Interesting recipes for cherry liqueurs and liqueurs – 6 recipes

Bird cherry – a berry, of course, interesting, and besides – available in large quantities. You can make a whole lot of alcoholic sweets from it – for example, cherry liqueurs on vodka or delicious dessert liqueurs. We’ll tell you how!

Bird cherry – a berry, of course, interesting, and besides – available in large quantities in the vastness of almost the entire former USSR. So affordable that no one usually collects it – it disappears for itself, rots or goes to feed the birds. Meanwhile, from this berry you can make a whole lot of alcoholic sweets – starting from tinctures, which we have already talked about, continuing with bird cherry liqueurs on vodka or sorting, delicious liqueurs, and ending with wine.

The materiel for bird cherry – the difference between red and black, dry and fresh, the content of all kinds of harmful substances and ways to neutralize them – I have already described in an article about bird cherry tinctures. Therefore, today – only recipes, only hardcore! Do not forget the main thing – bird cherry with alcohol cannot be infused for more than 6 weeks, otherwise the drink will be “enriched” with hydrocyanic acid, and we don’t need it at all. Most cherry liqueurs and liqueurs are made sweet at home with the help of sugar – an antidote to this very acid. Therefore, if granulated sugar is indicated in the recipe, do not replace it with fructose!

Proven classic. Pourings from bird cherry on vodka

As already mentioned, everything is made from bird cherry, up to wine. But, judging by the reviews of moonshiners on the forums, naturally fermented drinks from this berry often turn out badly, or even not at all. Therefore, we will not take risks and consider recipes for liqueurs only on an alcohol basis – this is more reliable.

Homemade red cherry liqueur

Technology:

1. First, the bird cherry must be washed and dried – in a warm, dry attic for 2-3 days or in the oven for a couple of hours, on the very, very small fire.
2. Next, the berry is pushed with a pestle or blender to the state of gruel, poured with alcohol and sent to infuse in a dark place.
3. After 4 weeks (or maybe less, depending on the taste and aroma of the berry), the tincture should be thoroughly filtered through a cotton filter.
4. The liquid is poured into a saucepan, sugar is introduced into it and the whole thing is brought almost to a boil, and then it cools. At this stage, the drink should be tasted and, in which case, add more sugar.
5. The cooled liqueur from the red bird cherry must be defended for at least another week, after which it must be filtered again and poured into bottles.

Pouring bird cherry on vodka according to this recipe is not only tasty, but also safe, since hydrocyanic acid is destroyed just at a high temperature, although the aroma is slightly lost due to boiling.

Pouring black bird cherry on vodka

This recipe, in principle, is similar to the previous one, with the exception of the number of berries and the time of infusion. The berries are alcoholized for no more than a week, so if you really urgently need a bird cherry, try using this method.

Technology:

1. Before use, the washed and sorted bird cherry is dried in the air for about three days.
2. Next, the berries need to be laid out on a wooden surface. Preheat the oven to no more than 100 degrees, turn it off and put the bird cherry in it. When the berry starts to smell – you need to get it. Make sure that it does not bake, but only wither, do not exceed the temperature!
3. After that, the bird cherry cools and pours into a suitable jar – so as to fill it up to the very lid. The rest of the volume is filled with vodka.
4. The bank is sent to the sun for a period of 3 days to a week. Periodically, it must be rotated so that the sun’s rays illuminate and warm the contents evenly.
5. After 3 days of infusion, the drink should be tested for viscosity and astringency. When the liqueur becomes sufficiently saturated, it is time to drain it.
6. The infused liquor must be drained through cheesecloth, squeezed out the pulp. Place the liquid in a saucepan, add sugar there and bring to a boil three times, and then cool to room temperature.
7. After these manipulations are completed, and the drink has cooled down, it must be passed through a cotton filter, bottled and set aside for at least two weeks in a dark place.

Classic puff cherry liqueur

They say this recipe has Siberian roots. But this is debatable – it is too similar to the classic berry ratafia recipe. However, it should be delicious.

Technology:

1. In a suitable jar, a layer of bird cherry is poured into a finger thick. From above – sugar, after which – again a layer of berries and a layer of sugar, until the entire volume of the container is filled.
2. The remaining space is filled with vodka – carefully so that the layers do not mix.
3. The jar is closed with a lid and settled for about a month in a dark, warm place.
4. After the end of the maceration process, the liquid is drained through gauze, where the pulp is squeezed out. Try. Not sweet enough? Add sugar and stir well. Fine? Then the liqueur must be passed through cotton wool and bottled. You can try in a week or two, when the drink has a rest.

Pouring of bird cherry with grapes and quince

Quince will help to emphasize the delicate aroma of bird cherry, from which, by itself, well, just delicious drinks are obtained. Grapes will add berry motifs and density of taste, while mint will add freshness and grassy shades. Interesting and unique drink!

Technology:

1. Sort the berries, rinse under running water and dry. Rinse the quince and cut into thin slices. Place the berries and quince in a jar of a suitable volume, add sugar, shake well and leave for 2 days on the windowsill. During this time, the sugar should dissolve and draw out some of the juice from the berries and quince.
2. Add a mixture of alcohol, vodka and water, close the jar tightly and leave in a dark, cool place for 3 months.
3. After 2 months of infusion, add dried or fresh mint to the jar.
4. After 3 months, strain the liqueur, filter and pour into clean bottles. Before tasting, the drink should be aged for at least 2-3 months.

Cherry liqueurs at home

Bird cherry is a fragrant and original berry, which gives the drink a beautiful color and a bright smell. God himself ordered it to be used for the production of sweet, rich liqueurs that are so good to add to coffee, tea, champagne or drink just like that, for dessert.

Spicy red cherry liqueur on vodka

Technology:

1. The berries are passed through a meat grinder, sugar and spices are added to them, everything is thoroughly mixed and settled for 1-2 days in a dark place.
2. After that, vodka is poured into the jar, everything is shaken well and infused for about 20 days. The contents should be shaken periodically, left alone only in the last week.
3. The drink is carefully drained from the sediment, passed through a cotton filter and tasted. If there is little sugar, sugar syrup can be added to the liquor, this drink should be sweet.
4. Let the liquor rest for a few days and that’s it – you can try!

Homemade black cherry liqueur

Technology:

1. Pour fresh berries with alcohol and insist in a dark place for about a month.
2. After infusion, drain and filter the liquid, and leave the whole berries – they will still come in handy.
3. We cook the syrup from the specified amount of water and sugar (read more about sugar syrup and its varieties in this article). After the syrup boils and the foam is removed from it, we send the alcoholized berries there, boil for 5 minutes, after which we cool and filter.
4. We combine the tincture and bird cherry syrup and send it to rest for several days in a dark place.
5. If a precipitate appears, the drink must be filtered, then bottled.

That’s it, your homemade cherry liqueur is ready!

Repetition is the mother of learning, so I remind you once again – do not prepare homemade tinctures using bird cherry leaves and bark – they contain hazardous substances that release benzaldehyde. Take only berries – drinks from them are very tasty!