Birch sap very useful. It improves a metabolism and takes off fatigue. Still it is recommended to drink at avitaminosis, pulmonary diseases, diseases of blood, joints, kidneys and a bladder. Of course, it is better to use fresh birch sap, but also tinned is tasty drink.
It is required to you
- - on 1 l of juice of 2 tablespoons of sugar;
- - orange;
- - lemon.
Instruction
1. At first it is necessary to get fresh birch sap. For this purpose find a suitable birch in the forest in the spring. It is better that it was far from busy roads in the eco-friendly forest. Make a small cut on a tree and fix a fillet, and drill bark better and insert a tubule. On it juice in bank or other capacity will also flow down.
2. Still it is possible to manage by more sparing method. Just cut off a branch obliquely and suspend to it a plastic bottle. In several hours the capacity will be filled with birch sap. After collecting surely cover wounds at a tree with plasticine or the garden thief to stop outflow of juice.
3. Houses at once begin to preserve juice because it spoils very quickly. At first prepare banks and covers. Carefully wash up them, and then sterilize banks over steam, and boil tin covers.
4. Filter juice and pour out in the corrosion-proof or enameled pan, bring to the boil. While juice begins to boil, wash orange and a lemon, wipe them. Then cut directly with a peel, orange – on segments, a lemon – circles. Add sugar to the begun to boil juice and boil before its dissolution. Fill banks with hot juice and put in everyone on segment of orange and 2 circles of a lemon. Then it is possible to roll up.
5. If you are afraid that birch sap all the same will begin to ferment, sterilize it. For this purpose pour water in a big pan, heat it and put not rolled up banks on a coat hanger. When water begins to boil, note time. In 15-20 minutes take out banks and roll up.
6. Put cups upside down on a plaid or a blanket and wind from above. Next day transfer banks with birch sap to the basement or a cellar for storage.