Kalina is an extraordinary berry, the healing properties of which help to defeat the cold, remove headaches, lower blood pressure, escape from insomnia. Its healing qualities can be used for a long time after harvesting, if you learn how to store it correctly. And, independently in what kind of it is to store it - dried, frozen, rubbed with sugar, in the form of jam or jelly, it will invariably present useful vitamins, minerals, organic acids. This information should be interested in the first place for people who care for the health of their body.
When and how to collect Kalina?
Kalina grows in the forest, but it is grown in cottage sites. The best time for collecting berries is the late autumn when the first frosty days begin. It is at this time that she loses his characteristic bitterness, acquires a sweet taste.
Pussy viburnum is cut with a whole secret, do not break off with separate berries so that it does not lose its juice. The skin of untouched berries is rather durable, so when transporting to the place of destination, the cluster can be folded in dishes with a thick layer.
How to save Kalina Fresh?
Kalina can be maintained in a fresh form for many months, if there is a suitable room - shed, cellar or basement. On the outstretched thread bundles of viburnum suspended berries down. Under the conditions of the city apartment, it can be suspended on the balcony. And it can be put on the refrigerator. Brushes are folded into spacious dishes (banks, boxes, pan), covering the lid not to the end, for better air circulation.
When the storage conditions in the cool room are missing, it remains to choose one of the methods of fruit processing:
- drying;
- freezing;
- wiping with honey or sugar.
Drying Kalina
To quickly drying the borders lay on the baking sheet and placed in the oven, pre-warmed it to a temperature of 60 degrees. The door of the oven leave at the same time ajar, so that the fruits do not fall. Dry Kalina to wrinkled state. Then remove and leave to cool. If possible, the frozen is removed. Dried fruits are recommended to be stored in banks closed with covers or cotton bags.
You can dry this valuable product in another way, but it will take more time. If the autumn still costs good weather, the harvest can be dried and on the street, only in the shade. It must be decomposed on paper and cover with a thin towel or gauze. After a couple of days it must be mixed so that it is evenly dried.
How to freeze Kalina?
Kalina is an amazing fruit. It can greatly winter on the bushes. Frosts will make it only tastier and sweeter. For freezing, it is possible to use a refrigerator, just need to be noted, wash the fruits before freezing should not be done immediately before use.
Berries separated from brushes, without taking off the frozen, lay out into containers or plastic bags and placed in the freezer. Remembered berries should be immediately separated and used for cooking compotes, jelly, etc., since the juice flows and during freezing they will become tasteless. If the prepared berries were dry, then after freezing, they will not stick together in lumps, and they will be crumbly.
Dried fruits should be used immediately: repeated freezing is unacceptable - they will turn into a low-onedy product.
How to cook Kalina with sugar?
Water with Sugar Kalina almost as a real jam, but without heat treatment. So it is possible to preserve all useful components and its storage period in this form at least a year. Prepare Kalina with sugar in the following sequence:
- berries are washed and folded on paper for drying;
- remove the frozen;
- crushed fruits (together with bones) with the help of a blender or meat grinder;
- added to the resulting mass of sugar (by 1 kg of crushed berries 2 kg of sugar) and mix well;
- the mixtures allow to stand for about an hour and again stirred thoroughly, then poured into clean banks, closed with plastic covers.
Keep a car with sugar in a cool place either in the refrigerator. From this miracle berry, you can also cook jam, cook jelly or pastin, squeeze juice. All these billets have a pleasant taste, a unique fragrance.
Kalina Available natural product for the improvement of the body in winter, which can even replace some medicines. The main thing is to prepare it correctly in order to preserve all its healing properties for a long period of time.
0
317
