There are many methods for processing cherries - juices, compotes, liquors. A separate place among alcoholic beverages is cherry liqueur. This is a delicious sweet alcoholic drink that is easy to make at home. Further in the article are the best recipes for an alcoholic drink with step-by-step instructions.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
The main ingredient, cherries, is washed and dried before use. Berries relieve the stalk. The bones are left or removed depending on the requirements of the recipe. For cooking, you need fresh or frozen cherries - in the second case, you can pre-freeze them or buy the finished product in ice cream.
Cherry Liqueur Recipes
In culinary practice, there are many ways to make cherry liquor at home. The drink is prepared with the addition of alcohol - more often vodka, alcohol or moonshine, sometimes cognac.
Did you know? The first liqueurs were prepared by alchemists and doctors of the Middle Ages. In those days, a similar drink was called the "elixir of life."
To make the liquor fragrant, spices, cherry leaves or currants are added at the cooking stage. Below are the best, proven recipes of cherry liqueur - classic, from frozen cherry, on cherry pits and leaves, with spices, a stumble drink and a vodka recipe.
Classic vodka recipe
5 bottles of 0.5 l each 50 minutes
Energy value per 100 g:
- Pure pure pitted cherries in a saucepan, fill with water and boil.
- Add sugar, lemon and vanilla sugar.
- Boil the mixture for 5-7 minutes.
- Remove from heat and refrigerate.
- Strain the resulting red thick syrup through a sieve, grinding the fruits.
- Add vodka to the syrup, mix.
- Pour liquor into glass bottles with screw caps, such as cognac.
Important! It is recommended that you keep the alcoholic beverage in the freezer for 30 minutes before use.
Frozen Cherry
1 can for 2 l 50 minutes
pitted frozen cherries
400 g
Energy value per 100 g:
Place the cherries in a large saucepan and mash with a pusher.
Pour the berries with alcohol.
Pour sugar and water into a separate container, put on a small fire. Stir the water until the sugar has dissolved and the solution will not have the consistency of syrup. Pour the sugar syrup to the berries in alcohol.
Leave the tincture for 5-6 hours until it cools completely.
After insisting, pour the drink into a jar and seal it tightly. You can drink liquor 1 month after manufacture.
Place the cherries in a large saucepan and mash with a pusher.
Pour the berries with alcohol.
Pour sugar and water into a separate container, put on a small fire. Stir the water until the sugar has dissolved and the solution will not have the consistency of syrup. Pour the sugar syrup to the berries in alcohol.
Leave the tincture for 5-6 hours until it cools completely.
After insisting, pour the drink into a jar and seal it tightly. You can drink liquor 1 month after manufacture.Video recipe
On cherry pits and leaves
2 cans of 3 liters for 2 hours
cherry leaves
0.5 L or 200 pcs.
Energy value per 100 g:
Leaves and cherries in a saucepan.
Pour the contents of the pan with water and boil.
After boiling, boil the berries and leaves for 15 minutes.
Strain the cherry broth in another pan through a sieve.
Add sugar to the broth and bring to a boil.
When the sugar has dissolved, turn off the heat and let the syrup cool.
Pour vodka into the cooled syrup.
Pour the finished liquor into banks and leave to insist for 3-4 weeks.
Leaves and cherries in a saucepan.
Pour the contents of the pan with water and boil.
After boiling, boil the berries and leaves for 15 minutes.
Strain the cherry broth in another pan through a sieve.
Add sugar to the broth and bring to a boil.
When the sugar has dissolved, turn off the heat and let the syrup cool.
Pour vodka into the cooled syrup.
Pour the finished liquor into banks and leave to insist for 3-4 weeks.Important! The authors of the recipe indicate that the full taste of the drink is revealed after a year of infusion.
Video recipe
On cherry pits and leaves
With spices
2 cans of 1.5 l each 60 minutes
Energy value per 100 g:
Pour the cherries in a jar and gently crush with a rolling pin.
Add sugar to the berries.
Add cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and vanilla sugar to the ingredients, mix.
Close the jar tightly with a lid and leave to insist for 7–9 days in the sun.
After insisting, add alcohol to the container, mix.
Close the lid again and leave the liquor to stand for 14 days in a dark place.
Strain the drink through cheesecloth into another can.
Before the first use, leave the liqueur infused for 5 days.
Pour the cherries in a jar and gently crush with a rolling pin.
Add sugar to the berries.
Add cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and vanilla sugar to the ingredients, mix.
Close the jar tightly with a lid and leave to insist for 7–9 days in the sun.
After insisting, add alcohol to the container, mix.
Close the lid again and leave the liquor to stand for 14 days in a dark place.
Strain the drink through cheesecloth into another can.
Before the first use, leave the liqueur infused for 5 days.Video recipe
Spotkach
1 can for 2 l30 minutes
Energy value per 100 g:
- Peel the berries and put them in a jar.
- Add sugar to the berries and mash.
- When the fruit has started juice, add cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon.
- Pour vodka into the mixture.
- Pull a rubber glove over the neck of the can, pierce it with a needle.
- Move the container to a dark warm place to roam for 3 months.
On vodka
1 can for 1 liter15 minutes
Energy value per 100 g:
- Cut the fruits with seeds with a knife at the top.
- Put the berries in a liter jar.
- Sprinkle cherries with sugar, mash.
- Pour vodka into the ingredients.
- Cover the jar with a lid and place in a warm, dark place for 3 months.
- After the specified period, strain the drink and pour into the bottle.
Basic rules for use
The drink is consumed after sediment accumulates at the bottom. In each recipe, the exposure time is different. Liquor is drunk moderately, like a dessert drink. Variations of consumption are diverse - with water, ice, in cocktails. Often liqueurs are served with tea or coffee, or as a digestif - a drink after a meal.
Did you know? The most famous cherry liqueur is Amaretto. This is an Italian drink, which in addition to cherries must include almonds or apricot kernels.
Making cherry liqueur at home is easy enough. This is a simple drink, to create which you do not need many specific ingredients. The main condition is the quality preparation of the components and the exposure of the finished product. If you follow the rules of manufacture, the liqueur in the end is tasty and fragrant.
