Spotykach is an alcohol that has occupied a niche between tinctures and liqueurs. Being, in fact, neither one nor the other, it is rightfully considered an exclusive drink.
Nowadays, the recipe for the drink has begun to be forgotten, increasingly switching to store-bought vermouths, wines and cocktails. You can find it in the menu of national Ukrainian restaurants and some taverns. But thanks to home distillers, the spotty kach received a second life. Various recipes The drink is repeated at home, bringing back old traditions. They treat friends and relatives, thereby saying that our ancestors knew a lot about alcoholic drinks. There are many recipes for spotykacha, the most popular ones are described below.
CLASSIC RECIPE
It is the most traditional, original drink.
Ingredients:
- Vodka – 1 l.
- Vanilla – 30 gr.
- Granulated sugar - 400 gr.
- Saffron - 10 gr.
- Cinnamon 10 gr.
- Cloves - 10 gr.
- Nutmeg – 20 gr.
Pour vodka into a jar, add all ingredients except sugar. Leave the contents in a dark place to infuse for two weeks, stirring the tincture daily. Then dissolve granulated sugar in the infusion, heat the drink over low heat until the sugar dissolves, strain through a cotton filter. The liqueur can be tasted.
Peppermint tripper
To prepare you will need:
- leaves from one bunch of mint;
- vodka - 1 liter;
- sugar - ½ cup.
Preparation:
Fresh mint leaves are poured with vodka and left in the sun for about a week. Next, boil syrup from sugar and add it to mint tincture. Mix everything well and strain. We bottle the finished potykach and store it in a dark place.
Stumbler of roses
To prepare such an unusual and tasty spotykacha, prepare:
- tea rose flowers - 100 g;
- sugar - 300 g;
- alcohol or strong vodka - 3 glasses;
- water - 2 glasses.
Preparation:
For pink spotykach, we select flowers that have just begun to bloom and sprinkle them with sugar. The top sugar layer should be thick enough. Cover with a linen napkin and place in a cool place for 24 hours. Next, place the roses on a sieve and rinse them with 2 glasses of water. Add alcohol to the syrup, mix everything well and pour into bottles.
SPOTYKACH FROM BLACK ROWAN BERRY
Another equally popular recipe.
Compound:
- Vodka – 750 mg.
- Rowan – 1kg.
- Granulated sugar - 1.2 kg.
- Water 0.5 l.
Cooking method:
Separate the chokeberry from the brushes, rinse with water, and let it drain. Place the rowan berries in a small saucepan, crush them with a wooden masher, and separate the juice. Heat water, add granulated sugar and cook thick syrup. Pour the prepared syrup and rowan juice into vodka. Place on low heat, stirring continuously and heat the liqueur until thickened. Pour the cooled drink into bottles and let it sit for a week to rest. The tincture is ready.
CHERRY SPOTYKACH
A simple recipe with great taste. The color is bright cherry with the aroma of prunes. Your guests will be surprised.
Ingredients:
- Vodka - 0.5 l.
- Fresh cherries - 300 gr.
- Prunes -50 gr
- Sugar - 300 gr.
Preparation:
Pour the cherries into an enamel bowl, sprinkle with sugar and leave overnight. If you don’t have fresh cherries, you can take frozen ones. Then put the cherries on low heat and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved. Add prunes to the pan and remove from heat. Place the cooled berries in a bottle, fill with vodka and leave for 10-14 days in a dark place. Then filter the cherry “Spotykach” and bottle it. The drink will be ready in 3 days.
BLACKCURRANT SPOTYKACH
Compound:
- Vodka – 750 mg.
- Black currant – 1 kg.
- Granulated sugar - 1 kg.
- Water 0.5 l.
Clear the currants of debris, rinse well and dry. Crush the berries using a wooden masher and squeeze out the juice. Boil syrup from water and sugar. Add currant juice to it. Boil the mixture, cool and add to vodka. Heat over low heat and stir until the liqueur thickens. Pour the cooled tincture into bottles and leave in glass for 5-7 days.
RECIPE FOR NUT TINCTURE
Spotykach is prepared from green walnuts and infused with vodka.
Compound:
- Walnuts - 400 gr.
- Vodka - 1 l.
- Sugar – 400g.
- Cloves – 5g.
- Cinnamon – 5g.
- Peach pits – 10 pcs.
Preparation:
Break the nuts into small pieces, add vodka, leave in the sun for 30 days. Strain the resulting infusion, add granulated sugar and peach pits. The pits can be replaced with cherry pits, but take 20 pieces. Add spices to the liqueur, mix everything well and leave for a week, shaking the contents daily. Then we bottle it and enjoy original taste liqueurs.
Slivyanka, or plum spotykach
Ingredients for cooking:
- Plums - 1 kg
- Sugar - 0.7 kg
- Water - 1.5 liters
- Alcohol - 0.5 liters
How to prepare plum sauce:
So we take the plums, cut them and throw out the pits. Throw it all into a saucepan, add sugar, and add water. Let's let it all cook. After boiling, cook for another 20-30 minutes. We wait until it cools down, add alcohol, and bottle it.
Spotykach is an alcoholic liqueur that is easily and quickly made at home from ripe berries and fruits, dried fruits, nuts, herbs, spices, sugar and vodka (or better yet, high-quality moonshine).
Since ancient times, ladies have liked sweet taste and the wonderful aroma of this intoxicating vitamin drink.
Ease of making spotykacha, as well as yields own berries and fruits allow gardeners to make this liqueur without much difficulty and additional costs.
Let's look at how some popular spotkachi are made using classic and original recipes:
- from a variety of berries or fruits;
- from leaves with spices;
- from greens and spices using ancient technology.
Spotykach berry, fruit
Spottykachi made from a variety of berries, like berries, are very popular and have become widespread.
In summer and autumn, popular spotykachi are made from freshly picked berries or fruits using heat treatment: strawberry, strawberry, raspberry, currant (from black or red currant), cherry, apricot, plum, grape, blackberry, blueberry, lingonberry, cranberry, etc. In the process To make spotykacha, if desired, mix different berries and fruits.
Berry or fruit spotykach can be made from frozen raw materials all year round.
To make a berry or fruit spotykacha you will need:
- berries (or chopped seedless fruits) – 1 kg;
- sugar – 0.3 kg for sweet raw materials or 0.4 kg for sour berries or fruits;
- water – 0.5 l;
- vodka – 0.75 l.
When cooking (in enamel pan) spottykacha from various soft berries or fruits use the following two technologies.
1. Suitable for soft berries or fruits from which juice can be easily squeezed. First, sort and wash the raw materials, then dry and pound with a mortar; squeeze out the juice. Cook sugar syrup, removing the foam. Add the squeezed juice to the hot syrup and boil. Remove the pan from the heat, add vodka to it, stir and bring to a boil over low heat. After cooling, filter and pour the drink into bottles and seal. Spotykach is ready to use.
2. Used for any berries or fruits. Immediately pour water over the prepared berries or chopped fruits, add sugar and bring to a boil. Simmer over low heat with constant stirring so that the raw materials release their juice into the liquid (in this case, the berries wrinkle or burst). Remove the pan from the heat, add vodka to it, stir and bring the mixture over low heat almost to a boil. Cover the pan with a lid. After cooling, pour the mixture into a jar and close tightly. nylon cover; leave for 1.5-2 weeks. Strain the liquid, squeezing out the remaining berries or fruits. Filter the tincture twice (using a cloth and a cotton filter) and pour the drink into bottles and seal. To bring the liqueur to condition, place the bottles in a cool, dry place (for about 2 weeks), after which the potykach is ready for use.
Bottles with berry or fruit pottykach should be stored in a cool, dark place.
Spotykach mint
Mint spotykach is also a very popular drink, refreshing and aromatic, beautiful and with an interesting spicy taste. It is usually served chilled.
Using the same technology, spotykach is made from young or fresh acacia flowers, but the amount of this raw material must be doubled compared to the recipe for mint.
If desired, you can further enrich the taste and aroma of mint spotykach by adding just a little (1-2 g) of your favorite spices to the mint leaves. For example: seeds (dill, caraway), cinnamon, cloves, ground, grated lime zest or, etc.
To make a mint spotty you will need:
- fresh mint leaves - 100 g;
- sugar - 2 cups;
- water - 2 glasses;
- vodka - 1 l.
Boil water, add sugar to the pan and cook the sugar syrup, stirring constantly and skimming off the foam. Place washed mint leaves into the syrup and add your favorite spices. Simmer the mint and spices over low heat (about 15 minutes) with constant stirring. Remove the pan from the heat, add vodka to it, stir. Place on the fire and bring the liquid almost to a boil; leave to cool under the lid. After cooling, pour the liquid into a jar along with mint and spices. Leave in a dark, warm place for no more than 5 days.
Filter the tincture twice (using a cloth and a cotton filter) and pour into bottles and seal. Spotykach is ready to use. Store bottles in a cool, dark place.
Tatyana Nikolaevna Listova (Bashkiria)
Spotykach made from green walnuts and spices
To prepare nut spotykach, only green walnut fruits (without membranes) are suitable, which can be easily cut with a knife.
Use rubber gloves when handling green nuts.
To make a nut tripepot, take:
- 400 g (25 pcs.) green walnuts;
- 1 liter of vodka;
- 400 g sugar;
- 10 pieces. kernels from peach pits (or 20 pcs. kernels from cherry pits);
- 2-3 pcs. carnations;
- ground cinnamon (on the tip of a knife).
Green quartered walnuts fold into glass jar and pour vodka. Close the jar with a nylon lid and place it in the sun; insist for a month.
Then strain the liquid and pour it back into the jar. Add to it: sugar, kernels extracted from peach or cherry pits, cloves and cinnamon.
Mix everything and put the jar in the sun again; Infuse the drink for a week.
Shake the contents of the jar daily and regularly so that the sugar dissolves faster and the processes of interpenetration of substances are accelerated.
Then strain the nut tincture and pour into bottles, seal and store in a cool, dry place.
Galina Sergeevna Parfyonova (Novosibirsk)
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Spotykach - national Ukrainian low alcohol drink. It is based on berries and fruits with sugar, specially infused with vodka or moonshine. The drink differs from liqueur in the method of preparation - the raw materials are first thermally treated and then infused for 2 weeks. Due to its sweet taste and medium strength (about 20-25 degrees), spotykach is usually classified as a dessert alcoholic product.
The drink owes its original name to the effect it has on the human body. After consumption, the head remains clear, but the legs become heavy and refuse to obey. This tincture is perfect for a leisurely and measured conversation in pleasant company.
The raw materials for the drink can be various berries and fruits: strawberries, raspberries, apples, grapes, apricots, rowan, etc. Often added to refresh and enrich the taste aromatic herbs and spices: nutmeg, anise, mint, acacia flowers, roses, etc.
The choice of alcohol base must be approached with particular care. Vodka will do good quality or peeled homemade moonshine without smell. Take only bottled water, if possible clean spring water. Boiled tap water can ruin the taste of the product.
Spotykach welcomes experiments with types of the main ingredient. It is possible to use defrosted berries. The main thing is to follow the recommended proportions and technology. By slightly increasing or decreasing the amount of alcohol or sugar, you can adjust the strength and sweetness of the tincture.
To boil the workpieces, you can use enameled or stainless steel dishes of a suitable size. To avoid evaporation of alcohol during cooking, do not leave the semi-finished product without a lid. Spotykach is stored without loss of strength and taste qualities up to 5 years in a tightly sealed container in the basement or refrigerator.
Spotykach traditional
A classic recipe for making your own tincture. You can use any available soft berries or assorted ones.
Required:
- 1 kg of berry or fruit raw materials;
- 1 liter of wolves or odorless moonshine;
- 450 grams of granulated sugar;
- 500 ml water.
How to do it.
1. Sort the berries, remove spoiled ones, rinse.
2. Place the raw materials in a saucepan, add water and add half the sugar.
3. After the contents boil, reduce the heat to low and cook for 25-30 minutes. Stir constantly, avoiding burning.
4. Pour alcohol into the hot mixture, bring to a boil again and remove from heat. Cover with a lid and let cool naturally.
5. Taste for sugar. If necessary, add the remaining amount according to the recipe. Wait until completely dissolved.
6. Pour into a container for infusion, close tightly. Aging period: 12-14 days in a dark place.
7. Drain the tincture from the sediment. Filter through several layers of gauze, and then through cotton wool to completely remove the pulp from the liquid.
Spottykach from mountain ash
The so-called Varyazhsky recipe for a drink reminiscent of a sweet rowan liqueur. You can take red or black-fruited varieties of berries. Rowan for tincture should be collected after the first frost, when it gains its maximum sweetness and softness. Before cooking, store-bought berries should be placed in the freezer overnight.
Have to take:
- 500 grams of rowan berries;
- 1 liter of vodka;
- 350 ml water;
- 0.5 kg sugar.
Step-by-step preparation.
1. Place the washed berries in a saucepan, add sugar, and pour in water.
2. Place on the stove, bring to a boil and cook on low power for 45–60 minutes, depending on the variety and degree of maturity of the rowan. During this time, all the berries should burst and give juice - this is a sign that the syrup is ready.
3. Pour vodka into the hot broth, wait until it boils and remove the dishes from the stove.
4. After cooling, pour the semi-finished product into a jar and close with a tight lid.
5. Infuse the drink for 2 weeks.
6. Filter and pour into storage containers. Rowan spottyka must rest for at least a week, then it can be tasted. Your very own rich taste and the drink acquires aroma after six months of storage in a dark, cool place.
Plum Spottykach
Plum is an affordable traditional raw material for spotty kach. During the season, you can prepare a large volume of the drink and store it in a pantry or basement. On a cold winter evening, a fragrant sweet plum tincture will lift your spirits and remind you of sunny days.
Required:
- 2.5–3 kg plums;
- 1 kg sugar;
- 1 liter of vodka;
- 700 ml water.
How to cook.
1. Place fruits with seeds in a saucepan. Pour water, add sugar.
2. After boiling, simmer over low heat for 30 minutes - the peel on the plums should completely curl.
3. Without removing the dishes from the heat, add alcohol base. Heat the mixture until the first signs of boiling and immediately remove from the stove. Cover the container with a lid and leave for a couple of hours.
4. After cooling, pour the fruit mixture into jars and leave for 2 weeks.
5. Drain the liquid, squeeze out the fruit (they can be used for baking pies). The filtered tincture is ready for use. For long-term storage, pour the plum drink into bottles and seal tightly.
Currant Spottykach
Spicy and rich tincture of black currant– not only a delicious dessert drink, but also a vitamin remedy for preventing seasonal colds and strengthening the immune system.
Required:
- 1 kg of berries;
- 500 ml water;
- 800 ml of vodka or moonshine;
- 600 grams of sugar.
Cooking method.
1. Sort the berries, remove the stems. Mash in a deep bowl.
2. Place a bowl of water and sugar on the stove. After boiling, cook the syrup for 10–15 minutes, skimming off the foam.
3. Add berries, boil for 2-3 minutes.
4. Pour in vodka. Cook over low heat for 15 minutes until thickened, without letting the mixture boil.
5. Filter the cooled preparation until the berry pulp is completely removed.
6. Pour into a container and close tightly. The tincture will be ready for tasting after 2 weeks of rest in a cool, dry place.
Spotykach mint-lemon
A modern and simple version of spotykach with a unique aroma and flavor bouquet. Reminiscent of limoncello and mint liqueur, but easier and faster to prepare. The sourness of citrus fruits is significantly softened during the cooking process and harmoniously combines with the refreshing mint aroma.
Required Products:
- 0.5 kg lemons;
- 750 ml vodka;
- 100 grams of fresh mint;
- 500 grams of sugar;
- 500 ml water.
Cooking sequence.
1. Wash the lemons. Carefully remove the zest. Separate the pulp from the bitter white layer and cut into pieces.
2. Add sugar to the water, bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes.
Place mint leaves, pulp and half of the citrus zest into the syrup. Boil the mixture for 15 minutes.
3. Pour alcohol into the pan. Leave to cool and infuse, closing with a lid.
4. Pour the liquid along with mint and lemon into a glass container. The drink rests for 5–7 days in a dark place.
5. Drain the sediment, squeeze out the pulp and pass through a gauze-cotton filter twice. Pour into bottles and store.
Traditional and modernized versions of spotykacha are easy to make at home. A big plus of such drinks is their short aging time. Within a couple of weeks after preparation, you can treat yourself to aromatic tincture prepared without the addition of questionable ingredients. Spotykach is combined with fruit, cheese and cold cuts, desserts. It can be served for a family dinner, treated to friends at a party - this universal drink will help out in many situations.
Spotykach is one of my favorites alcoholic drinks Slavs, especially those living on the territory of Ukraine. In every house one could taste many varieties of the drink: rowan, cherry, with herbs and others. The drink was prepared more than three centuries ago, but even today you can often enjoy this dessert drink.
Spotykach is something between a liqueur and a tincture. It does not cause a hangover, the strength of the drink is low, only 20–30 degrees, for this reason spotykach is considered a woman’s drink. But of course, men are always happy to try a dessert drink.
Spottykach received its name due to the fact that when consumed, the head remains clear, but the legs completely stop obeying, and coordination of movements is impaired.
Currently, spotykach also takes pride of place on the tables of our housewives.
Cooking technology
This liqueur, unlike other homemade drinks, has a unique preparation technology. It lies in the fact that before direct preparation, the raw materials undergo heat treatment. It is on this basis that the spottykach prepares.
After processing the fruits, the process of heating the alcohol base and syrup occurs. When these two stages have been completed, you can settle the drink, shaking it every other day. And soon it will be ready.
The preparation time for spotykacha varies, depending on the ingredients. Thus, a fruit and berry drink will be ready in 2–7 days, and types of liqueur that are prepared with herbs or roots will take 3–6 weeks.
As for the ingredients, spotykach can be prepared from fruits, spices and various herbs:
For cooking, it is better to select juicy, ripe fruits. If there are no fresh ones, you can replace them with frozen ones, which will make your drink different. unique taste won't lose.
Choose a good one as a basis high-quality moonshine or vodka. You can also take alcohol diluted to the required degrees. It is important not to stumble upon a surrogate, otherwise you risk your health.
Also choose purified water. It is strictly forbidden to take for cooking raw water from the tap.
To avoid making the drink too sweet, you can: heat treatment Use only part of the sugar and add the rest after straining the drink.
How to cook spotykach at home
There are a great many recipes for spotykach and anyone can choose one to their liking, especially since preparing spotykach at home is very simple.
Mint liqueur "Spotykach"
With such an original taste, you can surprise your loved ones and friends, who will definitely appreciate such an unusual drink.
For 1 liter of vodka or moonshine take:
- Sugar - 2 cups.
- Water - 2 glasses.
- Mint - 200–300 grams.
Syrup is prepared from water and sugar. The washed mint leaves are added to the container with the syrup and simmered for about 15 minutes. Then add alcohol and bring to a boil. When the liquid begins to boil, remove from heat and cool, covering with a lid.
Pour into bottles and leave in a dark place for no more than 5 days. Afterwards, strain the liqueur several times and can be consumed.
Coffee stumbler
Required quantity ground coffee pour cold water and leave for 24 hours.
After the time has passed, strain the liquid, add vanilla and cook for about 10 minutes.
When the drink has cooled, strain again and add sugar, simmer over low heat for 5-7 minutes.
Remove liquid from heat and add alcohol. Place the container with the drink on low heat again and simmer until steam appears.
Store this coffee pot in a cool place.
“Spotykach” tincture from nuts
One of the most original recipes tinctures are prepared from the simplest walnuts and peach pits.
To prepare the tincture according to this recipe, it is better not to use moonshine as a base.
For 1 liter of alcohol:
- half a kilogram of young walnuts;
- 10 pieces of peach seeds or 20 pieces of any fruit seeds;
- 400 grams of sugar;
- cinnamon and vanilla to taste.
The nuts need to be crushed together with the peel into small pieces and placed in a container, poured with alcohol. Cover with a lid and leave in the sun for about 1 month.
After time, strain the liquid and discard the nuts. Add sugar, peeled seeds and spices to the container. Place in the sun again and leave for 1 week, shaking every day.
This tincture not only has an original taste, but also has a positive effect on the body and also increases immune system.
Recipes for classic spotykach from berries
First you need to select 1 kilogram of ripe juicy berries(at your discretion). Prepare 1 liter of strong alcohol (moonshine, vodka or alcohol), 1 kilogram of sugar and 750 milligrams of clean water.
Crush the berries and squeeze out the juice.
Sugar must be poured with water and brought to a boil, periodically removing the resulting foam. When the syrup boils, reduce the heat and simmer the mixture for 15 minutes.
When the mixture of sugar and water thickens, add berry juice. Bring the mixture to a boil and remove from heat, add the prepared alcohol, stirring vigorously.
Now put the mixture on low heat and simmer until thick. When the drink has reached the desired consistency, cool and bottle.
Leave for 3-4 days.
To prepare the liqueur you will need:
Prepare syrup from water and sugar. Add the resulting berry juice to the syrup and bring to a boil. When the liquid begins to boil, add vodka and simmer over low heat, stirring constantly.
When the liquid begins to thicken, remove from heat, cool and pour into prepared bottles.
The liqueur should be stored in a cool place.
Rowan Spottykach
To prepare such a drink, it is better to take the berries after the first frost or leave the rowan in the oven for a day before preparing it. freezer. Both chokeberry and red rowan are perfect.
Wash half a kilogram of berries and put them in a container. Add 1 kilogram of sugar, add half a liter of water and bring to a boil. When the mixture boils, simmer over low heat for about 30 minutes, stirring constantly. After the time has passed, add half a liter of vodka, bring to a boil again and remove from heat. Cover the container with the drink and let it cool. After cooling, pour into prepared containers and leave for 2 weeks.
If desired, you can add prunes to the recipe of this drink, which combines perfectly with rowan and gives a unique taste.
Recipe for spotykacha with plums
Plum tincture is prepared from both vodka and moonshine. In this recipe, plums can be combined with other fruits and berries, which are taken in a 1 to 1 ratio.
For 1.5 liters of moonshine:
- 2 kilograms of plums;
- 800 grams of sugar;
- 1 liter of water.
Rinse the plums. Place in a container and add sugar and water. Put on fire and bring to a boil. Next, simmer over low heat until the plum peel begins to burst.
Pour alcohol into the container and bring to a boil again. Then remove from heat and cover with a lid to cool. After cooling, strain the mixture into a glass container, seal and let it sit for about 10 days.
After time has passed, squeeze out the juice from the drain and strain the liquid again. Leave in a dark place for another 7–10 days.
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