Watermelons have unique healing properties. But few people know that honey, pickles, jam and even wine can be made from watermelon. Watermelon wine is distinguished by its pink hue, sometimes more intense orange or brown color.
Student watermelon wine
A healthy berry - watermelon - contains sugar, acids, a lot of water, which can make the wine look watery, but there are many ways to make wine and evaporate water from it. Student is the simplest one.
You will need:
- water 10-15 liters, - watermelon 7 kilograms, - vodka 1 liter.
Take a watermelon and a large medical syringe and start pouring vodka from different sides of the berry with a syringe, piercing its peel.
This is how many young people tried to bring a forbidden drink, for example, to a hostel, perhaps this is where this recipe originated.
After you finish pouring in the vodka, put the whole watermelon in a bowl of cold water (it should be completely submerged in the water) and leave it there for 3 days. The watermelon should soften over time. Gently drain all the water and pierce the watermelon so that the juice flows out of it. Pour the drained pink liquid into prepared bottles, and your watermelon wine is ready for any holiday and feast.
Gourmet tips
This recipe has opponents who believe that the taste of "wine" will turn out to be peculiar due to the fact that the watermelon has not been peeled: supposedly, the peel contains all harmful substances that will spoil the taste and will be extremely unhealthy. Here's another variation on the recipe for watermelon wine.
Take a ripe watermelon, cut off all the peel, remove all the seeds, and squeeze the remaining pulp using a blender, hands or a mortar. Pour the resulting juice into a bottle, then add sugar at the rate of 4 kilograms per 10 liters. In general, it is better to add the amount of sugar, I am guided by my own taste, think for yourself which end product you want to get: with sourness or, conversely, tart, sweet. Leave the wine to ferment for 2-3 weeks in a warm place. then strain and drain into a clean container for storage.
Many people add lemon, tangerine, orange, various berries and even herbs to their watermelon wine. There are also variations with yeast, cognac, wine and liqueur.
By the way, instead of a bottle cork when fermenting wine, it is better to use rubber gloves, just put it on until the wine ferments, then remove and screw the bottle with an ordinary cork. Please note that wine prepared without the use of vodka or alcohol cannot be stored for a long time, so bottles can only be kept in the refrigerator and no more than one month. A sign of a sour wine is the appearance of a characteristic foam and a moldy taste.
