Kissel can be considered a national dish of Russian cuisine. Some other peoples borrowed his recipe, but adapted to their own tastes. Severe Germans add cloves to it, and romantic Frenchmen add vanillin. In ancient times, it was one of the favorite desserts - even in Russian fairy tales, milk rivers have jelly banks. Cranberry kissel, the recipe for which is simple, did not appear immediately. At first, the drink was prepared from cereals, the most famous is oat, but our ancestors ate pea, rye, wheat jelly. They were sour in taste and had a not too attractive grayish color. Later, starch was added to them, and honey, berries, jam, syrups were used as a sweetener. It is useful for children - it was no accident that they used to give it to children for breakfast in kindergarten. It is recommended for people suffering from peptic ulcer, gastritis with high acidity. In Russia, cranberries were preferred to all other kissels.
Cranberry jelly. Recipe
In order to cook a healthy cranberry jelly, you need to take berries, sugar, starch and water. First you need to make sugar syrup. To do this, sugar is dissolved in cold water. The resulting solution is put on fire, brought, often stirring, to a boil. Juice is squeezed out of cranberries. Next, a spoonful of starch is diluted in a glass of boiled chilled water, everything is thoroughly mixed. Starch solution is poured into boiling sugar syrup while stirring. After a minute, turn off. Stir until the mass becomes thick, then pour cranberry juice.
Cranberry jelly for a child
Young children eat better if the dish is not only tasty, but also beautiful. For them, you can cook cranberry jelly "with snowflakes." To prepare it, you need to take a liter of water, a glass of cranberries, 8 tablespoons (those who do not like sweets, can take less) granulated sugar, 5 tablespoons of potato starch, 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar.
How to cook cranberry jelly for kids
Wash cranberries, pour boiling water for several minutes, drain it. Squeeze the juice from the softened berries. Pour cold water into the pan, add cranberry meal, stir. Wait until it boils, cook for about 5 minutes. Then strain through a wire sieve. Add sugar to the resulting broth, bring to a boil again. Put potato starch into a glass, add water, stir. You should get 1 cup of starch solution, which you need to pour in a thin stream into boiling sugar syrup. Do not forget to stir all the time so that no lumps arise. With such proportions, the jelly turns out to be thick. Turn off the fire, let it cool. After 10 minutes add the squeezed cranberry juice to the jelly. Mix well, cool. At this time, take the bowls, moisten their sides with water, and then lower them in granulated sugar, so that it seems that their walls are covered with hoarfrost. Pour cooled jelly into them, and lay snowflakes from a thin layer of icing sugar on top.
What is useful
Cranberry jelly, the recipe for which is simple, contains a large amount of acetylsalicylic and ascorbic acid, so it can be used for colds and flu. He can quench not only thirst, but also hunger. Cranberry jelly, the recipe of which was developed specifically for baby food and described above, is tasty and healthy.