Valuable properties of cowberry are preserved in blanks that do not involve thermal processing of berries. This is a mashed lingonberry with sugar in various variations, as well as wet berries in sweet syrup . All the details of the preparation of such blanks are presented below in our recipes.
Cowberry, mashed with sugar for the winter
Ingredients:
- cranberries - 1,5 kg;
- sugar-sand - 1,5-3 kg (to taste).
Preparation
- Cowberry should be pre-sorted, getting rid of spoiled specimens. The selected berries are washed thoroughly, let it drain in a colander, and then spread on a towel for additional drying.
- When the whole berry mass finally dries, we can proceed to the next stage. To make lingonberry, rubbed with sugar for the winter, you can grind it in a blender or pass through a meat grinder.
- Further, it is enough to simply mix the obtained crumb cranberry mass with sugar to taste, adding it from one and a half to three kilograms for one and a half kilograms of berries.
- We now pack a treat on sterile jars, cover them with covers and store them in a cool place.
Cowberry with cranberries, mashed with sugar
A real vitamin explosion will be a preparation in the form of cranberries with cranberries crumbled with sugar.
Ingredients:
- lingonberry - 995 g;
- cranberry - 995 g;
- granulated sugar - 1,2 kg.
Preparation
- We are sorting out cranberries and cranberries, selecting quality berries, and getting rid of spoiled ones, after which we wash the past selected samples and after draining the liquid, we dry out the berry mass on the towel.
- Just like in the previous case, for grinding berries, you can use both a blender and simply pass them through a meat grinder.
- Mix the resulting puree with sugar-sand, leave it for several hours at room conditions, and then pack it on sterile vessels. We seal them tightly and put them on the shelf of the refrigerator for long-term storage.
Lingonberry, soaked with sugar
Ingredients:
- cranberries - 2.5 kg;
- purified water - 1-1,3 l;
- sugar - 250 g;
- a stick of cinnamon and buds of a carnation - to taste.
Preparation
- To prepare wet bilberry, we initially mix the water purified with sugar, place the vessel with the mixture on the plate of the plate and warm it with frequent stirring until the boiling and dissolution of all the crystals.
- After the syrup is ready, we cool it to room temperature.
- During the preparation and cooling of the syrup, we prepare berries of cranberries. We sort through them, rinse them under running water and let them drain, then we put them in a jar sterilized beforehand. There we throw the buds of a carnation and a stick of cinnamon and pour in the cooled syrup.
- The workpiece should be placed in a darkened cool place, where it is left for a month. After a lapse of time, the soaked cowberry will be ready for consumption.
Cowberry with sugar - recipe
For those who prefer to preserve lingonberries by freezing, we recommend the recipe for making cowberry with sugar not for storage, but for direct consumption. Use for this you can and frozen and fresh berries. Sugar sand with this preparation is taken at least twice less than in other "winter" recipes and, thanks to this delicacy is obtained and is more useful, and tastier and less caloric.
Ingredients:
- cranberries frozen or fresh - 400 g;
- granulated sugar - 200 g.
Preparation
- Cowberry crushed in any accessible way, using either a blender or as in the good old days a meat grinder.
- Now we pour sugar in pieces, each time stirring cranberry mass thoroughly until the crystals dissolve.
- After all the sugar is mixed, give the delicacy a little to infuse under room conditions and you can take a sample.