Peach liqueur: 5 recipes at home

If you like alcohol that takes your soul, we recommend that you start making peach liqueur immediately. This drink, which has a stunning aroma and exquisite taste, can brighten up even the gloomiest autumn evenings.

The main thing is that the fruit should be ripe and fragrant, and the alcohol base (in most cases, neutral alcohol: vodka or a 45-degree water-alcohol solution) should be of high quality.

Also made from peach: wine, liqueurs and tinctures, schnapps, syrup

A simple recipe for peach liqueur

Pay special attention to the method of peeling the fruit. It will be useful for most of the recipes below.

List of ingredients

1. Peaches - 1 kg

2. Neutral alcohol (vodka/alcohol) - 1 liter

3. Water - 1-1.5 liters

4. Sugar - 350 g

5. Cinnamon (optional) - 1 stick

6. Star anise (optional) - 1 piece

Method of preparation

1. Pit the peaches and pour a liter or one and a half liters of boiling water for 2-3 minutes. Then, pour the boiling water into a free, clean bowl and cool the fruit in cold water, which will allow you to easily peel it with a kitchen knife.

2. Puree the peeled fruit using a blender or a regular masher.

3. Pour 200 g of previously used boiling water into a saucepan, put it on the fire, add sugar and cook a simple syrup (all the remaining water can be poured out).

4. Cool the syrup to room temperature and pour it into the fruit mass.

5. Squeeze the resulting substance hard through cheesecloth into a glass jar, then add alcohol and spices to the same container.

6. Close the jar tightly, shake it well and put it in a dark, warm place for a couple of weeks.

7. After the specified period, strain the liquid twice through a thick filter, pour into a clean glass dish, close it tightly and return it to a dark, warm room for another 7-10 days (if the future drink does not seem sweet enough or too strong, you can add a little more syrup to it in advance).

8. If necessary, filter the finished liqueur again, bottle it and store it in a dark (preferably cool) place.

Peach liqueur with kernels

To give the drink a more almond flavor, you can add a dozen apricot kernels to the list of ingredients.

List of ingredients

1. Peaches - 700-800 g

2. Neutral alcohol (vodka/alcohol) - 500 ml

3. Water - 200 ml

4. Sugar - 200 g

The method of preparation

1. Peel the fruit (see. recipe #1).

2. Cut the peaches in half, remove the pits and use a hammer or nutcracker to extract the kernels.

3. Pour boiling water over the kernels for a few minutes and free them from the top cover (if using apricot kernels, do the same with them).

4. Cut the peach halves into medium-sized pieces, put them in a jar, add the kernels and pour alcohol over it all (the alcohol should completely cover the rest of the container).

5. Leave the tightly closed container in a dark, warm place for 15 days.

6. After the specified period, prepare from water and sugar simple syrup.

7. While the syrup is cooling to room temperature, decant the liquid contained in the jar and squeeze the pulp into it (the remaining peach pomace can either be eaten or used for the confectionery layer).

8. Mix the peach infusion with the cooled syrup, pour into a clean container, close it again and keep it in a cool, dark place for a week.

9. Before bottling, the drink can be run through a filter again if desired.

Cocktail peach liqueur with zest

It is said that this drink was created to make the legendary Sex on the Beach cocktail.

List of ingredients

1. Peaches - 800 g

2. Neutral alcohol (vodka/alcohol) - 300 ml

3. Ordinary brandy or cognac - 200 ml

4. Water - 200 ml

5. Sugar - 200 g

6. Orange zest - 1 tsp. spoon

7. Lemon zest - 1 hour. spoon

The method of preparation

1. Cut the washed, unpeeled peaches in half and pit them.

2. Cut the fruit into thin slices, put them in a jar, and then add the whole pits and zest.

3. Boil from sugar and water simple syrup.

4. Let the solution cool, then add it to the fruit and zest.

5. Fill the jar to the brim with alcohol, close it tightly, shake it well and send it to a cool, dark room for a month.

6. Next, strain the liquid through a thick cheesecloth, squeeze out the pulp well and return it to its original place in a closed jar.

7. After two weeks, drain the finished drink from the sediment, if necessary, pass it through a filter again, bottle it and seal it hermetically.

Bourbon peach liqueur: greetings from the American south

The bourbon used in the drink can be either factory or homemade.

List of ingredients

1. Peaches - 400 g

2. Bourbon - 1 л

3. Water - 100 ml

4. Sugar - 300 grams

5. Finely chopped cinnamon - ½ stick

6. Bitter almonds - 2 pieces

The method of preparation

1. Wash the unpeeled fruit well, remove the bones that are not needed in this recipe and cut into slices.

2. Put the sliced slices together with cinnamon, almonds and 200 grams of sugar in a suitable jar and pour corn syrup on top.

3. Leave the tightly closed container in a dark, warm place for a week.

4. Then, remove the amygdala from the jar, close it again and continue the infusion for another week.

5. After the specified period, cook from the remaining water and sugar simple syrup.

6. Allow the syrup to cool to room temperature, and meanwhile, filter the liquid from the jar and carefully squeeze the pulp into it.

7. Add the cooled syrup to the infusion, mix everything well, close the jar again, and put it in a cool, dark place for a week.

8. Remove the finished drink from the sediment, bottle it and store it until the first convenient occasion.

"Lazy peach cream liqueur

This drink is prepared very quickly. At the same time, it is advisable to post it on the same day.

List of ingredients

1. Peaches - 350-400 g

2. Ordinary brandy or cognac - 300-400 ml

3. Condensed milk - 100 ml

4. Cream - 100 ml

5. Regular milk - 60 ml

6. Vanilla sugar - 5 g

The method of preparation

1. Cut the peeled and pitted fruit into slices and grind in a blender.

2. Add alcohol without turning off the blender.

3. Add condensed milk, cream, milk and vanilla sugar without stopping stirring the substance.

4. Reduce speed to minimum and shake for another minute.

5. Keep the finished drink in the refrigerator for about half an hour before serving.

A little practical advice

If the assortment of peach liqueurs we offer seems insufficient to you, we recommend that you open our article on similar ones apricot drinks.

Just replace the orange fruits with their velvety relatives (at the rate of 750 g of peaches instead of 1 kg of apricots) and you will get an additional batch of original recipes for dessert peach alcohol.

At the same time, we leave the issue of peeling peaches to your discretion.

Update: 13.09.2017

Category: Liqueurs and Tinctures