Soaked berries recipes for the winter
Soaked berries are one of the most ancient types of canning. This method is not much different from pickling cabbage or cucumbers. Benefit this kind of processing is double big: the berries retain their vitamins, and when combined with each other, give a unique taste and Colour.
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Soaked Berry Recipes
Now urination (pickling) of berries is undergoing a second rebirth due to the discovery in soaked fruits healthy trace elements. For example, if soaked with lingonberries or cranberries apples, the content of vitamin “C” will increase by several times thanks to the urination process.
Soaked cranberries
For cooking you will need:
- Cranberry
- Water 1 L
- Sugar 4-5 tablespoons
- Salt ½ teaspoon
- Allspice 3 peas
- Cloves 4 buds
Soaked cranberries can be prepared as follows:
Sort all berries thoroughly and rinse.
Prepare the marinade: boil water, add spices, sugar and salt. Keep on fire 5-7 minutes after boiling. Cool fill.
Put the berries in a prepared enameled pan, pour cooled marinade. Top with a plate suitable for diameter of the container and put oppression.
The first 7-8 days, stand the berries at room temperature, and then transfer to a cold place.
After 30 days, the soaked cranberries are ready to eat.
Add cranberries to drinks, salads, decorate dishes or cook fancy sauces.
Soaked mountain ash
For cooking you will need:
- Rowan berries 1 kg
- Sweet and sour apples 1,5 kg
- Sugar 200 gr
- Salt 2 tablespoons
Prepare soaked mountain ash as follows:
Prepare the marinade: bring 1 liter of water to a boil, add salt, sugar and spices to taste (cloves, cinnamon). Chill pouring yes room temperature.
For apples, remove the stalk, cut in half and remove the core.
Rinse the rowan, picking up the crumpled unusable berries. At the bottom of the can with put a portion of apples with a wide neck, cover with rowan berries and put the apples again. Get three layers: apples – mountain ash – apples. Pour in the cooled syrup, put the press on top and cover with a cloth.
After 7 to 8 days, transfer to a cold place. A month later mountain ash can be eaten.
Add soaked mountain ash to tea or fruit salads, make fancy desserts.
Soaked lingonberries with apples
For cooking you will need:
- Lingonberry 5 kg
- Apples 1 kg (preferably sour)
- Water 4 L
- Sugar 1 kg
- Ground cinnamon 1-1.5 teaspoons
- Carnation 5-7 stars
You can cook soaked lingonberries with apples So:
Carefully sort ripe lingonberries, rinse in (!) cold water and drop in a colander.
Then sprinkle with a thin layer on a table covered with a napkin, to dry.
Wash the apples and remove the ponytails.
Put spices, boiling sugar in boiling water. Boil for 5-7 minutes, after which the marinade should be cooled to room temperature temperature.
In the prepared dishes, it is advisable to take ceramic barrels or clay pots, sprinkle berries with a dense layer, lay apples, and then again a layer of lingonberry. Pour in chilled sugar and spice. syrup. Cover the berries with a wooden circle, press a small load so that the lingonberry is covered with a layer syrup.
Put in a cold place, after 14 days cranberries and apples ready to eat.
Tasty ideas:
Drinks and desserts from such berries will be a full box natural vitamins in the winter. Decorate holiday dishes with berries – bright beads always attract attention!
