Currant – black, red, white – is grown up by many gardeners. This berry not only is tasty, but also is very useful as it contains a number of vitamins and minerals. It can be consumed fresh, and it is possible to prepare for the future, for example to cook from it compotes.
To cook red currant compote, sort the reaped crop. Berries for compote have to be mature, intact. Separate them from stalks. It is made or manually, or for acceleration of process with use of a fork of stainless steel.
Wash out berries, slightly dry, then ship a colander in a pan with the boiling water. In 1 minute take out it, wash out currant under a stream of cool water. This stage (scalding) is necessary in order that berries in compote kept the attractive appearance.
Lay the blanched and washed out red currant in in advance prepared glass jars. Certainly, these tanks have to be washed carefully up, it is better with soda, and are rinsed with boiled water. Fill banks with berries to "coat hanger", fill in with a hot sugar syrup (on 1 liter of water – 400 grams of granulated sugar). Then cover mouths of cans with the metal covers scalded by boiled water. Carefully place containers with berries in a pan with the boiling water. That banks didn't burst, at the bottom of a pan the fabric curtailed into several layers has to lie. Sterilize banks with currant on weak fire; water has to reach "coat hanger" of tanks. Sterilization time: for half-liter jars – 10 minutes, for liter – 15 minutes, for three-liter – 25 minutes. Then carefully get banks from a pan, roll up covers, turn and let's be cooled. If you want to cook compote for immediate consumption, then it is much simpler to make it, and besides it is possible not to separate berries from fruit stems. Wash out the selected red currant in a colander, place in a pan, fill in with cold water and put on fire. The ratio the mass of berries/mass of water depends on that how concentrated compote you want to cook. Bring to the boil, pour granulated sugar into a pan, mix. Here too be guided by the taste: someone loves sweet compote, someone – less sweet. Let's boil 5 minutes, switch off fire. Currant compote is ready.