Liqueur made from pears: 4 recipes at home

Homemade pear liqueur, like the liqueur we talked about earlier, is easy to prepare. But due to certain features of this fruit, the process of maceration (infusion) takes a long time. For the drink to be enriched with the taste and aroma of a ripe pear, it may take five or even all 12 months, taking into account aging.

Also made from pears: liqueurs, cider, Calvados, syrup

Tips before you start

Pear liqueur is one of the few homemade drinks that allows you to experiment with the amount and types of alcohol. Combining and changing the proportions of one alcohol to another.

The most winning combinations are:

1. Food alcohol and cognac in a ratio of 50:50

2. Pure alcohol and fruit brandy in a ratio of 50:50

3. Alcohol and whiskey in a ratio of 50:50

4. Vodka and white rum in a ratio of 70:30

But all these proportions are conditional and you can experiment, combine and create something new.

Also, to improve the taste, you can replace part of the garden pear with game or sour apples.

Classic pear liqueur recipe

Ingredients

1. Ripe pears - 1 kg

2. Vodka - 500 ml

3. White sugar - 250 g

4. Water - 200 ml

The method of preparation

1. Remove the seeds from the washed pears, and then grate the pears on a fine grater (or grind them with a blender).

2. Transfer the pear puree to a glass container, pour in the alcohol base and leave to stand for 1 month in a sunny place.

3. After a month, strain the pear tincture and squeeze out the pulp.

4. Cooking basic sugar syrup.

5. After the syrup has cooled to room temperature, mix it with the tincture.

6. Pour the finished liqueur into bottles and leave it in a cool place for a week before tasting to stabilize the taste.

Pear liqueur with white rum

Ingredients

1. Ripe pears - 1 kg

2. White rum - 1 liter

3. Granulated sugar - 500 g

4. A small piece of ginger

The method of preparation

1. Wash the pears, core them and cut them into small pieces.

2. Put pear slices on the bottom of the glass jar, add white sugar, add finely chopped ginger and pour in white rum.

3. Insist the drink in a cool dark place for at least 1 month, but no longer than six months.

4. Strain the finished liqueur and pass it through a filter.

5. Then we bottle it and leave it to age in a cool place for 5-6 months.

Pear liqueur with spices and honey

Ingredients

1. Pears - 1 kg

2. Honey - 100 g

3. Food alcohol (70%) - 1 liter

4. Sugar - sand - 300-500 g

5. Lemon - 2 pieces.

6. Spices to taste: vanilla, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, star anise

The method of preparation

1. First, we need to prepare pears and lemons. Carefully remove the zest from the lemons and squeeze the juice separately into a bowl.

2. Peel and remove the seeds from half of the pears, and leave the other half with the skin, but remove the cores.

3. Put all the pears in a bowl with lemon juice and mix thoroughly so that each pear is soaked in lemon juice.

4. Then put the pears in a glass container, add lemon zest, spices, honey and pour the prepared alcohol.

5. Insist the liquor on a sunny windowsill for 5-6 months.

6. After this time, strain the drink into another container, and cover the pears with granulated sugar and leave for 2-3 weeks.

7. Once the sugar syrup is formed, strain it and mix it with the pear tincture and leave it to infuse for another 3 months.

8. Pass the finished liqueur through a filter and pour it into glass bottles.

9. Before tasting, let it "rest" for at least six months in a cool room.

Pear liqueur with three types of alcohol

Ingredients

1. Pears - 750 g

2. Food alcohol - 250 ml

3. Vodka - 250 ml

4. White rum - 100 ml

5. Water - 100 ml

6. Granulated sugar - 230 g

7. Cloves - 5 buds

8. Cardamom - 2 pieces.

9. Juice from 2 lemons

10. Cinnamon stick - 1 pc.

The method of preparation

1. Wash the pear, remove the seeds with the core and cut into slices.

2. Then pour all the pear pieces with lemon juice and pour them into a prepared jar.

3. Pour white sugar into the jar and leave it for 2-3 days on a sunny windowsill.

4. As soon as the pear syrup is formed, add spices, pour in water, vodka, food alcohol and transfer the container to a cool dark place for 3 months.

5. After the specified time, strain the tincture, pass through a filter and mix with white rum.

6. Pour the finished drink into bottles and leave it for another 3-6 months in a cool, dark place.

7. Then you can start tasting.

Update: 18.12.2017

Category: Liqueurs and Tinctures