How to store Kalina at home in various ways?

Not everyone knows how to home-store Kalina, although this berrydeserves close attention to those who lead a healthy lifestyle. You can find the viburnum if you walk along the autumn forest, you can grow it on your private plot. It is sold in specialized stores of dietary food, in the market, and its quality remains invariably excellent everywhere. It's a pity that you can not always buy this healing berry.

What is the usefulness of viburnum?

Traditions of its use in Russia for the treatment, prevention of diseases and just for the sake of pleasure to feel its refreshing taste number more than one century. A unique composition containing minerals, vitamins, organic acids and many other useful substances contributes to its wide application:

• for preservation in the tone of the heart muscle;
• for treatment of gastrointestinal pathologies;
• for the treatment of skin diseases( lichen, acne);
• for the prevention of atherosclerosis, colds;
• as an additional tool in the treatment of nervous system disorders.

Knowing how to keep Kalina at home for the winter, you can use these medicinal fruits for a long time.

How to collect viburnum?

The best time to collect it for workpieces for the winter is late autumn, the time after the first freeze. It is then that the fruits lose their inherent bitterness, they become sweeter. Berries do not collect one by one, otherwise they will lose their juice. The best way to collect - cutting the brushes with a pruner. To the place of processing, the brush can be transferred in a thick enough layer in any container. The skin of the berries is strong enough, and you can not be afraid that they break.

Storing Kalina fresh

At home, you can store berries directly in the hands, putting them in a loosely closed container in the refrigerator or hanging in any cool room. You can not worry that the product will deteriorate or lose its healing properties, this will not happen for several months.

When storing brushes with berries in an apartment, the period of use of the product is slightly reduced. If there is no possibility to store berries in conditions of low temperature, it is desirable to process them.

Freezing the viburnum

Staying on the tree, the berries calmly tolerate the frosty winter, if they do not become food for hibernating birds. Even the hanging calibres suspended on the balcony can carry long frosts and preserve their taste and useful properties after defrosting. In order to extend the period of consumption of medicinal berries, you can freeze them, separating from the brush along with the pedicels.

Advice

You do not need to wash the viburnum in order to store it in the freezer, it's done right before use.

The left peduncles will not allow the juice to flow out when storing berries. Fruits are laid out in packages or plastic containers. If the berries are dry, they will remain in a crumbly state even after freezing. From the frozen viburnum you can prepare morsels, compotes, kissels, medicinal infusions.

Drying the Kalinin

You can prepare these berries for the winter by drying them in the oven. The brushes are laid out on a baking tray, the regulator is set at 50-60 ° C.The oven door should be ajar, so that the juice does not flow from the bursting berries. Peduncles after drying berries can be removed. The dried viburnum should be stored in dry glass jars closed with lids.

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Drying is considered complete when the berries become wrinkled.

Dry berries for the winter can be not in such an intensive way, but simply spread them outdoors in the shade. Fruits are spread on clean white paper, top covered with gauze or a thin cloth. This method of drying requires time and patience, the berries need to be gently stirred from time to time.

Wiping with sugar

To preserve the curative properties of the viburnum, this way of harvesting for winter, such as wiping berries with sugar, is perfect. To do this, you need to sort out the berries, separate not very high-quality ones, rinse the fruits in cool water, dry them.

For grinding, the following methods are used:

• wipe through a sieve;
• grinding with blender;
• grinding the mass with a meat grinder.

Advice

You do not need to separate bones from berries, so you will lose useful juice. Shredded bones do not interfere with the use of mashed potatoes.

The ground mass must be mixed with sugar in a proportion of 2: 1, that is, sugar should be twice as much as berries. It is laid out on sterile cans and stored in a refrigerator or in a cool basement. With prolonged storage, the juice can separate and fall down the container, but the quality of the original product is not affected. This way of harvesting berries for the winter allows you to store all the vitamins in them.

You can store mashed berries with sterilization in boiling water. Half-liter jars filled with crushed berries with sugar, you need to sterilize 10 minutes, and liter - twice as long. The amount of sugar during conservation can be reduced by half compared to the previous recipe. After sterilization, the mashed berries are rolled up and put into a cool place.

Squeeze juice

Having separated juice from berries, it is possible to be reserved for winter by a useful product. The selected fruits are washed, sorted and sent to a juicer. In the juice obtained after pressing it is necessary to add sugar and mix. It is mixed in a 1: 1 ratio, poured into sterilized dishes( jars, bottles).Kalinovy ​​juice should be stored only in the refrigerator.

You can replace part of the sugar with honey or use for storage of juice for the winter such a recipe:

• berries of viburnum - 1 kg;
• water - 200 ml;
• honey - to taste.

Squeezing out the juice from the viburnum, all ingredients must be mixed, boiled for 10 minutes and stored in a cool place. This workpiece can be used for the preparation of a cane pasta or jam, marmalade, fruit juice, compote.

We make the filling

The medicinal preparation can be prepared from these useful berries, having preserved their medicinal properties for the winter. It consists of:

• juice of the viburnum - 100 ml;
• water - 100 ml;
• sugar - 100 g;
• vodka - 500 ml.

All the ingredients of this recipe need to be moved and held at room temperature for two days, then cork the filling by pouring it in bottles. Storage of this drink is possible at any, even room temperature.

Cook jam, jelly, pastilles

For the winter, you can prepare a lot of sweet kalining delicacies. To make jelly it is enough to take a kilogram of berries and sugar and two glasses of water. First, the berries are cooked with water for half an hour. Then sugar is added to this mass and the jelly is cooked for another 45 minutes. It remains to expand it into banks and roll up.

For jam it is necessary to take on a kilogram of berries 300 ml of water and 1.3 kg of sugar. To evenly impregnate the fruit, they need to stand in hot syrup for 10-12 hours. Then the jam is cooked, removing the foam, and packaged.

Delicious and useful delicacy - kalinovoj пастила - it turns out from a kg of the berries welded up to softness in a glass of water. The sifted mass is mixed with sugar and boiled again to the consistency of a soft dough. This mass should be spread out on wooden pans-plates and dried in the oven.

Kalinovoe oil

For this product, you can use the cake left over from the juice. It is passed through a meat grinder, poured vegetable or olive oil in a ratio of 1: 4( oil is four times more than oil cake).Three weeks this remedy should stand in a dark place, insist. Squeezing the cake, it is poured into containers. The value of this undeservedly forgotten prescription is comparable with the benefits and healing properties of sea buckthorn oil.

Making vinegar

The use of such a natural product is comparable to the use of apple cider vinegar. For vinegar, you need to put a half-kilogram of berries in a three-liter jar, a glass of sugar, and pour two liters of water. Aromatic vinegar can be leaves of black currant and cherry. This bank should stand in a dark place at room temperature for about two months. During the first week, its contents are periodically stirred. Kalinovy ​​vinegar is ready when it acquires transparency.

Accessibility, ease of storage and harvesting of these medicinal fruits make them one of the most common products for use as a health product.