Fragrant almonds are actively used in cooking, because they are added to various dishes: desserts, baked goods, salads and others. You can also infuse moonshine with almonds, which allows you to get a high-quality aromatic drink. Many people perceive almonds as a type of nut, but in fact this is not the case, since they are the seeds of a type of inedible plum. Almond moonshine is an alcoholic drink that should be prepared strictly according to the rules, since an excessive number of seeds can hopelessly ruin the taste of the alcohol.

Theory

There are two varieties of almonds. A fruit with a pronounced taste and aroma is called wild. The wild almond seed contains a large amount of amygdalin, which can be broken down into a list of components, including hydrocyanic acid. It is not recommended to infuse wild almonds into alcohol at home, since such a drink can be poisonous.

Moonshine with almonds

Cultivated almonds contain trace amounts of amygdalin. This seed can be safely used to infuse moonshine.

Recipes

Before considering almond moonshine recipes and starting to implement them, you need to make sure you have high-quality almonds.

You can infuse moonshine with almonds according to this recipe:

Take 1 liter of strong moonshine (50%), 5-7 peeled sweet almonds, 10 grams of black raisins, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 5 grams of oak chips. Important: some people believe that you can replace almonds with plum or apricot pits. In fact, it is impossible to infuse these components of the fruit into moonshine, since the drink may turn out to be poisonous.
First you need to take the oak chips and pour a small amount of boiling water over them. After a day, the water can be drained from them.
The resulting water is added to the moonshine, after which sugar or syrup from it is added to the preparation and left to infuse for several hours.
After this, almonds and raisins are added to the moonshine and water. Shake the mixture thoroughly, close the container with a lid and infuse the drink at a temperature of 20 degrees for three weeks.
The resulting infusion is filtered through cheesecloth and left to stand again for a month.

The finished drink will have a pleasant tart almond flavor.

Having high-quality almonds and moonshine at home, you can prepare an analogue of the popular liqueur called Amaretto. To obtain such a drink, you should take 0.75 liters of strong moonshine, 100 grams of peeled almonds, and the same amount of plum and apricot kernels. Also, to prepare the drink you will need 500 milliliters of filtered water and 350 grams of sugar.

The drink is prepared according to the recipe in stages:

First, the peeled fruit kernels are dried in a frying pan, but without adding oil. The kernels in the frying pan need to be stirred constantly.
When the kernels have cooled, they need to be passed through a meat grinder and added to the moonshine along with the almonds. In the meantime, you need to prepare a syrup from sugar and water, cool it and pour it into the tincture. The workpiece is placed in a dark place for a week, after which it is taken out and the nucleoli are filtered out.

The drink is infused without seeds for a month. Before drinking the drink, you can add vanilla and coffee to taste.

There are moonshiners who prefer to prepare alcoholic drinks quickly and with a minimal list of ingredients. This recipe will certainly appeal to such moonshiners, since, according to its rules, only 2 components are taken to prepare moonshine with almonds. This is 1.5 liters of double moonshine with a strength of 50%, as well as half a glass of roasted almond seeds.

You first need to fill the seeds with moonshine, seal the container with the workpiece with a lid and place it in a cool, dark place for 40-45 days. Every week the contents of the container should be thoroughly shaken. After 40-45 days, the drink should be filtered through several layers of gauze.

If you don’t have almond seeds at home, you can use edible almond oil to prepare moonshine infusions. For 1 liter of moonshine, take 3 drops of oil, but no more, since it can spoil the taste of the drink, making it bitter.

You can also use special additives and essences to prepare almond moonshine. You can purchase such products in stores that sell distilling supplies.

Ready-made almond drinks can be stored for several months, but only if they are poured into glass containers.

Homemade moonshine Smirnova Lyubov

MOONHOON “SPECIAL” (from ALMOND)

OPTION 1

200 g almonds, 100 g apricot kernels, 4 g cinnamon, 4 g coriander, 5 g hyssop, 5 g marjoram, 800 g sugar, 4 liters of vodka. Grind and crush the mixture, then pour in vodka and let it brew for a week. Then distill in the usual way.

OPTION 2

Almond moonshine can also be obtained by adding almond oil to moonshine tinted with some kind of tincture.

OPTION 3

205 g almonds, 100 g apricot kernels, 4 g coriander, 4 g cinnamon, 1.5 kg sugar.

Pound and crumble everything, put it in a vessel, pour in 5 bottles of moonshine and leave for three weeks, then distill in the usual way and add sugar syrup to taste.

OPTION 4

1 part rowan shoots, 4 parts wine.

Take the youngest shoots of the rowan tree, peel them and cut the white stems into pieces as small as possible.

Pour these pieces with the simplest wine, preferably strong white, in a volume ratio of 1:4 and distill through a distillation apparatus.

If the almond smell does not seem strong enough, you can add more shoots to the product to taste and distill again.

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From the author's book

Vodka with the smell of almonds Peel the youngest shoots of the rowan tree and cut them into pieces as small as possible. Then fill them with any wine, preferably strong white (1 part shoots to 4 parts wine) and distill through a distillation apparatus. If

The preparation of the tincture does not require any special preparatory procedures. All you have to do is randomly chop the agreed amount of peeled ginger root and lightly crush the almonds so that they better transfer the aroma into the tincture.
Ingredients:
Actually, half a liter (bottle) of good vodka.
6-7 almond nuts (clean, without salt and pepper), so that the almond “seed” can be faintly felt in the future tincture.
5-6 dried prunes (without pits), so that the “sugar” of the smoked cognac barrel can be quite clearly felt in the future tincture.
About a tablespoon of pharmaceutical oak bark, so that the future tincture not only sparkles with the color of a cognac barrel, but also with its oak aroma.
About a tablespoon of randomly chopped ginger root, so that the future tincture pleasantly tingles the tongue - in the manner of cognac.

Then it’s even easier. You need to select a suitable glass container in which the components of the tincture will be infused (the main thing is that the container can be hermetically sealed with a lid) and put the mentioned components into it in the indicated proportions. The order of installation does not matter. You can start, for example, with ginger.

Then add about a tablespoon of chopped oak bark.

Then - prunes (without pits).

Finally, crushed almonds.

Pour the components of the tincture with good vodka...

... close the dish with a lid, shake several times and put it in a cool, dark place for a week.

After a week, the tincture will acquire a pronounced cognac color. But you will have to bother her not for the sake of color, of course, but for the sake of the initial tasting, scooping up the tincture with a teaspoon. The fact is that prunes vary in sugar content, and may not reach the barely noticeable sweet note in the taste of the tincture. So adjust this setting if necessary with a small amount of granulated sugar. But - without fanaticism. After all, this is a tincture, not a liqueur. In any case, a week is not enough to infuse the drink. Therefore, even if everything is fine with sugar or if you had to adjust it, put the future tincture in a cool, dark place for another week. Or better yet, two.

Now, after the agreed period, the tincture can be filtered. First, roughly, through a suitable sieve, to separate the infused components and discard if unnecessary.

After three days, you can resort to finer filtration using a cloth napkin folded several times. You need to filter carefully, trying not to lift sediment from the bottom and to ensure that as little of it gets into the improvised filter as possible. A small amount of tincture with the remaining sediment will have to be sacrificed, since bootlegging, like any other art, sometimes requires sacrifice.

But, in fact, the complete transparency of the drink is a matter of taste. In the sense of aesthetic taste, because its transparency does not affect the immediate taste of the tincture. This is not wine and the tincture is not created using wine technology.

As for the immediate taste, the cognac liqueur has a sharper aroma than noble cognac. However, “catching” cognac aromas over a glass warmed in the palm of your hand is still mostly on the periphery of our drinking culture, since we still give preference to taste. In this regard, the cognac tincture fully lives up to its name. Try it!

There is a huge amount of preparation of simple, but at the same time very tasty alcoholic drinks at home. People have learned to use natural ingredients, combine them with each other, and produce aromatic cognacs, tinctures and liqueurs.

Almond tincture is quite popular among winemakers because of its original and unique taste, pleasant aroma and large amount of useful substances.

The benefits of almond tincture

Almond tincture at home can be prepared for several purposes. Someone uses it exclusively as a medicine, takes a few drops a day, and receives all the benefits from such a product. In another case, such a tincture may be a homemade alcoholic drink that is used as an aperitif.

There are actually quite a lot of cooking recipes, but not everyone shares their professional secrets. A drink can have a soft, enveloping taste, if it contains a sufficiently large amount of sugar and other additives, alcohol will only play an additional role. Otherwise, almonds can only emphasize the alcoholic taste of the drink. Strength and aging depend on the method of preparation and on the products used.

In small quantities, almond tincture can only benefit the body. It's all about the large amount of antioxidants contained in the nut kernels. The drink helps improve the functioning of the heart and blood vessels; even liver diseases can be treated with this drink. Of course, for medicinal purposes you need to know when to stop and not just use the tincture as a drink.

Almond moonshine

At home they prepare various types of moonshine. The drink has become popular and one might even say cult. Today you can find a huge number of recipes for the drink; the recipe can be changed to taste, add new ingredients and enjoy unusual combinations.

You can learn how to infuse moonshine with almonds from professionals. To prepare the drink correctly you need to know professional secrets. Using bitter almonds can turn an alcoholic drink into a deadly poison. The fact is that bitter varieties of nuts are rich in substances, after splitting, which remains hydrocyanic acid.

To avoid poisoning and completely neutralize harmful substances, you should simply add a large amount of sugar to the drink, this will protect everyone from harmful hydrocyanic acid.

Homemade sweet almonds are absolutely safe for health and can be safely used in the process of preparing an alcoholic drink. Professionals in the industry do not recommend the use of artificial almond flavor or essence substitutes. This will make the finished product taste too strong.

Moonshine with almonds recipe, which requires the use of certain components, is prepared from the following products:

moonshine – 50 degrees 1 l;
almonds – 5 – 7 pcs.;
raisins – 10 g;
sugar – 1 – 2 tbsp. l.;
oak chips – 5 g.

Moonshine with almonds is prepared as follows:

Oak chips should be filled with water and left to infuse for a day. A minimal amount of water should be used; it should just cover the oak chips.
After a day, you need to strain the infused chips and add moonshine to the water, add sugar, and leave to infuse for 2–4 hours.
After several hours, you need to add almonds and raisins to the bottle with the drink, shake everything well, seal it and leave to infuse for 3 weeks at a temperature of 20 degrees.
After 3 weeks, the moonshine should be carefully filtered and left to infuse for 3 to 4 weeks.
After the allotted amount of time, homemade almond moonshine is ready, you can treat it to guests, or use it as a medicine to treat colds.

Flavored liqueur

Almond-flavored liqueur “Amaretto” is popular among the fairer sex. Almonds are used to prepare the drink, and if you know the technology, you can always keep a couple of bottles of this alcoholic delicacy in reserve at home. Distillers warn: you should use almonds of sweet varieties for cooking, this will allow you to avoid worrying about the harmful hydrocyanic acid contained in bitter varieties.
To prepare almond-flavored liqueur you need to take:

moonshine – drink strength 45 degrees – 750 g;
peeled sweet almonds – 100 g;
apricot kernels – 100 g;
peach kernels – 100 g;
reading water – 0.5 l;
sugar – 350 g.

There is nothing complicated in preparing liqueur, you just need to follow the rules and recipe.

All peeled kernels, peach, apricot and almonds should be thoroughly dried. An oven will do. Within 30 minutes, the kernels will dry well and will not have time to burn; the main thing is not to set the temperature too high and do not forget to stir.
After drying, all kernels should be crushed in a blender or using a regular meat grinder and sent to moonshine.
Boil the sugar syrup separately; after it has cooled completely, add it to the moonshine and crushed kernels.
The tincture should be tightly closed, shaken well and left to infuse in a cool, dark place.
After a bitter taste appears, the tincture must be carefully filtered and left in a cool place for another 3-4 weeks.
Ready-made Amaretto liqueur will acquire interesting notes if you add a little instant coffee or vanilla.

The drink can become a favorite and gain well-deserved popularity not only among household members, but also among all friends.

Almond cognac

You can make cognac with almonds at home; it doesn’t require much effort, you just need to follow the entire recipe correctly. To prepare you need to take:

vodka or moonshine – 1 l;
almonds – 10 g;
oak chips – 5 g;
raisins – 10 g.

Almond-flavored cognac is very easy to prepare; you need to use natural products and follow all the necessary steps:

First, pour a minimum amount of boiling water over the oak chips and leave for 1 day.
After a day, you need to strain everything and combine the water with vodka, add raisins and almonds and mix everything thoroughly.
Almond cognac will infuse for 28 to 40 days, during which time it will develop a characteristic color and aroma.
At the last stage, the drink should be filtered several times and poured into a prepared bottle.

Almond cognac can act as an independent alcoholic drink, and some people like to add it in small quantities to tea or coffee.

Almond wine

Wine with almonds is quite rare today, even in stores. The drink can truly be called exclusive and original. At home, it is easy to prepare aromatic cocktails and mulled wine, to which wine with almonds will be added, or simply using the kernels of a sweet plant variety.

In combination with alcohol and when all prescription instructions are followed, almonds can give a person a new, aromatic and very healthy drink. Folk recipes and tips will allow you to prepare such a treat or medicine and use it for your pleasure.