Lemon tincture: on vodka, on alcohol

Lemons from the entire citrus family have the oldest history of use. The two most ancient civilizations, Chinese and Indian, are fighting for the right to be called the birthplace of lemons. By their mere presence, lemons are able to ennoble and give a special taste to any dish or drink. Lemon vodka is no exception. However, any alcoholic tincture on lemons will be in demand, especially since there are a great many recipes for making such drinks at home.

The benefits and harms of lemon tincture

Historically, in Our Country, any alcohol tincture on lemon was considered exclusively a medicinal product. Few people thought to drink it just like that. And this is no accident. Indeed, lemons contain a considerable amount of the most valuable substances for the human body: vitamin C, various trace elements, organic acids (citric, malic, formic), citronella, lemon essential oil, pectin, hesperidin, phellandrene and others.

Lemon tincture is most often used to treat beriberi, a variety of colds and general weakness of the body. But the range of its healing is not limited to this.

1. Tincture of lemons helps to cleanse the body of various toxic substances and leads to its general rejuvenation.
2. Reduces the volume of gases in the intestines and thus helps to cope with bloating in the abdomen.
3. Its intake in moderation has a beneficial effect on the functioning of the stomach and liver, normalizes digestion and helps to get rid of constipation.
4. Tincture is a proven remedy for strengthening blood vessels, lowering blood pressure.
5. Removes manifestations of anxiety and anxiety and promotes an optimistic outlook on life.
6. Recent studies have shown that tincture of lemons, especially with the use of zest, can destroy cancer cells and is a good tool for the prevention of cancer.

True, in addition to the unambiguous benefits, vodka with lemon can also bring tangible harm. It should be remembered that any alcohol tincture should not be given to children, pregnant and lactating women, as well as people with acute diseases of the stomach, liver and kidneys. It is also possible the appearance of allergic reactions to the components that are present in the tincture.

Secrets of making homemade lemon tincture

Lemons are currently one of those fruits that are available absolutely at any time of the year. Therefore, a healing tincture of them can be prepared at any suitable time. By the way, this is one of the additional advantages of such a drink, which helps it gain particular popularity.

The strength of the tincture can vary from 10 to 60%, depending on the alcohol used and the amount of water with which it is diluted if desired. The amount of sugar added can also vary. In some traditional recipes, it is customary not to add sugar at all, but still, a small amount of it improves the taste of the drink. But there are recipes for lemon tincture, where sugar can play a significant role. In this case, the drink can be attributed more to liqueurs or liqueurs.

Properly made at home, vodka on lemon turns out to be translucent, and its color shade most of all depends on the type of fruit used. After all, the lemons themselves can be both light and dark yellow, with a thick or thin skin.

Additional components in recipes can also color the tincture any color.

In general, when the ambient temperature drops, the tincture on lemons, as well as on other citrus fruits, becomes slightly cloudy. This is due to the presence of a large number of essential oils. When the temperature rises, the transparency of the drink is restored.

Most often, lemon juice is used to make tinctures along with previously separated zest. Sometimes, but rarely, only the pulp or lemon juice is used.

Sugar is also rarely used in its original form. Most often, syrup is brewed from it, which is subsequently used to dilute alcohol.

It should be understood that the use of vodka or alcohol in various tincture recipes also depends on what properties of the lemon you want to preserve the most. For example, vitamin C is destroyed when insisting on strong alcohol, but in the shortest possible time, the maximum amount of essential oils is extracted from lemons. Therefore, the insistence of lemons on vodka allows you to save the content of vitamin C, but increases the extraction of other useful elements to several weeks, or even months. By the way, it is for this reason that tincture using pure lemon juice or pulp, without zest, is made only on vodka, and in no case on alcohol.

Since whole lemon fruits are most often used to make tinctures, their preparation is as follows:

1. Lemons must be washed thoroughly with a rather stiff brush to free them from the protective wax shell that the fruits cover for their best preservation.
2. Lemons are then scalded with boiling water to completely remove all bacteria from the surface of the peel.

The zest can be cut from lemons with a sharp knife, a vegetable peeler, or simply grated on an ordinary grater with small holes.

When using the pulp of a lemon for infusion, the seeds must be removed from it, since they also carry additional bitterness.

When mixing different liquids, the main thing is to follow the basic rule: add a stronger drink to a less strong one, and not vice versa.

For those who are preparing lemon tincture for the first time, it is recommended to follow the exact proportions indicated in a specific recipe. Already after infusion after the first tasting, you can try to improve the taste of the tincture by adding sugar or water, or, conversely, strong alcohol.

In addition to directly drinking lemon vodka as a relaxing or healing drink, it is often used to add to dough or confectionery. Lemon tincture can also be poured over roasted meat or poultry for an attractive flavor and golden brown.

Classic lemon tincture

A drink prepared according to this recipe will slightly resemble the classic Italian Limoncello liqueur. But even a beginner can cope with its manufacture, and at the same time you can be absolutely sure of the naturalness of the ingredients used.

You need:

• 500 ml of good quality vodka;
• 5 medium-sized lemons;
• 200 ml of water;
• 250 d Sahara.

Manufacture:

1. Lemons are prepared in the manner described above, dried or wiped dry with a clean towel.
2. Remove the zest from one lemon and squeeze the juice separately.
3. The zest is also removed from the remaining four lemons, cut off and the white peel under it is removed, and the pulp is cut into small pieces, be sure to remove the seeds from it.
4. The water is heated to + 100 ° C, sugar and juice squeezed from one lemon are added. Boil for a few minutes over low heat, remove the resulting foam. Cool to a temperature of + 30-40 ° C.
5. Syrup is poured into a prepared dry and clean jar, lemon slices, chopped zest are added and everything is poured with vodka.
6. Close the lid and shake the contents of the jar a couple of times.
7. Put a jar of tincture in the refrigerator for 4-5 days.
8. After that, the resulting tincture is filtered through several layers of gauze and cotton wool to make it almost transparent.
9. Bottled, corked and placed in a cool place.

You can taste the resulting vodka with lemon immediately, although, according to many, it acquires a special taste after a few more weeks of storage in a cool place.

The drink is used as a dessert alcohol. Under suitable storage conditions, the shelf life is unlimited.

The simple infusion of lemon on alcohol

A quick lemon tincture can be prepared with alcohol according to a very simple recipe.

You need:

• 500 ml 96 ° food (medical) alcohol;
• 1 large lemon;
• 750 ml of water;
• ½ tsp granulated sugar for every 0,5 liter bottle.

Manufacture:

1. The water is heated to a boiling state, removed from the fire and alcohol is carefully added to it almost immediately.
2. The lemon is washed, cut into thin slices.
3. Prepared clean, dried bottles are filled with sugar according to the recipe and a few slices of lemon.
4. Pour them with the resulting diluted alcohol, shake and close with a cork.
5. In a cool place, insist 1-2 days, after which the lemon slices are removed so that no additional bitterness appears.

You can use the resulting lemon vodka almost immediately.

Lemon tincture on vodka: a recipe with honey

In recipes for making lemon vodka at home, sugar is often replaced with honey, which gives it an additional attractive aroma and taste.

You need:

• Xnum l vodka;
• 2 lemon;
• 2-3 st. l. Teddy bear.

Manufacture:

1. The zest and juice of lemons are poured with vodka, left for a week in a cool place without light.

   

2. Then honey is added, thoroughly mixed and insisted in the same conditions for another 5-6 days.
3. The tincture is filtered, bottled, corked and sent for storage.

Homemade vodka with lemon juice

It is quite easy to make vodka with freshly squeezed lemon juice. As mentioned earlier, there are practically no essential oils in the juice, but a lot of vitamin C. Infusion on vodka will help keep it safe and sound, but for its complete extraction, it is advisable to keep the drink for at least 4 weeks.

You need:

• juice from 4 lemons;
• 500 ml of vodka;
• 150 grams of sugar;
• cinnamon stick for flavoring.

The manufacturing procedure is very similar to that described in the classic recipe, but instead of zest, a cinnamon stick is added to flavor the drink. After insisting, it is removed from vodka.

Recipe for alcohol tincture on lemon peel

At home, it is easy to make a real lemon tincture for alcohol, which, of course, then needs to be diluted with syrup to the strength of ordinary vodka.

You need:

• 500 g lemons;
• 250 ml of medical alcohol, 96 ° strength;
• 180 grams of sugar;
• 450 ml water.

Since only citrus zest is used in this recipe for lemon tincture, the question often arises of where to put the lemon pulp. If at the moment it is not needed for cooking any dishes, then it is best to decompose it into small hermetically sealed bags and put it in the freezer. But if you need lemon juice, you can get the required amount and use it at any time.

Manufacture:

1. A thin yellow layer of peel (zest) is removed from prepared lemons and poured with alcohol.

   

2. Insist in a dark place for 5-6 days.
   Advice! Every day, the tincture must be shaken.
3. A week later, syrup is made from water and sugar, it is cooled.
4. Alcohol is filtered from the lemon zest and poured over the cooled syrup.
5. They insist for about a week.
6. After some time, a film of lemon essential oil can be observed on the surface of the drink.
7. If after a week the tincture is carefully drained through a thin tube, then the oil can be collected from the walls of the vessel.
8. The resulting lemon tincture is additionally filtered and you can treat it to friends and acquaintances.

How to make grapefruit lemon tincture

Grapefruit gives the tincture an additional exotic touch with a subtle bitterness. The recipe for making this lemon vodka at home uses alcohol. But since the pulp of both citrus fruits is present among the ingredients, the alcohol must be diluted to 40 ° before infusion, so as not to lose vitamin C.

You need:

• 1 liter of alcohol 96%;
• 1500 ml of distilled water;
• 1 lemon;
• 1 grapefruit;
• 2 Art. liter. sugar;
• 2-3 carnation buds;
• tube of cinnamon.

Manufacture:

1. Remove the zest from lemon and grapefruit with a thin layer, cut it into pieces, place in a 3-liter jar.
2. Both fruits are peeled from the white peel, which is discarded. And then cut the remaining pulp into slices, which are added to the same jar.
3. Sprinkle everything with sugar, mix.
4. A drink of lesser strength is prepared from water and alcohol and poured into a jar.
5. Insist under the lid for 10 days.
6. Strain and bottle.
7. Consume chilled.

Vanilla Lemon Peel Tincture Recipe

Using the classic cooking technology, you can also make lemon vodka at home with the addition of vanillin. The taste of this spice will be especially harmonious with sweet versions of tinctures.

The ratio of ingredients used is as follows:

• 500 ml of vodka;
• 1 lemon;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• ¼ h. l. vanilla.

Recipe for vodka with lemon and mint

And this recipe gives such a unique combination of flavors that it is impossible to forget it.

You need:

• 5 lemons;
• 150 g fresh mint leaves or 50 g dried;
• Xnum l vodka;
• 200 g of sugar or 100 g of honey.

Manufacture:

1. Remove the yellow zest from lemons in any convenient way. The remaining pulp with juice is used in other dishes or frozen.
2. The mint is finely chopped, mixed with lemon zest and sugar, poured with vodka, covered with a lid and shaken.
3. Then they insist in a dark room for about 8-10 days, not forgetting to shake the contents of the jar daily.
4. Filtered through a gauze and cotton filter, bottled.

Unusual lemon tincture recipe

Unlike the usual way of making tinctures, when raw materials are poured with alcohol, according to this recipe, the lemon does not even come into contact with it. However, the finished tincture has an attractive light yellow tint and a rich taste and aroma. The most interesting thing is that lemon vodka according to this recipe is not difficult to create even in normal home conditions.

You need:

• 350 ml 70% alcohol;
• 1 large ripe lemon;
• 200 ml water.

For infusion, alcohol is by no means diluted; its concentrated vapors will better absorb lemon essential oils.

Manufacture:

1. The lemon is thoroughly washed in warm water with a brush, and then wiped dry with a paper towel.
2. Alcohol is poured into a clean glass jar.
3. The lemon in the middle is pierced with a needle with a thread passed through it and suspended with a wire in the upper part of the jar so that it does not touch the alcohol, but hangs directly above it.

   

4. The jar is closed with a tight lid and placed in a dark place with a temperature of + 18 ° C to + 22 ° C.
5. After infusion, add water to alcohol, mix thoroughly.
6. The tincture will most likely become cloudy, but after a few days it should lighten up again.
7. At this stage, it is tasted, if desired, more sugar is added.

Store in cool conditions without light for about 3 years.

Healthy lemon tincture with garlic, honey and rose hips

This tincture consists of components that, even individually, are able to resist seasonal colds and significantly increase the immunity of the human body. Being combined in one tincture, they will have a powerful healing effect on a person and give him the strength to resist in the fight against any viruses. In addition, a rich vitamin and mineral composition will help to cope with all manifestations of beriberi.

You need:

• 1 kg of lemons;
• Xnum l vodka;
• 500 ml of purified water;
• 300 g of garlic;
• 1 liter of honey;
• 250 g dry rose hips.

Manufacture:

1. Lemons are washed, dried, cut into slices, seeds are removed from them and finely chopped along with the peel.
2. Garlic is divided into cloves and crushed with a garlic crusher.
3. Rose hips are also cut into halves.
4. Lemons, garlic and rose hips are placed in a large opaque container. You can also use a large 5-liter jar, but in this case it must be wrapped in foil so that it does not let in light.
5. Boiling water carefully pour the mixture in a jar, stir.
6. Cover with a lid, wrap and wait for cooling to + 40 ° C.
7. Add honey, stir and pour everything with vodka.
8. Close the lid tightly and insist in a dark place in the room for about 10 days.
9. Then the tincture is filtered through gauze with cotton wool, after which it can be bottled and stored in a cool place.

Tincture is used prophylactically during seasonal infectious diseases and for medicinal purposes 2-3 times a day after meals in a volume of not more than 50 ml at a time.

Taiga tincture on alcohol on lemons with honey and herbs

This tincture, due to its rich composition and complex manufacturing, has fully earned the right to be called a balm.

You need:

• 1,5 kg of lemons;
• 700 ml of medical alcohol (96%);
• 900 g of flower honey;
• 330 ml of purified water;
• 50 g of viburnum juice;
• 30-40 g of dried rose hips, orange peel; leaves and berries of raspberry, chamomile, birch buds, ginseng roots, calamus roots; plantain leaves; mint leaves.

According to the recipe, you need to find 9 more small jars or bottles (70-100 ml each).

Manufacture:

1. Each type of dry herb, root or fruit is placed in its container and poured with about 50 ml of alcohol. Stir and, tightly closed, place in a dark place for 2 weeks to infuse.
2. After this period, each tincture is filtered and combined together. They are allowed to brew in a dark place for another 18-20 days.
3. At the same time, the zest is peeled from the lemons, crushed and, pouring the remaining alcohol, left to infuse for the same period.
4. The pulp of lemons is combined with water, heated to a boil and, after cooling, honey is added to them.
5. The resulting mixture is frozen until the moment when both tinctures have time to prepare.
6. When the long-awaited moment comes, both tinctures are filtered through a filter, combined together and the defrosted honey-lemon mixture is added to them.
7. Mix thoroughly, bottle, seal tightly.

The resulting healing balm can alleviate the condition in many diseases.

Fragrant tincture on lemon on vodka with saffron

Saffron is a very rare and most expensive spice. Even a very small amount of it can give lemon tincture an unforgettable aroma.

You need:

• 750 ml wheat vodka;
• 200 g lemon zest;
• 80-100 ml of fresh lemon juice;
• 250 ml of water;
• 3 g of saffron;
• 150 d Sahara.

Manufacture:

1. The zest of lemons is crushed in a blender and poured with vodka.
2. After 2 weeks of infusion, the resulting tincture is filtered.
3. At the same time, sugar is dissolved in boiling water and saffron is added there. After boiling, remove from heat and pour in lemon juice.
4. The syrup is cooled and mixed with the resulting tincture.
5. Insist another 4-5 days in a dark place.
6. Strain and distribute into bottles.

How to store homemade lemon vodka

Lemon vodka tincture prepared at home can be stored in almost any dark place for at least 2 years. In cool basement or cellar conditions, its shelf life can be from 3 to 5 years, or even with virtually no restrictions.

Conclusion

Lemon vodka is a drink that will be most welcome in any conditions. Both at home dinner and at a dinner party. It is not even a shame to take it as a gift, especially if it is made according to a special healing recipe.