Cowberry in own juice is a great wayprepare the most useful forest berries for the winter. In addition, you can make it without sugar - if you do not like sweets, or just want to use berries for cooking morsels and kissels. Of course, it will be delicious with sugar. Also, cranberries are harvested for the winter in other ways (we will tell you how to make a simple berry stock without cooking in order to preserve the maximum amount of vitamins). About how to maximally effectively preserve the berry before the winter cold, read further in our article.
Lingonberry in own juice without sugar
Making the workpiece is incredibly simple:wash and sort the berries, put them in jars to the top and cover with boiling water. Cool a little, close the lids and sterilize: for large three-liter jars you need 20 minutes, for smaller containers - 10-15 minutes.
Lingonberry in its own juice with sugar
For cooking you will need:
- 1 kilo of lingonberries (respectively, if you have more berries, increase the proportions);
- 200 grams of sugar.
Wash the berry, put it in a saucepan and send tooven to languish - lingonberry should give juice, drain it. After boil the liquid with sugar for 10 minutes. Spread the fruit on the jars, cover with the resulting juice, cover and sterilize. So cranberries will be beautifully stored until spring.
Lingonberry in own juice: an unusual recipe with apples
At 1 kilogram of fresh, washed and sorted berries you will need:
- a pound of fresh apples;
- 300 g of granulated sugar;
- 400-500 g (2 glasses) of clean drinking water.
Put the berries in the pan, pour the indicatedamount of water and put on the stove. Bring to a boil and boil for 3-5 minutes. Then, through a colander, transfer the lingonberry water to another pan and leave the berries themselves in a sieve. Now rinse fragrant, juicy apples, peel off seeds and peel, cut into slices or cubes. Bring the boiled lingonberry broth to the boil, put the fruit in it, pour out the sugar and cook for 5-10 minutes. There after the specified time, lay the lingonberries and cook another 5 minutes. Ready - turn off the gas, cool a little and spread the resulting compote in banks.
Lingonberry with sugar: do the supply without cooking
Another way to keep a berry until a long winter -cook out of it in store. And for it you can use not only lingonberries, but also add to it citrus fruits - lemon or orange, other berries, for example, cranberries, or spices for flavor. And the workpiece itself is done as follows. Take:
- 1 kilo of lingonberries;
- 1 kilogram of granulated sugar.
Mix the berries with sugar.Someone gives her to stand for a couple of hours, and someone starts to prepare immediately. After the lingonberry mass, chop up with an immersion blender or using a meat grinder, spread on sterilized jars and send to storage. You can also add to taste a couple of sweet oranges, pre-cleared from seeds and crushed in a blender, or half a lemon. It will be very tasty if you put in a bit of cinnamon, ground cloves or any other fragrant spice. To make your health strong and in winter, stir a tablespoon of the blank in a glass of warm water and drink. So you will provide the body with a daily dose of vitamin C, as well as a host of other beneficial substances that will support your immunity and prevent a cold.
