Sea-buckthorn - valuable raw materials for preparation of desserts, drinks and also curative oil. All dishes from this berry differ in recognizable taste, they contain the mass of vitamins and minerals. Besides bright orange jams, jelly, kissels and sea-buckthorn tinctures look very elegantly.
Sea-buckthorn jam
Dense sea-buckthorn jam can be served to tea or to use as a stuffing for pies. It will help at cold and will feed an organism with the vitamins especially necessary during the winter period.
It will be required to you: - 1.5 kg of berries of a sea-buckthorn;
- 1.5 kg of sugar; - 1 glass of water.
Touch a sea-buckthorn, remove fruit stems and litter, reject the damaged berries. Wash out fruits in several waters, cast away on a colander, and then dry, having scattered on a towel. Lay out berries in a basin.
Prepare syrup. In a pan you boil water with sugar before full dissolution of crystals. Fill in a sea-buckthorn with hot syrup, sustain 2-3 hours, and then again merge syrup in a pan. Boil it, cool and pour to berries. Put a basin on fire, bring mix to the boil and you cook 10 minutes. Then pour jam on previously sterilized banks and close covers. Cool a sea-buckthorn and remove on storage.
Sea-buckthorn kissel
Useful low-calorie dessert - house sea-buckthorn kissel. The sweet of drink can be varied to taste. The kissel made according to this recipe keeps all vitamins - the fresh berries puree which didn't undergo long culinary processing is its part. It is required to you: - 1 glass of berries of a sea-buckthorn; - 0.75 glasses of sugar; - 2 tablespoons of potato starch.
If you love more liquid kissel, reduce amount of starch.
Wipe berries through a sieve, lay puree. Place the remained cake in a pan and fill in with water. Bring mix to the boil, boil 5 minutes, and then filter. Again pour out the turned-out fruit drink in a pan, add sugar. Prepare before full dissolution of crystals. Dissolve starch with cold water and pour in a pan. Stirring slowly, bring kissel to the boil and remove from a plate. Put in hot kissel of puree from a sea-buckthorn, mix and pour drink on glasses for cooling.
That on kissel the film wasn't formed, strew it with a small amount of icing sugar.
Sea-buckthorn tincture
It is possible to make beautiful bright orange tincture of a sea-buckthorn. It is used as medicine and also as the means increasing appetite and lightening the mood. It is required to you: - 1 kg of a sea-buckthorn; - 2 tablespoons of liquid honey; - 1 l of vodka. Touch berries, wash out and dry. Pour a sea-buckthorn into a two-liter large bottle, add honey and fill in mix with vodka. Draw berries about 2 weeks in the dark place, then filter tincture and pour on bottles. Densely to a zakuporta them also you store drink in a cool. From above the film can be formed of oil - before the use tincture needs to be stirred up.