A collection of recipes for making homemade tinctures that surpass the taste and dignity of many foreign wines and sweet liquors, for a price incomparably cheap, especially for owners of fruit orchards. Tinctures with apples, pears, cherries, raspberries, strawberries, currants, plums, apricots, grapes, almonds, caraway seeds, lemons, Pomeranians, peaches, anise, cloves and other fruits are described.