The chokeberry is called in a different way an aroniya. It represents juicy and tasty berry with sweetish and a little astringent flavor. The rowan is very tasty fresh and can be used in cookery for preparation of different dishes.
The chokeberry is very useful berry which is enriched with vitamin C, carotene and also potassium and other useful minerals. The use of a fresh chernoplodka is shown at manifestations of anemia and avitaminosis. Most often make various tinctures of a rowan.
So, for preparation of tincture with a cherry leaf it will be required to you: 2 glasses of a chokeberry, 400 g of sugar, 1 l of vodka, 2 l of water, 2 tablespoons of citric acid, few cherry leaves. Properly wash up a rowan and dry it. Then carefully pound berries and mix them with cherry leaves. Pour water into a pan and boil it. After that lower mix from a rowan and leaves there.
Cherry leaves can be replaced currant. Then tincture will gain completely different gustatory qualities.
You cook berries about a quarter of hour. Then remove them from a plate and cool. Surely filter the turned-out preparation through a gauze.
Now it will be required to add vodka, sugar and citric acid to broth. Mix the received mix to full sugar remelting, pour it on bottles and remove for 7-10 days to the dark cool place. After the specified term tincture will be ready-to-serve. By the way, it very well influences digestion. Some hostesses draw a chokeberry on cognac, but not on vodka. For creation of such tincture it is necessary to take 2 glasses of a chokeberry, 2 glasses of cognac, 1 tablespoon of honey, 2 tablespoons of an oak bass. The recipe is very simple. At first fill in with cognac a rowan and then add honey and a bass there. Pour the turned-out mix on bottles and infuse it in the cool place about 2.5-3 months.
Oak bass is called the soft layer between bark and wood.
The astringent flavor of a chernoplodka is perfectly combined with shortcake dough. It is possible to make great rowan and apples pie in only 50 minutes. For this purpose you will need the following ingredients: 300 g of good margarine or desi, 2 glasses of wheat flour, 2 tsps of soda, 2 tsps of fresh juice of a lemon and also 2 apples and 2 glasses of sugar, glass of a chokeberry and 1 tsp of vanilla sugar. At first be engaged in doughing. Take flour, sift it and mix with a small amount of sugar and soda. In advance get oil from the fridge that it was soft, put in a deep bowl. Grind oil with flour mix before receiving homogeneous mass. After that carefully touch rowan berries regarding branches and wash out them. Put a rowan on a colander and wait until water completely flows down. Dry up it, pound and mix with sugar. Wash up and clean apples, surely having removed a core. Cut them on thin slices and sprinkle lemon juice. At the next stage of preparation put mountain ash puree and vanilla sugar to apples. Properly mix everything. Prepare a form for pie – cover it baking paper. Don't forget to oil it. Put in form 2/3 of the test and level it. Then lay out a stuffing and cover it with leftover dough. Warm an oven to 180 wasps and bake pie about 40 minutes before formation of a crust of golden color.