Cowberry is useful and tasty, and both in fresh, and in the processed look. It is possible to make jam, fruit drink, fruit jelly or other options of preparations of it. Berry will be stored in such look all winter, it can be given to tea or to use for preparation of pies, mousses, sauces.
Cowberry with sugar
Very easy way of preparation is to grind cowberry with granulated sugar. In the berry made thus all vitamins remain, it isn't exposed to thermal treatment.
It is required to you: - 1 kg of cowberry;
- 1 kg of sugar.
If cowberry seems to you too sweet, reduce amount of sugar to 600 g.
Touch cowberry and carefully wash out. Dry it on a towel and miss via the meat grinder. It is possible to crush berries and in the food processor. Shift cowberry puree in a basin, fill up with sugar and stir until crystals completely are dissolved. Spread out ready cowberry on the sterilized banks and roll up covers. You store the wiped berries in the cool place.
According to this recipe it is possible to prepare also the wiped cranberry.
Cowberry with apples
It is required to you: - 1 kg of cowberry; - 1 kg of sour apples; - 3 glasses of sugar; - 1 glass of water. Wash up cowberry and apples, dry. Clean apples, remove a core and cut fruits on segments. Put cowberry and apples in a basin, add sugar and water. You cook mix on weak fire until apples become soft. Pour jam on the sterilized banks, cool and close covers.
Soaked cowberry for the winter
The soaked cowberry made by salt and sugar turns out very tasty. It can be given to fried meat, smoked products, to add to sauces. It is required to you: - 2 kg of cowberry; - 200 g of sugar; - 2 liters of water; - 1 h salt spoon; - 1 stick of cinnamon; - 4 buds of a carnation.
Instead of cinnamon and a carnation for aromatization it is possible to add the cut fragrant apples to cowberry - Antonovka or a rennet.
Touch cowberry, rejecting the damaged berries and garbage. Wash out berry in several water, cast away on a colander and dry, having scattered on a towel. Prepare filling for cowberry. Pour water in a pan, add sugar, salt, a carnation and cinnamon. Bring mix to the boil, reduce fire and you cook until sugar completely is dissolved. Lay out cowberry in the glass or enameled capacity - a pan, to bank or a large bottle. Fill in berries with the prepared syrup and cover capacity. Mature cowberry at the room temperature week. Then transfer it to the cool place and insist not less than a month. After that soaked cowberry is ready-to-serve. It is better to store it in the fridge. Correctly made berries don't lose the gustatory qualities up to 2 years.