Stumbler: 7 recipes at home

Stumbler - a dessert drink whose preparation includes the joint boiling of a fruit and berry base, strong alcohol and sugar syrup.
It is worth noting that the stumbler loves experimenters. The recipes selected by Vzboltai are just a "lighthouse" to guide you when creating a new recipe formula.
Seasonal berry stumbler
Ingredients
Seasonal berries - 1 kg (cranberries, raspberries, currants, etc.).п.)
Sugar - 1 kg
Water - 900 ml
Vanillin - 3 small pods
Vodka - 750 ml
The method of preparation
Pick berries, wash, dry, mash with a spoon, put in a bag and let the juice drain.
Boil sugar syrup of water and sugar, pour in the juice, bring to a boil, remove from heat.
Pour in vodka that has been infused for 2 weeks on vanilla pods and stir well.
Then put the mixture on a small fire and, stirring all the time, heat until the liquid begins to evaporate, but do not bring to a boil.
Then the stumbler is cooled, bottled and tightly sealed with corks.
You can replace the vanilla pods with crumbled vanilla, in which case you need to choose the proportion yourself, depending on your taste preferences, but the main thing is not to overdo it, the vanilla should only give a subtle note, not interrupt the taste.
Spicy stumbler
Ingredients
Nutmeg - 10 g
Cinnamon, cloves and saffron - 5 g each
Vanilla - 20 g
Sugar - 500 g
Vodka - 500 ml
The method of preparation
Insist vodka on spices for 2 weeks, shaking daily.
Then strain and cook with sugar, but do not bring to a boil.
The drink is ready when all the sugar crystals have dissolved.
Filter the tincture through a cloth or cotton wool, pour into bottles and close tightly until needed.
Acacia stumbler
Ingredients
Acacia flowers - 100 g
Sugar - 300 g
Vodka or alcohol - 750 ml
Water - 2 glasses
The method of preparation
Collect the acacia flowers that have just blossomed, remove them from the clusters and place in a jar, sprinkle with sugar.
Cover the jar with a napkin and put it in a cool place for a day.
Then put the mixture on a sieve placed over a bowl and rinse through the sieve with 2 cups of clean water.
Add alcohol or vodka to the resulting liquid and stir until all the sugar is dissolved, then filter and bottle.
Stumbler made from lemons
Ingredients
Lemons - 10 pieces.
Coriander and cloves - 10 g each
Vodka - 1.5 liters
Sugar - 1.2 kg
Water - 1 liter
The method of preparation
Wash the lemons, scald them with boiling water, cut them into pieces with the zest, add chopped coriander and cloves.
Pour vodka over everything and leave for 7 days.
Then make a tincture of sugar and water boil a thick syrup and pour the strained tincture over it.
Mix everything thoroughly, strain through cotton and bottle.
Anise stumbler
Ingredients
Fresh anise - 50 g (3 times less than dried)
Vodka - 1.5 liters
Sugar - 2 kg
Water - 2 liters
Coriander, cinnamon, cloves - 1 g each
Zest of one orange
Method of preparation
Fresh anise is thoroughly washed and dried in the shade, poured onto a sheet of paper, crushed with a wooden rolling pin, put in an enamel bowl, pour in vodka, let stand for 12 hours and strain.
Prepare separately sugar syrup. When the syrup boils, remove the resulting foam, remove from heat and mix with vodka anise infusion, pour into a bottle, add 1 g of coriander, cinnamon, cloves and zest from one orange.
The tincture is kept for 5 days, shaking the contents daily.
After 5 days, the mixture is filtered, bottled and corked well.
It is recommended to let the stumbler stand for about 6 months, but after a week the drink is ready to drink.
Plum stumbler
Ingredients
Fresh plum - 2 kg
Sugar - 800 g
Water - 1 liter
Vodka - 1 liter
Cooking method
Pour the plums into a container, pour a liter of water and add sugar.
Bring the container to a boil, then simmer over low heat for 30 minutes until the skin on the fruit begins to curl, if this happens earlier, go to step 2.
Now you need to pour vodka into the container without removing the dishes from the fire. Heat the stumbler to the first boiling bubbles and remove from the stove. Cover the container with a lid and let it brew for a couple of hours until warm.
Strain the mixture and squeeze the plums into a new, clean container.
Pour the stumbler into bottles, close the lid tightly and leave for at least 4 weeks.
Stumbling block made from unripe nuts
Ingredients
Unripe walnuts - 500 g
Sugar - 400 g
Cloves - 3 buds
Cinnamon - ½ tsp.
Vodka - 800 ml of vodka
20 cherry or 10 peach pits
Method of preparation
Cut unripe walnuts into 4 pieces, pour vodka over them, leave them in the sun for a month.
Then strain, dissolve sugar in the tincture, add seeds, cloves and cinnamon, stir and leave for a week, shaking daily.
Afterwards, strain, filter and bottle the stumbler.
Update: 04.08.2018
Category: Other alcohol