The compote cooked from a gooseberry differs in very gentle aroma and taste. Many hostesses add to it other berries and fruit as much as possible to increase its usefulness and gustatory qualities – though even the simplest gooseberry compote is very tasty and nutritive.
Instruction
1. Compote from some berries of a gooseberry is the most widespread and simple option of this drink. For it use a mixed gooseberry with the cut-off fruit stems and sepals – berries touch, wash, puncture with a fork from stainless steel and display on banks. Then separately cook a 40% sugar syrup and fill in with it banks with a gooseberry slightly less, than to the brim. The filled-in banks cover with covers and will pasteurize: half liter – 10 minutes, liter – 15 minutes.
2. Also the kryzhovenny compote made by method of hot filling without pasteurization is not less popular. For its preparation the berries of a gooseberry prepared and spread out on banks fill in with a hot sugar/fruit syrup or hot water, leave for 5 minutes and merge all liquid. This manipulation is repeated by two times, and on the third – leave water/syrup and stopper to bank. For filling of kryzhovenny compote it is also possible to use crimson, strawberry, currant and strawberry juice on which the 40% sugar syrup is preparing.
3. For preparation of kryzhovenny compote mix, it is necessary to make an incision slightly prepared berries, to fill in for several minutes with boiled water, then to merge it and to cool a baking plate with cold water. After that the gooseberry layer-by-layer keeps within banks – in the course of it shift apple segments, currant, a wild strawberry, raspberry, cherry and so on. Then compote is cooked by one of above-mentioned methods and is closed by tight covers.
4. For children it is possible to cook gooseberry and orange compote. The half liter can of berries of a gooseberry requires one orange in a peel cut by circles. It isn't necessary to pasteurize or cook such compote – quite enough to fill in contents of the sterilized cans with the boiling 40% sugar syrup. That any kryzhovenny compote kept the useful and gustatory qualities throughout long time, it is necessary to cover svezhezakuporenny banks with a warm blanket and to leave their baking plate to them for day then even day to keep in the fridge. After that preservation can be stored even in quite warm room.