4 easy recipes for making prune wine at home
Homemade wine is made from plums, apples, rose hips, apricots, cherries, mulberries. In its composition, unlike a store product, it contains only natural substances, there are no chemical components, and the taste is richer and brighter. In prune wine there is sweetness, a barely perceptible astringency, and a unique aroma. There are a lot of vitamins in the drink, using it in a reasonable amount, you can strengthen the immune system, get rid of a cold, accelerate recovery from acute respiratory infections.
Cooking features
So that there is no sediment in the wine, the drink has a transparent burgundy color, you need to choose the right plums and a fermentation container that closes tightly. You will need a wooden or glass spoon to stir the fruit mass. Before laying the fruits, the dishes are washed with water, vinegar and soda, which avoids the absorption of unpleasant odors. The drink is infused with and without sourdough.
Selection and preparation of products
To make homemade wine, you need to purchase ripe prunes, dried and dried in a natural way. The berries should not contain worms, rotten areas. The amount of sugar is selected taking into account the type of wine - dry or sweet.
From plums with seeds, a drink with an almond flavor is obtained, but with long-term storage of such a product, it is easy to get poisoned with hydrocyanic acid secreted by the seed of the fruit.
How to make prune wine at home
The fruits dried in the sun are cleaned of dust without touching the white bloom, rinsed under the tap, poured over with water, kneaded after a while, and the bones are removed from the resulting mass. The plum mixture is diluted and left warm for 2 days. When bubbles begin to stand out, the liquid is filtered, poured into another container. Sugar is added in portions, 100 g is added per liter of dry wine, 300 g of sweet wine. The jar is closed with a glove with holes up, the drink ferments for 2-3 months. To make a fortified wine, add alcohol or vodka before bottling. The volume of alcohol should not exceed 15% of the total amount of the product.
Simple recipe
To make wine, you can use not only dried or sun-dried plums, but also freshly picked fruits. It is recommended to choose varieties with dark fruits, where there is a lot of sugar, but there are also acids. The bones are best of all behind the "Hungarian".
Those who have never made wine should start with the simplest recipe, using which they take:
- 1 liter of water;
- 8 kg plums;
- kilogram of sugar.
Pits are removed from the fruits, mashed, transferred to glass containers.Water is heated to 40–45 ° C, combined with a fruit mixture. The dishes are covered with gauze, left in a warm room, the first five days the mass needs to be shaken a little.
After 6 days, juice is squeezed out, sugar is poured, poured into a bottle and a hydrodosing device is installed. After 3 weeks, the drink is filtered into another container, sealed hermetically. A month later, the filtered wine can be tasted.
Cinnamon
Spices add an original flavor to the drink, but so that the product does not lose its transparency, powder additives are not used. Aromatic wine can be made:
- from 2 kilograms of sugar;
- from 5 kg plums;
- cinnamon sticks.
The berries are freed from the seeds, ground in mashed potatoes, combined with 1 kg of sugar, 2 liters of water are poured. The container is closed with a glove with holes or a purchased dispenser, and left in a warm place. When the mass is fermented, filtered, the liquid is separated from the pulp, the remaining sugar and 3 liters of water are added to it.
Put cinnamon in the resulting syrup and pour it into a glass or plastic container, put the dispenser again, send the dishes to a dark place. After a month and a half, bottles are filled with a drink and kept for the same amount of time.
With raisins
Not only delicious wine, but also a medicine to improve digestion, strengthen capillaries, increase immunity can be prepared from a bucket of prunes:
- Put the fruits in a bowl, pour 5 liters of water, soak the raisins.
- After three days, the juice is squeezed out of the berries, after removing the pulp, it is combined with a liquid in which the raisins have been soaked for 3 days.
- Sugar is poured into the drink, left for 2 months for fermentation.
- Filtered wine is filled into bottles.
An almost finished product is sent to the refrigerator for 8 weeks. Raisins are rich in potassium, which is essential for the functioning of the heart. Plums speed up the digestion of food.
With other dried fruits
A beautiful shade, original notes are given to the drink by dried apricots, which, like raisins, are soaked in warm water and then grind together with plums. Juice is squeezed out of the fruit mass, sugar is poured and left to ferment in the heat. After 2 months, the drink is filtered and filtered, bottles are filled with it.
Sugar can be taken in a ratio of 1 to 3, 12 kg of dried apricots and 5-6 kg of plums are required.
Storage conditions for homemade wine
An alcoholic drink made from fruit, prepared by yourself, is best lowered into the cellar, where it is kept in a dark glass container in a wooden barrel. Wine is well stored on a closed balcony in the loggia.
