Honeyberries liqueur: 3 recipes at home + cooking nuances

Honeyberries are equivalent to chokecherries in terms of their beneficial properties. However, you should be careful with wild varieties, as 90% of them are poisonous plants.

Find out the recipe Honeyberries tinctures.

Tips before you start

1. Use the fruits of home-bred honeyberries. To date, there are about 17 varieties of them.

2. Edible varieties grow exclusively as a shrub, while wild poisonous plants are also ampelous/climbing.

3. Pay attention to the color and shape of the berries. The edible berry has an elongated oblong shape, and its color is similar to blueberries. Poisonous berries are colored dark red, orange, black, and have a spherical shape. This berry is also popularly called "wolf berry".

4. A bush with poisonous berries can be found in the forest.

Now let's get straight to the recipes. We have selected the most common options, each of which has a different cooking technique. And if you don't have time, but really want to try homemade honeyberries liqueur, we suggest entrusting this process to your slow cooker (recipe 3).

A simple recipe for honeyberries liqueur

This recipe should result in a liqueur with a rich berry flavor and a deep dark color (the shade of the drink depends on the type of berry you choose).

If you want to increase the strength of the drink, then at the last stage you can dilute the liquor with vodka, and to reduce the sweetness - with tonic.

Ingredients

1. Fresh honeyberries berries - 1 kg

2. Vodka - 1 liter

3. Granulated sugar - 1 kg

The method of preparation

1. Berries should be carefully sorted, washed and dried thoroughly with paper towels. Sterilize the glass container and then cool it.

2. Pour the prepared berries into a jar, add sugar, pour vodka and mix everything thoroughly.

3. Let stand for 45 days at room temperature without daylight. Do not forget to shake the contents of the container every 3-5 days.

4. After 1.5 months, the liquor must be filtered through cheesecloth (squeeze the berries a little) and bottled.

5. Then leave for 1-2 weeks so that the entire suspension settles to the bottom of the bottle. Then gently drain the liquor from the sediment.

6. Now let's move on to filtration. If you want to get a drink with maximum transparency, you need to carefully filter it not 2 or even 3 times. You can also stop at several filtrations, and just shake the liquor before drinking.

7. Store the finished product in a cool, dark place.

Fragrant spicy liqueur from honeyberries juice

Ingredients

1. Freshly squeezed honeyberries berry juice - 750 ml

2. Vodka - 1 liter

3. Granulated sugar - 1 kg

4. Cloves, mint, tea rose petals - to taste.

The method of preparation

1. To juice honeyberries, prepare the berries according to step 1 of the first recipe, and then use a juicer or pass the fruit through a meat grinder, and then squeeze the juice with cheesecloth.

2. Make a syrup from juice and sugar (it is better to grind 1 kg of sugar into powder) with the addition of spices. The syrup should be brought to a boil twice.

3. Then cool the finished syrup to a comfortable temperature (36.6-37 degrees), strain it and mix it with the alcoholic base.

4. Bottle the drink and leave it for a day at room temperature.

5. Honeyberries liqueur is ready and you can start tasting. But to enhance the flavor of the drink, it must be kept for at least 1.5 months in a cool, dark place.

6. The strength of the finished product is about 20 degrees.

Honeyberries liqueur in the slow cooker

This recipe is probably the most unusual of all the ones offered, as it is easy to prepare.

At the end you should get a drink of almost black color with a strength of about 30 degrees.

Ingredients

1. Honeyberries berries - 400 g

2. Granulated sugar - 300 g

3. Vodka - 1 liter

The method of preparation

1. Honeyberries berries must be washed and dried.

2. Then pour all the ingredients (including vodka) into the multicooker bowl and set the "Cooking" mode for 10 minutes.

3. Then switch to the "Heating" mode and leave for 12-15 hours.

4. After the specified time, the liquor must be filtered and filtered.

5. The finished product is bottled and after cooling, you can start tasting.

6. Aging is welcome.

Update: 21.01.2018

Category: Liqueurs and Tinctures