Hawthorn is a wonderful healthy and tasty berry. Everyone knows that it is good for the heart in the form of an alcoholic tincture. But what else can you cook from hawthorn? It turns out a lot! Surprise your loved ones with delicious hawthorn health benefits.
It is necessary
- Now hawthorn is widespread all over the world - its beneficial properties are widely known and actively used. Some types of hawthorn are recognized as official medicine. Hawthorn is an extremely useful plant. The healing properties of hawthorn have long been widely used in the treatment and prevention of many diseases.
- The medicinal properties of hawthorn are based on its composition. Hawthorn fruits contain a large amount of flavonoids, pectin and tannins. Among the trace elements, copper, zinc, iron, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, cobalt, molybdenum can be distinguished in the composition of hawthorn. Well, in addition, hawthorn contains vitamins C, P, carotene, thiamine, choline, riboflavin.
- But hawthorn also has great nutritional value. It contains organic acids. Mainly apple, lemon and amber, fatty oils. It also has a sufficient content of sugars, which are based on fructose. Thanks to this, you can use hawthorn for diabetes.
- Hawthorn berries will retain their beneficial properties even after heat treatment.
Instructions
Step 1
HAWTHORN JAM WITH APPLES
Fruits are poured with water and stewed over low heat until puree is formed. Apple puree and sugar are added to the finished puree. The mass is measured and boiled over low heat until the desired consistency is obtained.
For 1 kg of hawthorn - 0.5 liters of water, 1 kg of apples, 0.5 kg of sugar.
Step 2
Hawthorn puree
The collected fruits are left for a day to ripen, then they are thoroughly washed, placed in a saucepan with water and boiled until softened and boiled. The boiled fruits are rubbed through a sieve, the resulting mass is reheated and packaged in sterilized jars.
For 1 kg of hawthorn - 1 … 2 glasses of water.
Step 3
JAM
The boiled fruits are rubbed through a sieve, water, sugar are added and boiled to the desired consistency. After filling in sterilized jars, they are stored in a cool place.
For 1 kg of puree - 500 g of sugar and 1 glass of water.
Step 4
COMPOTE
Fully ripe hawthorn fruits are sorted out, the stalks and sepals are removed, washed, placed in jars and poured with 30% sugar syrup, to which 3 g of citric acid per 1 liter of water is simultaneously added. The jars are covered with lids and sterilized: jars with a capacity of 0.5 liters - 3 minutes, 1 liter - 5 minutes. After sterilization, the lids are rolled up, the cans are turned upside down until completely cooled.
Step 5
PASTE
Sugar is added to the finished hawthorn puree and mixed thoroughly until completely dissolved. After mixing, the mass is laid out in a thin layer (1 cm) on wooden trays and dried in an oven or oven.
For 1 kg of puree - 0.2 kg of sugar.
Step 6
JAM
The sorted fruits are washed, poured into a basin, poured with water at the rate of 2 glasses of water per 1 kg of fruits and put on fire. When the fruits become soft, the basin is removed from the heat. After cooling, the fruits are rubbed through a sieve. Sugar is added to the mashed mass and boiled. At the end of cooking, add citric acid. Optionally, when boiling in mashed potatoes, you can put finely chopped apples.
For 1 kg of mashed mass - 1 kg of sugar, 3 g of citric acid.
Step 7
CANDY
Take ready-made hawthorn puree, add sugar and starch. The mixture is thoroughly mixed and laid out in a thin layer (1 … 2 cm) on a wooden tray, cut into rectangles or rhombuses, sprinkled with powdered sugar, and then left in air to dry. The finished candies are transferred to clean dry jars and stored at room temperature.
1 kg of puree - 0.4 kg of sugar, 0.1 kg of starch.
Step 8
DRIED HAWTHORN
The fruits are harvested in September-October without stalks, sorted out, separating impurities, poured into a thin layer on a baking sheet or plywood board and dried in the oven (with the door open) at a temperature of 50 … 60 ° C. During drying, the fruits are periodically mixed. The yield of dry fruits is 25%. After drying, the fruits become wrinkled, dark red in color.
Step 9
HAWTHORN BISCUITS
Grind the butter white, add sugar, salt, eggs, lemon zest, beat everything until fluffy. Add soda and dried hawthorn berries to the sifted flour. Combine all this with the previously beaten mass and knead the dough. Roll out on a table 1 cm thick, make various circles and asterisks, spread on a metal sheet dusted with flour, grease with yolk, sprinkle with sugar or nuts and put out in the cold for 10-20 minutes. Then place in a hot oven and bake until tender for 8-10 minutes.
Ingredients: flour - 1.5 cups, hawthorn flour - 0.5 cups, ghee - 100 g, granulated sugar - 0.5 cups, eggs - 2 pcs. and yolk for lubrication, zest of 1 lemon, soda - 1/4 tsp. spoons, 1/2 tsp. tablespoons of salt.
Step 10
HAWTHORN PIE FILLING
Dry the fruits harvested after freezing in the oven or in the open air, grind in a coffee grinder or crush in a mortar, brew the resulting flour by adding sugar or honey and stirring until thickened. After cooling, the filling is ready for use.
Ingredients: for 100 g of dried berries - 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sugar or honey.
