Fans of home-made alcohol will certainly appreciate the mint tincture on its merit not only for its pleasant cooling taste, but also for the ease and speed of cooking. In the course you can start not only fresh mint leaves, but also the dried product (it will only change the proportions), and so this tincture can be cooked at any time of the year.
Mint tincture on vodka - recipe
Quality alcohol is not always available, and it is not everyone who can properly dilute it, whether it's finished vodka, which can be found in any supermarket and choose the product of the desired price segment. That vodka will become the basis of mint tincture for this recipe.
No specific proportions in this recipe will be required to remember. All that is useful - a handful of mint, a bottle of vodka and a clean pot, in which the product will be infused.
With a pint of mint, remove the purest, beautiful and whole leaves. Tamp them in the jar, making sure that the chosen container is completely filled with mint. Fill the leaves with vodka and close the jar tightly. Leave the tincture in the cool for about 2 months. During this time, the drink will radically change its color and become dark green. Before use, tincture is filtered, stored in a bottle.
Lemon-mint tincture on alcohol
The flavor of such a ready-made tincture is more rich by adding citrus. The latter you can choose to your taste by preparing a mint-lime tincture or a variant based on lemon.
Ingredients:
- fresh mint - 145 g;
- lemons - 5 pieces;
- alcohol - 970 ml.
Preparation
In the framework of this recipe, you will not need any lemon juice, or pieces of the pulp itself, just a peel.
Before making a mint tincture, peel the peel off the washed lemons, without touching the white peel. Uncheck
If desired, this tincture can be used as a liqueur , supplementing the contents with a small amount of sugar syrup . Such a liqueur is appropriate in tea, coffee and a variety of cocktails, but it is also good in its pure form.