Berries of a sea-buckthorn are called "vitamin tablets". Fruits contain a number of vitamins – With, E, B1, B2, B3, B6. In them there is a lot of carotene. In Siberia several centuries ago a sea-buckthorn treated people. Strengthened health, doing tinctures and its berries decoctions.
Gathering berry
It is necessary to know how and when it is correct to collect a sea-buckthorn. It gathers in August, it is better in its second half. At this time it is whole and dry. From such berry it is good to cook jam, jams, syrups. It is good for fresh application. If berry is picked in September and perespet, then from it it is better to prepare oil, jelly. Pick berry very difficult as it has strongly prickly branches.
There is a lot of recipes of dishes from a sea-buckthorn. From it press juice, cook kissel, compote, do jam. Cook with it cocktails, adding milk, mousses, fruit jelly and so forth.
"Crude jam" - berry in sugar
One of easy ways to prepare a sea-buckthorn is to fill up it with sugar. 2 kg of berry and 1 kg of sugar undertake. Berry is filled up with sugar and mixes up. Time is waited. After to be emitted juice, to merge it in sterile banks and to remove to the dark cool place. It is possible to keep in the fridge. From such juice it is good to cook kissel, tea. It is possible to make curative tincture on vodka or cognac. If to drink juice every day on 1 tsp it is possible to save itself from cold during the winter period of time.
Sea-buckthorn jam with a dogrose
This jam a remarkable elixir which well maintains immunity in cold season.
For jam it will be required:
- 1 kg of a sea-buckthorn
- 1 kg of a large dogrose
- 1 l of water
- 1 kg of sugar
How to cook jam:
- It is accurate to wash a sea-buckthorn. It is better to do it, having put it in a colander. Take a baking plate the crane with cold water. A dogrose cut and remove seeds.
- Prepare syrup from water and sugar.
- In advance to sterilize banks. Lay in them berries layer-by-layer. Fill in with the prepared syrup. It is tight to close jars. Warm, that is well cover with something warm and leave before full cooling.
As this jam doesn't undergo heat treatment, vitamins B it completely remain.
Sea-buckthorn jelly
In a sea-buckthorn there is a lot of pectin, and therefore from it jelly turns out very tasty. It is cooked only from sugar and berries.
It will be required:
- 2 kg of a sea-buckthorn
- 5 kg of sugar
Preparation of jelly:
- Prepare a sea-buckthorn. Wash, remove superfluous. Warm up berry in a pan, having put on small fire. It is possible to add some sugar slightly. It is necessary that it gave juice and I burst. It is better if berry is well mature.
- Then to rumple berry. It is possible hands, and it is possible a press. Grind through a sieve. Not throw out a press: from it it is good to cook compote or kissel. It is possible to use the juice extractor.
- Mix the received sea-buckthorn juice with sugar and put on average fire. As soon as begins to boil, to lower fire and to cook minutes 15-20. The skin can be removed.
- Ready to pour jelly on small sterile jars. Cool and remove in the fridge.