Wiped cranberries for the winter

The body always requires vitamins, especially in winter. All that is necessary to maintain a strong immunity during the season of cold and viral diseases, is in one berry - cranberries. It contains many useful substances that help to be alert and active. The best option for harvesting this berries is cranberries, wiped with sugar for the winter. This delicacy is not only a storehouse of vitamins, but also a very tasty dessert, which will appeal to both children and adults alike. Cowberry is endowed with benzoic acid, which allows it to retain useful properties for a long time and an externally attractive appearance.

Preparing product

For billets for winter, you need to pick up ripe, beautiful berries. Do not allow the presence of spoiled.

Sprigs and leaves must be cut off. It is important to thoroughly wash every cowberry. To do this, you can place the fruits in a large container, fill with water. Repeat the procedure several times. Or wash under the tap with a gentle pressure, so as not to damage the berries.

Throw in a colander and allow the fluid to drain. After cranberries are well dried, spread on a towel or cotton cloth. Before further preparation, the fruits should be absolutely dry.

Ways to prepare cranberries

You can obtain the mashed berries using various techniques and techniques.

• Most often try to use a blender. It is convenient, less juice is sprayed, the consistency is homogeneous.
• Meat grinder is also popular. Only you need to use the smallest strainer. And put the bag on the meat grinder to keep the walls and the table clean.
• Rubbing berries through a sieve is a painstaking job. To do it better in gloves, juice can be badly washed off hands.
• Using tolkushki also produces an excellent result. But a little physical effort will still have to be applied.
• Food processor is easy to use and convenient. Suitable for preparation of a large volume of product.

A blank of mashed berries can be obtained using a technique without heat treatment or by boiling the product. The method of harvesting the wiped cranberries without cooking is good in that so the product retains more vitamins. Significantly reduces the time for cooking, do not have to stand for hours at the stove and constantly stir the delicacy.

Without cooking

This method of making berries with sugar consists in their distribution on the jars by layers.

1. The selected berries are washed and dried. Grind with any technique.
2. Next to the bottom of the jars you must fill 2 tablespoons.of granulated sugar. Place cranberries on top, about 2 cm in height. Then again sugar and so on, until the pot is filled to the neck. The last layer should be sugar.
3. The container is closed with a lid and stored in a cellar or refrigerator.

Excellent option for filling flour products. And also such a preparation goes to pancakes, pancakes.

There is another recipe for cooking the product without heat treatment.

1. Prepared berries are placed in a convenient dish. They fall asleep with sugar. For 1 kg of cowberry it is better to take 2 kg of granulated sugar. A smaller amount of sweet component is also allowed, but then the product may differ somewhat bitterly.
2. The resulting mixture is ground on a blender. Then the workpiece is left for a couple of hours. During this time, it is necessary to stir the mass periodically with a wooden spatula. When all the sugar is dissolved, you can distribute the delicacy to the banks. They are pre-sterilized. Next, close tightly with lids and sent to the refrigerator.

Cooking of the wiped cranberries

To save vitamins will turn out and at short, easy thermal processing.

1. First you need to boil water. For 1 kg of berries you need about 1 liter of water.
2. Fill the selected fruit of lingonberry in boiling liquid.
3. Cook the mixture until the moment when all the berries are broken.
4. Then cranberries are thrown back to the colander and drain the liquid.
5. Then put it back in a saucepan, add sugar( 200 g) and a little cinnamon for taste.
6. Stir and cook over low heat until the first signs of boiling.
7. In a refrigerated form, spread out on sterilized glass jars.

This product can stand in the cellar for several years. And if you carefully sterilize the jars, then subject to the same process of harvesting, then you can keep such a treat even in a warm place. Sugar allows the product not to freeze in the cold. You can keep the banks on the balcony.

With orange

Cowberry with citrus is an excellent duet. The billet is distinguished by its original taste and pleasant color.

1. Cowberry, sugar and oranges take in a 1: 1: 1 ratio.
2. Berries pick, wash, dry. Oranges, too, wash, cut into slices. Remove the seeds. Peel is not necessary to clean. With zest, the preparation is more delicious.
3. Cowberry and oranges are placed in a bowl and ground with a blender.
4. Then add sugar and gently rub. The resulting mixture is spread over the cans and covered with lids. Leave until the winter in the refrigerator.

Crimson cowberry for

meat. Cranberries are a unique berry. It is combined even with meat dishes. Of the wiped fruits make an excellent sauce, spicy to taste. Here is the prescription.

1. It is necessary to prepare a sauté pan in which berries will be brewed. They are sorted, washed and boiled in water until they boil. A glass of water will be required for 500 g of lingonberry.
2. Then the fruit is boiled for 5 minutes, and then grinded with a blender.
3. Add wine( 100 ml) to the mixture. Put on the fire and cook again.
4. After you need to pour 150 grams of sugar and a little cinnamon.
5. For a more dense condition, add starch( 1 tablespoon) to the workpiece.
6. Once the mixture boils, it is removed from the heat.

The workpiece is laid out in sterilized jars. Roll up the lids. This sauce is ideal for any kind of meat. The best option for shish kebab from pork. Fill the mixture with a warm salad of vegetables.

Storage conditions

If lingonberry with sugar was not subjected to heat treatment, then it is necessary to store a jar with it only in the refrigerator. When the container was sterilized, and the product itself went through the cooking process, such a delicacy will survive and not deteriorate even at room temperature.

Shelf life of the dried lingonberry is 1 year.

Secrets of harvesting cowberries

Rubbed cowberry with sugar is a stand-alone product that does not require cooking. A jar of delicacy is simply taken out in winter and consumed in this form. But in order to get a good quality, you need to follow certain rules.

• Not a single spoiled berry is allowed. She can spoil all the dessert. Such a product will not last long.
• If the treat is cooked without cooking, then the container must be sterilized. Make it simple. First, the banks wash with baking soda, then go to the microwave for a few minutes. So they are sterilized and dry.
• Tara is better to take a small amount.
• The treat should be removed with a clean spoon and the lid closed again, leaving the jar in the refrigerator.
• In addition to cranberries in the jar, there may be other berries, as well as apples and pears. Use a variety of spices and additives for a more spicy pronounced taste: cinnamon, honey, vanilla sugar, cloves, wine, lemon juice.

Using rubbed cowberry

Berries, rubbed with sugar, can be consumed in the form in which they are. Eat directly from a spoon, washing down with tea.

Or you can use it as a filling for baking and desserts. Garnish with cranberries ice cream or jelly. Add to compote or kissel. Many like such sweet additions to meat or fish dishes.

Blanks for the winter