Almond tincture on moonshine. Moonshine on almonds

Fragrant almonds are actively used in cooking, because they are added to various dishes: desserts, pastries, salads and others. You can also infuse moonshine on almonds, which allows you to get a high-quality aromatic drink. Many perceive almonds as one of the varieties of a nut, but in fact this is not so, since it is a stone of one of the types of inedible plums. Moonshine on almonds is an alcoholic drink that should be prepared strictly according to the rules, since an excessive amount of seeds can hopelessly spoil the taste of alcohol.

Theory

There are two varieties of almonds. A fruit with a pronounced taste and aroma is called wild. The wild almond seed contains a large amount of amygdalin, which can be broken down into a list of components, including hydrocyanic acid. It is not recommended to infuse alcohol at home on wild almonds, since such a drink can be poisonous.

Moonshine on almonds

In cultivated almonds, amygdalin is found in small amounts in the form of traces. Such a bone can be safely used to infuse moonshine.

Recipes

Before considering moonshine recipes on almonds and proceeding with their implementation, you need to take care of the availability of high-quality almonds.

You can insist moonshine on almonds according to this recipe:

1. Take 1 liter of strong moonshine (50%), 5-7 nuts of peeled sweet almonds, 10 grams of black raisins, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 5 grams of oak chips. Important: some people believe that you can replace almonds with plum or apricot pits. In fact, these components of the fruit cannot be insisted on moonshine, since the drink can be poisonous.
2. First you need to take oak chips and pour them with a small amount of boiling water. After a day, the water can be drained from them.
3. The resulting water is added to moonshine, after which sugar or syrup from it is added to the workpiece and insisted for several hours.
4. After that, almonds and raisins are added to moonshine and water. The mixture is thoroughly shaken, the container is closed with a lid and the drink is infused at a temperature of 20 degrees for three weeks.
5. The resulting infusion is filtered through cheesecloth and again defended for a month.

The finished drink will have a pleasant tart almond flavor.

Having high-quality almonds and moonshine at home, you can prepare an analogue of the popular liquor called Amaretto. To obtain such a drink, you should take 0.75 liters of strong moonshine, 100 grams of peeled almonds, the same number of plum and apricot kernels. Also, to prepare the drink, you will need 500 milliliters of filtered water and 350 grams of sugar.

The drink is prepared according to the recipe in stages:

1. First, the peeled fruit nucleoli are dried in a frying pan, but without adding oil. The kernels in the pan must be constantly stirred.
2. When the nucleoli have cooled, they must be passed through a meat grinder and added together with almonds to the moonshine. In the meantime, you need to prepare a syrup from sugar and water, cool it and pour it into the tincture. The blank is placed for a week in a dark place, after which it is taken out and the nucleoli are filtered.

The drink is infused without pits for a month. Before drinking the drink, you can add vanilla and coffee to taste.

There are moonshiners who prefer to prepare alcoholic drinks quickly and with a minimum list of ingredients. Such moonshiners will definitely like this recipe, because, according to its rules, only 2 components are taken to make moonshine on almonds. This is 1.5 liters of double moonshine with a strength of 50%, as well as half a glass of roasted almond seeds.

The bones must first be poured with moonshine, cork the container with the workpiece with a lid and put it for 40-45 days in a dark, cool place. Shake the contents of the container thoroughly every week. After 40-45 days, the drink should be filtered through several layers of gauze.

If there are no almond seeds at home, then you can use edible almond oil to prepare moonshine tinctures. For 1 liter of moonshine take 3 drops of oil, but no more, because it can spoil the taste of the drink, making it bitter.

Also, for the preparation of almond moonshine, you can use special additives and essences. You can buy such products in stores that sell products for distillation.

Ready-made almond drinks can be stored for several months, but only if they are poured into glass containers.

Many nut lovers are interested in how you can make homemade tincture from their kernels, shells or partitions. To make such a drink on alcohol or vodka, you can take both mature kernels and those that have recently begun to ripen. Depending on the recipe chosen, as well as the quality and variety of the source products, the taste properties of an alcoholic drink prepared at home will be different.

Self-made nut tincture has a very peculiar, but at the same time, its aroma and taste will be unique. Basically, walnuts, almonds or pine nuts are taken to make the drink. What is each of these types?

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Varieties of nuts for making homemade alcoholic infusions

Walnut is the most common variety in our country. This is a fast growing and very fertile tree, easily adapting to various climatic conditions. Its fruits contain a lot of vitamins, microelements, polyunsaturated fatty acids and useful proteins.

The fruit of the almond tree is called an almond. It is high in calories, high in protein and fiber.

Pine nuts, from a biological point of view, are the seeds that the inhabitants of the Siberian forests feed on. However, the consumer is more accustomed to consider them nuts. They are a high-calorie product containing easily digestible protein, vegetable fats, coarse fibers, unsaturated fats and a complex of vitamins.

The time for collecting nuts falls on the beginning of autumn, or rather, September-October. When buying packaged nuts, you need to look at the date of packaging, since the nucleoli pretty soon become covered with mold, deteriorate and can be harmful to health. Experts say that you should not buy a product in transparent packaging, as light destroys all the beneficial compounds that nuts are rich in.

Now let's move on to recipes for nut tincture prepared in various ways with alcohol or vodka.

Nut tincture on almonds

Option number 1

Tincture prepared in this way at home has a mild and very pleasant taste, since in addition to almond nuts, there are fruit kernels (peach, cherry, plum).

Ingredients:

• almonds - 40 gr;
• fruit kernels - each type of 40 gr;
• vodka - 1 l;
• granulated sugar - 200 gr (1 cup);
• water - 600 ml (3 cups);
• dried clove buds, anise and coriander seeds - 1⁄2 tsp each;
• ground cinnamon - 1⁄2 tsp

Cooking method:

All these products are thoroughly crushed, mixed, poured into a large container and poured with vodka. Leave for at least 10 days. At the end, add boiled cooled water and overtake until the mixture is as clean as possible.

Nut tincture prepared according to this recipe will turn out to be bitter, so it should be sweetened with pre-prepared sugar syrup, insist, filter, pour into pre-prepared bottles, close the container tightly.

Option number 2

Ingredients:

• almond - 200 gr;
• vodka - 4 l;
• apricot kernels - 100 gr (half a glass);
• granulated sugar - 800 gr (about 4 glasses);
• coriander - 1⁄2 tsp;
• ground cinnamon - 1⁄2 tsp;
• marjoram - 5 gr;
• hyssop - 5 gr.

Cooking method:

Follow the steps below for the recipe. First, in any way convenient for you, you should chop all the products, mix them, add vodka and insist for 1 week. After 7 days, distill the mixture 1-2 times to the maximum possible purification, pour into containers and close them tightly. Almond tincture is ready to use.

"Kedrovka", or infusion on pine nuts

Many connoisseurs and tasters of homemade alcoholic beverages love "nutcracker" for its pleasant aroma and strength. It warms perfectly in the cold season, and the recipe for its manufacture, both on diluted alcohol and on vodka, is quite simple and quick.

Ingredients:

• pine nut kernels - 140 gr (almost 1 cup);
• alcohol (diluted in a ratio of 1 to 1) or vodka - 1 l;
• granulated sugar - 50-70 gr (about 2 or 3 tablespoons).

Cooking method:

Peel the nuts and pour 1/2 of the prepared volume of vodka, sweeten, mix until the sugar is completely dissolved. Pour the mixture into a glass container, close the neck and send to a cool and dark place for 3-4 days.

Then pour the liquid into a free container, pour the nuts with the remaining vodka, without adding sugar. Close the container again and leave for the same amount of time. After the specified time, remove the bottle, drain the liquid and add it to the 1st serving of vodka. If necessary, the procedure is repeated.

The finished "nutcracker" is filtered, poured into small containers, corked and placed in an unlit place.

Tincture on unripe walnuts

This tincture preparation option is the simplest, since it requires a minimum of components.

Ingredients:

• green walnuts - 100 gr;
• alcohol - 1 liter;
• black peppercorns - to taste;
• granulated sugar - to taste.

Cooking method:

Free the walnut kernels from the inner skin and cut into pieces. Fill half the bottle with them, add pepper, alcohol and cork. Infuse the drink should be warm for at least 60 days, after which the liquid is drained and filtered well.

Pour sugar into the resulting nut tincture and wait for complete dissolution (or mix with a thick syrup prepared in advance). Divide the finished drink into small containers, seal them tightly and send to a dark place.

Lemon-nut tincture.

Ingredients:

• unripe nuts - 80 gr;
• lemons - 10 gr;
• vodka - 1 l;
• water - 200 ml;
• granulated sugar - 60 gr (about 2 or 2.5 tablespoons);
• alum - 1 gr.

Cooking method:

Coarsely chop and mash unripe nuts, add vodka, add thin slices of lemon and alum. Infuse for about a week (about 6-7 days), then overtake the infusion and carefully filter it.

Prepare a sweet sugar syrup, cool to room temperature, strain. Then you should add it to the nut tincture and filter the drink again.

Sweet tincture recipe

Ingredients:

• unripe walnuts - 3 pcs.;
• vodka - 1 l;
• granulated sugar - 300 gr (about one and a half cups).

Cooking method:

Pour nuts prepared for tincture into a glass bottle, fill with vodka, close tightly and leave for at least 30 days. After this time, carefully pour the liquid into a free container, cork and set aside in a cool place for a while.

The nuts are left in a bottle, sprinkled with sugar, insisted until the sugar is completely dissolved for about 20 days. Drain the syrup, mix it with the set aside liquid. Distribute homemade tincture into prepared containers and close them tightly.

Walnut shell tincture

Ingredients:

• nut shells;
• vodka;
• sugar syrup - to taste.

Cooking method:

The nuts are washed, dried and split, taking out the nucleoli. The shell remaining after this should be finely crushed, then pour it into a glass container so that the shells occupy 2/3 of the volume of the bottle. Then vodka is poured into the vessel to the top and sealed.

The mixture is placed in a dark place for 2-3 months, after which the liquid is drained, filtered. At the final stage, sugar syrup is added to improve the taste of the tincture.

Strong tincture from partitions of walnuts

Ingredients:

• walnut partitions - 3 tablespoons;
• apricot kernels, crushed - about 60 grams (1/2 cup);
• vodka - 1 l;
• sugar - about 8-10 grams (1 tsp);
• instant high-quality coffee - about 2-3 grams (1 tsp).

Cooking method:

All components for tincture are mixed, poured with vodka. The container is tightly closed and placed in a cool place for 2 months, while it is sometimes removed and the contents shaken.

After 60 days, the tincture is filtered, filtered and diluted with boiled water at room temperature in a ratio of 1 to 1. The finished drink is poured into prepared containers and sent to the dark for storage.

As you can see, there are a lot of recipes for making nut tincture. We suggest you try each of them and find exactly "your".

Only for us a much more important circumstance is its taste. It is he who allows you to successfully use this nut in home distillation. Properly prepared at home, almond tinctures have a refined taste and aroma. They, no doubt, will delight all connoisseurs of spirits.

However, before moving on to the preparation of alcohol, it is necessary to learn a little theory about the specifics of almonds.

It's important to know

It is customary to distinguish between wild or bitter and cultivated almonds. Bitter stone fruits have a much more pronounced characteristic aroma. However, they contain amygdalin. This substance is able to decompose into several components, one of which is hydrocyanic acid. In other words, alcohol infused with such nuts can be poisonous.

Cultivated almonds are practically devoid of amygdalin. That is, this dangerous substance is contained in it in extremely low concentrations. It is almost impossible to get poisoned with tincture on such a nut.

However, you can always take extra insurance. The antidote of hydrocyanic acid is ordinary sugar. Therefore, all homemade drinks on almonds must be prepared sweet.

Recipe on oak chips

This almond tincture recipe is great for refining homemade moonshine. It allows you to give the drink an unexpectedly pleasant bitter taste and almond-oak aroma.

We will need the following ingredients:

• homemade moonshine of double distillation with a strength of 50-55 degrees - 2 liters;
• peeled almonds - 150 grams;
• black raisins - 100 grams;
• granulated sugar - 300 grams;
• oak chips - 8-10 grams.

As an alcohol base for this recipe, you can use not only moonshine. High-quality vodka, ethyl alcohol diluted with water, chacha and even cognac are also suitable.

Proper preparation steps.

1. Roast the almonds in a pan. This will enhance the future flavor of the tincture. The main thing is not to overdo it on the stove. As soon as a characteristic smell appears, remove the pan from the heat.

2. Pour boiling water over the required amount of oak chips. Water should be minimal. But at the same time, boiling water should completely cover the chips. Keep them for 30-36 hours.

3. Pour the prepared moonshine into the infusion container. Pour into it the water in which the oak chips were kept. We send sugar there. Then we let it stand for 3-4 hours.

4. We fall asleep in a container for infusion of raisins and almonds. Seal the container tightly with a lid and shake the contents well.

5. We insist alcohol in a dark room at room temperature for 20-25 days.

6. We filter our infusion through a cotton-gauze filter and send it to infuse for another 20-25 days.

simple recipe

Not all people like tincture recipes with a lot of ingredients and actions. If you just want to ennoble moonshine, then this can be done much easier.

We will need:

• double distillate (moonshine) 42-50% - 1.5 liters;
• roasted almonds - 0.5 faceted glass.

The preparation itself in this case is very simple. You just need to fill the nuts with alcohol and keep in a tightly sealed three-liter jar for 40-45 days. Shake the contents of the jar every five days. After that, filter the drink through clean gauze and the tincture will be ready.

Preparation of moonshine and alcohol for personal use
absolutely legal!

After the demise of the USSR, the new government stopped the fight against moonshine. Criminal liability and fines were abolished, and an article prohibiting the production of alcohol-containing products at home was removed from the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. To this day, there is not a single law that prohibits you and me from engaging in our favorite hobby - making alcohol at home. This is evidenced by the Federal Law of July 8, 1999 No. 143-FZ “On the administrative responsibility of legal entities (organizations) and individual entrepreneurs for offenses in the field of production and circulation of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products” (Collected Legislation of the Russian Federation, 1999, No. 28 , item 3476).

Excerpt from the Federal Law of the Russian Federation:

"The effect of this Federal Law does not apply to the activities of citizens (individuals) who do not produce products containing ethyl alcohol for the purpose of marketing."

Moonshine in other countries:

In Kazakhstan in accordance with the Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan On Administrative Offenses dated January 30, 2001 N 155, the following liability is provided. Thus, according to article 335 “Manufacture and sale of home-made alcoholic beverages”, illegal production for the purpose of selling moonshine, chacha, mulberry vodka, mash and other alcoholic beverages, as well as the sale of these alcoholic beverages, entails a fine in the amount of thirty monthly calculation indices with confiscation of alcoholic beverages , apparatus, raw materials and equipment for their manufacture, as well as money and other valuables received from their sale. However, the law does not prohibit the preparation of alcohol for personal purposes.

In Ukraine and Belarus things are different. Articles No. 176 and No. 177 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Ukraine provide for the imposition of fines in the amount of three to ten tax-free minimum wages for the manufacture and storage of moonshine without the purpose of sale, for the storage without the purpose of sale of apparatus * for its production.

Article 12.43 repeats this information practically word for word. “Production or purchase of strong alcoholic beverages (moonshine), semi-finished products for their production (mash), storage of devices for their production” in the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Administrative Offenses. Paragraph No. 1 states: “Production by individuals of strong alcoholic beverages (moonshine), semi-finished products for their manufacture (mash), as well as storage of devices * used for their manufacture - entails a warning or a fine of up to five basic units with confiscation of the indicated drinks, semi-finished products and devices.

* It is still possible to purchase moonshine stills for home use, since their second purpose is to distill water and obtain components for natural cosmetics and perfumes.

Almond

Among home distillers, recipes for various alcohols with almond pits are often discussed. In fact, this is not a nut, as is commonly believed, but simply a stone from a green inedible fruit from the plum genus. Like other bones, it contains not only valuable substances, but also a number of harmful, dangerous ones. Therefore, it is necessary to insist moonshine on almonds at home with knowledge of the theory and without using an excess amount of these “nuts”.

A bit of theory

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Note that in nature there are wild (bitter) and cultivated almonds. Wild has a more pronounced aroma, but it contains amygdalin - a substance that is easily broken down into a number of components, where, among others, hydrocyanic acid is present. Surely many of the school chemistry course remember that cyanide just smells like almonds. So the presence of this pleasant smell and slight bitterness does not always indicate the value of the drink. Perhaps such moonshine is poisonous.

Important: the public antidote for hydrocyanic acid is sugar. So drinks that are made at home using wild (bitter) almonds must be very sweet.