For lovers of fragrant, beautiful and delicious homemade spirits with floral notes, I suggest that you familiarize yourself with a simple recipe for rose liqueur. For cooking, you only need fresh petals, strong alcohol, sugar and citric acid.
Strongly scented tea rose petals are ideal, but any other kind can be used. The color of the liqueur will be about the same as the shade of the petals, so it’s best to use orange or red roses picked just before brewing. Dried, lethargic or growing in dusty places (near roads) petals are not suitable because they have a weak smell.
The choice between alcohol and vodka is not fundamental, the main thing is that the alcohol base is well purified without the slightest hint of fuselage. I advise you to take spring or bottled water, ordinary chlorinated tap water quickly kills the floral aroma.
Ingredients:
- rose petals – 300 grams;
- sugar – 1 kg;
- citric acid – 1 teaspoon;
- vodka (alcohol 40-45%) – 1 liter;
- water – 1 liter.
Citric acid adds a slight acidity to the taste, resulting in a balanced drink.
rose liqueur recipe
1. Pass the petals together with sugar through a meat grinder.
2. Transfer the resulting paste into a 5-liter glass container, add alcohol (vodka), shake.
3. Pour in water, stir until the sugar is completely dissolved.
4. Close the container tightly with a lid, put in a dark, warm place for 1 month for exposure. Shake every 4-5 days.
5. Strain the resulting pink liquor through cheesecloth, squeeze the cake to dryness, add citric acid to the liquid, sweeten it with sugar if desired. Stir, pour into bottles and close tightly with corks. After 2-3 days you can try.
Away from direct sunlight, the shelf life of homemade tea rose petal liqueur is 2 years. Fortress – 14-15%.
If turbidity or sediment appears, filter through cotton wool.
