Chokeberry - a tasty, healthy berry, especially with high blood pressure. Billets from it are great for ice cream, pancakes and pancakes. Syrup can be added to tea, you can brew compote or drink from it. Yes, you never know what a skilled housewife would come up with if in her refrigerator or pantry there are treasured jars with all sorts of goodies!
Rowan syrup with almond extract
To begin with, we will discuss what is made from
chokeberry. Almost everything is the same as from other berries. Pouring and even wine, juice, compote, jam, jelly, jam. It is dried, and thus harvested for the winter. And that’s not all! The offered
chokeberry syrup
, the recipe of which you will now learn, is interesting in that, in addition to berries, it includes almond extract. Amount of ingredients: 600-700 g of berries, the same amount of sugar, a quarter of a teaspoon of almond supplement (buy at the store). If you have almond liquor, it will do well. To prepare syrup from chokeberry, the recipe requires the berries to be sorted, washed, poured into a cast iron, filled with water so that they are completely covered with it, and cook for about half an hour. For faster softening of mountain ash, cover the cauldron with a lid. Discard the finished berries in a colander and wipe through a thick sieve. Transfer the mashed potatoes again to the cast iron, add sugar, stir and let the drink boil. Boil another 5-10 minutes of chokeberry syrup. The recipe further prescribes to remove the iron from the stove, pour in the almond extract or liquor (you can take a teaspoon), pour it hot into sterile jars (do not add to the edge of your finger) and roll it up.
Rowan syrup with lemon juice
Rowan delicacies can be prepared for the winter in different ways. The main thing is to preserve all the vitamins and minerals that make up the main, in addition to taste, the value of berries. For example, a wonderful drink is chokeberry syrup, the recipe of which includes another useful ingredient - lemon. For 1.5 kg of berries you will need 1.3 kg of sugar, half a glass of fresh lemon juice, 1 pack of pectin (buy in a store). Pour the rowan with water and boil for 15 minutes over medium heat. Then squeeze through a press or manually through cheesecloth. Add the juice to the broth, dilute the pectin in it, pour in the sugar. Stir and, while stirring, let the syrup boil. Pour in
lemon juice, boil without reducing the heat for 2-3 minutes and pour into sterile jars. Roll it up, let it cool and take it to the pantry: you have an elixir of health!
Rowan with apples
If you are thinking about what to make from chokeberry, we offer aromatic and tasty compote with a light, pleasant astringency and a slight acidity. Ingredients: 1 kilogram of berries and apples, 1.2 kg of sugar, a little (to taste) citric acid. Wash the fruits, cut the apples into small slices. Put both ingredients in a pan. Now syrup: dilute sugar in one and a half liters of water, pour in acid and boil for about 10 minutes, removing the foam. Add the hot fill to the fruit, cover the pan and leave to infuse for 3 hours. After that put on fire, boil for 15 minutes. Pour the finished compote into sterile jars and roll up. Turn the container upside down, wrap until cool.
When you open the treasured jars in the winter, remember the fine autumn days and rowan clusters in the sparkle of sunlight!