Each family, regardless of the source of fruit acquisition, at the end of summer actively begins harvesting for the winter in order to diversify the menu all year round and enjoy delicious and aromatic gifts from forests, fields and vegetable gardens. August is the most plentiful month for the harvest, so the work will be intense. You should stock up on the strength and patience to collect and process fruits.
If the middle of the summer season was mainly devoted to harvesting berries and fruits, then the priority tasks of August are vegetables and mushrooms. To get tasty preparations with the preservation of the maximum amount of vitamins, it is necessary to grow or purchase high-quality raw materials and, without delaying the processing process, immediately start up the harvest.
So at the beginning of the month, bell peppers, squash, zucchini, onions and garlic begin to ripen. Those who did not have time to prepare parsley, cilantro, basil and dill for the winter still manage to do it in August. They can be salted, dried, or simply frozen. Cucumbers and tomatoes, zucchini, green beans, cauliflower, and beets are beginning to ripen in the garden. You can start harvesting young corn.
August is the time for rolling and pickling tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers and bell peppers, individually or in the form of salads; preparation of adjika, grated horseradish with garlic, lecho, tomato sauce or pasta, zucchini or eggplant caviar. August vegetables can be salted and rolled up fresh or fried.
Beans are perfect for preparing a salad for the winter with onions, carrots, peppers and tomatoes. You can diversify with other vegetables. Such a delicacy will become a real find in the absence of time or an unexpected visit from guests. You just need to open the jar and put the contents in a salad bowl.
At this time, you can prepare various soup dressings for the winter. They will be a great help to save time and effort of housewives. Such a dressing forms the basis of the first course and significantly saves time for its preparation. Some of these, such as pickle dressing, can be used as a snack. It is enough to slightly warm it up, spread on bread and an unusual delicacy is ready.
In the last month of the summer season, an active time begins for mushroom pickers. Milk mushrooms, honey mushrooms, chanterelles, boletus, boletus, boletus and other mushrooms can be pickled, salted, dried, frozen boiled and fresh.
The first harvest of melons and gourds is in progress. Melons and watermelons are perfect for pickling. In early to mid-August, you can pick raspberries and blueberries. They are already leaving, but there are still enough berries to make jam or jam. The first pears and apricots are on the way, and from the middle of the month it is time to harvest apples, cherry plums and plums. They can be canned, dried, turned into candied fruits, cooked jams, marmalades, juices, preserves, closed compotes, frozen.
To preserve healthy and tasty preparations, you must strictly follow the rules for the preparation and canning of raw materials. Then the work will not be in vain, the containers with the fruits will not explode, and their contents will not deteriorate.
