The bright red bunches of mountain ash are immediately striking, standing out against the backdrop of greenery or a snow-covered landscape. People pass by, admiring, and only those few who still remember grandmother's recipes stop to pick sweet and sour berries.
If you want to diversify your menu and, combining business with pleasure, cook something non-standard, pay attention to mountain ash desserts. Rowan sweets and kozinaki will be a good decoration for the table and will please your loved ones.
For sweets, you will need 2 cups of fresh berries, 1 egg white, 150 grams of sugar, and 1 tablespoon of natural lemon juice. Mash the protein with sugar and lemon juice until thick. Dip each berry in this substance, dip the resulting balls in powdered sugar and dry on the tray.
To make kozinaki, take 1 kg of mountain ash, 300 g of sugar and 200 g of any nuts. Sprinkle the berries with sugar, spread them on a baking sheet and leave for 20-30 minutes in the oven at 200 degrees. Chop the separately roasted and dried nuts and mix with the mountain ash mass. Wrap the kozinak bars in foil and put them under a press for 3 days. The resulting product can be served with powdered sugar or syrup.
Also, a very specific jam and jelly is obtained from mountain ash. It tastes slightly bitter, but is that important, given that in return you get good immunity and good health?
In addition to jam, our ancestors stored mountain ash in the form of liqueurs and syrups, marshmallows, tea mixture or simply frozen berries. Due to the high sorbitol content, diabetics have to avoid foods high in sugar.
Inflorescences, flowers and fruits of mountain ash have long been famous for their medicinal properties. They contain a huge amount of vitamin C, as well as salts of several metals, iron, iodine, carotene, and many other useful substances. Its flowers and leaves are brewed and taken as a diaphoretic and diuretic, it helps in the fight against tuberculosis and bleeding.
The fruits of mountain ash are especially useful in the treatment of vitamin deficiency, scurvy and in the period of postoperative recovery. To do this, you need to prepare a decoction of 15 g of berries per glass of water. Two tablespoons of the infused broth several times a day will significantly replenish the energy supply of your body. A decoction of mountain ash mixed with rose hips works even better.
Rowan fruit juice, juice of fresh berries and jam from them support heart activity. Dry fruits, which strengthen the capillaries and neutralize the harmful effects of cholesterol, will be no less useful for the cores.
One of the most important features of mountain ash is its unique ability to retain useful elements in the body, but it is important not to overdo it. Mountain ash can cause an allergic reaction in some people.
