Rosehip tincture at home: recipe
Useful properties
From ancient times the dog rose is known for its beneficial properties, it is used in the home to prevent colds. There are many medicines on sale with rose hips. It contains vitamin C and various bioactive substances.
At home, various tinctures are prepared from rose hips, decoctions, vitamin drinks and teas. It is combined with various herbs, berries and honey, however, the most effective healing properties have drinks with fruit on vodka or alcohol basis.
Rosehip tincture on vodka is useful for those, that in the process of cooking vitamins and nutrients do not disappear, contained in the fruit. That is why the drink is most often used on the basis of vodka and rose hips. There are various recipes for making tinctures at home.
Before you start cooking, you need to choose the right and competent fruit. You can use fresh or dried berries. However, and those, and others have their advantages and disadvantages. Fresh rose hips make the drink cloudy, therefore careful filtration is required, but fresh fruit makes the taste more pronounced, and the color is rich. Dried berries give the drink a pleasant note of dried fruit. Therefore, experienced moonshiners prefer to take fresh berries, but slightly subdued for several days.
Rosehip tincture with apple
We need:
Rosehip tincture
- rose hips - 400 city.
- apple - 1 PC.
- vodka - 0,5 l.
preparation:
- Cut the apple into small pieces and put in a jar with rose hips.
- Pour vodka, close tightly with a lid, shake the jar a couple of times, send for one month in a room without sunlight.
- The finished tincture is filtered, bottled, tightly closed.
- The aroma and color of the homemade drink is unusual, and the taste will please even the harshest critics.
Rosehip tincture on alcohol with coffee and orange
Ingredients:
- dog rose - 300 city.
- Orange (cedar) — 30 city.
- ground coffee - 0,5 h. l.
- alcohol - 0,5 l.
- sugar - 3 Art. l.
preparation:
- Peel an orange without a white peel, so that there is no bitterness in the tincture. Slightly dry.
- Combine the fruits in a jar, zest, coffee and sugar.
- Fill with alcohol and close tightly. Shake the jar several times and place for two weeks in a room without light.
Tincture, which is stored in the dark, has a more intense color.
- Filter the drink through cotton wool and gauze.
Rosehip tincture on alcohol comes out with good taste and wonderful aroma.
Some types of tinctures are used not only as a medicine, and as a holiday liqueur. It is offered with any dish: salads, hot dishes, meat and other delicious snacks.
Homemade tincture of moonshine
components:
- rose hips - 1 Art.
- sugar - 200 city.
- moonshine - 0,5 l.
preparation:
- Wash the fruit well and steam it slightly. Prepared berries are placed in a jar, we put sugar there, pour moonshine. Close the container tightly with a lid.
- We put the jar in a warm room without light for a month. At the end of the month the drink is filtered and bottled.
Such a tincture:
- increases immunity
- improves digestion
- improves appetite
- increases mental and physical performance
- is an effective remedy for beriberi
- has a choleretic effect
- relieves fatigue
- effective in the treatment of anemia.
So, rose hip tincture on vodka is a universal remedy. It is widely used in the treatment of various diseases.
When making this drink, you can use the root, flowers, leaflets, rose hips.
Like all drugs, this tincture has its own contraindications, however, there are not many of them. It is important to keep in mind the individual intolerance of any of the ingredients in these recipes.
