Berries cranberries and cranberry contain glucose, sucrose, fructose, organic acids - hinnuyu (endows slightly bitter taste), citric, benzoic, malic, essential oil, vitamin C, B1, B2, and phenol-carboxylic acids, tannins, flavonoids, anthocyanins, sorbitol, iodine and potassium salts.
Berries are desirable to collect after the first autumn frosts. Collect as cranberries and lingonberries, which are "wintered" in the swamp, they are called nival. They have become a winter more sweet and tasty, but lose some nutrients. Yes, and kept much worse. Nevertheless, these "snowdrops" also are popular among the people.
What can I cook with cranberries and cranberry?
Well, of course, juices and the butter, syrup and jams. You can add a filling in cakes (preferably red bilberries), brew tea from the dried fruit, add sauerkraut, make sauces. All this is not only delicious but also very useful.
Thus, for example fruit drinks, jelly and jam used to treat gastritis with low acidity and inflammation of the pancreas. Having a good diuretic, they prevent the formation of kidney stones, reduce blood pressure, useful in fevers of various origins (as a diuretic and diaphoretic), reduce the temperature. Juices and fruit drinks are very well satisfy your thirst. Cranberry juice with honey taken with tonsillitis and bronchitis - cough. Cranberry juice also has a good bactericidal effect, especially in combination with antibiotics. Rubbing the skin of cranberry juice or cranberry well removes inflammatory processes, is used for acne. And do not forget that cranberries and lingonberries - sources of vitamin C. The cranberry even called "northern lemon."
Contraindications to the use of such berries are only gastric and duodenal ulcer.
Semi winter
Wide popularity in the north enjoy the way the brew cranberry and cranberry for storage. To do this, lay the berries in glass jars and sent them in the oven or stove for long, so berries to "grab". Then close the lid, and sent to the cold. Treated thus berry well kept.
You can store berries and candied. To do this scroll berries through a meat grinder and add sugar (preferably more).
There is the option - soaking sugar. Berries are washed, placed in a glass container. Top fill with cooled boiled water to keep the water covered the berries. Then we lay just cover and store in a cool place. Due to the fact that the berries contain a lot of benzoic acid, they are well preserved.
Fruit-drink
Morse like, in my opinion, everyone - and children and adults. I do not know how to Russia, but here in the Arkhangelsk region in kindergarten even practice exists: parents are asked to bring a child into the kitchen Institution kilogram of cranberries and cranberry sauce, and then throughout the winter, children drink juices and eat a pie with cranberries.
So, we need: berries, sugar, cold water.
Wash berries and press the juice, preferably in glass, porcelain or ceramic dish (a large amount of acid in the berry reacts with metal utensils). Press, as you can - through a sieve, cheesecloth or a juicer. Refuse to pour cold water (100 g marc - 3-4 liters of water), boil and filter. In the resulting broth add the juice and sugar to taste. Store juice to the fridge, before serving to warm to room temperature. On my advice: do not do juice is too concentrated.
Fool
1 cup of berries need to knead and add half a cup of cold water, boil for 10 minutes and strain. Add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of starch, stirring constantly, heat to boiling, add sugar syrup or a spoonful of honey.
Pie fillings
For cakes using cranberries. Pound the berries with the sugar and the resulting mixture stuffed pastries. Sometimes cranberries mixed with apples, it turns out is also very tasty.
Meat Sauce
We will need: 450 g cranberries, 2 tbsp. tablespoons olive oil, 1 finely chopped onion, 3 tbsp. spoon of honey. Fry onion 5 minutes, add honey and squeezed cranberry juice. Cover with a lid and stew for 20 minutes. This sauce is suitable for any meat.
Try it, create, and I ran morsiku drink!
What can I cook with cranberries and cranberry?
Well, of course, juices and the butter, syrup and jams. You can add a filling in cakes (preferably red bilberries), brew tea from the dried fruit, add sauerkraut, make sauces. All this is not only delicious but also very useful.
Thus, for example fruit drinks, jelly and jam used to treat gastritis with low acidity and inflammation of the pancreas. Having a good diuretic, they prevent the formation of kidney stones, reduce blood pressure, useful in fevers of various origins (as a diuretic and diaphoretic), reduce the temperature. Juices and fruit drinks are very well satisfy your thirst. Cranberry juice with honey taken with tonsillitis and bronchitis - cough. Cranberry juice also has a good bactericidal effect, especially in combination with antibiotics. Rubbing the skin of cranberry juice or cranberry well removes inflammatory processes, is used for acne. And do not forget that cranberries and lingonberries - sources of vitamin C. The cranberry even called "northern lemon."
Contraindications to the use of such berries are only gastric and duodenal ulcer.
Semi winter
Wide popularity in the north enjoy the way the brew cranberry and cranberry for storage. To do this, lay the berries in glass jars and sent them in the oven or stove for long, so berries to "grab". Then close the lid, and sent to the cold. Treated thus berry well kept.
You can store berries and candied. To do this scroll berries through a meat grinder and add sugar (preferably more).
There is the option - soaking sugar. Berries are washed, placed in a glass container. Top fill with cooled boiled water to keep the water covered the berries. Then we lay just cover and store in a cool place. Due to the fact that the berries contain a lot of benzoic acid, they are well preserved.
Fruit-drink
Morse like, in my opinion, everyone - and children and adults. I do not know how to Russia, but here in the Arkhangelsk region in kindergarten even practice exists: parents are asked to bring a child into the kitchen Institution kilogram of cranberries and cranberry sauce, and then throughout the winter, children drink juices and eat a pie with cranberries.
So, we need: berries, sugar, cold water.
Wash berries and press the juice, preferably in glass, porcelain or ceramic dish (a large amount of acid in the berry reacts with metal utensils). Press, as you can - through a sieve, cheesecloth or a juicer. Refuse to pour cold water (100 g marc - 3-4 liters of water), boil and filter. In the resulting broth add the juice and sugar to taste. Store juice to the fridge, before serving to warm to room temperature. On my advice: do not do juice is too concentrated.
Fool
1 cup of berries need to knead and add half a cup of cold water, boil for 10 minutes and strain. Add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of starch, stirring constantly, heat to boiling, add sugar syrup or a spoonful of honey.
Pie fillings
For cakes using cranberries. Pound the berries with the sugar and the resulting mixture stuffed pastries. Sometimes cranberries mixed with apples, it turns out is also very tasty.
Meat Sauce
We will need: 450 g cranberries, 2 tbsp. tablespoons olive oil, 1 finely chopped onion, 3 tbsp. spoon of honey. Fry onion 5 minutes, add honey and squeezed cranberry juice. Cover with a lid and stew for 20 minutes. This sauce is suitable for any meat.
Try it, create, and I ran morsiku drink!
