Cowberry annually brings a big harvest of its berries. Each housewife tries to provide for her family a stock of these useful berries for the winter. Recipes for bilberry harvest have gained great popularity due to the pleasant astringent taste and healing properties of its fruits. Freshly picked berries cranberries, even at room temperature, will not spoil for at least ten days. However, for a longer period of storage it is necessary to use special recipes for bilberry harvesting.
The recipe for bilberry jam.
Clean washed berries cranberries are placed in a basin and poured hot sugar syrup. The concentration of sugar in the syrup should be at least 80% by weight (for the preparation of 1 liter of this syrup you need to take 0.3 liters of water and 1.2 kg of sugar). For 1 kg of berryberry berries you need to take 0.5 liters of syrup. If desired, you can add a little seasonings - cinnamon, cloves or lemon crust. Then put the pelvis on the stove and boil the contents on low heat until ready. Cooled cowberry jam with a wooden spoon is placed in cans, which are covered with a layer of parchment paper, and then tightly closed with a lid or tightly bound with a firm thread.
The recipe for stewed compote from cowberry.
To prepare compote from cowberry, the collected berries are carefully sorted, releasing them from the leaves and twigs. Cowberry washed and placed in a jar, and then poured hot sugar syrup (the sugar concentration in the syrup should be about 30-40% by weight). Then the cans are rolled up with lids, and after that pasteurization is carried out for 20 minutes at a water temperature of 90 ° C. After cooling, the billet stock is stored in a basement or other cool room.
The recipe for the production of cowberry juice.
In the juice extracted from cranberries, add sugar syrup from the calculation of 0.3 liters of syrup per 1 liter of cowberry juice. The sugar concentration in the syrup should be about 40% by weight. The final product after the addition of the syrup will contain about 15% of the sugar. However, before consumption, harvested cowberry juice can be diluted slightly with chilled boiled water, as the product will have a rather high acidity.
The recipe for bilberry lard.
Berries cranberries are covered in an enamel pot, then poured with syrup (to make syrup in 1 liter of water, dissolve half a teaspoon of salt and 2 tablespoons of sugar). Then the contents of the pan are brought to a boil, and then cooled. Keep the wet cow in the refrigerator.