Each family, irrespective of a source of acquisition of fruits, at the end of summer actively starts preparations for the winter that all year to diversify the menu and to regale on tasty and fragrant gifts of the forests, fields and kitchen gardens. August the most plentiful month for a harvest therefore work is necessary intense. It is necessary to stock up with forces and patience for collecting and processing of fruits.
If the middle of a summer season was generally devoted to preparation of berries and fruit, then priorities of August are vegetables and mushrooms. To receive tasty preparations with preservation of the maximum quantity of vitamins, it is necessary to grow up or buy high-quality raw materials and, without postponing processing process, to immediately put a harvest on use.
So at the beginning of a month paprika, bush pumpkins, zucchini, onions and garlic begin to keep up. Those who didn't manage to prepare for the winter parsley, cilantro, a basil and fennel still manage to make it in August. They can be salted, dried or just to freeze. In a kitchen garden cucumbers and tomatoes, squash, a bean, a cauliflower, beet begin to keep up actively. It is possible to begin preparation of young corn.
August – a time of rolling and pickling of tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and paprika of mix, separately or in the form of salads; preparations of adjika, grated horse-radish with garlic, lecso, tomato sauce or paste, caviar from squash or eggplants. August vegetables can be salted and rolled up in the fresh or fried look.
Haricot perfectly is suitable for preparation for winter of salad with addition of onions, carrots, pepper and tomatoes. It is possible to diversify with other vegetables. Such delicacy will become the real find in the absence of time or an unexpected visit of guests. It is rather simple to open a jar and to lay out contents in a salad bowl.
At this time it is possible to prepare various soup gas stations for the winter. They will be great help for saving of time and forces of hostesses. Similar gas station forms the basis of first course and significantly saves time for its preparation. Some of them, for example gas station for rassolnik, it is possible to use as snack. It is enough to be warmed up, smeared slightly on bread and unusual delicacy is ready.
In the last month of a summer season the active time for mushroom pickers begins. Milk mushrooms, honey agarics, chanterelles, slippery jacks, aspen mushrooms, birch mushrooms and other mushrooms can be pickled, salted, dried, frozen in the boiled and fresh look.
There is the first harvesting of melon cultures. Pulp of melons and watermelons perfectly is suitable for pickling. At the beginning – the middle of August can pick raspberry and bilberry. They already depart, but berries still are enough for preparation of jam or jam. On the way the first pears and apricots, and the time for harvesting of apples, cherry plum and plums comes from the middle of month. They can be preserved, dried, turned into candied fruits, to cook jams, jam, juice, jam, to close compotes, to freeze.
To maintain useful and tasty preparations, it is necessary to follow accurately rules of preparation and conservation of raw materials. Then labors won't be lost, tanks with fruits won't blow up, and their contents won't deteriorate.