A wonderful remedy and just a pleasant alcoholic drink - homemade plum tincture. Tasty and fragrant liquid can slowly sip long winter evenings, recalling the hot summer. And one of its advantages is that it’s not difficult to make such a drink.
The useful plum tincture
Do not think that the tincture made from vodka and plums is just an alcoholic drink. In this case, alcohol is a solvent that extracts all its beneficial substances from the fetus.
Did you know? In nature, there is no wild plum. This culture appeared around the beginning of our era from the crossing of thorns and plums. Both of these plants live well in their natural environment, but not plum.
And it does not just take it away, but preserves and preserves them, since alcohol is the first natural preservative. For this reason, vitamins and minerals are stored in it for quite a long time.
The composition of homemade tincture
Alcohol plum tincture contains such substances:
- vitamins A, C, B and P;
- pectins;
- tannins;
- organic acids;
- Sahara;
- micro- and macronutrients (calcium (Ca), sodium (Na), phosphorus (P), iron (Fe), zinc (Zn)).
It will be interesting for you to read in more detail about the variety and cultivation of such plum varieties as: homemade, Hungarian, Chinese, peach, durnos and a hybrid of a sharafuga.
The presence of additional elements depends on what the drain has been insisting on. There may be substances from the composition, for example, moonshine, or those that were formed as a result of interaction with them.
Product Benefit
Eating fresh plums has a beneficial effect on health in general, and helps with such diseases in particular:
- arterial hypertension;
- gastrointestinal problems of various etiologies;
- liver disease;
- diseases associated with nerves;
- joint diseases.
Important! A few eaten from the evening plums in the morning will have a laxative effect. In the same way acts prunes. As a laxative, these remedies are much better than many industrial drugs.
Plum tincture, in addition to all the above qualities, has a therapeutic effect on the cardiovascular system, organs of vision and bone tissue.
Harm and contraindications of plum tincture
It is necessary to limit or not to use tincture in such cases:
- liver disease;
- increased acidity;
- diarrhea;
- diabetes;
- idiosyncrasy and allergies.
How to cook plum tincture on vodka: a simple step by step recipe
Prepare a healthy natural drink at home is not difficult. Follow the simple recommendations, and in a few weeks you will receive a wonderful medicine, which, in addition, you can please the guests.
What plums are suitable for cooking
You can make a drink from plums of any kind and color. But it is better to take the fruits of these varieties: "Renklod", "Hungarian", "Mirabel." A good option is Canadian plum or Egg. Fruits should not be overripe, tainted or moldy. Need a drain commodity maturity and good quality.
From the plum, you can create a variety of blanks that will provide the missing vitamins. We recommend to learn what can be cooked from the plum for the winter, including how you can: pickle, make jam, cook compote, make plum wine and make prunes.
Ingredient list
For the simplest recipe, we need:
- plum - 2 kg;
- vodka - 1 l.
Step by Step Cooking Process
- It is not necessary to wash the plums, dry them (to avoid turbidity, cut and separate from the stone), pour into the jar.
- Pour the fruit of vodka and put in a dark place for 40-45 days, occasionally taking and shaking the jar.
- After 1.5 months, filter and pour into the bottle.
Video: how to make plum liqueur on vodka
Tincture on plum: recipes
Below are a few simple recipes where you can prepare a tasty and, most importantly, healthy drink at home:
Sweet recipe
Ingredients:
- plum - 1.5 kg;
- sugar - 0.5 kg;
- vodka - 0.5 l.
Did you know? Strong drink from fermented plum juice is of tremendous popularity in Eastern Europe. It is called plum, and plum, and plum raki. In Romania - palinka or tsuik.
The cooking procedure is as follows:
- Wash the plum, dry it, and gently, so as not to mash it, put it in the bottle.
- Pour the fruit of vodka and put in a dark place for 45 days.
- After 1.5 months, the resulting tincture is drained, leaving the drain in the bottle.
- Add sugar or syrup to the remaining fruits after the infusion (400 g per 0.5 l of water), and leave for another 30 days.
- After that, strain and mix with tincture.
The drink is ready to be consumed, but it will be better if it reaches a cool place for six months.
Strong recipe
If you want to get a strong tincture, this recipe is for you.
Ingredients:
- plum - 2 kg;
- alcohol 96% - 0.2 l;
- sugar - 0.5 kg.
- Wash and dry the drain. Remove the bones, and wipe the flesh in a puree, so as to remove the peel.
- Mix the puree with alcohol and place in a dark place, periodically pulling and mixing.
- After 30 days, strain the drink and pour into the bottle.
The bones can later be used to make homemade Amaretto-style liquor.
Did you know? Outside of Eastern Europe, this drink has gained popularity thanks to Jewish immigrants. The fact is that alcoholic drinks obtained from cereals on Pesach are non-kosher, and plum brandy corresponds to religious traditions.
Prune Recipe
A great option - tincture on prunes. First you need to prepare the following ingredients:
- prunes - 1 cup;
- alcohol 70% - 1 liter;
- sugar syrup - 0.5 cups.
- All ingredients are mixed in a 2 l glass jar.
- Remove tincture for 15-20 days in a dark place, from time to time reaching for and shaking it.
- After the indicated time, strain the drink and pour it into suitable bottles.
Tincture prunes accept:
- to normalize the process of digestion;
- to normalize the endocrine processes of the body;
- with colds, acute respiratory viral infections, infectious diseases.
Product Storage Rules
If you did everything correctly and did not use alcohol-containing products of dubious origin, your drink may stand in a cool place (cellar, refrigerator) for at least two years.
Keep it in a dark place, away from children.
Important! Pectin and fiber, contained in large quantities in plums, bind toxins in the intestine and remove them from the body. In the same way, these fruits normalize cholesterol.
How and with what to drink plum tincture
The drink belongs to the strong dessert liqueurs. Depending on the sugar content, such drinks are drunk or in pure form during dinner (without sugar or with a low content), or after dinner, like all digestives, as a dessert.
It will not be superfluous to treat your friends who are frozen after a winter walk during the evening tea drinking, adding a small glass to the tea.
You can serve to ice cream or coffee, any other sweet dessert that will not obscure or interrupt the taste of the drink (cakes, pastries). Sweet drink will give a piquant touch to the taste of many cocktails, it will be well combined with whipped cream. Unsweetened goes well with duck or game. And, of course, the classic version is cheese and fruit.
Also read how to make tincture on vodka, moonshine or alcohol from: feijoa, black currant, lilac, strawberry and apple.
The famous words of the famous alchemist and physician of the Renaissance Paracelsus are attributed: "Everything is medicine, and all poison, only in quantity." In our case, they come in handy. You have prepared a wonderful homemade drink, from simple, well-known components. And how to use it depends on what it will bring you - benefit or harm.