How to cook brandy
Infusion — a light appetizer containing not more than 20% alcohol. Ingredients:
— natural juice of fruits and berries;
— alcohol;
— sugar;
— citric acid.
The process of making liqueurs is very simple — from fruits and berries squeeze the juice, dilute it with alcohol, add sugar, acid and hold in the heat from 1 to 6 months. It turns out amazingly delicious drink, if fruits and berries were fully ripe, no rot and wormholes.
Technology, used for centuries, allow to obtain soft, pleasant to the taste, and a ladies drink. As a sweetener, sugar is often replaced by honey. Ways to obtain delicious cordials are a great many, many Housewives keep it in the family brand his grandmother's recipes. Perhaps the most famous liqueur cherry. Recipes "cherry" variety, each hostess their secrets. Prepare this infusion in divided doses, is kept not less than a month, the result is a delicious, fragrant aperitif.
Exclusive drink made from berries viburnum, Rowan (the famous "brandy"), slightly frozen by the cold. Nalivajka infused at room temperature for 2-3 months. Light sweet aperitif to the pastries and desserts. From tinctures they are distinguished by a small percentage of alcohol and lots of sugar, up to 30-40%.
Tincture — a healthy drink
Making tinctures as raw materials to take plants with medicinal properties:
— herbs;
— roots;
— flowers;
— fruits (e.g., wild rose, or hawthorn).
Their strength is much higher than the liqueurs, they are prized for the healing qualities, for this reason, tincture take as a medicine, in small doses, much smaller than liqueurs. The tincture of the poisonous medicinal herbs drink a few drops at a time.
Drink herbs can be helpful with many ailments, such as allergies, diseases of the stomach and intestinal tract, colds, various abscesses. For example, of tincture of mint and sage is desirable to take before meals, they increase the appetite. Tonic drink can be added to your morning tea, coffee. Tincture strengthen the body, increase immunity, are an excellent preventive tool against many ailments.
Wish to receive healing tincture, to strictly observe the technology to the beverage not lost its unique qualities. Tinctures come in several forms:
−bitter — raw materials are roots and herbs, in them a small amount of sugar, not more than 2%, sometimes the sugar is replaced with an infusion of licorice root;
−sweet drinks contain alcohol up to 30-40% and sugar up to 3-5% for the manufacture of semi-sweet tinctures are roots, seeds, fruits;
sweet sugar they contain 20-30%.
Liqueurs, unlike liqueurs, infused for a short time, after 10 days, the liqueur is ready to drink. Sweet liqueurs, in which the emphasis is on nuances of flavor can be served as alcoholic beverages.
