How to cook viburnum for the winter: 8 ways

How to cook viburnum for the winter? Someone will say: why save it? Vaughn on a bush outside the window hanging. Interesting, and you saw a bush? Usually by mid-November, all the berries are pecked by feathered comrades. People have nothing left.

Therefore, in the winter to enjoy the healthy berries, you need to take care of this in advance. In total there are 4 types of cooking viburnum:

• frost
• drying
• fresh storage
• heat treatment

All methods are good and allow you to save the maximum amount of vitamins. Consider each in detail.

Freeze viburnum

Usually berries ripen in September. But many are in no hurry to tear them off. Only with the arrival of the first frosts begins collecting viburnum. But it makes no sense to wait for the cold if you are going to store viburnum in the freezer. She will lose all her bitterness already.

For this you need to scour the scissors with scissors.Some sources ask to be careful not to lose the berries. We assure that they hold onto the branches tightly enough, so you can not stand on ceremony with shaking. But the skin of the viburnum is thin, so crush the berry easy. With this you need to be careful.

Houses are first shaken up with a brush or sorted to remove insects and small debris. Then gently straight with the twigs washed in three waters. Or rinsed under clean running water.

Now we need to dry Kalina. Just do not put brushes on old wallpaper, as some articles suggest. They absorb moisture very slowly. Better to lay several layers of paper towels or newspapers. It is even more convenient to use for these purposes the old thick towel. It is for other berries amiss.

After drying, they take a wide baking sheet or tray, but such that they fit freely in the freezer. They cover it with dense polyethylene, then berries are laid out (torn off with brushes), in a layer of about 0.7-1 cm. They are put in the freezer.

After 46-48 minutes, the skin of the viburnum is already enough to catch the frost. Now you can carefully pour the blank into a zip-bag or food container for deeper freezing. On the baking tray is placed a new batch of berries, the process is repeated.

If you freeze the entire volume at once, then in the winter it is likely to get not crumbly berries, but a monolithic piece of pulp and juice from the bins of the refrigerator. Then you have to immediately use the entire stock. Or arm a chisel and a sledgehammer to break away the right amount.

Council Be sure to store frozen viburnum in airtight containers. The smell of socks that haven't been washed in the freezer for a long time is not a pleasant thing. Namely, this vibe has viburnum in all forms. But useful.

Dry Kalina

The easiest method to cook viburnum for the winter - to dry it. To do this, it is not necessary to tear off each berry separately. You can cut the brush with scissors and tie them in small bunches. Now it remains only to hang them in a warm dry barn or in the attic.

What should those who live in a block of flats do and have no attic space in stock? Dry viburnum for the winter can be on the balcony or loggia. Weighed and forgotten. In winter, they remembered, went, scored as needed.

A regular oven or electric dryer also helps in this matter. Only in this case will have to remove the berries from the twigs.

The refrigerator with the function "but frost" perfectly dries out any berries or greens.Select one shelf for such purposes. As a rule, in such refrigerators they are glass. They laid out a newspaper, poured the berries in a thin layer. Top cover with another layer of newspaper or tissue paper. Leave for 6-8 days. Stir periodically. Then dried berries will only be poured into a prepared container.

The advantage of this method of cooking viburnum for the winter:

• There is no dust in the refrigerator like in the attic.
• No insects or birds can get to the berries
• Cold drying retains most of the vitamins.

The disadvantage of this method is only one. The notorious smell of viburnum! But, if you calmly eat berries, then bear the aroma in the refrigerator for a week.

Council Dried viburnum is beautifully stored at room temperature in paper bags or glass jars. For example, in a kitchen cabinet or dry closet.

Keep Kalina fresh

One of the advantages of this magic berry is the ability to kill putrefactive bacteria and mold spores. Has anyone seen mold viburnum on a bush? This feature can be used for cooking viburnum for the winter.

You will need:

• scissors
• clean dry cans
• sealed covers
• White paper
• old towel

Procedure. Choose a fine autumn day. Scissors cut brushes of viburnum and carry home. There they are laid out on white paper to sort out possible debris and insects.

Then spread out the old unnecessary towel, gently cut off the berries on it. The fabric will absorb the juice that has come out. If, by carelessness, crushed berries are obtained, they can be postponed. Then make juice or jelly.

After half an hour, when the dangling berries dry, they are poured into clean, dry jars. Now they are put in the fridge for 2 hours to cool completely. And only then you can close the sealed lids. If we neglect this item, then condensation will appear in the jars, the berries can be soaked.

After all preparations, you can put the jars in storage in the refrigerator. If everything is done correctly, then viburnum, prepared in this way for the winter, lives perfectly up to six months.

Council For greater precaution you can sterilize the lids and jars. Just before use, they must be completely dry. But often this is superfluous, the berries have antibacterial properties.

Cooking viburnum for the winter

Despite the wide choice, the most popular method of cooking is heat treatment. From viburnum you can make a great many beautiful and useful pieces. Below are the classic recipes. You can vary them at will or adapt them to your taste. For example, add other fruits, spices or berries.

Raw jam
On a glass jar of 1 liter will need about 250 grams of sugar, berries - how much will go. The cooking process is extremely simple. Pour a layer of berries 2 cm, then 1 cm of sugar. And so to the top. The jar is periodically shaken, the sugar is poured into a thin stream.

Everything can now be closed with a plastic lid and put it in the fridge. After some time in a jar will be a delicious syrup with whole berries. By the way, such preparation is stored up to 2 years.

Council Do not store raw jam in the cellar or basement, it can ferment.

Classic Jam
For 1 kg of berries you will need 250 ml of pure water and 1 kg of granulated sugar. Kalina is freed from brushes, then washed with cold water and dried. At the same time, boiled syrup from sugar and water. As soon as boils, turn off and pour the berries.Gently mix with a wooden spoon or spatula. Allow to cool for about 6 hours.

Then put on a small fire and boil to the desired thickness. As a rule, 32-34 minutes is enough. Do not forget to remove the foam! Then hot is poured into sterilized jars and rolled with metal lids.

Such preserves are beautifully stored in the basement, cellar or a cool pantry for over a year.

Council Instead of the usual tin lids with an elastic band, you can take a screw cap "twist". They perfectly keep tightness without additional elastic bands.

The juice
For 1 kg of berries you need to take 250 ml of pure water and 200 g of sugar. Kalina is pre-frozen, so she will give more juice. Then the raw material is poured into an enamel saucepan, water is poured and boiled for 6-8 minutes.

Now it is necessary to rub the received mass through a hair sieve, pour in granulated sugar. Bring to a boil, boil until sugar is completely dissolved. Then poured into clean dry bottles or cans, hermetically sealed.

Viburnum juice is well kept in a cool place in winter. This may be a refrigerator, basement, underground floor, warmed balcony.

Council Sugar can be replaced with natural honey.The calculation is simple: 100 g of sugar are replaced with 2 tbsp. l liquid honey. Such a replacement is absolutely not affected by the quality and duration of storage.

Candied fruit
You need 500 g of clean, washed, dried berries, 10 g of potato starch and 150 g of powdered sugar. Kalina is gently mixed with sugar and starch, then laid out on a wide baking sheet. Pre-covered with baking paper. It is better to take a siliconized, practically nothing sticks to it. The layer of berries should be no more than 1.2 cm.

Baking tray in the oven. Drying takes about 11-13 hours at a temperature of 55-65 ° C and always with the door ajar. After that, candied fruits should cool down. Then they are poured into glass jars with a ground-in lid.

This viburnum is well stored at room temperature. The main thing is to try to protect the banks from a sharp temperature drop. Otherwise, condensation forms, and the candied fruits turn into an unappetizing sticky mass.

Council Instead of an oven, you can use an electric dryer. Only be sure to set the mesh for pastila. Without it, powdered sugar will crumble on the fan inside the dryer. Temperature 70 ° C, time 7-7.5 hours.

Paste
2 kg of viburnum, 0.5 liters of pure water, 2 kg of sugar. The berries are frozen, then boiled in water until soft (about 12-14 minutes). The resulting mass is rubbed through a hair sieve or squeezed through two layers of gauze. Then add sugar and boil on the smallest fire. When the mass becomes similar in texture to thick jelly, the fire is turned off.

The baking sheet is covered with parchment paper and the mixture is poured with a layer of not more than 6 mm. In the oven, the marshmallow dries, as does the candied fruit. Time and temperature are the same. In an electric dryer, the pastille is poured on a special mesh.

After cooking pastila from viburnum is stored in cardboard boxes or paper bags. It can be rolled, cut into rhombus or squares.

Council Sprinkle the pastilla on both sides with a thin layer of powdered sugar. This will give the blank a finished look and extend its shelf life. By the way, it makes the whole 8 months, at observance of temperature condition and optimum humidity of air.

Valuable tips

1. To make raw jam it is not necessary to take sugar. Kalina can pour honey. Proportions on 2 parts of berries - 1 part of a bee gift.
2. Try during the preparation of viburnum for the winter to use only glass, wooden or enameled dishes. Copper, metal or aluminum can strongly oxidize vitamins. Then it will turn out just a sweet delicacy, with virtually no benefit.
3. If you do not dry the puree of viburnum, achieving transformation into a marshmallow, then you can simply roll it up in jars. In winter, it remains to get such a billet and enjoy the wonderful ... marmalade!

How to cook viburnum for the winter? After our advice, this question will no longer worry you. Just choose any suitable method and go ahead, for the preparation of vitamins and nutrients.

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