It's nice to enjoy a delicious drink made on a sunny summer day on a winter day. The view of the numerous jars containing stewed fruit for the winter pleases the eye, and their contents give pleasure to the stomach. Components for them can be anything. Winter compotes are prepared from fruits, berries, aromatic herbs and even vegetables. Learning how to brew such a drink, and most importantly - to keep it for a long time, you can prepare more healthy vitamins for the cold season.
The manufacturing option is quite simple. The focus should be on sterilization and the quality of fruits and berries. Taking as a basis one compote for the winter, and changing the main component, you can stock up on a variety of drinks.
Compotes for the winter from berries
We carefully sort the collected berries. We remove all wrinkled and spoiled fruits for making jam or jam. We need to take three glasses of selected berries, two glasses of granulated sugar and 2.8 liters of water. This amount is enough to roll up one three-liter jar of compote. Rinse the selected berries well, remove all extraneous garbage and put them in a prepared clean jar. Bring the water to a boil, dissolve the sugar in it and prepare the syrup, which we fill in the jar on the shoulders. We roll it up, turn it upside down and wrap it with a blanket. Leave to cool for a day. After that, you can turn the banks over and put them in the vault or in the underground.
In order to prepare compotes for the winter, you do not need to maintain a personal plot at all. All components can be bought on the market. The choice of various fruits and berries is great and there is the opportunity to cook something exotic, such as stewed oranges or kiwi jam.
Apricot compote for the winter
For its preparation, you can use both fruits with a bone, and cut in half. A three-liter jar will require 2.1 kilograms of chopped apricots, seedless, 2.5 liters of water and 2.5 cups of granulated sugar. I wash the fruits well under running water. After that, cut in half and remove the stone. Prepared apricots are placed in a clean jar. We make syrup from water and sugar. Pour it into a jar, close the boiled lids and sterilize for 40 minutes. We roll up the cans, turn it upside down, wrap it with a blanket and leave it for a day.
No less loved compotes for the winter from apples
We put the small apples in the whole jar. We cut large fruits into slices. I wash all the apples well and remove the stalk. Fill clean jars with 1/3 of the fruits. Three cups of granulated sugar will be needed for three liters of water. From them we prepare syrup, which we fill in jars. Before laying apples in jars, they should be blanched in boiling water for about five minutes. We sterilize the cans filled with syrup and fruits for about 40 minutes. Then roll up the covers and leave to cool under the covers.
If you want to give your compote a good flavor, then add seasonings or a mixture of herbs to it. They can be poured during syrup preparation, put in a jar or held in a gauze bag in syrup five minutes before being ready. Adding cinnamon, mint, lemon balm, cloves, ginger or other ingredients, you can get an interesting and rich taste of the finished drink.
If you want to make low-calorie compotes for the winter or someone in your family suffers from diabetes, then use 400 grams of xylitol or sorbitol instead of granulated sugar. The drink will turn out no less tasty and fragrant. The process of making compote is no different from the main recipe.
You can add a rich color to a drink or improve aroma by mixing various components for compote and combining fruits and berries in one jar at the same time. Adding a little cherries, cherries or chokeberries to the jar will give you a rich red tint. And putting apples or pears with them , add a little acidity to the drink.