The benefit of birch juice is difficult to overestimate. He is perfectly quenching thirst, is a source of vitamins, vegetable sugar, trace elements and tanning substances. Birch juice is used not only in the food industry, but also in cosmetology and medicine. Of course, in the process of conservation, the juice loses some of its useful properties, but if certain rules are met, most of the vitamins in the canned drink can be preserved.
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Birch juice collection must be carried out at the beginning of spring with healthy trees. Ideally find a tree in the woods, away from industrial zones and busy roads. We make an incision in the tree cortex and install and fix a special groove for harvesting juice. You can also drill the bark and insert the tube into the hole. On the tube or groove juice will be dragged into a special container.
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Alternatively, you can cut off the twig of the painter and attach the plastic container to collect the juice. After the bottle is filled with juice, close it tightly, and all the "wounds" on the tree clamp plasticine. It will stop the leakage of juice and will save the life of the tree.
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You need to canned juice as soon as possible after collecting, because it spoils quickly. Prepare banks or bottles and covers. Wash them well and sterilize them.
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Before preservation, strain the juice through a gauze folded several times. Pour juice into enameled dishes and put on fire.
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Different ingredients can be added to birch juice. Most often it is orange, lemon or mint. While the juice boils, wash the fruits or twigs of mint. Before boiling on the surface, reddish foam will appear. Remove it with a spoon, otherwise the precipitate is formed in canned juice.
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To boiling juice, add sugar at the rate of 1 tablespoons of sugar per 1 liter of juice. Make fire less. After dissolving sugar juice, you can pour into banks.
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Cut orange or lemon with circles or slices. Pour juice to banks. In each put a few citrus lobes or mint twig. After that, you can roll banks.
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To avoid the risk of fermentation of juice, sterilize banks. To do this, pour water into a large container and put on fire. Lower banks with invoked juice in it. Hold them in boiling water 20-25 minutes. After that, get them and sunk.
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Banks with sunk juice put upside down and wrap in a blanket. After a day, transfer banks into a cold and dark place for storage.
Keep in mind that not all birchings have sweet juice. Some have a rather unpleasant taste of juice. Therefore, pick it up a tree "to taste." Remember "your" birch and take juice from it every year.
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