Bilberry - extremely useful berry. It has antianaemic, sosudoukreplyayushchy, antibacterial properties. Its use in the medical purposes at a large number of diseases is explained by it. It is possible to eat bilberry not only during a season of its collecting, but also having prepared so valuable berry for the winter.
Bilberry a sushenayasushka – one of ways of preparation of bilberry for the winter in house conditions. The picked fresh berries need to be touched, having removed leaves, branches, the spoiled berries and other garbage.
Spread out the prepared berries in one layer on a tray, a baking sheet or any other flat surface in one layer. If desired under berries it is possible to put metal foil or parchment. From above berries need to be covered with a gauze to protect them from flies and other insects.
Deliver berries to the sun and leave before full drying there. From time to time overturn bilberry for uniform drying of berries from all directions. Don't allow efflorescence of berries. For the night, bilberry needs to be removed to the room. Completely dried up berries firm, wrinkled, when oversleeping make the characteristic rustling sound. It is necessary to store them in the dark place in a linen sack or a paper packet. It is possible to use dried bilberry for preparation of compotes, kissels, pastries. Bilberry wash out zamorozhennayaperebranny bilberry in flowing water and well dry berries on a towel. Spread out them on a special pallet in one layer so that between berries there was a small space. Thus, you will avoid freezing of fruits. Put a pallet with bilberry in the freezer for freezing for 1 hour. After that pull out berries and pour them into a plastic container. You store the frozen bilberry in the freezer. Use such berries for any culinary purposes. Zamorozhennoyevymyty berries crush bilberry puree by means of a masher or the blender in uniform puree. If desired add granulated sugar to taste. Spread out berry puree in plastic containers and put in the freezer for freezing and storage. After a defrosting such puree is used as an independent dish, a stuffing for pies, a basis for preparation of drinks. Bilberry you varenyesvarit syrup from 300 g of water and 1.5 kg of granulated sugar. Put 1 kg of the touched and washed out bilberry berries in the boiling syrup. Carefully mix everything and bring to the boil. Remove ware from fire and leave jam before full cooling. Then again bring it to the boil and cool. The foam appearing when cooking needs to be removed. Put ware with jam on fire for the third time, add to it juice of a half of a lemon. Bring berry weight to the boil, reduce fire and you cook on slow fire of 5 minutes. Then pour jam in the sterilized glass jars, close them metal covers, turn a bottom up, wrap up and leave before full cooling. You store jam in the dark dry place. Bilberry in own sokunasypt the prepared bilberry in the sterilized glass jars to top also put them in a wide pan on which bottom the gauze put several times is laid. Pour cold water in a pan. It has to reach a coat hanger of cans. Put a pan on fire. When water begins to boil, reduce fire so that boiling was not really strong and water didn't get to banks with bilberry. Gradually bilberry will begin to settle. As soon as it occurs, it is necessary to fill the formed space with the berries taken in one of cans. Continue preparation of bilberry in own juice until berries continue to settle, every time reporting to banks berries to top. After that put in each can granulated sugar at the rate of 1 tsp on a half-liter jar. Cover bilberry with the sterilized metal covers, you boil berries of 5 more minutes and roll up banks. It is possible to store them at the room temperature.