiscent of the preparation of wine, but the taste of the drink is softer.

Ingredients:

  • gooseberry berries - 1 kg;
  • water - 250 ml;
  • sugar - 1 kg.

To prevent the occurrence of mold and other pathogens, sterilize all used containers with boiling water, then wipe dry with a clean cloth. It is also very important to carefully pick the berries, avoiding getting rotten and moldy.

Recipe

1. Fold unwashed berries in a jar and peremyat wooden crush. On the surface of the gooseberry live wild yeast, which will start fermentation, so you can not wash the berries.

2. Add sugar and water, mix.

3. Bandage the neck of the jar with gauze and put it for 3-4 days in a dark place with a temperature of 18-25 ° C.

4. When foam, hiss and a light sour smell appear (signs of fermentation), install a water seal or a medical glove with a hole in the finger (pierce with a needle) on the jar. If fermentation has not begun, add 50 grams of raisins or wine yeast (according to the instructions for the volume of the wort).