Lovers of sweet, fragrant fruit liqueurs - this article is for you. Today we will learn how to prepare a liqueur from apricots. Those lucky ones, who have apricot trees growing in the garden and showering their owners with a plentiful harvest, will be able to prepare this delicate liqueur with our help.
Also, we will tell you how to prepare stunning cocktails with apricot liqueur.
At any time you can enjoy a glass of liquor, or prepare a cocktail on its basis. And if you are fond of baking cakes and pastries, you can use apricot liqueur to impregnate cakes, or apricot pies .
Apricot liqueur got its name because it is made from flesh and bones of small apricots. It is from small apricots that the most fragrant liquor is obtained.
Some, when making liqueurs, are afraid to use apricot bones - they are afraid of poisoning with prussic acid, and it is the bones that give the apricot liqueur a delicate aroma of almonds. You can use kernels extracted from the bones. For a kilogram of apricots, put six crushed nucleoli.
There are many ways to make liqueur from apricots. The simplest of them is dilution with alcohol of ready-made apricot jam. Bones from apricots when cooking jam should be extracted, but the nucleoli extracted from these bones can be cooked together with the flesh. Then fill the finished jam with pure alcohol or high-quality vodka in a 1: 1 ratio. We insist on a drink for about forty days. Then decant a thick golden liquid and store it in tightly corked bottles in a dark cool place.
The most famous is the French apricot liqueur - "Abricotin". The smell of liquor is a bit like the smell of almonds. The main thing is to buy a liqueur cooked on natural raw materials. Use liquor in confectionery and as a flavor.
There is a wide variety of cocktails with apricot liqueur. Here's one of them.
Summer Evening Cocktail
Ingredients:
- Liqueur Apricot - 50 ml;
- champagne - 50 ml;
- pineapple juice - 50 ml;
- fruit syrup - 15 ml;
- Pieces of pineapple;
- tonic - 30 ml;
- ice.
Preparation
Fill the glass in the following order: first ice, then fruit, syrup and liquid ingredients.
A little time and patience - everything that is required for making liqueur from apricots and delicious cocktails on its basis.
Were you interested in making home-made liqueurs? Then try the recipe for the famous liquor "Baileys" , the delicate creamy taste of which perfectly matches with many cocktails.