With the onset of the cold season, the issue of increasing immunity and protection against seasonal infections becomes topical. Excellent prevention against seasonal colds can become hot drinks with ginger, honey , spices and citrus in the base, but you can use the useful home-made compotes to diversify the usual set of drinks. One of these is compote from hawthorn for the winter, the recipe of which we will share further.
Compote of hawthorn for the winter - a simple recipe
In order for the drink to absorb all the benefits, from the moment of wrapping the compote before taking the sample must pass at least a couple of months.
Ingredients:
- Hawthorn fruit - 220 g;
- granulated sugar - 310 g;
- water - 2.9 liters.
Preparation
Before you prepare the compote from the hawthorn for the winter, pick up the berries. Fruits of hawthorn, and thoroughly rinse, and after drying, place on scalded jars. Next, pour in the sugar and fill the jars with boiling water so that the liquid begins to literally pour over the edges. Cover the jars with sterile lids and roll them down immediately.
Compote of hawthorn for the winter
In the framework of this method of preparing the preparation of fruits and cooking the beverage itself will take more time, however such costs will be fully justified by the rich taste and color of the ready compote.
Ingredients:
- hawthorn 550 g;
- sugar - 440 g;
- water 710 ml.
Preparation
Cook the base sugar syrup by dissolving the sugar crystals in hot water and bringing the liquid to an active boil. Place the well-washed and dried hawthorn in a syrup, then leave everything boiled for another couple of minutes and distribute the hawthorn syrup to two 3-liter cans, previously washed and scalded. Boil the water and dilute the contents of the cans with boiling water. Roll the jars with sterile lids.
Compote of apples and hawthorn for the winter
Hawthorn can be combined with many fruits, but blowing with apples is considered the most popular and widely loved.
Ingredients:
- hawthorn - 530 g;
- sugar - 1,1 kg;
- apples - 980 g.
Preparation
Before you close the compote from the hawthorn for the winter, place the jars and lids on sterilization. Prepare the container you can boil it, soaking over the steam or calcining in the oven.
Rinse the harvested fruit of hawthorn, rinse and dry. From the apples, cut out the core, and divide the pulp into large cubes. Distribute the fruits in clean jars, pour the sugar (its amount is determined by the sweetness of the apples), and fill the rest of the space with boiling water. Quickly roll up the banks and, wrapping them, turn them over for the time of cooling down. The prepared compote after storage is placed for storage.
Compote of hawthorn with orange for winter
An interesting aroma habitual hawthorn compote will give orange peel. In a single drink, you can combine several types of citrus, but we decided to start with some oranges.
Ingredients:
- hawthorn - 520 g;
- sugar 940 g;
- a peel of two oranges.
Preparation
Sugar dilute 9 liters of boiling water, bring the syrup to a boil. At the beginning of the boil, put the orange peel in the syrup and leave it to boil for 5-7 minutes. Disassembled, washed and dried berries of hawthorn distribute among three three-liter cans, pour everything with boiling citrus syrup and immediately roll up pre-scalded lids. After cooling the cans in an inverted form, the compote can be stored.