Chokeberry is a delicious, healthy berry, especially at increased pressure. Billets from it are great for ice cream, pancakes and fritters. The syrup can be added to the tea, you can make a compote or a drink from it. Yes, you never know what a clever mistress will come up with if she has treasured jars with all sorts of goodies in her fridge or in the closet!
Syrup from mountain ash with almond extract
First, we will discuss what is made of aronia. Almost everything is the same as from other berries. Pouring and even wine, juice, compote, jam, jelly, jam. It is dried, and thus harvested for the winter. And this is not all! The proposed syrup from aronia blackberry, the recipe of which you now learn, is interesting in that, in addition to berries, it includes almond extract. Quantity of ingredients: 600-700 g of berries, as much sugar, a quarter of a teaspoon of almond additive (buy in the store). If you have an almond liqueur, it will suit you well. To make syrup from chokeberry, the recipe prescribes berries to clean, wash, pour into a pot, fill with water, so that they are completely covered with it, and cook for about half an hour. To more quickly soften the mountain ash cover the cauldron with a lid. Ready berries recline in a colander and wipe through a thick sieve. Pure the cream again in a pot, pour in the sugar, stir and give the drink to boil. Cook another 5-10 minutes syrup from chokeberry ashberry. The recipe further prescribes to remove the scallop from the plate, pour almond extract or liqueur (you can whole teaspoon), pour in hot form on sterile cans (do not top up on the finger to the edge) and roll up.
Syrup of mountain ash with lemon juice
Rowan delicacy can be prepared for the winter in different versions. The main thing is that all vitamins and trace elements that make up the main, besides taste, value of berries are preserved. For example, a wonderful drink is syrup from chokeberry, the recipe of which includes another useful component - lemon. For 1.5 kg of berries you need 1.3 kg of sugar, half a glass of fresh lemon juice, 1 package of pectin (buy in the store). Rowan pour water and boil for 15 minutes over medium heat. Then press through the press or manually through the cheesecloth. Add the juice to the broth, dilute the pectin, pour in the sugar. Stir and continue stirring, let the syrup boil. Pour in the lemon juice, cook, without reducing the fire, for 2-3 minutes and pour over sterile jars. Roll, let cool and take it to the pantry: the elixir of health you have!
Rowan with apples
If you are thinking about what to cook from black chokeberry, we offer a fragrant and extremely delicious, with a light pleasant astringency and a little sourness compote. Ingredients: 1 kilogram of berries and apples, 1.2 kg of sugar, a little (to taste) of citric acid. Fruits wash, apples cut into small slices. Fold the two ingredients together in a saucepan. Now the syrup: dilute the sugar in a half liter of water, pour the acid and boil for about 10 minutes, removing the foam. Add the hot filling to the fruit, cover the pan and leave to infuse for 3 hours. After that, put on the fire, boil for 15 minutes. Finished compote pour over sterile cans and roll. Tara turn upside down, wrap it until it cools.
When you open cherished jars in winter, remember the fine autumn days and rowan bunches in the glare of sunlight!