A spicy plant with a dissonant name horseradish and unique properties is widespread everywhere. It is worth giving it free rein, it will creep throughout the site and turn into an annoying weed. To prevent this from happening, you must follow the cultivation techniques.
Horseradish - useful properties
Gardeners allow horseradish to grow independently in one place for several years, digging out part of the rhizome as needed, leaving young shoots in the ground. It is not right. To rid the site of horseradish thickets, it is necessary to plant it every year, in extreme cases - after a year.
For planting, cuttings are selected, cut into a length of 10-15 cm, horseradish care is usual - watering, weeding. They remove it for the winter at the end of October. The earth is shaken off, the leaves are cut off, the lateral roots are removed. The rhizomes are stored in the sand in a dry cellar. This plant is frost-resistant, it winters well in the ground, the remaining roots can be dug up in the spring.
The taste and healing properties of horseradish have been known for a long time. Fresh horseradish juice enhances the secretion of hydrochloric acid in the stomach and is effective in the treatment of gastritis with low acidity. Horseradish root is used as a diuretic for edema, stones in the bladder, rheumatism. Horseradish leaf infusion is used as a cosmetic for removing freckles and age spots. A few drops of fresh horseradish juice added to milk will keep it from souring.
Cooking recipes
Horseradish is used for pickling cucumbers, making hot snacks. Tomatoes with horseradish are very tasty, "vigorous". Medium-sized tomatoes are placed in sterilized jars. Overripe fruits are put in a saucepan, brought to a boil, rubbed through a sieve. Add 2.5 tablespoons of salt and 4 tbsp to the resulting mashed potatoes for 2.5 liters. tablespoons of sugar, stir, put on fire.
As soon as the juice boils, put ¼ glass of grated horseradish, the same amount of chopped garlic and 200 g of sweet pepper minced through a meat grinder. Let it boil and pour the tomatoes with hot brine. Sterilize three-liter cans for 20 minutes and roll up. No vinegar or other preservatives are added.
A spicy seasoning is good for meat and fish - beets with horseradish. Root crops will be required: beets 100 g, horseradish 200 g. Vegetables are chopped on a grater, mixed. Prepare a marinade - 300 ml of water, sugar and salt 20 g each, vinegar 9% boil 150 g, pour vegetables, close with iron lids and store in a cool place.
