How to prepare liqueur "Cointreau" quickly and cheaply?

Liqueur "Cointreau" - is 40% alcohol, sweet and bitter orange flavor and aroma of herbs. French liquor costs about 1,000 rubles. for half a liter, but you can indulge in exotic drink cheaper, if you make it at home. There are a variety of recipes for liquor, which "Cointreau" aged from two weeks to three months, but if unusual spirits need you urgently, the easiest recipe can be used.

If you believe the information on this Cointreau (Cointreau) from France, it is made from different varieties of orange peel - and bitter sweet and unique flavor liquor is obtained by mixing water and sugar syrup in some top-secret proportions.

At home, for an invigorating liqueur will not need any special technology - stills, different varieties of oranges or syrup calculating proportions. As for its value, you will about 600 p. per liter - cheap, delicious and unusual.

What to buy?

• Vodka - 1 liter
• one lemon
• Three medium-sized orange
• Glass sugar (200 g)
• Black pepper in a pea
• Red pepper
• Bay leaf

Of spices you can still add the cinnamon stick.

How to cook?

1. Remove the zest. It is desirable that the color layer is removed only skin, but if too lazy to try, you can just put a crust on two oranges.

2. Mix with spices. Peel manually crushed and then put into a jar with spices: two laurel leaves, five peas of black pepper and a pinch of red pepper.

3. Adding alcohol. The aromatic substance is poured vodka and poured a cup of sugar. All this is thoroughly mixed and shaken.

4. We wait. Bottles or cans tightly closed and cleaned in a dark place for three or four days.

Lemon peel and orange gives a bitter taste, a cup of sugar provides sweetness and simple spices - flavor. In order to avoid bitterness, bay leaves can be removed in two to three hours.

Ready to drink, do not forget to add ice cubes. By the way, this home also becomes turbid liquor while adding the ice, like a real French drink.