Hawthorn – the widespread plant representing a high bush or an undersized tree. Grows in a moderate climatic zone of the Northern hemisphere. Different types of a hawthorn are most widespread in North America. In Russia mainly the hawthorn blood-red, received such name because of color of the berries by the form reminding tiny apples meets.
Gardeners grow up a hawthorn as an ornamental plant. However not everyone knows that it also the valuable fruit crop rich with biologically active agents, vitamins, pectins, minerals. From berries of a hawthorn it is possible to prepare many tasty and very useful things.
Sauce from a hawthorn
Take a number of ripe berries of a hawthorn, crush them in the blender to a uniform kashitseobrazny state. Add twice smaller (on weight) amount of liquid honey, carefully mix everything. Pour a little warm boiled water, depending on that, you want to receive consistence what sauce. Once again carefully mix. Your sauce is ready. Its original taste for certain will surprise and will please your members of household. Sauce is served to fritters and pancakes. It well will approach also oat or milk rice porridge.
Apple боярышниковый джемОдин carefully crush kilogram of fruits of a hawthorn in the blender, add the same amount of the peeled crushed apples (better than sweet grades), about one and a half kilograms of granulated sugar, pour in 1 liter of water, carefully mix and you cook on weak fire, from time to time stirring slowly. Continue cooking before receiving a product of desirable consistence. Spread out it on the sterilized glass jars, close the covers scalded by boiled water. From боярышникаОдин kilogram of berries of a hawthorn carefully crush jam in the blender, add a little water and about one and a half kilograms of granulated sugar, mix, you cook on weak fire. When the product of density necessary to you is received, spread out on banks and close covers. From berries of a hawthorn it is also possible to prepare an alcoholature which is very useful to the people having heart troubles.