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Strawberry stew in 3 days. Homemade strawberry liqueurs for the festive table

Strawberry tincture with vodka (alcohol or moonshine) is easy to make at home. Even novice cooks with no experience will cope with this task. You will get a natural dessert alcoholic drink with excellent taste and pleasant persistent aroma. I present to you three best recipe tested in practice.

Suitable for both fresh and frozen or dried berries. In the latter case, two times less raw materials are required than indicated in the recipes. Before preparing the tincture, strawberries must be carefully sorted out, removing very small, rotten and moldy berries that will spoil the taste. Then remove the stalks, wash the fruits well and let the water drain. The alcohol base (vodka, moonshine or alcohol) should not have a strong odor or be cloudy.

Classic strawberry tincture

The easiest option, the amount of sugar can be changed at your discretion and sweeten the drink after filtering.

Ingredients:

  • vodka (moonshine, alcohol 40-45%) - 1 liter;
  • strawberries - 1 kg;
  • sugar - 300 grams.

Recipe

1. Place berries and sugar in a three-liter jar, pour vodka. Alcohol should cover the layer of strawberries by at least 2-3 cm.

2. Close the jar tightly with a lid, leave for 45 days in dark place at room temperature. Shake vigorously every 3-4 days for better dissolution of sugar.

3. Strain the finished strawberry tincture through gauze and cotton wool (it will become more transparent), then pour into bottles and close tightly with corks. Shelf life in the refrigerator or basement - 3-4 years. Fortress - 26-28 degrees.


Strawberry Lemon Tincture

A drink with a memorable red tint and a light citrus aftertaste.

Ingredients:

  • lemon - 1 piece;
  • strawberries - 1 kg;
  • vodka - 0.5 liters;
  • sugar - 250 grams.

Recipe

1. Cut the peeled strawberries in half, put in a jar, cover with sugar and let it brew for 3-4 hours.

2. Add vodka, tightly close the jar with a lid.

3. Insist in a dark warm place for 30 days. Shake every 2-3 days.

4. Filter the tincture through gauze (squeeze the berries well), pour into another container.

5. Scald the lemon with boiling water, rinse in running water and wipe dry to get rid of the preservative. Carefully remove the zest from the fruit - the upper yellow peel without white pulp, which gives bitterness. Add the zest and squeezed lemon juice to the filtered strawberry infusion. Stir, tightly close the lid, leave for 14-16 days.

6. Filter the drink through cotton wool, pour into bottles for storage.

7. Before use, keep in a dark cool place for 1-2 months to improve the taste. Shelf life - up to 3 years. Fortress - 16-19 degrees.

Strawberry Lemon Variant

Strawberries on cognac

Instead of vodka, cheap but natural cognac is used, thanks to which light notes of oak appear in the drink.

Ingredients:

  • cognac - 0.5 liters;
  • strawberries - 0.5 kg;
  • water - 2 glasses;
  • sugar - 300 grams.

Recipe

1. Mix water and half of the sugar (150 grams) in a saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil, then simmer for 3-5 minutes over low heat, removing the foam. The syrup should not be very thick.

2. Pierce each strawberry several times with a toothpick.

3. Add the berries to the syrup, cook for 5 minutes over low heat, gradually adding and stirring the remaining sugar with a wooden spatula. Remove saucepan from stove.

4. Pour the mixture cooled to room temperature into a jar, add cognac, close tightly. Put for 30 days in a dark cool place.

5. Drain the finished strawberry tincture on cognac from the sediment (squeeze the berries well), filter through several layers of gauze and cotton wool. Store in a cool place, protected from sunlight. Shelf life - 2-3 years. Fortress - 13-15%.

Strawberries on cognac

Fragrant, beautiful liqueur with a sweet taste and memories of summer - what could be better in the cold? However, berry drinks on vodka are perfectly drunk in the warm season, especially in nature. Their charm is that due to the pleasant taste and low strength of the liquor, representatives of both sexes will like it. In addition, it is a natural and inexpensive alcohol. Strawberry frosting sounds delicious! So let's try to cook it with our own hands, especially since several methods have been invented, you can choose according to your capabilities and needs.

Advantages of liquor

Why is strawberry liqueur worthy of your attention?

  1. This is a completely natural product made from raw materials that you have chosen yourself. There will be no artificial colors and flavors, unlike industrial counterparts, the quality of which cannot be one hundred percent sure.
  2. The taste of the drink is sweet, the color is interesting and rich, strawberry notes are guessed in the aroma.
  3. The liqueur is easy to drink, it is a drink of medium strength - about 11-20 degrees (depending on various factors, but usually softer than liquor).
  4. If you do not add alcohol, moonshine or other alcohol from the outside and have enough patience, you can get a naturally fermented liquor, softer and weaker.
  5. Few ingredients are required and they are all affordable. Rare devices are also not needed.
  6. Instead of strawberries, you can take strawberries, while the period of infusion of the liquor will even be reduced.

The only drawback of strawberry tincture is that it takes quite a long time to prepare, at least a month. However, there are ways to speed up the process, which will be discussed later.

How to make strawberry liqueur?

First way

The strawberry drink in this recipe is prepared according to the formula: liqueur = tincture + syrup. It also suggests that the process can be stopped at one of the stages, having received several different products.

  1. In order to make strawberry tincture, take 1 kg of berries or a little more. This is necessary in order to select the most ripe and good strawberries. All leaves and stalks must be removed so as not to add unnecessary flavors to the finished drink. Rinse the strawberries well in several waters. It is also advisable to let the berries dry. Now put the strawberries in a suitable glass dish and pour 1 liter of vodka (or alcohol, moonshine). Close tightly and leave for 2 weeks - 1 month, shaking the composition from time to time and watching the process. If strawberries are the main ingredient, then the infusion period is greatly reduced - just 1 day is enough.
  2. Pour the resulting strawberry tincture into another bottle and filter. Add 1 kg of granulated sugar to the drunken berries, which have given off part of the color and aroma of the tincture. Shake the jar well to mix the sugar into the strawberries. Put the mixture in a dark place. Taking out and shaking the jar, you will see how the strawberries release juice, and the sugar gradually dissolves. After 2 weeks, the syrup can be drained and strained from strawberry seeds.
  3. Now comes the stage of mixing tincture and syrup. To do this, it is better to take a larger container. After mixing 2 drinks, pour them into bottles and close tightly. In principle, strawberry liqueur can be drunk right away, but in order to win in taste and softness, let it brew for another couple of weeks in a cold place.

At the end of the first two stages, we get both a semi-finished product for strawberry liqueur and an independent drink - strawberry tincture and strawberry syrup, similar to low-alcohol liqueur. From the remaining berries, you can make a third drink - strawberry juice, although its taste and aroma will no longer be bright. But it is best not to chase a few hares, but to prepare a full-fledged tincture, in which there is both sweetness and an alcoholic component.

Second way

This method is classic, without vodka, only berries and sugar are needed. As a result of their combination, a natural fermentation process will take place, the output of which will be a wonderful, soft and fragrant strawberry liqueur. For 2 kg of fresh strawberries you will need 800 g of sugar. Sequencing:

  1. Pour clean strawberries into a jar, add sugar, shake well.
  2. Tie the neck with gauze to leave air access and place for 3 days in a dark place at room temperature.
  3. A sour smell, foam and hissing will appear - which means that the fermentation process has begun. It's time to remove the gauze and put on a medical glove with a small hole in one of the fingers. At the same time, the connection between the glove and the jar must be sealed; air is not needed at this stage.
  4. Now watch the glove: blown away - ready, fermentation is over. This usually happens within 2 weeks to a month. Filter the liquor through 2 layers of gauze and cotton, once or twice.
  5. Pour strawberry liqueur into bottles and seal with cork. You can store it in a cool dark place for 2-3 years, but it is highly likely that the drink will go much earlier.

Third way

If you want to try strawberry tincture as soon as possible, then it makes sense to resort to the express method. Using it, you will get the result in a day. Here again, 3 basic ingredients are needed: strawberries, sugar, vodka. Of the devices - bottles made of durable glass (for example, champagne containers) and a basin for a water bath.

Wash the strawberries, put them in thick glass bottles, close the lid tightly. Put them in a basin cold water to the fire. After boiling, reduce the heat to a minimum and keep in a water bath for about an hour and a half. Remember to make sure that the water does not boil away. Wait until the water in the basin has cooled down and take out the bottles with the resulting strawberry juice. Strain it and add 100–300 g of sugar (to taste) and 200–400 ml of vodka to 1 liter of juice. Pour the liqueur into a glass container (now it can be ordinary bottles), cork and let it brew for a day at room temperature.

Quick pour is ready! Such a drink goes well with tea, coffee, fruits and various desserts are suitable as snacks for it - cakes, pastries, sweet pies.

In vain, liquor is considered an exclusively female drink. Men love sweets too alcoholic drinks, a homemade strawberry liqueur on vodka it turns out very soft, fragrant and surprisingly tasty. The aroma in this drink is completely preserved and every sip will bring you incomparable pleasure. Now is the time to prepare such a drink and today I will share with you my family recipe.

It can be prepared from both fresh and frozen berries.

If you are using frozen strawberries, thaw them carefully. To do this, put it on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator overnight. Then use the same as fresh.

Cooking with vodka

We sort through the strawberries, throw out the spoiled berries, and remove the stalks from the good ones. We put them in a large saucepan, fill them with cold water, rinse thoroughly 2 times, draining the water and filling the saucepan again. Then we throw them in a colander, let it drain and. When we put them in a jar, sprinkle them with sugar.

After that, we will remove the jar in a dark, cool place (but not in the refrigerator) for a day, the berry should give juice during this time. After a day, we will take out the jar, shake it several times so that, top it up with vodka and put it in a dark place for 10 days.

Instead of vodka, drinking alcohol can be used, but before use it must be diluted with water in a ratio of 2 to 3.

Strawberries, like some other berries, cannot be infused for a long time. From a long insistence on vodka, it will not become more fragrant, but will acquire a bitter aftertaste of small seeds and thus spoil both the taste and the bouquet of homemade alcohol.

After 10 days, the strawberries will give the liquid their taste and color sufficiently, the berries will turn white, and the liquid in the jar will become bright. We will drain the liquid from the jar, strain it through cheesecloth folded in several layers, let the liquor stand, then strain it through the cheesecloth again, leaving a sediment at the bottom of the jar. This option has a fairly strong, own aroma, so it is not necessary to add odorous herbs to it. So, our homemade liqueur is ready, we cool it and serve it to the table. Enjoy your meal!

Ingredients for strawberry alcohol

  • Strawberries - 2 kilograms;
  • Sugar - 300 grams;
  • Vodka - 1.5 liters.

Classic strawberry liqueur

The proportions are indicated for a 10-liter bottle.

Ingredients

  1. Strawberries - 7 kg
  2. Sugar - 2.5 kg
  3. For re-fermentation: 5 liters of water, 1.3 kg of sugar.

Cooking method

  1. Put fresh ripe sorted strawberries in a colander, dip them three times in a bucket of water, let drain, pour into a large bottle, add sugar, tie the neck with gauze and put in a warm place for 2-4 days.
  2. As soon as there are signs of fermentation of the liquor, remove the gauze from the bottle, install a water lock, transfer the bottle to the shady part of the room and keep it under the water lock for 12-20 days until fermentation stops.
  3. At the end of fermentation, filter the liquor through gauze and cotton wool placed in a funnel or colander. Then pour the liquor into bottles and cork.
  4. To more fully extract extractive substances, pour boiled and cooled to +35 degrees water into the remaining pulp and hold for 2 days.
  5. Then drain the juice and squeeze out the pulp, and pour the resulting juice into a bottle, add sugar, install a water seal and hold for another 15-20 days.
  6. At the end of fermentation, the resulting fermented juice is filtered through gauze and cotton wool and bottled.

Simple strawberry liqueur

Ingredients

  1. Vodka - 1 l 100 ml
  2. Strawberries - 1 kg
  3. Sugar - 400-600 g

Cooking method

  1. Fill the bottle with clean, dry berries to the top, pour vodka and leave in a sunny place for 24 hours.
  2. Carefully drain the tincture, pour into a bottle, cork and keep in a cool place. Pour the remaining berries with a small amount of sugar, cover the bottle with gauze.
  3. Soak in the sun until the sugar melts, drain the juice, and cover the berries with sugar again.
  4. Repeat the process until the juice comes out. In one container, mix all the juices and tincture, strain the resulting liquid, let it brew in tightly sealed bottles in a dark place until consumed for 20-30 days.

Alternative recipe for strawberry liqueur

Ingredients

  1. Alcohol - 500 ml
  2. Water - 500 ml
  3. Strawberries - 2.5 kg
  4. Sugar - 200 g

Cooking method

  1. Pour dry clean berries into a large container, pour alcohol, cover with gauze, leave in a warm place for 15-25 days.
  2. Drain the liquor well, squeeze out the thick and mix the squeezed liquid with the liquor.
  3. Cook, strain well and chill. Pour the sugar syrup into the liqueur, shake a few times and bottle for storage.
  4. Seal tightly, keep in a cool place.

Strawberry cognac liqueur

Ingredients

  1. Strawberries - 5 kg
  2. Boiled water - 10 l
  3. Sugar - 3 kg
  4. Lemon acid– 30–40 g
  5. Raisins - 200 g
  6. Cognac - 1 l

Cooking method

  1. Place all the ingredients in a large bowl (the total volume of the wort according to this recipe will be 17 liters), mix and leave at room temperature for 5-6 days.
  2. Fermentation will be stormy, with abundant foam, so the dishes should be filled no more than 2/3 of the volume. It is desirable that 40-50 g of sugar per 1 liter remain in the finished drink, therefore, during the fermentation process, you need to repeatedly try the fermenting wort and try to at least taste its sugar content.
  3. After 5-6 days, filter the fermenting wort and pour into liter bottles.
  4. Squeeze the remaining berries, filter and add to the same bottles. Cork bottles and store in a cold room.

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Step-by-step recipes for making strawberry tincture: classic, quick on moonshine, strawberry-lemon, cognac, universal, frozen strawberry tincture

2018-08-21 Irina Naumova

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16 gr.

171 kcal.

Option 1: Classic Strawberry Tincture Recipe

If you are making homemade tinctures, try using strawberries for this purpose. Vodka, moonshine or alcohol can act as the basis for strawberry tincture. The amount of sugar can be adjusted to your liking. It is usually added after filtration if required. Let's start our collection of recipes classic recipe strawberry tinctures, let's continue with various improvisations. All options are simple and easy to prepare.

Ingredients:

  • a liter of vodka;
  • kilogram of strawberries;
  • three hundred grams of granulated sugar.

Strawberry tincture recipe step by step

It is best to prepare the tincture in three-liter or five-liter bottles. They are washed well beforehand. It is advisable to do this with a soda solution. Of course, you can also use regular dishwashing detergent. Most importantly, rinse thoroughly with water. You don't need to sterilize.

Then dry the container.

We sort the strawberries, tear off the tails and wash them in running water. Throw in a colander, let the berries dry a little.

Then transfer to the prepared bottle, pour sugar on top.

Fill the strawberries with vodka so that it covers the berries by two to three centimeters.

Close tightly with a clean lid and leave for forty-five days. The place for keeping the tincture should be at room temperature.

Shake the bottle once every three to four days to help dissolve the sugar.

After the specified time, open the lid and see what happens. Fold the cheesecloth twice and strain the strawberry tincture through it.

Pour into smaller bottles, close tightly with corks or lids.

Store the tincture in a cool place, the approximate period is three to four years. The strength of the drink corresponds to 26-28 degrees.

Option 2: Quick Strawberry Tincture Recipe

A simple recipe for strawberry tincture on moonshine. You won't spend much time preparing it. The process is easy to remember and you will be able to make delicious strawberry tincture later on without prompting.

Ingredients:

  • a liter of moonshine;
  • kilogram of strawberries;
  • five hundred grams of sugar;
  • four hundred ml of water purified.

How to quickly make strawberry tincture

First of all, you need to prepare sugar syrup. Pour water into a saucepan and heat it over medium heat. Pour in the sugar and stir with a spatula until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Sort the strawberries, rinse thoroughly and put in a three-liter jar. Pour in the prepared syrup and moonshine.

Close tightly with a lid and leave in a dark room for fifteen days. After the tincture of strawberries, be sure to filter and pour into smaller glass containers.

Close tightly and store until needed in a cool place.

Option 3: Strawberry Lemon Tincture

Here is a recipe for a delicious and simple lemon-strawberry tincture. We will use vodka as a base, sweeten with sugar.

Ingredients:

  • one lemon;
  • kilogram of strawberries;
  • half a liter of vodka;
  • a quarter kg of granulated sugar.

Step by step recipe

We sort the strawberries, tear off the tails and rinse under running water. Let the strawberries dry a bit and cut into two halves.

We shift it into a large jar, cover it with sugar and leave it in this form for three to four hours.

During this time, the strawberries will give some of their juice. Pour vodka into the jar, shake slightly and close the lid tightly.

We leave in a dark room for thirty days. Once every three days, shake the jar of strawberries, vodka and sugar so that the latter dissolves better.

It is time to filter the tincture through cheesecloth, folded twice. Squeeze the strawberries well.

Pour the strawberry juice into another clean container.

We take a lemon, scald it with boiling water, then rinse it under running cool water. Wipe dry and with a fine grater remove the zest from the entire surface. The main thing is not to touch the white flesh - it is bitter.

Squeeze out the lemon juice and add to the strawberry juice along with the zest. Stir and close the lid tightly. We leave for sixteen days.

Filter the drink and pour into smaller containers. Seal tightly and store in a cool and dark place for another couple of months - the taste will only improve. In general, the tincture can be stored for three years. Fortress - 16-19 degrees.

Option 4: Strawberry cognac tincture

Thanks to cognac, strawberry tincture will sparkle with new notes. Cognac can be used any at your discretion, even the simplest and most inexpensive.

Ingredients:

  • half a liter of cognac;
  • five hundred grams of strawberries;
  • two glasses of water;
  • three hundred grams of sugar.

How to cook

Pour all the water and half of the granulated sugar into the pan. Turn on the heat, stirring, bring to a boil. Boil on low heat for about five minutes. Be sure to remove the foam with a slotted spoon. Do not make the sweet syrup very thick.

Sort through the strawberries, rinse and tear off the stems. Pierce each berry with a toothpick. Add strawberries to the prepared syrup.

Boil everything together for five minutes on minimum heat. Add sugar, stir and turn off the stove.

Let cool and pour into a large bottle. Add cognac and seal tightly. Leave for thirty minutes in a dark and cool room.

After the specified time, drain the tincture from the sediment, filter through two or three layers of gauze. Squeeze strawberries well and pour into smaller containers.

Store in the cellar, the approximate period is up to three years. Fortress - 13-15 degrees.

Option 5: All-Purpose Strawberry Tincture

Here is a universal recipe for strawberry tincture. If you do not know which option to choose, cook according to this recipe - all proportions are measured and checked.

Ingredients:

  • two from the floor kg of strawberries;
  • half a liter of water;
  • half a liter of moonshine;
  • kilogram of sugar.

Step by step recipe

We sort out the strawberries, free them from the tails and rinse. Dry slightly and put in a large glass jar.

Fill with moonshine and close the neck of the jar with gauze. Strengthen it with an elastic band and put it in a place inaccessible to the sun for two weeks.

After the specified time, filter the tincture.

Stir water and sugar, heat and dissolve all the crystals. Let cool and stir in filtered strawberry juice.

Pour into smaller containers, close tightly and store in a cool place.

Option 6: Frozen Strawberry Tincture

Frozen strawberries are great for making tinctures, they absorb alcohol well, give their aroma and taste to the drink. The main thing is to properly defrost strawberries.

Ingredients:

  • one and a half kg of strawberries;
  • a liter of vodka;
  • five hundred grams of granulated sugar.

How to cook

Let's start by defrosting strawberries. You can use the microwave, just turn on the appropriate mode. Put the frozen berries in a container, and put it in cold water - this way the strawberries will defrost faster in a natural way.

So, the strawberries are thawed. Now just transfer it to a three-liter jar. Let's start with kilograms.

Pour in the same vodka, cover with gauze and place the jar in a sunny place. We wait until the berries brighten, give their brightness to vodka. This usually takes up to fifteen days.

Now prepare the syrup. We take the remaining five hundred grams of thawed strawberries. Squeeze the juice from the berries in a way convenient for you, filter it three times.

Mix the resulting mixture with sugar and heat on the stove, dissolving all the crystals. Bring to a boil and boil for ten minutes. During this time, the juice will thicken a little.

Remove from stove and cool.

Filter again, mix with prepared syrup and bottle.

Seal tightly and store in a cold place.