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Useful properties of oak raw materials were valued in antiquity. The bark was used for healing wounds, rinsing, rubbing. The leaves were used for canning vegetables and preparing decoctions. Kissel was boiled from the fruits, flour and coffee were made.
Alcohol was also prepared from acorns: recipes for bitter tinctures on alcohol, wine, and moonshine have survived to this day. Many of them have healing properties: anti-inflammatory, cleansing, analgesic, bactericidal.
Tips before starting
Collect acorns should not be earlier than September / October, it is better to do this after the first frost.
For tinctures, ripe, firm green fruits are needed, with no signs of a wormhole.
It is not worth stocking up acorns for the future: they quickly deteriorate.
Raw materials are peeled, divided into parts, soaked for 2 days, dried in the oven, boiled or fried. Such processing is necessary to soften the taste, additional aromatization and eliminate the excess of quercetin contained in acorns, which in large doses has a toxic effect.
Oak tincture “Wine”
As a tonic and antioxidant drink ½ cup twice a day. When warm, they are used to moisten compresses in the treatment of inguinal hernia.
Ingredients
Acorns – 100 g
Red wine – ½ l
Method of preparation
Grind oak fruits, fry.
Pour the acorn mass with wine, let it brew in the dark for 10 days.
Acorn tincture on moonshine
Oak fruits are pre-cleaned, boiled for half an hour, dried in the oven, crushed with a pestle or blender. The taste and texture of the drink will be similar to cognac.
Ingredients
Ground acorns – 5 tsp
Moonshine – 5 l
Sugars – 100 g
Water – 50 ml
Rosehip color – 2 handfuls
Vanilla – 1-2 tsp
Thyme – 2 g
Oregano – 2 g
Method of preparation
Mix oak flour with herbs and flowers, add vanilla, pour alcohol.
Melt sugar in a frying pan, add water, cook until caramelized, stirring occasionally.
Cool the syrup, pour into an acorn drink, seal the vessel.
Keep the mixture for 2-3 weeks in the dark, shaking regularly.
Pass the tincture through the filter, sweeten if necessary.
Leave the drink in a cool place for 1,5-2 months.
Acorn tincture “Spicy”
Spicy drink with astringent, slightly spicy taste and amber hue has a warming effect. Used as an aperitif. Oak fruits for this recipe are not crushed, but dried in the oven as a whole. You can dilute the concentrate not all at once, but in batches. If desired, the tincture is sweetened with syrup: boiled, as in the previous recipe, or diluted with 2 tbsp. l. sugar in 1 cup of hot water (per 1 liter of drink).
Ingredients
Acorns – 10 g
Ginger – 6 g
Galangal root – 6 g
Angelica root – 10 g
Black peppercorns – 6 g
Ground red pepper – 2 g
Cloves – 3 g
Alcohol 50% / moonshine – ½ l
Vodka – in proportion
Method of preparation
Mix acorns, herbs and spices, pour alcohol / moonshine.
Keep the drink in the dark for 2 weeks, filter.
Dilute the resulting concentrate: 1 liter of vodka for every 35-50 ml of infusion.
Let the tincture “walk” in the cool for about 1 month.
Tincture on acorns “Healing”
The drink is used to rub the joints and treat back pain. As an adjunct therapy for pneumonia, they drink a couple of sips three times a day.
Ingredients
Vodka – 1 l
Acorns – 0,2 kg
Method of preparation
Oak fruits are peeled, chopped, dried in the oven.
Pour the mass into a jar, pour alcohol.
Place the drink in heat for 2 weeks, strain.
Oak tincture “Fast”
The drink is drunk to treat diabetes and lower blood sugar levels for 2 weeks: 3 sips 5-6 times daily. For prevention, take twice a week. Keep the finished product in the refrigerator.
Ingredients
Acorns – 1,5-2 cups
Water – 1,5 L
Vodka – 1 glass
Method of preparation
Peel oak fruits from the skin, pass through a meat grinder.
Pour the acorn mass with water, boil for half an hour.
Let the liquid brew for 1 day, boil again, stand for another 1 day.
Strain the infusion, pour in vodka, mix.
Tincture “Zholudyovka” in Polish
The drink turns out to be bittersweet, the fortress is about 30%. You can sip on winter evenings for warmth.
Ingredients
Acorns – 1 kg
Sugar – ½ kg
Vanilla sugar – 10 g
Soda – a pinch
Alcohol – ½ l
Method of preparation
Remove the skin from oak fruits, soak in cold water, regularly replacing the liquid, for 1 day.
Dry and fry the acorns over high heat, let cool, chop.
Pour the resulting mass with 1 liter of water, boil, let stand under the lid for 1-2 hours.
Strain the broth, add sugar, soda and vanilla, boil again and boil until sugar dissolves.
After cooling, pour the mixture with alcohol, mix and distribute in bottles.
Leave the drink in a cool place for six months or more.
Relevance: 06.01.2019
Tags: Liqueurs, Liqueurs, Tinctures, Recipes for tinctures