Currant compote

13.05.2019 Preparations for the winter

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Girls, taking advantage of the fact that summer is especially fruitful for berries this year, I want to tell you today about a very quick and proven way to cook delicious currant compote, which will come in handy for hot days, and preserve it for a long time. cold winter doesn't hurt either. Always, when I roll up jars with this compote, I smile and remember my childhood. When my parents and other relatives got together for New Year's table, I also terribly wanted to try that incomprehensible, dark ruby liquid that the adults from crystal glasses, squinted with pleasure and smacked their lips. After my long whining, my mother put a small glass in front of me and poured the same drink. I drank with such pleasure and a full sense of belonging to the adult world! Later, when I became older, my mother, of course, revealed a secret to me - she poured currant compote into my glass instead of wine. And ever since then, I've been addicted to it! I suggest you try to cook the same wonderful drink- blackcurrant compote for the winter according to my simple recipe without double filling. By the way, you can also add an orange along with currants, as in this one, it will be even tastier!
Ingredients:
- 170-180 grams of black currant;
- 70-80 grams of sugar;
- 650-700 milliliters of water.

Recipe with photo step by step:

Pour currant berries into a large bowl or basin and fill with water. Rinse carefully, sort through the berries with your fingers. We wash the currants in several waters in this way. This method of cleaning the berries will help keep them whole, the juice will not come out ahead of time. Pour the water from the bowl through a colander, sort out the remaining berries in it, remove the branches and leaves. At the same time, let the currant dry slightly.

We sterilize jars for corking and metal lids.
We fall asleep berries at the bottom of the jar (it is desirable that the berries occupy no more than a third of the entire jar).

Add sugar to currants.

We put a pot of water on a strong fire and wait for it to boil.
Remove the pan from the heat and immediately pour currants in a jar with boiling water.

Without delay, we proceed to blockage.

We turn the rolled jars upside down and insulate them with a large towel or blanket - the slower the compote cools, the richer and more beautiful the color will be later.
Drink to your health and good appetite!

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Blackcurrant compote for the winter – great way preserve the many vitamins that this useful berry. Despite the fact that compote exposed high temperatures, it stores a large number of vitamins and minerals, including vitamins A, B, C, E, as well as potassium, phosphorus, iodine, iron, magnesium.

The benefits of black currant

Black currant has bright and rich taste because of which not many people like to use it in pure form. However, finding a solution to this problem is quite simply- need cook delicious blackcurrant compote for the winter.

Compote from this berry is unique in its kind, only it does not lose vitamin C during preservation. This feature is due great content tannins.

Compote able to regulate blood sugar levels, which is so important for people with diabetes, and also for the prevention of this disease. The drink has a beneficial effect on functioning digestive system, which has a positive effect in such ailments as an ulcer, a violation of the microflora of the gastrointestinal tract, colds and also helps to saturate the body with vitamins. This article provides some useful blackcurrant compote recipes.

Important! Aluminum utensils are absolutely unsuitable for cooking blackcurrant compote. This material tends to oxidize under the influence of acids, resulting in the formation of harmful substances. Also, the use of aluminum pans destroys all vitamins.

How to make compote for the winter

Simple and quick recipe

Ingredients:

1 kg of berries;
2.5 liters clean water;
0.5 kg of sugar.

Way cooking:

The fruits must be separated from the leaves and tails and thoroughly rinsed under running water. It is better not to use large specimens, as they will burst during cooking;
Sterilize 3-liter jars and fill with berries up to half the volume;
Fill the jar halfway with boiling water, trying to direct the jet at the berries. Leave to infuse for 10 minutes. Sterilize the lids;
Using a sieve or a spoon with holes, pour the resulting infusion into a clean, pre-prepared container. Heat on fire until boiling, add sugar;
It is necessary to pour the berries again with the resulting syrup and roll up the lids;
Banks should be turned over to make sure they are tight. Let cool.

Advice! Removing the stalks is not at all mandatory step, their presence does not have any effect on the quality of compote storage, but they look great inside the jar.

Assorted red and black currants

Currant compote contains many vitamins, in the cooking process you can use not only black, but also red currant. In such a drink, there are twice as many vitamins, usually berries are taken in a ratio of five parts black currant and one red.

Ingredients:

1 liter of berries;
350 gr. Sahara;
clove, cinnamon, nutmeg optional.

Cooking:

Sort the fruits, wash and dry thoroughly. It is most convenient to remove the stalks from a dry berry right before the moment of laying out the jars;
Glass jars of the required volume are washed and sterilized in advance;
Sterilization can be carried out in the oven, with this method, a clean, wet jar is placed upside down on a wire rack for 15-20 minutes in a preheated oven. After cooling, the banks are removed;
Then you need to fill the 3-liter jars first red currant, and then - black. The total volume of berries should not exceed 2/3 of the volume of the vessel;
Banks are poured with boiling water and infused for 10 minutes;
Next, the resulting drink is poured into a saucepan, sugar is added there. It is worth taking into account the volume of not only liquid, but also berries;
For aroma, you need to add cloves at the rate of 6-9 pieces per 3 liters compote, nutmeg and cloves - half a teaspoon each.
The drink is brought to a boil, but not boiled;
Caps are prepared and sterilized in advance;
Banks with currant pour syrup and cover with lids;
Banks must be turned over, after cooling, placed in a dark place;
Certainly, cook compote not so simply, but this tasty and healthy drink worth the time and effort.

with orange

Some spice and unique aroma can be given currant compote by adding a couple of slices to it orange.

Ingredients:

1 liter currants;
½ orange;
350 gr. Sahara.

Cooking:

Currant thoroughly washed and dried;
Citrus is cut in any form (rings, pieces);
Currant together with orange it is laid out in jars, boiling water is added there. All this is infused for about 5 minutes;
The liquid is drained into a separate bowl, sugar is poured and brought to a boil, 3 minutes brewed syrup;
Then it is poured into jars, preserved, turned upside down and wrapped up.

With raspberries

Raspberry also very helpful and delicious, that is why there are many recipes preparation of compotes, the ingredients for which were these two berries. In order to cook this divine drink need to take currant in any quantity, the more it is, the richer and more intense the taste and color will be finished product(for a 3 liter jar take 1 liter currants).

Ingredients:

1 liter black currant;
200 gr. raspberries;
400 g of granulated sugar;
2.5 liters of water.

Way cooking:

Clean the berries from debris and wash thoroughly;
It is worth resorting to blanching the berries for 5 minutes;
Arrange the berries in pre-prepared jars;
Cook sweet syrup from water, sugar and raspberries;
The syrup is poured into jars over black currant and leave for 5 minutes;
Then the liquid is poured into a separate container, brought to a boil and again poured into jars;
Roll up lids.

Advice! To give special taste and flavor in blackcurrant compote, you can add lemon balm or lemon.

Blackcurrant and apple compote

one more great option delicious and useful compote is a duet from black currant and apples, which getting ready from the following ingredients:

Gender kg apples any kind;
150 gr. black currant;
1 glass of sugar (250 g);
2.5 liters of water.

Cooking:

Peel thoroughly washed apples and cut into 4 parts, if desired, the pieces can be made smaller in size;
Wash the berries and get rid of excess debris;
Place apples together with berries in a bowl with water, bring to a boil;
Then add sugar to the resulting mixture and cook over low heat for 5 minutes;
Ready compote Pour into sterilized jars and close with lids.

Watch the video! Blackcurrant compote with apples

with gooseberries

Great combination for compote preparation is a mix of gooseberry with blackcurrant . Tokai drink requires the addition of less sugar, gooseberry So, quite sweet in taste. lovers natural flavors when cooking such compote, add only 100 gr. Sugar per liter of drink.

Ingredients:

1 glass black currant;
2 glasses gooseberry;
250 g sugar;
2.5 liters of water.

Way cooking:

In order to gooseberry softened a little and gave compote all its juice and aroma must be blanched a little;
Pour into a saucepan required amount water, bring to a boil;
Put the berries poured into a sieve into boiling water and leave for a couple of minutes;
The base for the syrup is ready. After that, sugar is poured into it. Currant and gooseberry laid out in banks so that they occupy 1/3 of the volume of the entire container;
The syrup is poured into jars, which are closed with lids, turned upside down, insulated and cooled in this position.

With mint or lemon balm

A feature of this compote is sourness, such a drink will perfectly quench your thirst. The drink is pleasantly refreshing and toning.

Ingredients:

3 glasses currants;
A couple of twigs mint;
2.5 liters of water;
200 gr. Sahara.

how cook:

Rinse and clean the berries;
Pour boiling water with pre-added sugar, it is also necessary to put mint. Boil;
After three minutes boiling on fire, remove, pour into jars and roll up. Such compote great for workpiece for the winter.

Frozen blackcurrant compote in 5 minutes

Every summer, lovers of the gifts of nature carefully collect various berries and fruits, freeze them, and then use them for cooking various homemade dishes and drinks.

Reference! Frozen berry compote is no different in palatability from a drink prepared on the basis of fresh currants. It is also healthy and rich in vitamins.

Cooking compote does not take much time, there is even a super fast way his cooking, which only takes 5 minutes.

Ingredients:

1 glass frozen berries currants;
0.5 cups of sugar;
3 liters of pure water.

Way cooking:

Water must be boiled and placed in it currant and sugar;
Wait until it boils and remove from heat. Compote leave for half an hour;
That's all. Compote ready! The drink turned out to be rich with bright taste summer berries.

sugar free recipe

The recipe unique in that instead of sugar it uses lemon acid.

The ratio of ingredients to one 3 liter jar:

4 cups of berries;
2 gr. citric acid;
2.5 liters of water.

Way cooking:

The berry is thoroughly washed and disposed of debris;
Banks and lids are sterilized;
Currant laid out in jars, poured citric acid. Everything is poured with boiling water and tightly covered;
The bottom of a large container is lined with a 4-layer canvas, on top of which banks are placed;
Water is poured into a large container and boiled for 30 minutes;
Next, the jars are tightly closed with lids, turned over and wrapped.

Also, to give a certain flavor to the drink, you can add other seasonal berries and fruits: strawberries, citrus fruits and others.

Watch the video! Blackcurrant compote

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You can talk about the beneficial qualities of currants for a very long time. It is rich in vitamins B, E and C. It also contains potassium, pectin, phosphorus and iron. Our family is not very fond of this berry in fresh, since her taste is quite specific, but no one refuses compote. It turns out very fragrant, tasty and incredibly useful.

I want to offer you some very simple recipes for blackcurrant compote, which have been prepared in our family for several generations.

How to cook blackcurrant compote

Inventory: saucepan, 3 liter jar, lid, seaming key.

Ingredients

Step by step cooking

To begin with, we will prepare a jar in which the compote will be stored. Pour boiling water over it or sterilize it in a way convenient for you. From the indicated amount of ingredients, one three-liter jar of compote will be obtained.
We sort out the blackcurrant berries and wash them several times. We spread about 460 g of washed berries in a jar.
In a separate saucepan, bring clean water to a boil. We will need about 2.6 liters of water.
When the water boils, pour currants with boiling water.
We cover the jar metal lid and leave for 15 minutes so that the compote is infused.

Add 230-260 g of sugar there. Adjust the amount of sugar to your liking.
Bring the resulting syrup to a boil, and then pour it back into a jar of berries.

We turn over the jar of compote, wrap it in a blanket and leave it to cool completely.

Such blanks can be stored all winter in a dark, cool place.

video recipe

Don't miss the opportunity to see how easy it is to preserve blackcurrants.

Blackcurrant and apple compote

Time for preparing– 1 hour 20 minutes.
Servings- 3 to 3 liters.
Calories per 100 g- 60 kcal.
Inventory: pot, three-liter jars, sieve, lids, bowls, seaming key.

Ingredients

Step by step cooking

Wash apples and black currants thoroughly. Remove the core of the apples and cut them into medium-sized slices.

Blackcurrant compote is cooked not only with apples, you can replace them with oranges, raspberries or apricots. You can also add mint or cinnamon.
We set clean jars to sterilize in a way convenient for you: on the stove (steamed), in the oven or microwave.
AT large saucepan pour 8 liters of clean water and bring it to a boil.
Before putting berries with apples in a jar, they need to be blanched. Put in a sieve 3 stack. currants and 280 g of apples.
When the water boils, lower the sieve into boiling water and blanch the measured portion of berries and apples for about 1 minute.
Then we transfer them to a sterilized vessel. Do the same with the remaining ingredients. From this amount of ingredients, you should get 3 jars with a capacity of 3 liters.
We spread 1.4 kg of sugar in boiling water, mix and cook the syrup for 5-10 minutes. If desired, the amount of sugar can be reduced, but it should be no less than 100 g per 1 liter of water.
Pour the finished syrup into jars and roll them up with a key. We turn the jars upside down and wrap them in a blanket. When they are completely cool, put them in a cold place.

video recipe

Watch the video on how compote is prepared according to this recipe.

O useful properties blackcurrant has been known for a long time. This is a storehouse of vitamins C, B, E. It is rich in pectins, phosphorus, iron, potassium. The list of usefulness can be continued indefinitely. However, this berry is quite specific in taste, so there are not many fans of eating it in its pure form, but from delicious compote no one will refuse blackcurrant.

Why this compote should be on your table

The unique benefit is due to the special natural composition drink. For its preparation, mature fragrant berries, therefore, compote is biologically rich active ingredients, which are much better absorbed by the body compared to artificial analogues from a pharmacy in the form of vitamins and nutritional supplements.

Of course, during the cooking process, a number of useful compounds are lost, since the berries undergo heat treatment, but most of them, compared to other fruits and berries, still remain.

Blackcurrant compote has a rather high content of vitamins A, B, C, E, beta-carotene, ascorbic acid, potassium, calcium, iodine, phosphorus, magnesium and iron.

The drink normalizes the level of glucose in the blood, which prevents the occurrence of diabetes, improves work gastrointestinal tract, metabolism.

We offer you some very tasty and healthy recipes.

Quick blackcurrant compote with cinnamon

Ingredients

800 gr. fresh berries blackcurrant;
200 gr. brown sugar;
1 liter of water;
2 teaspoons of cinnamon.

Cooking

Wash the berries thoroughly.
Boil water, add sugar, stir, wait until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Reduce heat, add currants and cinnamon. Boil the compote for 2-3 minutes.
Remove the saucepan from the heat. Let the compote brew for 2-3 hours to reveal the taste of currants and the aroma of cinnamon.

Variation with raspberries and lemon balm

Ingredients

800 gr. blackcurrant;
200 gr. raspberries;
1 kg. Sahara;
1 liter of water;
½ lemon;
2-3 sprigs of lemon balm.

Cooking

Sort and wash the currants.
Pour currants with boiling water.
Fill a pre-sterilized jar with currants to half, put lemon slices and lemon balm on top.
Prepare the syrup. Put a pot of water on the fire, bring it to a boil. Place sugar and raspberries in a saucepan. Bring the water to a boil again and remove the pot from the heat.
Pour the syrup into the blackcurrant jar. Let it brew for 10-15 minutes.
Drain the water through a special lid or sieve back into the pan. Bring it to a boil and pour water into the berry.
Seal the jar tightly with a lid.
Turn over and let the jar cool.

Frozen blackcurrant compote

In the summer, housewives stock up on fruits and berries for the winter, put them in containers and store them in freezer to please the household with a tasty and healthy drink on a cold and rainy day.

Winter compote from frozen blackcurrant is not inferior in its taste and useful qualities a drink brewed from fresh berries, because with quick freezing all the vitamins and microelements that are so rich in this garden berry are stored to the maximum extent.

Here is such a simple recipe good health and cheerful spirit, which is available to everyone.

Extra-quick and healthy recipe - prepare compote in 5 minutes

Ingredients

frozen blackcurrant - 1 cup;
sugar (or substitute) - 0.5 cups;
water - 3 liters.

compote preparation frozen black currant

Bring water to a boil, pour frozen blackcurrant and sugar into it. Bring to a boil and turn off. We let it brew for 30 minutes. That's all! We get a very tasty, sweet and rich drink that has retained all its beneficial properties.

Frozen currant compote with apple and mandarin slices

Ingredients

300 gr. frozen currants;
2 liters of water;
1 apple;
180 gr. Sahara;
2-3 slices of tangerine.

Cooking

Wash the apple, cut it into slices, peel the seeds.
Boil water in a saucepan, add sugar, put a chopped apple and tangerine slices. Boil the compote for 5 minutes.
Add frozen currants. It is not necessary to defrost the berries in advance, otherwise all the juice will flow out of them. Bring the drink to a boil and remove from heat. Cool it down with room temperature and serve.

We offer a video recipe for harvesting for the winter - only for lovers of sweets 😉

With mint and cinnamon

Ingredients

500 gr. blackcurrant;
200 gr. Sahara;
2 liters of water;
Dried mint (to taste);
Cinnamon (to taste).

Cooking

Boil mint in boiling water. Let it brew for 10-15 minutes.
Boil water in a saucepan. Pour frozen berries, sugar, mint, cinnamon into it.
Bring the pot to a boil again. Turn off the fire. Let the drink brew for 3-4 hours, strain it through a sieve, pour into a jug.

Is it necessary to make blackcurrant compote for the winter?

How pleasant it is to open a jar of blackcurrant compote in winter and return to summer for a moment. In addition to pleasant nostalgic memories that this drink awakens, it is also worth noting its beneficial properties.

Blackcurrant compote is the only one that retains vitamin C during preservation. This is possible due to the presence of tannins in the berry.

Winter and spring are the most difficult period for the body, when we experience an acute deficiency in vitamins. Fruits and berries on the shelves of supermarkets do not inspire confidence. Some of them look very appetizing, but their naturalness raises many questions.

In order for the fruits to safely reach our latitudes from hot countries, they are stuffed with chemistry, which can hardly be useful, and the products of domestic manufacturers have lost the whole set of beneficial properties over time.

The most delicious and useful way saturate the body with vital substances treat it with blackcurrant compote, which was carefully cooked in the summer.

You can not cook compote in aluminum pan. The acids contained in the currant react with the metal, the harmful compounds resulting from the reaction fall into ready drink. In addition, while cooking aluminum cookware berries lose almost all vitamins and minerals.

Blackcurrant drink recipe for the winter

Ingredients

1 kg of blackcurrant;
2 liters of water;
500 gr. Sahara.

Cooking

Rinse currants thoroughly. Sort out the berries. For canning, it is better to use medium-sized currants, large berries will burst.
Fill a sterilized 3 liter jar halfway with currants.
Pour boiling water into the jar, make sure that the water pours on the berries, and not on the walls of the jar. Let the compote brew for 10 minutes. Sterilize the lids in the remaining water.
Through a sieve or a special lid with holes, drain the water from the jar into a saucepan, put it on fire. Bring it to a boil, add sugar.
Refill the jar sugar syrup and quickly roll up the lid.
Flip the jar over to check for leaks.
Leave the jar to cool upside down.

Below is the most delicious recipe blackcurrant compote for the winter.

This garden berry is different special properties beneficial to the human body. Blackcurrant compote is unique. When preparing it, only ripe berries are used, which enrich the drink with active biocomponents that are easily absorbed by the body. Due to the fact that at the stage of compote preparation, the berries are exposed to heat treatment, some part useful substances is lost. However, blackcurrant compote for the winter still brings us a decent supply of vitamins, beta-carotene, ascorbic acid, potassium, calcium, phosphorus and other elements. A drink made from this berry stabilizes blood glucose, prevents diabetes, normalizes the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract and metabolism. Currant compote is advised to drink with ulcers, colds, in preventive purposes. In a word, blackcurrant is good, preparations for the winter must be done. In home economics tips, blackcurrant recipes for the winter have always abounded, this berry is so easy to prepare simple and delicious dishes.

With its use, it is possible to prepare a healthy drink without much hassle, which will give you pleasure on winter evenings.

Ingredients:

blackcurrant berries - 950 gr;
granulated sugar- 350 - 370 gr;
water - 3 l.

How to cook blackcurrant compote:

Three-liter jars intended for storing compote are washed with baking soda and sterilized over steam.
The berries must be washed well and given time for all the water to glass.
Pour water into a saucepan, send it to the stove, add sugar and prepare the syrup, stirring until completely dissolved.
Berries are poured into each jar in the specified amount, boiled syrup is poured to the neck of the container.
The jar is rolled up with a metal lid, previously treated with boiling water.
Compotes are placed on the lids upside down, covered with a blanket. It should be kept until it cools down completely. Storage is organized in a darkened cool room.

If after cooking you still have strawberries, then you can cook from them or, instructions for the manufacture of which, we also included in our piggy bank of recipes on the site.

Currant, raspberry and lemon balm

When combined, the berries give unique taste. Compote is very useful for colds.

Ingredients:

currant - 800 gr;
raspberries - 200 gr;
sugar - 1 kg;
water - 1 l;
half a lemon;
Melissa - 2 - 3 branches.

How to cook blackcurrant compote:

Currant berries must be sorted and washed, then poured with boiling water.
Pour currants (up to half) into clean sterilized jars, throw lemon and lemon balm.
Pour water into the dishes, put on fire. When it boils, we introduce sugar and raspberries into the pan, let it boil again, turn off the fire under it.
Pour the jars of berries with the prepared syrup, leave for about fifteen minutes.
Carefully pour the water into a saucepan, boil again and fill the jars, immediately rolling them up with lids.
Banks are turned upside down, covered and kept until cool.

According to this recipe, according to most housewives, you can prepare the most delicious currant compote.

Ingredients:

black currant - 1 kg;
water - 2 l;
sand sugar - 500 gr.

Blackcurrant compote:

We recommend sorting the berries, choosing medium-sized ones for canning (larger ones will burst), rinse under cool water.
A three-liter jar sterilized in advance is filled with berries to half.
Carefully pour boiling water into the jar. At the same time, it is necessary to try to pour it on the berries, and not on the glass sides.
It should stand for about ten minutes, so that the compote is infused.
During this time, we sterilize metal covers.
Drain the water again into the pan, boil again, add sugar.
Pour the berries with the prepared syrup for the second time, immediately roll up.
Banks with compotes are turned over, checked for tightness of rolling, left in this position until they cool down.

Blackcurrant compote for the winter

This berry, cooked in the form of compote with sugar, will completely preserve all taste features and vitamin reserves even if it melts during cooking.

Ingredients:

water - 1 l;
sugar - 550 - 800 gr;
blackcurrant berry - 270 - 300 gr per half-liter jar.

Blackcurrant compote for the winter:

The berry should be carefully sorted out, selecting ripe, healthy and dense ones. With the help of small scissors, we remove the remains of inflorescences and stalks. For easy removal of debris, it is recommended to use a flat surface, set at an angle and covered with a towel. The fruits rolling along it will be cleaned, leaving all the rubbish on the fabric.
Currants are placed in a colander and washed.
As soon as the water is completely glass, the berries are laid out in jars and poured with freshly prepared syrup.
We cover the jars with lids, place them in a container with water and sterilize (a half-liter container - no more than ten minutes, a liter container - up to fifteen).
To close such a compote, it is necessary to use glass or varnished lids so that the syrup does not turn purple.
In some southern regions, compote from currant berries black varieties are prepared without sterilization. Only the lid and the jar are subjected to this procedure. If you want to roll more berries, then they are poured into jars up to their shoulders. And if we are preparing a compote for drinking, then the berries must be put no more than half the container. In each of the options, freshly boiled syrup is poured, which is prepared at the rate of 300 grams of sugar per liter volume of water.
Banks are closed, cooled and sent to storage. The peculiarity of such a compote is that it can be stored for no more than twelve calendar months.
In winter, having uncorked one of these compote jars, you can remember summer days inhaling the aroma of the drink.

Assorted currants

Compote from currant berries is enriched with vitamins. Especially when not only black, but also red currants are taken for its preparation, the ratio of which is 5 to 1. At the same time, there is one feature - you can take as many berries as their presence allows.

Ingredients:

per liter of sugar - 200 gr;
cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg (optional).

Blackcurrant compote recipe:

Currant berries are sorted out from debris, washed and dried. At this point, all damaged fruits must be removed. The stalks are removed at the moment when the dried berry is laid out in jars.
Glass jars are cleaned in advance with baking soda and sterilized.
A layer of red berries is laid in each jar, then blackcurrant. The total height of the berries should not exceed two thirds of the container.
Pour the berries with boiled water, let it brew.
Drain the water into a saucepan, add sugar there. At the same time, it should be taken into account that granulated sugar is laid at the rate of one glass for each volumetric liter of container, and not for the amount of liquid poured from cans for preparing syrup.
For every three liters of liquid, it is allowed to add from 6 to 9 cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon in half a small spoon.
Bring everything to a boil and immediately remove from the stove.
While the syrup was being prepared, jar lids must be separate dishes boil.
Fill the jars with berries again, to the very top, and screw them with heated lids.
Rolls are turned over on lids and stored until completely cooled. After that, they are moved to a dark, cool place for safety until the onset of winter cold.
The process of preparing compote in this way is somewhat tedious, but the result exceeds all expectations.

You can also cook from red currants, the preparation of which will not take much of your time.

Natural blackcurrant compote

Compote prepared according to this simple recipe turns out to be very tasty, rich and very beneficial for the body.

Ingredients:

Everything is taken from the calculation of the preparation of compote in half-liter jars:
granulated sugar - 100 gr;
boiled water - 2 tablespoons
a glass of currant

Cooking method:

Currant berries are moved from the remaining inflorescences, stalks, fruits affected by insects are removed.
Glass jars with lids are washed in advance, sterilized.
Berries sprinkled with sugar are placed in a container, compacted by gentle tapping on the glass sides.
Boiled water is added to each jar.
Jars covered with lids are placed in a pot of water. At an eighty-degree temperature, they are kept for twenty minutes, and if the water boils - no more than ten.
Natural compote is ready!

Compote without sugar

The recipe has one difference - sugar is replaced with citric acid. Compote drink acquires an unusual taste, very refreshing.

Ingredients:

All components are taken based on a three-liter jar:

blackcurrant berries - 4 cups;
lemon - 2 gr;
water - in quantities, how much the container will hold.

Blackcurrant compote for the winter recipe:

Currants are preliminarily sorted, cleaned of litter and remnants of inflorescences with stalks.
Glass jars are thoroughly washed, the lids are poured with boiling water.
Dried berries are laid out in jars, citric acid is added, everything is poured with boiling water, covered with lids.
Banks are placed in a large pan, the bottom of which is covered with a dense material in four layers.
The pot is placed on slow fire, bring water to a boil and sterilize jars with berries for no more than thirty minutes.
Having finished sterilizing, the lids immediately roll up.
To further warm the compote, the jars should be turned over onto the lids and wrapped in warm clothes until they cool completely.

Conclusion

Probably there is no such simple and delicious drink, like a compote made from blackcurrant berries. Opening it in winter, you will praise yourself more than once for diligence, using blackcurrant blanks for the winter.