Cowberry contains the richest salutary structure which demands as much as possible careful attitude to itself(himself). Use of various methods of preparation helps to keep all useful properties of berry.
In berry to cowberry the maintenance of such element as benzoic acid is high thanks to what it perfectly remains. It is possible to fill with this berry a keg or banks, to fill in with boiled chilled water and to close as it is possible more densely. Such berry remains long enough.
As kept cowberry in former times
Fresh cowberry was kept to the middle of winter by means of the following method earlier. Crumpled and small berries were put in a pot, filled with water to the very top, then closed a cover. The top was covered with the test, and the pot was placed in the furnace after baking of bread. In the morning it got, berries overturned on a sieve that juice flew down.
On this juice it was possible to make kissel, and berries frayed through a sieve. Puree to which added treacle and sugar – on two glasses of cowberry as much of sugar and slightly more glass of treacle turned out. Sometimes sugar was replaced with honey. Liquid puree with which filled in berries turned out. This mix was covered and before the use placed on ice.
Modern ways of preservation of cowberry
To cook jam from cowberry, the prepared berries should be filled in with boiled water for a couple of minutes. Jam from it becomes more gentle and tasty. Then cowberry is thrown back on a sieve that excess water flew down, and poured into a basin for jam. To fill in everything with the boiling syrup prepared at the rate on 1 kg of berries – 1.2 kg of sugar and 3 glasses of water. It is possible to add 3-4 carnations at the end of cooking. It is good to add also fruit – on half a kilo of berries as much of pears or apples. At first fruits are cleaned from a thin skin and a core, then cut them segments. In a sugar syrup it is necessary to boil a few at first pears or apples, and already then to add cowberry. Cowberry jellies did on honey earlier – on two glasses of juice as much of honey. Instead of it use sugar now. The peeled cowberry is poured out in capacity for cooking and boiled in own juice without water addition until berries don't burst. Weight, without wringing out, it is necessary to filter through a gauze, to add sugar or honey then to uvarit until ready and to pour on the sterilized banks. From cowberry good dietetic or medical beverages turn out. For example, cowberry water – its use improves appetite and digestion. For its preparation ripe cowberry is filled up in the prepared tub and filled in with cold boiled water. It is better to boil water with addition of several branches of a peppermint. It is necessary to draw everything about four weeks then to use as the refreshing drink.