Cranberries are one of the most useful berries of the north of Russia, a real storehouse of vitamins. How to store cranberries for winter? This is not difficult at all. Due to the large content of natural preservative - benzoic acid - cranberries naturally retain their useful properties during the year. Berries are enough to spread out on cans, pour ordinary boiled water, cover with parchment and tie with a stiff string. In this form, in a dark cool place, the wet cranberry can easily stand until the next harvest. How else can you prepare cranberries for the winter? Morse and compote, jelly and jam, jam and liqueurs - you can cook anything from this berry. You can see for yourself if you try the recipes that we have selected for you.
Cranberry with sugar for the winter
Ingredients:
- cranberry - 1 kg;
- sugar - 1 kg.
Preparation
Berries are sorted, washed and dried. Crush cranberries in a blender, fill it with sugar and mix. Cover with gauze and leave for the night on the table in the kitchen. In the morning, when the sugar is completely dissolved, we shift the cranberries along the sterile jars, close them with glass or capron caplets and store it in the refrigerator all winter.
Jam from cranberries for the winter
Ingredients:
- cranberry - 1 kg;
- sugar - 1,5 kg;
- walnuts (chipped) - 300 g.
Preparation
The kernels of walnuts are poured with boiling water for half an hour, then we throw it back to the colander and let it drain. Fracture the nuts into quarters. Clean, washed cranberries fall asleep in a saucepan, add sugar to it (can be replaced with an equal amount of honey) and nuts. We put on the stove and cook on a small fire, periodically removing the formed foam. At the moment when the berries are about to start to boil, remove the jam from the plate and pour over dry sterile jars. Rolled metal covers. In the old days, such a cranberry jam successfully treated a cold.
Compote of cranberries for the winter
Ingredients:
- cranberry - 1 kg;
- sugar - 600 g;
- water 400 ml.
Preparation
Selected and washed cranberry berries fill sterile jars for 2/3 of the volume. Sugar is poured into a saucepan, filled with water and put on fire. Cook, stirring, until the sugar dissolves. Fill this syrup with berries in jars. Cover them with lids and pasteurize in a large saucepan with boiling water for about 15 minutes. After the banks quickly roll, turn upside down and wrap the blanket. When the compote of cranberries cool down, send it to the pantry and store it all winter.
Jelly from cranberries for the winter
Ingredients:
- cranberry - 1 kg;
- sugar - 1 kg.
Preparation
Cranberry, we put in a basin and fall asleep with sugar. Cook, stirring, over low heat. And when the berries begin to fall apart, we rub the mass through a sieve and lay out the finished jelly in jars. We store in the refrigerator.
Apple jam with cranberries for the winter
Ingredients:
- apples - 5 pcs .;
- cranberry - 4 items;
- lemon - 2 pcs.
- sugar - 1,2 kg.
Preparation
We peel apples from the peel and seeds, cut into small cubes (it is better to choose soft and sweet varieties). Cranberries are sorted,
In the meantime, using a fine grater, we remove the zest from the lemons and squeeze out the juice. Add them to the prepared jam and cook until the weight becomes thick. We transfer it on sterile dry jars, cover with lids and pasteurize for 10 minutes. After the jar we roll up and send it to the pantry.