Rowan tincture: useful properties and cooking recipes

Often, a party with friends can not do without alcoholic beverages. For complete confidence in the quality of the products, tinctures and home-made wines should be preferred. "What is the difference between these drinks?" - you ask. There is no particular difference, tincture is the same wine that is prepared on the basis of fruits, berries or herbs. Sometimes these home beverages are used for medical purposes to get rid of ailments and improve the condition of the body. One of the most common means of traditional medicine is rowan tincture. To prepare the drink, the berries of the plant are used.

Rowberry tincture on vodka

To create a drink, in addition to berries, you will need vodka and sugar. Firstly, rowan should be washed several times (until the water is completely clean) and dried. Then the berries must be crushed, using, for example, a fork or mortar. Then we place the raw materials in a glass container (a bottle or jar with a capacity of not more than a liter), filling it almost to the top, not reaching the edge by about 3-5 cm. Fill the berries with vodka so that it covers them completely. Tare tightly sealed and leave to infuse for a couple of weeks. Occasionally you need a vessel in this Period to shake. After the necessary time, the drink should be filtered using a napkin made from several layers of gauze. Rowan tincture should be transparent in appearance and not have a sediment.

The role of sugar in cooking

At this time comes the turn of the application of sugar - from it we prepare the syrup. For this, the product dissolves in a small volume of water. If you want to get a specific, bitter, rowan aftertaste, then no more than half a cup of sugar should be added to the pot of the tincture. If there is a desire to get a sweet enough likeness of liquor, then the product will need more. In this matter you need to rely on your own taste. So, the sugar syrup brought to the boil is added to the obtained tincture, we pour it into a container, seal it and leave the drink alone for another week. In this way, natural, quality rowan tincture is obtained.

Beverage properties and contraindications for use

In addition to pleasant taste, tincture, prepared from mountain ash, has the ability to save from a severe cold and painful headaches. However, such a drug also has contraindications for use. Strictly forbids rowan tincture to women during pregnancy and lactation, as well as people whose body has a tendency to clots, increased blood clotting.

How to make a rowan tincture on cognac

For cooking, in addition to 500 ml of alcoholic beverage, you need honey and sugar, oak bark in the amount of a tablespoon of each and 2 pcs. Dried carnations. Of course, the composition of the tincture includes berries of mountain ash, which will require one glass. First of all, you need to boil the bark of oak in water for at least half an hour with the lid closed. After the broth, add the cloves and cool it. When the liquid becomes warm, you need to dissolve honey and sugar in it. In the resulting broth, pre-mashed berries of mountain ash with cognac are added. Leave the drink for 3-4 hours for infusion. After that, squeeze the mixture using a dense tissue cloth. Rowan tincture is ready. Keep it in a refrigerator, tightly corked in bottles of dark color.