Raspberry liqueur: 11 recipes at home
Raspberry liqueur (with and without vodka, alcohol and moonshine) has been a festive village table decoration for centuries. No wonder earthenware or ceramic dishes are still considered the ideal container for preparing many varieties of this drink. For example., It is in this syrup and only in this syrup that the liqueur is prepared, the recipe of which has come down to us from our great-great-great-grandmothers.
It is also made from raspberries: wine, tinctures, liqueurs, syrup
Raspberry liqueur with vodka
Let's start with the most popular recipe. It may not be the easiest, but it is time-tested.
Ingredients
Raspberries - 5 kg
Sugar - 1 kg
Vodka - 1.5 liters
Water - 1 liter
The method of preparation
Mash the picked and peeled berries lightly and place them in a glass bottle. Pour vodka in the same place, making sure that it covers the raspberries with a layer of 2-3 centimeters.
Cover the container with a thick cloth and put it in a warm room for a week.
Then drain the liquid, squeeze out the sediment, and then mix the latter with sugar and water in a suitable saucepan.
Boil the resulting mixture and keep it on low heat for 5 minutes, not forgetting to skim the foam. Cool the syrup prepared in this way to room temperature and mix with raspberry tincture.
Strain the result through cheesecloth, pour into clean glass containers and leave to mature in a cool, dark place for a month.
Filter the finished liqueur thoroughly, bottle it and store it at a temperature of 6-16 °C.
Raspberry liqueur on alcohol
Food alcohol diluted to a strength of 40-45 degrees can also serve as an excellent ingredient for your liqueur. As a matter of fact, you can easily replace the vodka from the previous recipe with it and, as they say, further - according to the text.
Frozen raspberry liqueur on moonshine
Not only fresh, but also frozen berries are suitable for making raspberry liqueur. In this case, it is recommended to use well-purified moonshine. The rich flavor of this core drink will serve as a great addition to a somewhat dried out frosting.
Ingredients
Frozen raspberries - 2.5 kg
Moonshine (45-50 degrees) - 500 ml
Sugar - 250 g
The method of preparation
Defrost the raspberries, put them in a bowl, cover with sugar and pour over the moonshine.
After an hour, mix the contents of the bowl thoroughly, mashing the berries.
Pour the resulting homogeneous mass into jars, tightly close or roll up and put in a dark place for a month.
After the specified period, the drink is filtered, bottled and waits for the right opportunity in your buffet.
Homemade raspberry liqueur according to an antique recipe
Absolutely magical recipe from the time of bread-and-butter manors and simple kitchen utensils.
Ingredients
Raspberries - 1 kg
Vodka - 500 ml
Sugar - 100-300 g
The method of preparation
Put the berries in a clay or ceramic pot, then add 250 ml of vodka.
Tie the neck of the pot with paper. Pierce the last one with a fork in several places and put the pot in the oven (of course, in the original it was a stove).
Keep the berries on low heat until they turn brown. Carefully drain the liquid through a colander, mix it with sugar and the remaining vodka, and then serve the drink to the table.
P.S. If the resulting liquor seems too strong, squeeze the juice from the berries remaining in the colander into it.
Raspberry liqueur without vodka
If you want to get a low-alcohol liqueur, feel free to give up both vodka and other spirits.
Ingredients
Raspberries - 2 kg
Sugar - 800 g
Water - 200 ml
The method of preparation
Put several layers of raspberries and sugar in a three-liter jar. Add water and mash the berries with a wooden rolling pin.
Provide the container with a pierced rubber medical glove or a lid with a water seal, and then put it in a warm, sunny place.
After waiting for the end of the fermentation process, strain the drink through cheesecloth, pour into a clean container, close the lid and keep it in a cool dark place for several days.
Then the finished drink is bottled and sent for storage in the cellar or in the refrigerator.
Raspberry jam liqueur with vodka
According to craftsmen, a very good drink is obtained from candied jam. The main thing is that it is not fermented.
Ingredients
Raspberry jam - 500 ml
Vodka - 1 liter
The method of preparation
Mix vodka with jam in a glass container, close the lid tightly and keep it in a dark place for a week.
Then strain the resulting substance several times through thick cheesecloth and you can pour the drink into glasses.
Quick raspberry liqueur
We offer you raspberry liqueur, the preparation of which will take a little more than a day.
Ingredients
Raspberries - according to the situation
Sugar - according to the situation
Vodka - according to the situation
The method of preparation
Put the sorted clean berries in strong heat-resistant bottles, cork them and place them in a bowl of cold water.
Put the basin on the fire, bring the water to a boil, then reduce the heat to a minimum and keep the berry on it for an hour and a half.
After the water has cooled down, strain the berry juice that has formed in the bottles through thick cheesecloth into a spacious bowl, where you mix it with vodka and sugar.
A liter of juice requires 200-400 ml of vodka and 100-300 g of sugar. Bottle the resulting liquid and leave it to mature for a day. That's actually all.
Black raspberry liqueur
Cumberland black raspberries, which have recently appeared in our area, are also great for all of the above liqueurs. The only thing is that, given its inherent sour taste, we would recommend increasing the amount of sugar in the drink by about a third.
How to make fermented raspberry liqueur
And finally, consider the situation in which raw raspberries rolled with sugar suddenly fermented. It is unpleasant, but by no means catastrophic. Decant the thick liquid that has formed in the jars and begin to shamanize the liquor.
Ingredients
Raspberry wort - 1 liter
Vodka - 1 liter
Vanilla sugar - 30 g
Method of preparation
Mix the wort with vodka and vanilla sugar in a glass container.
Close the container and put it in a dry, dark place for about a week.
Then, strain the finished drink through a thick cloth, pour it into bottles and seal it hermetically.
Folk raspberry
Ingredients
Raspberry juice - 2 cups
Sugar - 200 g
Vanilla sugar - 1 sachet
Lemon - 1 pc.
Water - 1/2 cup
Vodka - 500 ml
The method of preparation
Scald the lemon with boiling water and wipe it off, then remove all the zest and squeeze the juice of half a lemon.
Combine all the ingredients except vodka and raspberry juice in a saucepan and boil the syrup. Do not forget to remove the foam.
When the syrup has cooled, mix it with freshly squeezed raspberry juice and vodka, pour into a bottle, close and leave for a month.
Then filter the tincture, bottle and close tightly.
Raspberry liqueur in a 10-liter bottle
Ingredients
Fresh raspberries - 7 kg
Sugar - 2.5 kg
For repeated fermentation: 5 liters of water and 1.3 kg of sugar.
The method of preparation
Put the sorted raspberries in a colander, dip them three times in a bucket of water, let them drain, pour them into a large bottle, add sugar, tie the neck with gauze and put them in a warm place for 2-4 days.
As soon as signs of fermentation appear, remove the cheesecloth from the cylinder, install a water seal, transfer the bottle to a shaded part of the room and keep it under the water seal for 12-20 days until fermentation stops.
After fermentation, filter the liquor through cheesecloth and cotton wool placed in a funnel or colander. Then pour the liquor into bottles and cork.
To more fully extract the extractive substances, pour boiled water cooled to +35 degrees into the remaining pulp and leave for 2 days. Then drain the juice and squeeze out the pulp, and pour the resulting juice into a bottle, add sugar, install a water seal and leave for another 15-20 days.
At the end of fermentation, filter the resulting fermented juice through cheesecloth and cotton wool and bottle it.
Update: 21.06.2018
Category: Liqueurs and Tinctures