Cedar tincture on alcohol

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the raw materials for the tincture. The husk of pine nuts can hardly be bought anywhere, but a lot of it remains when buying whole pine nuts and cones and when eating kernels. Alcohol for the preparation of such a tincture is better to buy at a pharmacy, so that it is medical, food and of good quality. Alcohol is the best base for tinctures, because it has a high degree of strength, and it preserves the useful properties of raw materials better.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pine nuts, like their shells, contain resins that can spoil the taste of the drink with bitterness, and it is believed that they are harmful to the human body. Therefore, it is better to steam the shells. To do this, the shell of pine nuts (it is better to add a handful of crushed nuts, you can use a little husk from the cones themselves, but it needs a little so as not to spoil the taste of the drink with bitterness), thoroughly washed, pour boiling water and leave for 5 minutes.

3. Step 3:

   

   Then drain the water, put the shell in a fireproof mold and bake it in the oven at 120 degrees for about 10 minutes.

5. Step 4:

   

   Put the raw materials for the tincture in a glass container, add sugar, pour alcohol and shake well so that the sugar dissolves immediately. If desired, you can add honey to the ingredients instead of sugar, to give the drink a little sweetness and a pleasant taste, as well as spices (cinnamon, cloves) or herbs (mint, St. John's wort, chamomile, thyme). But if the drink is prepared as a medicinal tincture, you should not get carried away with such additives, so as not to lose useful

6. Step 5:

   

   We close the container with a nylon lid and put it in a cool dark place for 10 days. Every day, the container with the tincture should be shaken once or twice.

7. Step 6:

   

   Filter the finished tincture through gauze folded in several layers, pour a glass bottle, preferably from dark glass. We store the tincture in the refrigerator or in a dark pantry.