Cherry tincture recipe at home

Pouring from cherries in Our Country is not as popular as a drink from its closest relative – cherries. Indeed, until recently, sweet cherry was considered an exclusively southern tree. Another reason is the lack of acid and contrast.

Is it possible to make liqueur from cherries

Many even doubt whether it is possible to make a delicious liqueur from cherries. But in the same Europe, cherry liqueurs are very popular, and in some Mediterranean countries, cherry wine has long been produced. But liqueurs are not so far gone from liqueurs: they may be a little sweeter, but according to the technology of preparation they are practically no different from liqueurs infused with strong alcohol.

As for the prevalence of sweet cherries in Our Country, Yuri Dolgoruky began to plant the first cherry orchards on the territory of modern Moscow. And even with the level of development of selection today, getting good harvests of this berry in the middle lane and making tasty liqueurs from it, among other things, is a couple of trifles.

Secrets of making cherry liqueur at home

In ancient times, liqueurs were prepared exclusively from fruits and berries by natural fermentation. Subsequently, the drink was often fixed by adding vodka or alcohol. Currently, there are two main options for making cherry liqueur:

• by insisting on strong alcoholic beverages;
• without the addition of alcohol-containing liquids, by natural fermentation.

The latter are characterized by a milder taste, but have a small strength (no more than 12%).

Sweet cherries must be chosen fully ripe, but without traces of rot and various stains. The color of the berries matters only when making liqueurs for alcohol or vodka, since lighter varieties will not give such a rich color and aroma. For the manufacture of liqueurs using natural fermentation without alcohol, a variety of any color is suitable.

Most of the controversy erupts over whether to use whole berries with stones or whether it is better to remove the stones.

There are recipes for making pitted liqueurs, but their taste is designed for lovers. Therefore, in most recipes, pits from cherries are still removed.

What can you insist on cherry liqueur

There are many alcoholic drinks on which you can infuse cherry liqueur:

• vodka;
• moonshine;
• alcohol;
• rum;
• cognac;
• brands

Exotic spirits are practically not used.

Pouring cherry on vodka

This is perhaps the most common option for preparing a fragrant and tasty drink from moderately strong cherries.

• 1 kg of berries;
• 500 grams of sugar;
• 2 liters of vodka.

Preparation:

1. It is advisable to wash the berries, remove the seeds and stalks, and place the pulp in a glass jar.
2. Pour the amount of vodka prescribed according to the recipe, cork tightly and place in a warm and dark place.
3. Shake the drink once a day for 10 days.
4. After this time, the drink is filtered through gauze, the pulp is squeezed out and placed back in a glass container.
5. Fall asleep with sugar, cover with a lid and again place in a warm place (from 18 to 25 ° C) for a week with daily shaking of the contents.
6. The filtered liquid is still stored in a separate hermetically sealed bottle in the refrigerator.

   

7. After a week of infusion of berry pulp with sugar, the resulting juice is again filtered through several layers of gauze and added to the liqueur stored in the refrigerator.
8. At this stage, you can taste the drink and add sugar if desired.
9. The liqueur is bottled, sealed with corks and stored in a dark place with a temperature of no more than 10-16 ° C for about 3-4 months. Such an exposure can significantly improve the taste of the liqueur. Its fortress turns out to be about 29–32 degrees.

Pouring from cherries on alcohol

You can replace vodka with alcohol. To obtain the required concentration, it is necessary to dilute 1 liter of 95% alcohol in 1,375 liters of water.

The cooking process is the same.

Pouring from cherries on moonshine

Instead of vodka, you can take home-made moonshine and follow the same recipe. You just need to have an idea about the strength of moonshine in order to use less or more of it if necessary.

Pouring of cherries on cognac

A drink made according to this recipe can surprise even true gourmets with its taste, color and aroma.

• 500 ml of cognac (may not be of the best quality);
• 600 g of cherries;
• 50 grams of sugar;
• spices to taste (cinnamon, cloves, cumin).

Preparation:

1. Rinse the berries, prick with a toothpick or a needle to extract the juice and place in a glass jar.
2. Add spices there.
3. Fry sugar in a dry frying pan without oil, stirring all the time, then add to the same jar.
4. Pour in cognac, which should cover all the berries.
5. Mix the contents of the jar well, close the lid tightly and put in a dark, warm place for 2 months.
6. Filter the finished liquor through gauze, bottle and store.

Pouring of cherries without vodka and alcohol

Our great-grandfathers prepared liquor in a similar way, when strong alcoholic drinks were very rare. The liqueur is obtained as a result of the natural fermentation of fructose from cherry juice and sugar, added according to the recipe, and is a bit like wine.

• 2 kg of berries;
• 800 grams of sugar;
• 250 ml water.

It is also necessary to prepare a sterilized dry three-liter jar and a water seal. Instead, you can use an ordinary medical glove, piercing a hole in one of her fingers with a needle.

Preparation:

1. The berries are de-pitted.
2. About 200 g of sugar are poured into the bottom of the jar, after which the cherries and the remaining sugar are added in layers.
3. Everything is filled with water.
4. A lid with a water seal is installed on the jar or a glove is put on, which is tightly fixed with an elastic band and tape.
5. The jar is placed in a warm and dark place for fermentation. This process usually takes 25 to 40 days. You can track it by the state of the glove: at first it will inflate and rise, after the process is completed, it will deflate and fall.
6. At this point, strain the liqueur using gauze, completely squeeze out the pulp and pour into bottles, sealing them tightly.
7. Stand in a cool place for about 2-4 months to improve taste characteristics.

Of course, the liquor is much less than when using the alcohol component (about 1 liter), but it has a richer taste. The strength of the drink is about 10-12%.

Recipe for homemade cherry liqueur with honey

According to this recipe, a rather strong, but tasty, slightly tart drink is obtained.

• 1 kg of berries;
• 750 ml of vodka;
• 1 liters of alcohol;
• 1 liter of honey;
• 1 g of vanillin, cloves, cinnamon.

Preparation:

1. The cherries, washed and freed from stones and twigs, are placed in a glass jar, spices are added and poured with alcohol.
2. Insist 4 weeks in the sun.
3. The drink is filtered, placed for temporary storage in the refrigerator, and all the remaining pulp is poured with honey, covered with gauze and again placed in the sun for 4 weeks.

   

4. Honey syrup is carefully squeezed out, mixed with the initial infusion and kept for a day in a dark place.
5. A day later, the liqueur is passed through a filter, bottled and sent to infuse for 3-4 months in a cool place.

Pitted cherry filling

This recipe is considered quite simple, since it does not provide for the separation of pits from cherries, therefore the most common. Thanks to the bones, the drink acquires a light almond flavor.

• 1 liter of vodka or moonshine;
• 1 kg of fruits with seeds (preferably dark colors);
• 300 d Sahara.

When changing the amount of one of the ingredients, it is important to maintain the overall proportion of 1:1:0,3.

Preparation:

1. Berries are placed in a jar.
2. Vodka is thoroughly mixed with sugar.
3. Cherries in a jar are poured with sweet vodka, covered with a nylon lid and placed on a sunny window.
4. The jar needs to be shaken a little every 2-3 days.
5. After two weeks, the liquor is filtered through gauze and bottled.

Tincture on berries and cherry leaves

This recipe uses cherry leaves to add an extra herbal flavor to the liqueur.

• 50 dark cherry berries;
• about 200 cherry leaves;
• Xnum l vodka;
• 1,5 kg of sugar;
• 1 liters of boiled water;
• 1,5 tsp citric acid.

Preparation:

1. The leaves and berries are washed, half of the berries are pitted.
2. Pour in water and cook over low heat for 15 minutes.
3. The broth is filtered.
4. Sugar and citric acid are added to it and boiled over low heat for about 10 minutes.
5. After cooling, vodka is added to the syrup, everything is mixed well and the resulting liquor is poured into glass containers with airtight lids.

Infuse the drink in a cool dark place for about 20 days.

How to make frozen cherry liqueur

Because cherries are seasonal and ripen in early summer, they can be frozen to make a liqueur at any time of the year. A drink made from frozen berries is practically no different from a traditional one. It is only necessary to pre-thaw the berries at room temperature, spreading them on a flat surface, such as a baking sheet, in one layer.

To remove excess moisture from thawed berries, it is recommended to place the tray with berries in the oven at a low temperature (70 ° C) for 4-5 hours. After that, prepare the liqueur according to any recipe.

A simple and quick recipe for cherry liqueur

There is an old recipe for making cherry liqueur in just one day. True, the conditions of the “cooling oven” with maintaining a constant temperature in the region of 60–70 ° C are best suited for this. If the oven is capable of maintaining a similar mode, then you can use it.

Cooking process:

1. 1 kg of cherries is poured with 2 liters of vodka.
2. Place the container with the future liquor to languish at the above temperature in the oven or oven for a period of 12 to 24 hours. The filling during this time acquires a dark brown color.
3. It is filtered, 500 g of sugar are added and bottled.

You can use it right away, but after insisting, it will improve its taste.

How to make yellow cherry liqueur

Yellow cherries have a richer spicy taste than their sisters, but most of all, replacing the berries will affect the color of the finished drink. It will turn out an attractive golden hue.

• 730 g of yellow cherries;
• 365 ml of well-purified moonshine or vodka;
• 145 ml of water;
• 155 grams of sugar;
• cinnamon stick.

Preparation:

1. Bones are removed from the cherries, and the pulp is slightly kneaded until juice is obtained.
2. The juice is poured into a separate container, and the berries are poured with moonshine.
3. Syrup is prepared from juice, warm water and sugar and combined with berries filled with moonshine.
4. Also add a cinnamon stick.
5. In a dark, cool place, the liquor is infused for at least 10 days, after which it is carefully filtered to remove berries and cinnamon.
6. The finished drink is bottled and tightly sealed.

red cherry liqueur recipe

Red cherries are often referred to as pink cherries. To get a more multifaceted drink from it, it is advisable to insist it on a mixture of vodka and brandy.

• 620 ml of vodka;
• 235 ml brandy;
• 730 g of red cherries;
• 230 d Sahara.

It is recommended to slightly incise or chop the berries, but do not remove the seeds.

Preparation:

1. Brandy and vodka are thoroughly mixed with sugar until it is completely dissolved.
2. Pour the cherry berries with this mixture and tightly close the container. The drink should be infused in the dark and cool for about a month. The first two weeks it must be shaken once a day.
3. A month later, the drink is filtered and poured into hermetically sealed bottles. The berries are removed.

White Cherry Pouring

But white cherries are perfectly combined in their taste and color with rum.

• 1 kg of sweet cherry;
• 50 ml of alcohol with a strength of 95%;
• 500 ml white rum;
• Xnumx ml of honey;
• vanilla sachet;
• 5 carnation buds.

Preparation:

1. Washed and pitted cherries are poured with honey and vanilla and cloves are added.
2. The jar is tightly closed and left for 24 hours in the room.
3. Alcohol and rum are added to the contents, tightly sealed and left in a cool place without light for at least 3 months.
4. After insisting, the liquor is filtered, the berries are squeezed and left for 3-4 days to separate the sediment.
5. After the required period, the liquor is drained from the sediment, filtered through a filter and bottled.
6. Insist if possible for another 3 months.

Cherry liqueur with nutmeg

1. 1 kg of berries are slightly kneaded until the juice is released, but the seeds are not removed.
2. Transfer to a glass jar and leave for 3 days at room temperature without light.
3. 1 g of cinnamon and nutmeg, 250 g of sugar are added to the berries, and everyone is poured with 400 ml of vodka.
4. The mixture is shaken and insisted in the same place for another 7 days.

   

5. Sugar syrup is prepared from 50 ml of water and 100 g of sugar, cooled.
6. The infused liquor is filtered, sugar syrup is added to it and the drink is passed through the filter.
7. The finished drink is poured into glass containers and placed in storage.

Cherry liqueur with red wine

The liqueur according to this recipe is infused on vodka, and red wine is added to create a brighter flavor bouquet.

1. 0,5 kg of pitted cherries are lightly kneaded with a wooden spoon and add 300 g of sugar, half a cinnamon stick, 9 peeled almond kernels, 2 cloves, and grated zest from half an orange.
2. Everything is transferred to a glass container, poured with 700 ml of vodka or 40-50% alcohol, closed with a lid and placed for infusion for 6 weeks in a cool place without light with occasional shaking.
3. At the next stage, the drink is filtered, the berries and spices are squeezed and removed, but 500 ml of dry red wine is added to it. Then they insist for about a month.

The original recipe for a liqueur-like cherry liqueur

• 1 liter of 70% alcohol;
• 800 g of a mixture of red and yellow cherries;
• 250 g dry red wine;
• 500 ml of sugar syrup (dissolve 200 g of sugar in 300 ml of water);
• Xnumx buds clove;
• 5 g ground cinnamon or 1 cinnamon stick;
• zest from 1 lemon.

As in the previous recipe, berries with spices are insisted on alcohol for 3-4 weeks. Then filter, add sugar syrup and red wine, mix. Bottled and re-infused for at least 3 weeks.

Cherry liqueur at home

Liquor is prepared according to a recipe very similar to the production of liquor. After all, these drinks have a lot in common.

First step of preparation:

1. To 1 kg of cherry berries add 500 g of sugar, 1 tsp. vanilla sugar, 3 cherry leaves, 4 cloves, a pinch of cinnamon and ground nutmeg.
2. A jar of berries and spices is closed with a lid and kept for about 8–10 days in the sun.
3. It must be shaken with all contents daily.

Second stage of preparation:

1. 400 ml of high-quality vodka is poured into a jar.
2. The liquor is insisted for another 4 weeks.
3. The contents are filtered and bottled.

The drink is ready.

Recipe for cherries and cherries

According to the same recipe, a liquor is prepared from equal parts of cherries and cherries.

All ingredients are taken in the same quantities (500 g of cherries and 500 g of cherries), only the amount of sugar is slightly increased – up to 700–800 g.

The taste of the liqueur due to the addition of cherries is more saturated.

Cherry cognac liqueur with oak chips and cinnamon

The liqueur made according to this recipe can resemble cognac with its taste.

For it, you can use cherries of any color and even a mixture of varieties.

Preparation:

1. 1 kg of sweet cherry berries are slightly crushed until juice is released in jars and, covered with gauze, put in a warm place for 3 days. During this time, the liquid should ferment.

   

2. Add 250 g of sugar, 3 g of cinnamon and nutmeg each and stir well.
3. Pour 500 ml of vodka.
4. Everything is shaken well and placed, closed with a lid, in the dark at a temperature of 21–24 ° C for 2–3 weeks.
5. When a distinct sediment appears at the bottom, the liquor is poured into a clean container and filtered if necessary.
6. Pour into bottles, placing 2 fresh oak chips in each.
7. The bottles are tightly closed and sent to infuse for 2 months in a cool place with a temperature of 16 ° C.

It may be necessary to strain the liqueur again before drinking.

Pouring of cherries, blueberries and apples: brandy tincture

This drink is able to surprise and please even subtle connoisseurs and connoisseurs of alcohol.

• 800 g of cherries;
• 50 g fresh blueberries;
• 50 g sweet apples, grated on a coarse grater;
• 700 ml brandy;
• 50 g brown (unrefined) sugar, melted in a dry frying pan;
• spices to taste (cinnamon, cloves, cumin).

Preparation:

1. Washed berries are pricked in several places to form juice.
2. Load them into a jar, add blueberries and apples, preferably peeled.
3. Add spices and pour cognac so that it completely covers the berries.
4. Tightly cork and insist in warmth and darkness for 2 months.
5. Filter the finished drink through a filter and, bottling, put in storage.

Terms and conditions of storage of cherry liqueur

Most of the liqueurs described in this article can be stored in cool and dark conditions for up to 5 years.

Before use, it is worth checking whether a precipitate has appeared, and if necessary, additionally filter the finished liqueur.

Conclusion

The article presents a variety of recipes for cherry liqueurs of all varieties with all sorts of additives: spices, leaves, wine.