The recipe for cherry liqueur at home is ubiquitous, it takes a little time and will require your patience only at the infusion stage. Among the presented below variations it is easy to choose what you like.
How to make cherry liqueur at home?
Depending on the desired final taste, you can use vodka, cognac or moonshine as an alcoholic beverage base. Taking into account the peculiarities of the specific recipe, namely, the fact that the sugar used in the liqueur is not sugar syrup, but ordinary sugar, the taste of alcohol in the finished product will be easily felt.
Ingredients:
- vodka - 475 ml;
- cherry - 235 g;
- sugar - 240 g.
Preparation
Before you make a cherry liqueur, you need to prepare the berry in a special way. After touching cherries and removing their pedicels, nibble each of the berries or neatly cut to expose the bone and part of the pulp, which in the future will give a pronounced taste. Prepared cherries pour into enameled dishes and cover with a layer of sugar. Without stirring the contents of jars, pour vodka into them and cover them with lids. Leave the cherry liqueur in the dark and cool for 3 months, and at the end of the period, gently strain it through the gauze slice.
Cherry liqueur with cherry leaves - recipe
Add the finished product even more cherry flavor, if you diversify its composition, not only fruits, but also cherry leaves. We decided to go further and put cherry leaves into a jar and mint leaves.
Ingredients:
- cherry - 590 g;
- cherry leaves - 7 pieces;
- twigs of mint - 2 pcs .;
- sugar - 145 g;
- vodka - 520 ml.
Preparation
The preparation of cherry liqueur at home begins with the cleaning of berries from the stone. After all the bones are removed, the cherry pulp is kneaded, and a part of the bones (about a dozen) are crushed and transferred to a pouch of gauze. Cherry pulp is mixed with sugar, leaves of cherry and mint, then poured vodka and leave the liquor infused, pre-tightly closed. The first week of insisting the bank with the liquor should be held in the sun, after which it is transferred to the cool for another month. After completing the infusion, the drink is filtered.
Cherry liqueur at home without vodka
An alternative to vodka can be a quality moonshine. The proportions of this recipe can be easily remembered: for 1 kg of cherries should take 1 kg of sugar and 1.5 liters of alcohol diluted to 40 degrees.
Peeled cherry pulp from the bones in the jar. For the fragrance, a part of the bones can also be broken, placed in a gauze pouch and left in a container with a cherry. Cook the sugar syrup, diluting the sugar in 0.5 liters of boiling water. Add the cooled syrup to the jar, then pour the alcohol and close the container. The drink is kept for a couple of months in a cool.
Fast cherry liqueur at home
The speed of cooking is not the main advantage of domestic liqueurs.
Ingredients:
- vodka - 230 ml;
- cognac - 440 ml;
- sugar syrup - 135 ml;
- cherry - 540 g.
Preparation
Lightly press the berries to break the integrity of the pulp and expose the bone. Fill cherries with sugar syrup and a mixture of cognac and vodka, then leave everything to stand for a week in the sun. Ready liqueur soak in the cold for a couple of days, filter and try.