Dry fruits of black chokeberry or chokeberry are used in medicine to treat blood vessels, avitominosis, hypertension, etc. Fresh fruits are used to prepare aromatic liqueurs and wine, delicious juices and jams, berries are used in baked goods.
Preparation of chokeberry liqueur
To prepare the liqueur, you need to put clean, sorted berries (2-3 kg) into a jar and pour vodka (1 bottle). Add sugar as desired. The jar should be tightly closed with a lid and put away in a dark place for two weeks. After insisting, strain the entire composition through a fine sieve or cheesecloth, squeeze the berries strongly. Then add more sugar. The more it is, the sweeter and more viscous the drink will turn out to be. The finished liquor must be stirred until the sugar is completely dissolved and, bottled, sealed.
In order for the mountain ash to give the maximum amount of juice, it is better to add more sugar after infusing the drink.
Making chokeberry jam
Harvesting chokeberry involves not only drying rowan fruits, but also using them as a base for jam. Such a dish is prepared in one of the simplest ways of cooking with maximum preservation of vitamins. A kilogram of berries is taken from a kilogram of granulated sugar. Sugar syrup is prepared separately, into which the berries are then dipped and boiled for five minutes. The composition is cooled down. Cooking is repeated in several stages until the fruits are completely ready. Ready jam is poured into jars.
The "five-minute" cooking method does not allow vitamins and microelements to be completely destroyed. The jam retains all the beneficial properties of the chokeberry.
Chokeberry biscuit recipe
To make this baked goods, you can use dried chokeberry instead of raisins. The fruits must first be poured with hot water so that they swell and soften.
Ingredients:
- a glass of kefir;
- 2 eggs;
- a glass of sugar;
- soda ½ teaspoon (extinguish in vinegar);
- a pinch of salt;
- a glass of semolina (with a slide);
- a glass of wheat flour;
- a tablespoon of melted butter;
- half a glass of dried mountain ash.
Butter can be substituted with margarine, refined corn oil, or olive oil.
Everything mixes well. Place parchment or oiled paper on the bottom of a deep frying pan. The walls of the pan also need to be oiled, then pour out the dough. Such a biscuit is baked at a temperature of 180-200 degrees for about forty minutes.
Pierce the pastry with a wooden stick to make sure it's done. The grains should not stick to it. You can divide the fluffy crust into two layers and coat them with jam or jam.
Preparation of drinks
Since the mountain ash itself has a tart base, apple, grape or any sweeter natural drink is additionally used to make juice. Rowan fruits are crushed to a pasty state with a blender and then mixed with juice.
When drinking chokeberry juice, remember that it lowers blood pressure!
Chokeberry wine recipe
Ingredients:
- 2 cups raspberries for the wort;
- 3 kg of rowan fruits;
- 2 kg of sugar and 2 tablespoons for the wort;
- 3 liters of water.
First, the wort is prepared. Raspberries are poured over half a liter of water and sugar is added. The composition is stirred, covered with gauze and left to ferment for a couple of days. Unwashed rowan fruits are crushed with a blender until gruel. Water and sugar are added. The finished wort is poured out, everything is mixed.
The wine is placed in a fermentation vessel, which is equipped with a special tube for gas outlet. The tube should be lowered into a container of water. The fermentation process takes about one and a half months. Then the drink is filtered and poured into cans for final settling.
