Lingonberry - berry useful. If you managed to collect it in sufficient quantity, it makes sense to prepare it for future use. During the year, it will be possible to use the berry for preparing fruit drinks, desserts, add it to salads, decorate cold snacks and hot dishes with it. Cranberries, which can be prepared for the winter in different ways (with sugar and without sugar), retain their useful properties, aesthetic appearance and peculiar only to her taste for a long time.

Cooking features

Before choosing a recipe for wintering with the dried cowberry, it is worthwhile to study several recommendations:

• Wash well and sort out the berry that you are going to soak. You need to inspect each copy, as rotted and dented for this purpose are not suitable.
• Do not throw away the leaves of lingonberries, if they were with her - if you add them to the berries when soaking, it will become even more useful.
• Do not use aluminum cooking utensils for making berries - when it comes into contact with the acid contained in the berries, it releases toxic substances. It is better to give preference to enamelled containers or stainless steel tanks, but you can also use food grade plastic. Glass jars are also suitable.
• Antonov apples will help to emphasize the aroma of lingonberries. They should be cut into pieces and put on top of moistened lingonberries. It will be saturated with their aroma and will become even more appetizing.

Following these simple tips, it turns out to prepare for the winter soaked lingonberries according to one or several favorite recipes.

Lingonberry in its own juice

• lingonberry - 1 l;
• water - 2.5 l.

Cooking method:

• Wash the lingonberries and dishes, in which you plan to soak it. The glass jar is very well suited for this purpose. For reliability, it is better to sterilize it.
• Put the lingonberries on the bottom. You can shift it with cranberry leaves, but this is not necessary.
• Boil and cool to room temperature with water. Pour the lingonberries.
• Close the jar with parchment paper or a nylon lid with a slot (the slot can be made with a sharp knife) or round holes (such lids are usually used when preserving to drain the marinade from the jars). Additionally, the cover can be covered with gauze to protect against insects.
• Put in a dark, cool place.

Lingonberry ready to be wetted in its own juice will be in a week. Benzoic acid, which is very much in the composition of this berry, will help her to keep it all winter. But from time to time it is necessary to pour water from a jar, topping up fresh one. You can make a delicious and healthy fruit juice from a canned juice, and use the berries themselves later.

Moistened lingonberries with sugar

• lingonberry - 1 kg;
• sugar - 0.15 kg;
• apple (optional) - 50 g;
• salt - 2 g;
• water - 1 l.

Cooking method:

• Sort and rinse the berry well. Let the water flow out.
• Boil syrup from a liter of water, salt and sugar. Cool it down - it should not be hot, otherwise the berries will not retain their shape.
• Spread the berries on the banks, filling them about "on the shoulders."
• Put on top of the apple slice (optional).
• Pour syrup.
• Shake the jar neck with gauze or close the lid with small holes.
• Leave at room temperature for 3 weeks, then refrigerate.

You can keep soaked lingonberries at room temperature, but not for long (up to a month), therefore, if you can store in a cool place (cellar, refrigerator), it will not prevent her from using it.

Cowberries soaked with sugar can be used to make desserts and fruit drinks, and also serve tea instead of jam.

Cranberries, salted with salt

• lingonberry - 1 kg;
• water - 1 l;
• salt - 20 g;
• sugar - 3 g;
• carnation - 1 pc.

Cooking method:

• Put the washed and dried lingonberries in sterilized jars.
• Boil water, put clove, salt and sugar in it, boil for a couple of minutes.
• Cool the brine to room temperature, then fill the jars with lingonberries to the top.
• Cover tightly with lids and leave for a week at about 10 degrees.
• After a specified time, clean the winter in a cool place (up to 6 degrees).

Lingonberry moistened with salt is well suited for salads and other appetizers.

Lingonberry with honey

• lingonberry - 1 kg;
• water - how much will leave;
• salt - 2 g;
• honey - 100 g;
• cinnamon -? sticks;
• clove - 2 pcs.

Cooking method:

• Spread the clean berries in sterilized jars, filling them up to the hangers.
• Spread the spice on the banks.
• Pour the berries with boiled but cool water and pour it into a bowl.
• Honey dissolve in water, drained from the cans, heating the syrup in a water bath. Add a pinch of salt to the syrup.
• Cool the syrup and fill it with lingonberries.
• Close the cans with plastic lids and store them in a cool place in a dark place.

By the use of lingonberries in honey pouring will be ready in a month. The filling itself is no less useful and tasty than the berry.

Spiced pickled lingonberries

• lingonberry - 1 kg;
• water - 1 l;
• salt - 10 g;
• sugar - 40 g;
• carnation - 7 pcs .;
• allspice (peas) - 6 pcs .;
• cinnamon - 1 stick.

Cooking method:

• Pour the right amount of water into the pan, put spices, salt and sugar in it.
• Boil and boil until sugar is completely dissolved.
• Allow the syrup to cool and infuse.
• Lingonberries, sort out, rinse, spread on banks (they need to be sterilized in advance).
• Fill the berry with cooled syrup. Close the capron covers.

Store in a cool room, if this is not possible, then you can leave it for the winter and at room temperature, but in this case it is better to eat it until the end of winter.

Each recipe for soaked lingonberries is good in its own way. If there are enough berries, you can use several, especially since it will not take much power.

Hurry to close a few jars of fine delicacy, which will serve a very useful service in winter. Below we will tell you how to prepare for the winter at home a delicious lingonberry, mashed with sugar without cooking.

Lingonberry mashed with sugar - a recipe without cooking

Ingredients:

• ripe berries of cowberry - 1.8 kg;
• fine sugar - 2 kg.

Cooking

Enumerated ripe berries are washed first in one water and then rinsed in another. We sprinkle them on a large clean towel and let it dry for about an hour. Now we collect all the berries, mix them in any container with the required amount of fine sugar, and then pass this mixture through the finest sieve of the electromeat grinder.

When chopping lingonberries, we crushed a little grains of sugar, but this is not enough for it to completely dissolve. Therefore, we leave our jam for 30-40 minutes in the pan, stirring occasionally.

Jars of no more than 0.5 liters in volume are well roasted in the oven, and then we pour the jam over it and cork it with roasted metal lids. Hide in the fridge and wait patiently for the winter.

Lingonberry with sugar without cooking - a recipe for winter

Vanillin will make this delicacy especially fragrant. This preparation can be used in filling your favorite cakes or add a slice of bread and serve with tea.

Ingredients:

• cowberry berries - 2.2 kg;
• granulated sugar - 2 kg;
• vanillin - 2/3 Art. spoons.

Cooking

In a deep metal colander, wash prepared lingonberries and leave until all the water is drained from it. Then we move everything into a wide bowl and gently press all the berries with a wooden pestle, only to the extent that the lingonberries give cracks on the peel. We cover all these berries with sugar and set aside 40 minutes to one side. Then we mix the wetted sugar with the lingonberries with a wooden spatula, pour aromatic vanilla here and let it brew for about 20 minutes more.

We pour glass containers with boiling water three times and, once again mixing the jam, pour it over. We cover each can with boiled lid and roll it up to full stop. This preparation can be stored in the refrigerator for a long time.

Cowberries, sprinkled with sugar without cooking

This preparation will conquer all lovers of unusual treats. Lingonberry is especially tasty, moderately spicy and deliciously fragrant.

Ingredients:

• lingonberry - 1.5 kg;
• drinking water - 1.5 l;
• fine white sugar - 80 g;
• kitchen salt - 1.5 tbsp. spoons;
• allspice - 9 pcs .;
• buds - 9 pcs .;
• sticks - 2 pcs.

Cooking

For banks properly prepared for further preservation, we distribute the washed and well dried lingonberries so that 3-3.5 centimeters remain to the edge of the neck.

At the bottom of a small saucepan pour pea peppers allspice, buds of fragrant cloves and put a couple of cinnamon sticks. Fill all these spices with drinking water and set the pan on the hob of the included cooker. After the start of boiling water, boil the contents of the container for about 3-4 minutes. Next, cover it with a suitable lid and cool the broth to a slightly warm state. With the help of the skimmer, we extract the spices, and in the fragrant, infused decoction, we introduce table salt together with fine sugar. Carefully stir them, and pour the entire contents of the pan into containers with lingonberries, leaving 1 centimeter to the edge of the necks. Tightly close each can of a nylon lid heated in boiling water and put the soaked berries in a refrigerator or cellar.

Lingonberry is a tasty and healthy berry, from which jams, preserves, compotes, etc. are prepared for the winter. If you translate the phrase "grapevine from the Phrygian Ida mountain" into Latin, you get an ordinary lingonberry. Or not quite ordinary. Indeed, as part of the lingonberry there are antiseptics and stimulants of cardiac activity, cholagogue and vessel-strengthening substances. There is more carotene in it than in apples, grapes and cranberries.

Preparing a lingonberry for the winter is not as complicated as it may seem at first glance. It is enough to make soaked and frozen berries in the fall, as well as a few jars of lingonberries with sugar, to add it to hot dishes, sauces and desserts. And the savory taste of this berry will emphasize the main notes of any meal. The main thing is to follow the rules of preparing and processing berries, as well as adhere to the proportions of berries, sugar and other ingredients indicated in the recipes.

If you have a good harvest of wild strawberries, be sure to cook it for the winter!

To preserve the cranberries from fermenting and not to become a tasty home-made alcoholic drink, follow three golden rules:

1. It is necessary to thoroughly wash the berries (they must be whole and strong).
2. Be sure to sterilize the jars and lids.
3. Comply with the storage rules of conservation: refrigerator, cellar, basement, balcony, loggia.

Cowberry blanks for the winter with sugar

Before you do something with lingonberries, you need to firmly decide what you want to get: jam, jam, confiture or anything else. The confiture option is one of the most delicious and beautiful from the point of view of culinary aesthetics.

Lingonberry Confiture

Ingredients:

• lingonberry - 1.3 kg;
• granulated sugar - 0.9 kg;
• water - 0.25 l.

Cooking

1. Berry carefully bust, choose from them all the garbage.
2. Rinse the lingonberries several times with a colander. Let the water drain completely. Dry the berries (the confiture will be longer and better stored).
3. Move the berries into a deep volumetric saucepan. Pour water. Boil over moderate heat until the lingonberry is soft.
4. Foam lingonberries with a blender. You can use a meat grinder or grind the berries through a fine sieve.
5. Milled berries to combine with sugar.
6. Place the saucepan on the stove again. Cook lingonberry confiture until reduced by объема.
7. Remove from heat, cool slightly. Prepackaged in pre-prepared glass, well washed sterilized and dry cans. Roll up Clean in a cold place.
8. The best places for storage of confiture: refrigerator, cellar, basement.

Faded lingonberries with sugar

To cook lingonberries, mashed with sugar, you need:

• 1 kg of washed and dried ripe berries;
• 1 kg of sugar.

How to cook:

1. Heat plenty of water to a boil and flatter ripe lingonberries for 5 minutes. For simplicity, blanch berries can be in a colander.
2. Hot berries quickly rubbed through a sieve, put mashed potatoes in a saucepan or jar, mix with sugar and heat to dissolve all the sugar. It is important to mix with a wooden or silicone spoon so that the sugar does not remain at the bottom of the pan. If the presence of skin and seeds in the finished lingonberries with sugar is not embarrassing, you can chop the hot berries in a puree with a mixer.
3. Lingonberries with sugar fill sterilized hot dry jars.
4. Put the jars in the bath, sterilize for half an hour, roll up, turn over, do not turn over until completely cool.

Cranberries with sugar in Czech

To cook for the winter lingonberries with Czech sugar is necessary:

• 1 kg of ripe lingonberries;
• 0.5 kg of sugar.

How to cook:

1. Pick berries, wash them, pour drinking water on them, pour into a saucepan, slightly wrinkle, pour 2-3 spoons of water and put on a light fire under the lid.
2. When the berries begin to give juice, pour sugar in portions and boil down, stirring, until the volume is reduced.
3. When the volume of berries with sugar stops decreasing, boil for another 10 minutes. Remove the foam.
4. Berries skimmer spread out under the prepared banks, dry and hot.
5. Boil the syrup in the saucepan and pour it into the jars.
6. Banks immediately clog, turn and close the blanket for a slow cooling.

Preparation of cowberries without sugar

This recipe is intended for those who do not consume sugar. Here it is replaced by honey, which gives a new note. The duo lingonberry-honey sounds unexpectedly tasty.

Ingredients:

• lingonberry - 1.5 kg;
• honey - 1.5 kg.

Cooking

1. Go through lingonberries. Rinse thoroughly under running water. Throw in a colander. Let the water drain as much as possible. Sprinkle berries over linen and dry them thoroughly.
2. Move the dried lingonberries to a deep container. Pureen blender. Pour the rate of honey specified in the recipe. Beat again with a blender.
3. Mix the prepared honey-berry mass well with a wooden or silicone spoon. Set aside for 2 hours until the honey is completely dissolved in the berry juice.
4. After 2 hours, fill the sterilized containers with the finished mass. Cover tightly with lids. Move to a cold place inaccessible to the direct rays of the sun.

  To give the original blank savory taste, you can add a little ground cloves. But this is - to your taste.

Preparation of blanks (no matter what - what), the technology of which includes cooking, not everyone likes. It is clear why: longer to cook, more dishes to wash at the end of the process, and the vitamins are completely destroyed during heat treatment. Therefore, many people choose exactly those recipes where heat treatment is absent. Here is one of these options for harvesting lingonberries for the winter without cooking.

Ingredients:

• mineral water without bottled water - 0.35 g;
• lemon fresh;
• granulated sugar - 0.4 kg;
• ripe lingonberries - 0.9 kg.

Cooking

1. For starters, bilberry berries sort out. Not condition should be removed. Berries that are suitable for consumption, rinse thoroughly. Pour onto kitchen towel. Drain.
2. Next, move the lingonberries in the prepared, washed, dry, sterilized glass containers.
3. Prepare a sugar syrup with lemon juice added to taste.
4. Fill the glass containers with the product with ready hot syrup and close.

Ingredients:

• berries of fresh cranberries - 0.7 kg;
• mineral water without bottled water - 1 l;
• granulated sugar - 0.06 kg;
• salt - 0.015 kg;
• clove pepper peas - 0,005 kg;
• cinnamon - 1 stick;
• carnation - 10 buds.

Cooking

1. Carefully wash the jars, scald them with boiling water.
2. Berries to sort out. Leaves are recommended to leave. Wash berries. Dry them completely.
3. Then move on glass containers in such a way that the cranberries take up all the free space in the jars.
4. In a skillet pour water. Place the saucepan on the stove. Pour water. Put salt, sugar, pepper, cloves and cinnamon in it. Boil the contents of the skillet. Remove from heat. Strain through gauze. Cool it down.

  Storage: refrigerator, cellar, basement, in winter - the same, including the balcony.

How to freeze lingonberries for the winter

Sugarless

What is required:

• lingonberry - 1 kg.

Cooking (Option 1)

1. Clean the cowberry berries from debris and wash thoroughly under running water.
2. Sprinkle them on a baking sheet in one layer, put in the freezer.
3. When the lingonberry finally freezes and becomes “glassy”, move it into freezing forms or into plastic packaging bags.

Cooking (Option 2)

The washed and dried berries should be immediately moved into portion packets (picked up - used), the air drawn out of the packets with a plastic tube and, having packed the bag, moved it into the freezer.

You can use frozen lingonberries for a variety of purposes:

• cook jelly, stewed fruit;
• prepare jams, jams, jams (see);
• add to the pies as a filling, etc.

With sugar

There is an option in which sugar is used for freezing. It is somewhat more convenient, but - as you like.

What is required:

• lingonberry - 1 kg;
• sugar - 0, 5 kg.

What to do:

1. Berries are picked and rinsed, dried first in a colander, then with a kitchen towel.
2. Transfer to the tray as follows: a lingonberry layer - a layer of granulated sugar - a layer of berries - a layer of granulated sugar. And so on until the end of the product.
3. Seal the container, place in the freezer.

  You can also freeze the berries in a puree-like state.

Lingonberry syrup is a tasty and healthy delicacy for children and adults. It can be used with pastries, ice cream, desserts, cocktails and even meat. It is prepared without additives and preservatives. I offer you a simple recipe for such a syrup.

Ingredients:

Of the ingredients you need only sugar and lingonberries, in a ratio of one to one.

Cooking:

It is necessary how to wash and dry the berries of lingonberry. This is best done using a sieve to make excess glass liquid. If necessary, additionally soak a dry paper towel.

Then send the pan to a slow fire and bring to a boil. In the process of cooking, without removing the pan from the heat, the cranberries should be kneaded with any improvised remedy (most conveniently with potato sticks) so that it can sap as quickly as possible. Syrup must be cooked over low heat for 20-30 minutes, depending on the consistency you need.

After that, remove the pan from the heat and grind the lingonberries with an immersion blender, then again send to a slow fire for 10 - 15 minutes.

Sterilize the jars, place the syrup and roll.

Cowberry - apple jam

This jam will decorate your table, and believe me, your guests will remember this pleasant taste and will definitely look in again.

You will need:

Lingonberry - 3-liter jar;

Peeled apples - 3-liter jar;

Sugar - 3 kg;

Cinnamon - 1 tsp;

Cloves - 1 tsp.

Cooking

Peel the apples and remove the core. Cut the apples into cubes and place them in a deep pan, then add the washed lingonberries and sugar and leave to stand for 5-6 hours. After the elapsed time has elapsed, put the pot on the fire and stir it so that our jam does not burn. It is necessary to bring the jam to a boil and leave to cool. We perform this procedure 2 more times. After everything is done, add the cloves and cinnamon, bring the jam to a boil and place it hot in sterilized jars. Output - 5 liters of jam.

Wet cowberries for the winter

You will definitely like this cowberry dish, as it is not only tasty, but also very healthy. Lingonberry has a lot of vitamin, so no wonder it is called the health berry.

Ingredients:

3-4 glasses of lingonberry berries;

3 tbsp. Sahara;

1 tsp salts;

1 l. water;

Allspice (peas);

Carnation

Initially, you must properly wash and sterilize the jars or pour boiling water. Put the washed lingonberries in a jar so that they are evenly distributed. Then pour water into a saucepan or saucepan and add the remaining ingredients, bring to a boil. After this, we filter the pouring through a sieve or cheesecloth, and leave to cool. Next, pour the lingonberries prepared by pouring and close the plastic lid. Now you need to put it in a cool place and tasty cowberry is ready for winter.

Cowberry jam with pear

In order to cook such a jam, lingonberries need to stock up in advance, as the pears are spiced a little later. Lingonberry with pear in combination gives a wonderful aroma and great taste.

For this jam you need:

2 kg of cranberries;

4 kg of sugar;

2 kg of pears;

1 tbsp. water.

Cooking

Wash the cranberries thoroughly. Peel the pears from the core and cut into small pieces. Sugar needs to be prepared separately, pour it into a saucepan and add water to dissolve more quickly. Put the pot on the fire and stir. After the syrup is boiled to a boil, add the lingonberries and pear and boil for 20 minutes. Next, add the cinnamon, because it is she who gives such a wonderful aroma in the lingonberry jam. Jam in the pan will need to boil for about an hour and a half, stirring it all the time. The foam will definitely need to be removed so that there will be no trouble in the final result. Jam can be cooked longer, it all depends on how much density you need. After you have boiled the jam, it should be hot decomposed into sterilized jars and sealed with a lid for preservation.

As you can see, we got a large number of blanks for the winter with lingonberries, a very tasty and healthy berry. Now you know what to make of lingonberries for the winter! Bon appetit and delicious blanks!

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