Many housewives store useful canned food for the winter - jam, compotes and others. These products are not only tasty treats, but also allow you to get a charge from vitamins, minerals and other useful substances in the cold season. For example, compote from hawthorn. Make it easy, and the necessary ingredients for this can be found at hand. And the result will be useful both for colds and other diseases, and simply as a tasty drink.
Plant "Hawthorn"
The hawthorn plant is a medicinal one, and beneficial substances are found not only in its red fruits, but also in the leaves. Due to the presence of elements such as vitamins C and P, minerals and organic acids, choline, trimethylamine, flavonoids and others, this natural medicine is used as a strengthening and regenerating agent for the following diseases:
- heart disease: arrhythmia and others;
- disturbances in the work of the vascular system;
- diseases of the gallbladder and liver.
And the pectin content in leaves and fruits allows the use of hawthorn (there are various recipes) for poisoning the body with heavy metals.
Cooking methods
This healing agent can be used both in raw form (just fruits), and in various decoctions and tinctures. You can also prepare hawthorn compote with the addition of other fruits, such as apples.
To do this, you will need the following products:
- medium-sized apples (about 9 pieces);
- fruits of hawthorn (500 g);
- drinking water (9 l);
- sugar (1 kg).
Compote of hawthorn can be made by performing a number of the following steps.
- Preparation of apples. They need to be washed, spoiled places and stalks removed, then divided into segments, while cutting the inside with seeds.
- Training hawthorn. Remove the stalks from the fruits, wash and, if possible, divide in half.
- Syrup preparation. Boil water in a saucepan, add sugar and keep on fire for about 3 more minutes.
- The main work. Place apples and hawthorn in sterilized glass containers, pour hot syrup and clog the container.
- Put the cans with compote to cool, while they need to be turned on the lids.
Other recipes
Stewed hawthorn compote can also be prepared in another way, for this you need to peel and cut the fruits of this plant (500 g) into halves, then, having cleared the seeds, put them in a prepared glass container. Pour in pre-prepared syrup from water (1 l), citric acid (5 g) and sugar (400 g). Hold the jars in a water bath (approximately 85 ° C) for about 30 minutes, then roll up the lids.
Jam is also good from hawthorn. A recipe is known from the fruits of this plant with apples, the main points of which are presented below.
- Peel apples and divide into slices, remove cotyledons.
- Hawthorn must be cleaned from seeds.
- Pour all the ingredients with sugar and let it brew until the juice is secreted, while the ratio of all components is 1: 1: 1.
- The jam cooking process consists of several stages. Initially, the mass is heated to a boil and cooked for about 5 minutes at low heat. After 8 hours, these steps are repeated, while the mass should acquire a viscosity and rich taste. The hot mass is laid out in a prepared container and clogged.
Cooking hawthorn does not require much effort, and you can make various preparations from this useful product. The use of this medicinal product will enrich the body with vitamins and other necessary elements in the cold period and protect against the occurrence of colds and other ailments.