Many housewives every summer take care to delight their relatives with tasty and vitamin preparations prepared in their own hands in winter. Fruit and berry
compotes for the winter, the recipes of which are passed on from generation to generation, are the best canned goods. They retain almost completely the natural smell, taste and vitamins of the fruits used. For such harvesting, one type is used, as well as a variety of mixtures of garden gifts, which are ripened at the summer cottage or sold on the market. We offer to cook compote from bird cherry. This is a fairly simple and tasty canned recipe. No matter how many cans you roll, they will still be few.
Stewed bird cherry. Beneficial features
Black berries have a tart aftertaste and a bit harsh to the touch. They make an excellent sweet drink. The fruits themselves taste like boiled cherries. They contain tannins, acids, vitamins, which, when preserved, are fully preserved. In addition, bird cherry is an indispensable tool in the treatment of various infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, colitis, diarrhea. Juice is used for fever and metabolic disorders. Compote itself, having undergone heat treatment, does not lose its beneficial properties.
How to make compote from bird cherry?
To enjoy this wonderful drink, you need to do simple steps. Having collected only ripe berries, immediately proceed to their processing. Bird cherry need to sort out and rinse thoroughly under cool running water. Excess water to drain. As already mentioned, the berries are quite hard, so they blanch no more than 3 minutes. After heat treatment, the fruits are transferred to the dishes, where the compote will be prepared.
The next step is the preparation of syrup (for 1.2 liters of water we take up to 1 kg of berries and a gram of 300 sugar). Mix everything and bring to a boil, then pour the prepared bird cherry with the prepared syrup and leave it to insist under the lid for about 5 hours. We do not waste time and prepare jars. They should be washed thoroughly with soda and steam sterilized for several minutes.
As soon as the specified time has passed, and the berries are infused, the syrup must be drained and brought to a boil over high heat. To spread bird cherry on a sterilized container. Next, fill the berries in jars with boiling syrup. The liquid should even pour out of the tank so that there is no air. Ready compote from bird cherry must be hermetically sealed. To be sure of the density of seaming, banks are turned upside down. If everything is in order, they are wrapped until completely cooled.
Other possibilities of bird cherry
But not only compote from bird cherry is cooked in the summer by housewives in their kitchens. This wonderful black berry is also consumed raw and dried, and powdered. From its fruits, delicious jam and excellent filling for pies are obtained. In the confectionery industry, bird cherry flour is used , which is added to the dough for gingerbread, pies. Fans of homemade alcoholic beverages use berries to make aromatic liquors and tinctures.