Cranberry tincture is a fairly popular alcoholic beverage. It can be found in many places of recreation and communication, and if desired, it is quite possible to cook it yourself at home. Let's see how.

The classic recipe for cranberry tincture on vodka

Cranberry tincture on vodka is perhaps the most common recipe. Despite the fact that the drink contains vodka, it still has some useful properties due to the berry.

Required Products:

  • two large spoons of sugar;
  • 0.1 liter of water;
  • a pound of fresh cranberries;
  • liter of vodka.

Cooking process:

  1. Sort all the berries well, among them should not be spoiled, then rinse under cool water and place in a three-liter jar.
  2. Using any improvised means, crush the cranberries to a slurry state, mix with the indicated amount of vodka, cover the container with a lid and shake it very carefully for several minutes.
  3. Leave the future drink infused for two weeks. The temperature in the room should be no more than 25 degrees.
  4. When the allotted time passes, the tincture must be filtered, mixed with sugar syrup and left for another two days.
  5. Sugar syrup is prepared as usual: sugar is placed in hot water and boiled for about three minutes after boiling.

How to make a drink on alcohol

Alcohol tincture is another cooking option. Alcohol will need to be diluted so that its strength is not more than 45 degrees.

Required Products:

  • half a liter of alcohol;
  • 0.3 kg cranberries;
  • three large spoons of sugar.

Cooking process:

  1. We sort the cranberries, wash them well and grind them using a meat grinder or a blender.
  2. Transfer the mass to a container in which you will insist the drink mixed with alcohol.It must be diluted slightly to lower the degree.
  3. Put sugar there, close the container tightly and leave for 14 days to infuse, then strain and let it stand for a couple more days, but not more than a week.

Moonshine cranberry tincture

Cranberry tincture on moonshine is considered especially delicious and rich. For cooking, take only smooth, beautiful and ripe berries.

Required Products:

  • a glass of moonshine;
  • a glass of sugar;
  • about 300 grams of cranberries.

Cooking process:

  1. To make the drink even better, slightly scald the berries with boiling water before starting the preparation. If cracks suddenly form on the surface, then it’s okay, it should be so. Remove excess fluid after two minutes.
  2. Combine the berry with the indicated amount of sugar and grind in any convenient way to the state of mashed potatoes.
  3. Add moonshine to this mass, cover the container and leave it for at least 20 hours.
  4. When the allotted time has passed, add sugar there, put on the stove and heat until it dissolves. Please note that it is not necessary to bring to a boil.
  5. Using a sieve or gauze, strain what happened into a container in which the drink will be constantly stored, and let it brew one more day before use.

The fastest way to cook

If there is no time and desire to bother and cook for a long time, then you can make a tincture according to a quick recipe. But, this method leads to the fact that the berry loses most of its beneficial properties.

Required Products:

  • 700 milliliters of vodka;
  • about 300 grams of cranberries.

Cooking process:

  1. Well-selected berries must be poured with boiling water, allowed to stand for a minute and remove excess liquid, and then transferred to a container
  2. In any convenient way, carefully crush the whole cranberries to a homogeneous mass.
  3. Pour the resulting mixture with the indicated amount of vodka, and leave for literally three hours.
  4. With the help of several layers of gauze or a special filter, strain the drink, dilute a little with warm water and can be served.

How to store cranberry tincture

If you have prepared a lot of delicious drink, you drank some and do not know what to do with what is left? It can be stored for the next convenient occasion.

But so that the tincture does not deteriorate, you need to know how to store it correctly.

  • You can’t hold the drink for too long, a maximum of a year and only in the refrigerator. Immediately after cooking, it must be bottled and that which has not been drunk removed in a cool place.
  • It was noted that the best taste qualities of tinctures are revealed only two months after straining.

Health Features

Since the composition of the drink includes a berry that has healing properties, the drink can be used to treat certain diseases, provided that the measure is followed.

  • Such tincture is widely used for diseases of the genitourinary system, especially for cystitis and urethritis. It helps in this case due to the proanthocyanides that make up the composition, which prevent the bacteria from attaching and remaining in the body. If cystitis is not treated, then it can lead to kidney disease, so women are especially recommended to take tincture and then it will be possible to forget about this problem forever.
  • With the help of sticking, you can lower the level of bad cholesterol. It has a positive effect on the cardiovascular system, prevents the appearance of plaques, heart attack, and also promotes a speedy recovery after a stroke.
  • Due to the mild diuretic effect, excess fluid can be removed from the body.
  • The drink calms, lowers eye pressure, improves metabolic processes and all this is due to the large amount of vitamin C.
  • In the composition of cranberries, fiber is also present, which helps to cleanse the body, removes harmful substances, toxins, toxins.
  • It also improves digestion, increases appetite, produces gastric juice and kills various intestinal microbes.
  • Another healing property is a decrease in blood sugar, which is why it is highly recommended for people with diabetes, prolonging their life and improving their general condition.

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