It's hard to find a fan of cranberries, who appreciates this little berry for its taste. A peculiar sour-tart taste is not always to the liking of many, in contrast to its amazing healing properties. Cranberries are not only rich in vitamins, but also restore immunity perfectly and give strength to the winter cold, but to keep the berries intact until the winter, you need to know a few subtleties. In this article we will discuss how to store cranberries for the winter.
How to store cranberries at home?
Where and how to store cranberries in the apartment know far from many, hence we have a bunch of jams, kissels and jams with this healthy berries. And all would be nothing, but during heat treatment, not all vitamins remain in the fruit.
Before you proceed to harvest directly, the berries themselves should be scraped, spoiled, lined, or immature toss along with foliage and debris.
Thanks to benzoic acid, contained in cranberries, whole and mature berries can be perfectly stored until the next harvest, without fear of bacteria and without unnecessary preservatives.
For the first method, except for the cranberries and water, we will not need anything. Berries are washed with cold water, boil the water to fill the berries and completely cool. We spread cranberries on bottles, or enameled basins and cover with boiled water. In this form, the berry can survive until the next harvest, while not losing any useful properties. The only drawback of this method is the excessive wateriness that the fetus acquires.
You can store wet cranberries in the refrigerator, or on the balcony. This berry absolutely does not lose its healing properties, it is perfect for cooking jelly, or cooking baked goods and, mainly, for consumption in fresh form with sugar or honey.
Another notorious way of storing any berry, fruit, or vegetable is frost, cranberry in this case, too, was no exception. Before freezing, the berries must be cleaned again, rinsed thoroughly with cold water and dried completely. We pack dry berries on plastic bags, making portions of berries such that they are sufficient for one use, since it is strictly forbidden to re-freeze the berries. Ice-cream cranberries are used in the same way as fresh cranberries : they cook cranberry mors , add to baked goods and desserts, they are used as a basis for sauce.
The next way will certainly be to the liking of sweet tooth, because it uses almost a classic combination of cranberries with sugar. In order to prepare the active, and besides a very tasty remedy for the common cold, it is enough to combine cranberries with an equal amount of sugar and to pass through a meat grinder, or to grind in a blender. Ready mass can be crossed through a sieve for greater uniformity. Keep cranberries, rubbed with sugar quite simply, you just need to spread the mass over the jars, and closing with plastic lids, put in the refrigerator.
Methods of storing cranberries
The way of storing berries is usually chosen based on the time of harvest: the September harvest is characterized by dense and large berries,
And, finally, the last harvest is obtained after the descent of the snows. "Podsnezhnye" berries are very tasty and sweet, however, they are used immediately, they are not suitable for storage, because they practically lose their useful properties almost immediately. Such a berry is perfectly used for cranberry sauces , because it produces sweet and thick additions to meat dishes and desserts.