Seabuckthorn can be called the golden berry. It has a mass of useful properties and allows you to cope with many diseases. So you can enjoy all year round this natural remedy, you need to prepare it for future use. How can this be done? Let's find out.
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Gentle ways to keep the golden berry
In the wild sea buckthorn feed wandering birds who need to eat during the flight. For the human body berry also has a special influence. Subjecting it to a heat treatment, almost all of the nutrients are destroyed. That is why its preform may be carried by such methods that will preserve all vitamins and organic acids in an unaltered form.
Such gentle methods preform includes:
- Freeze. Before you send it for storage in the freezer, wash it, dry the, and then expanded in capacity. As the latter may make small packages, containers, plastic cups. If allowed to dry off well, it will not stick together, and it will be possible to fill in any quantity. Freezing wet berries carry a single portion, because the secondary freezing is not suitable for her.
- Drying. For this method of harvesting the crop will have to gather before frosts until the fruit is not cracked. Place them in a dark place on a table or on a tray, and then send them out to dry in the oven. For drying is also suitable special dryers.
- Dry storage in the cold. This method is suitable only if you have a dry room temperature which varies between 2-4 degrees. Spread fruit on plain paper or a sheet of plywood. If you plan to harvest and carry out pruning a bush at the same time, do not break off branches with berries. Pull the indoor rope and hang them on the branches.
- Wet cold storage. Buckthorn can be stored in a refrigerator in ordinary water or in a mixture with sugar (mix components in the ratio 1: 1). Sugar dissolve over time, eventually you'll have a "raw" jam, which retains all the valuable properties of berries.
All of these options blanks can be practiced in rural areas, and that in urban environments. The fruits can be eaten fresh or added to tea, used to decorate desserts.
Important! While the fruits are on the branches, under the influence of the cold intensified their useful properties. That is why they are recommended to pick and harvest after the arrival of frost.
Recipes with minimal processing
Bars of sea buckthorn, which have not been heat-treated, retains all the nutrients. The easiest way to keep its medicinal properties involves grinding it with sugar. Connect the fruit with sugar in equal proportions, mash using a pestle. Pour the mixture into sterile jars, cover with a clean paper and the lids.
Grated sea buckthorn supplement can be blanched or frayed apples, hawthorn. To extend shelf life, it must be pasteurized for 20-25 minutes, then cool and put the container in the refrigerator.
Sea buckthorn can cook delicious mashed useful. In this case, it will have to be subjected to low heat treatment. Place the fruit in water (its amount would be 10 times less than the berries themselves), warm but not boiling. Add the weight of the sugar, send the pasteurization and roll up.
If you have a juicer, you can make from sea buckthorn curative drink. Juice need pasteurized in jars capacity of 0.5-1 liters. Then roll up the container. This drink is likely to appeal to children, but that they are happy to drink it, it is necessary to sweeten before pasteurization. The juice has turned opaque, it can be mixed with pureed berries.
Council. You can experiment with the flavor of sea buckthorn juice. Add to drink the juice of blueberries, raspberries, blueberries and so on.
Berry classics from the compote to jelly
If your family likes different fruit drinks, you can use them for the preparation of sea buckthorn. Berries for such drink must not ripe, thus, they do not crack during heat treatment.
Buckthorn Pour hot sugar syrup into sterilized jars. The duration of pasteurization - 15 minutes. The amount of water, sugar and berries should be approximately the same. If you take half the sugar, fruit compote will be more concentrated. Sea buckthorn can be cooked fragrant colorful jam. To prepare such a treat you will need to fill 1 kg of fruit 1.2 kg of sugar and leave in a cool place for 5-6 hours. Boiled fruit in its own juice until fully cooked. In the process of cooking remove the foam - this sweetness will impress any child.
Council.If there is no time to engage in the preparation of jam, you can assign this task to multivarku. In this case, the need to set mode "longing." But note that the sweetness of the liquid will, as to evaporate under the hood it is impossible.
Jelly - dessert which is loved by adults and children. To make it, you can use the berries and fruits, in particular, sea-buckthorn. Grind the fruit, add sugar to it. After 2 chasa pour into a mixture of apple juice. Keep on heat for about 20 minutes. Then proceed to the pasteurization and seaming cans.
To dessert frozen, add the gelatin. Give it a special flavor, you can use mint leaves. Soon will come the time when you can enjoy the harvest of sea buckthorn and begin harvesting it for the winter. Take a moment, look all the recipes, choose the most suitable for you and start business. In winter, at your disposal is a natural medicine, taste and appreciate the benefits that your whole family.
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