Homemade plum tincture with honey and cinnamon

Today I want to tell and show, using step-by-step photos, how to prepare a delicious plum tincture with honey and cinnamon. Homemade plum tincture with honey and cinnamon is very aromatic, delicate with a sweet and sour taste.

Ingredients:

• plum (I have the Renklod variety) - 1 kg;
• cinnamon – ½ stick;
• bee honey – 200 gr;
• vodka – 500 ml.

First, I want to give some recommendations on choosing ingredients for plum tincture. It is better to choose plums that are hard and not overripe for cooking. I usually choose the variety Hungarian or Renklod. But, in principle, any other is possible.

It is better to use flower honey or from herbs. Buckwheat honey in the finished tincture can give a slight bitterness. But, as they say, this is not for everybody. 🙂

Choose good quality vodka to add to the tincture, and the manufacturer is at your discretion.

The cinnamon must be fresh, then the finished tincture will have an amazing aroma.

How to make plum tincture with honey at home

And so, let's start cooking.First, we need to put the plums in a saucepan, cover with cold water and wash.

Then, cut them in half with a knife. You can break it with your hands if the bone separates normally.

Cut each plum half into two or three slices, as in the photo.

We need to crush half a cinnamon stick on a wooden board with a rolling pin into small pieces.

After that, put a layer of plums in a three-liter bottle, add a little cinnamon and pour honey.

Thus, fill the bottle in layers until the ingredients run out. At the very end, add an alcohol-containing component to the bottle.

Then, vigorously shake the jar of tincture so that the honey dissolves as much as possible. The plum tincture should stand on the windowsill in this form for two weeks. During this time, plums and honey will give the tincture their taste, and cinnamon will give it a unique aroma. During this time, the bottle with tincture must be shaken every day.

Now, you need to strain it. To make it easier to strain the tincture, I cut a simple device from a plastic bottle, like a large watering can. Just cut off the bottom of a two-liter bottle, turn it over and put a piece of cotton wool where the neck of the bottle was. Then we pour the tincture into our improvised watering can and strain it.

The tincture strained perfectly the first time and came out as clean as a tear.

Look at the beautiful color of our plum, and the sweet-spicy aroma of cinnamon gives this homemade liqueur a special charm. Before use, the plum tincture with honey must be cooled. It can be stored for no more than two years in glass containers.