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Plum liqueur: 3 best recipes for home.

Remember the old riddle: "The branches hanging balls, turned blue from the heat?».

So, it's about plum, which is popular in our country, stone fruit.

While some called plum berry, Yet it is not so.

Plum trees grow widely in southern Ukraine, in central, Caucasus. In a rare summer resident on the site dedicated to grow a couple of plum trees.

But even in the absence of giving plum can buy very inexpensive market, a fruit and vegetable stall or shop.

With plums prepare various compotes, juices, wine, Jemmy, filling for pies, souffle, they want, lozenge.

Do this drupes facials and body, used for anemia, thrombosis, high pressure, decline in immunity and digestive problems.

In plums are vitamins (BUT, AT, WITH, E), minerals (potassium, phosphorus, sulfur, sodium, magnesium, silicon), making these fruits welcome at any table.

In addition to these treats made from plums still fragrant and tasty tincture to brew, vodka, alcohol, cognac.

If as a strong drink taken moonshine, better pay attention to brew fruit, because diabetes less pleasant smells.

1. Choice of plums for infusion
2. The classic recipe of tincture of plums
3. Recipe of sweet plum liqueur
4. Recipe plum tincture on alcohol and vodka with honey

Choice of plums for infusion

Plums suitable for infusion as early, and late. Sort them is not so important, but better to choose sweet or sour-sweet.

The most attractive for infusions find varieties record, Ugorka, Honey, Anna Shpet, Chinese, Mirabel etc..

Berry tincture suitable for mature, no trace of damage, are not picked from the ground after a rain or wind.

Term focus on collecting plum harvest should be not so much the color of the skin, as for soft fruit.

When the touch cream on the tree will be as resilient, as soft (quickly restore shape after clicking on them), then, it is time to collect.

in addition, to stalk ripe plums should stay uncertain, rocking, then they must break.

Even when the crop is harvested, need to sort plums, leaving ripe for infusion, getting rid of immature, overripe and wormy.

The classic recipe of tincture of plums

Tincture for this recipe as strong (no more than 30 C).

By the way, after, as plums give the drink its flavor and taste, You can not throw them, and used for filling and decorating cakes and pastries.

And the "drunken" plums come out delicious candy, which can be submitted until plum liqueur.

This will require a few bars of chocolate to melt in a water bath, every dip in hot cream weight.

Then remove the plum, putting on waxed paper, give the chocolate harden.

Ingredients

• Сливи – 0,5 kg;
• Міцний алкоголь – 1 liter.

preparation

1. Plums bust, wash well. If desired, they can be separated from the bones or leave intact. If plums are subjected to treatment, beverage acquire small turbidity;
2. Share plums in a convenient size packaging, Gulf of alcohol so, to cover fruit drink;
3. Firmly tighten container and put in a dark place (at room temperature) on 1,5 months;
4. After infusion time allotted for beverage filter, and you can make a first tasting.

You can make some adjustments to the recipe, adding alcohol and plums, example, lemon balm or mint leaves, cloves, cinnamon, vanilla sticks, orange peel.

Recipe of sweet plum liqueur

For lovers of sweet fruit liqueurs suitable recipe, which uses sugar.

Wherein said his number can be increased according to your taste.

Ingredients

• Сливи – 2 kg;
• spirits – 1 l;
• Цукор – 300 g.

preparation

1. Plums bust, Wash and cut along, to remove bone;
2. In the container layer make plums, and then a layer of sugar. Repeat layers repeatedly, until ingredients are gone;
3. Tara close and send in sugar plums on the windowsill (sunny place) on 3 days;
4. Every day, shake the container, To plums gave as much juice;
5. After finishing 3 days to pour plum liquor, cover and carry on in a dark room 1,5 months;
6. Weekly shake bottles containing. after the 1,5 good months filtered through gauze;
7. Make a tap on the finished tincture of plums in the bottle, cork and store in a cool close 2 years.

Recipe plum tincture on alcohol and vodka with honey

In this recipe there are drain pipes. They add a nice tart flavor beverage.

And while some fans home infusions strongly against the presence of pitted plums because, that it contains prussic acid (0,96%), боятися не варто – така мала кількість речовини не зашкодить здоров’ю.

But if you want to you can refuse pits.

Ingredients

• Слива – 1,5 kg;
• Кісточки – 15 PC .;
• Alcohol (96%) – 1 l;
• Горілка – 1 l;
• honey – 500 g.

preparation

1. Plums wash, cut and remove bone. The proper amount of seed put in a gauze bag;
2. At the bottom of the glass container to put a bag of bones, top plum draw;
3. Pour fruit alcohol, cork containers and put in place to infuse month, where dark and cool;
4. In a month alcohol tincture filter (plums not throw), throw stones, pour the resulting solid liquid in a container of appropriate size and placed in a cool place;
5. Prospyrtovani plum draw back in a glass container, Pour honey and mix. Cork and put infuse 2 week, good brushing daily;
6. 2 weeks ago, filtered honey plum, merge the resulting syrup into a container of appropriate size (plums not throw);
7. Capacity with honey syrup send to the cool alcohol tinctures;
8. Storm put in a container, pour vodka, cork and put infuse month;
9. Vodka, plum infusion, Mix in the appropriate container with honey syrup and alcohol tinctures, prepared before;
10. Writing resulting beverage brew, example, in the cellar 6-12 months.