Currant long since is considered health berry. This ideal immunomodulator. National recipes dazzle with various methods of application of currant for treatment of many illnesses. That this wonderful berry was present at a diet all the year round, it can be prepared for the future. Do a set of useful winter preparations of it. For example, compote. Any grades of berries – red, white, blackcurrant will be suitable for its preparation. They have to be fresh, mature, intact.
It is required to you
- For blackcurrant compote:
- 600 g of blackcurrant;
- 5 liters of water;
- 3 kg of sugar.
- For red currant compote:
- 1 kg of red currant on branches;
- 250 g of sugar;
- 500 ml of water.
Instruction
1. Wash out in cold water of berry of currant. They have to be obligatory fresh-gathered and evenly painted. Touch them, separating from brushes. The sick, immature and crushed berries need to be rejected.
2. Shift the washed-out currant in a colander in order that water flew down. Then distribute it on banks. On one half-liter can it is enough to put about 200 grams of berries. For the best consolidation of currant when filling it is necessary to stir up banks several times. They should be washed out and sterilized previously carefully. For this purpose the washed-up banks need to be drenched with boiled water and to put down a neck on the boiling teapot. Duration of sterilization is about 15 minutes.
3. Part sugar in hot water and boil. Fill in with the turned-out hot sugar syrup the currant laid in banks.
4. Pasteurize banks with compote in hot water about 20 minutes. Roll up banks covers and you store in the cool room. At the use this compote needs to be parted to taste with boiled water as it turns out very luscious.
5. Try to make red currant compote. Its sweet-sour taste very well satisfies thirst. For its preparation well wash out berries on branches.
6. Boil water with sugar. Directly on branches densely lay currant in sterile banks, and fill in with the boiling syrup. Cover banks with sterile covers and put on fire to sterilize for half an hour. After that banks about compote need to be rolled up, turned at once up a bottom and to wrap up in a blanket on all night long. After that compote should be stored in the basement or the storeroom. As compote turns out very concentrated, before giving it needs to be diluted with boiled chilled water too.