The healing properties of a small yellow berry are known from ancient times - it is literally filled with vitamins, which is especially valuable during the winter period. Sea buckthorn is easy to save for the winter, and today we will get acquainted with several recipe blanks.
Collection and selection of fruits
Fruits begin collect as ripening: they should be a rich yellow-orange color, it is desirable to prevent over-ripening, then the berries will be crushed during the harvest. Collection time - the beginning of autumn.
The product is collected in several ways: cut off from the branches or cut together with the shoots, use any devices.
The first method is used more often, although it takes a lot of time, but the tree does not suffer, and all the berries are cut off intact. Sometimes they use tools in the form of combs and simply "comb" the berries, making the process faster.
Second way good for freezing: branches together with berries put in the freezer - then it is easier to tear off the berries. The disadvantage of this method is that by cutting the branches, you can harm the tree.
Important! You need to pick berries in an apron or old clothes: the juice of the plant is very corrosive, it is difficult to wash it.
In any case, for harvesting select intact berries, clearing them from debris, the fruit stalk, then gently wash.
Product freeze
Frozen sea buckthorn is the simplest preparation for the winter. Washed and dried berries are packaged in any convenient containers: small containers, plastic cups or bags. The main thing is to freeze the product in portions, for a single use, because it is not worth re-freezing the thawed berry.
The portions are put in the freezer and used later in many dishes. From the frozen raw materials they cook various drinks, make desserts, sauces for main dishes and so on.
How to dry sea buckthorn for the winter
Dried berry is no less useful than fresh - it does not lose its properties. Of the dried raw materials often prepare drinks.
Drying fruits
The fruits of sea buckthorn are sorted, removed garbage. The washed fruits are dried on a flat surface in a dry room that is ventilated or in electric dryers. Often, together with the berries, dried twigs and leaves, they also contain many useful things. Store raw materials in fabric bags, best of all from natural fabric: it is well ventilated.
You can also dry for the winter: apples, pears, plums, hawthorn, apricots, dog rose, sunberry, dill, cilantro, butter, milk mushrooms.
Leaf Tea
Leaf tea, besides being fragrant, also has healing and prophylactic properties: it is useful to drink in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, for the elasticity of blood vessels and the prevention of blood clots, against viruses and infections.
Prepare tea as follows: for one cup of boiling water, take a tablespoon of leaves, the mixture is steamed in an enamel bowl with a lid. They drink the drink as usual tea, and as a sweetener it is better to use honey. This tea can be prepared with spices: anise, cinnamon, ginger.
Did you know? The healing properties of sea buckthorn are mentioned in the writings of Ancient Tibet and China. According to some data, 200,000 hectares of yellow berry bushes were planted in China from the 50s to 85 to preserve the soil. XX century. And for the best result, Chinese athletes at the Olympics-88 before the competition were given sea buckthorn drinks.
Sea buckthorn grated with sugar
Sea buckthorn with sugar is a classic recipe for harvesting for the winter. Both ingredients are taken in equal quantities: for 2 kg of fruit - the same amount of sugar. The berries are pre-washed and dried, then both components are ground with a meat grinder or blender into a homogeneous mixture. The finished mass is placed in sterile jars, covered with parchment.
Jam with honey, sugar - recipes for winter
Recipe number 1
For this recipe sea buckthorn jam for the winter will need:
- nuts - 200 g;
- honey - 1.5 kg;
- berries - 1 kg.
Prepare the berries: wash and dry; chop the nuts into a flour blender. Bring honey to a boil, stirring regularly, add nuts, boil for about five minutes. Reduce heat and, adding the fruits of sea buckthorn, boil for another 15 minutes. Hot jam spread on banks.
Recipe number 2
A liter of honey and a kilogram of sea buckthorn using a blender to kill to a homogeneous mass. The mixture is decomposed into sterile jars. Such a jam without cooking allows you to save the benefits in full, not only in the berries, but also in honey.
You can also make jam from gooseberries, cherries, melons, tomatoes, chokeberries, yoshty, squash, viburnum, cranberries.
Recipe number 3
You will need:
- 1 kg of berries;
- 1.3 kg of sugar;
- 250 ml of water.
Important! Sterilization of cans, as well as lids, held before jam jam. The jam is placed in hot jars and left to cool, turning upside down.
Making drinks
Drinks from yellow fruit perfectly quench thirst thanks to the characteristic sour taste.
Juice preparation
To prepare natural juice without sweeteners, the fruit is squeezed in a juicer. The resulting juice is heated and cleaned in clean jars for 20 minutes, then rolled up with lids.
Sweet juice is prepared as follows: for 2.5 liters of the juice obtained from pressed berries, syrup is prepared (half a kilogram of sugar per liter of water). Mix the juice and syrup, poured into jars, pasteurized and closed.
Compote recipes
Sea buckthorn compote for the winter is often linked with other fruits or berries, for example, with apples.
Recipe number 1
Sea buckthorn and apples are taken in a ratio of 1 to 2, water and sugar - 1 to 1. To equalize the sour taste of sea buckthorn, apples are better to choose sweet varieties. First you need to wash and prepare the fruit, cut the apples into slices. Spread the products at the bottom of the cans. Prepare the syrup and pour into the container, pasteurize for 20 minutes.
Recipe number 2
Per kilogram of sea buckthorn take four cups of sugar and two liters of water. Washed fruits fall asleep in sterile jars at a third of the height, pour the cooked syrup. Pasteurized, rolled covers.
Did you know? The ancient Greeks called sea buckthorn the favorite food of the mythical horse Pegasus. They also noticed that horses, chewing branches and berries of the plant, wool and mane become silky and shiny.
Jelly, candy, puree and other sweets recipes
For jelly squeeze juice from the berries. Per liter of juice take 4 cups of sugar. In an enamel or glassware, cook the components on a slow fire, stirring and removing the foam. The mass in the process is boiled down to one third of the initial volume. On banks spill hot, roll up.
Sea buckthorn jam without cooking
The proportions of the ingredients take one to one. Pure berries are passed twice through the juicer press, the resulting juice in a deep bowl is filled with sugar. The mixture is left for 12 hours, from time to time stir. When the mixture has a jelly consistency, it is placed in sterile jars and sent to storage in a refrigerator. This jam can be used as topping for desserts.
Sea-buckthorn puree
Washed fruits (1 kg) are placed in a cooking container, poured a glass of water, heated to the softness of the fruit. Then they are thoroughly kneaded, returned to the dishes, covered with sugar (4 cups) and put on a small fire. Bringing to the boil is not necessary - the main thing is that the sugar dissolves. Then placed in jars and rolled.
Paste
Prepared fruits (1 kg) with a glass of quince juice are simmered until the liquid is doubled and the berries are softened. A lot of mash and fray through a sieve. Then add sugar (3 cups) and boil until it is dissolved, add a cup of chopped nuts.
Important! It is advisable to add the juice of fruits with gelling properties: quince or currants, apples to the marshmallow marshmallow.The mass is evenly placed in a rectangular baking dish on the parchment and placed in an oven preheated to 50 ° C for an hour. When the pastille is ready, it is cooled with the door open, without taking it out of the oven. The finished product is cut into pieces of the desired size and shape, decorated with the supply.
Marmalade
A pound of fruit, eight glasses of sugar and a glass of water are boiled for half an hour on low heat, and when they start to boil, they are removed from the heat. A bag (25 g) of gelatin is pre-soaked with water and left to swell. Boil the mass in the pan to remove, cool and grind through a sieve from large pieces, put again on the fire.
Absorbed water gelatin is added to the fruit syrup and, stirring, brought to dissolve in the mass. The finished marmalade is poured into molds and left to cool.
Sea buckthorn is a unique fruit, it is not for nothing that pharmacologists use it to create many medicines, and there is nothing to say about traditional medicine. Vitamin-rich berries with regular use and fresh, and harvested for the winter will significantly increase the body's resistance to various diseases.
