How to freeze berries

A piece of sunny and bright summer can be successfully saved and enjoy it cold winter. You can freeze almost any berry, it all depends on the preferences of a particular family. The technology of proper frost will allow not only to feel the whole taste of fresh berries, but also get in winter the value for the body and benefit from the use of vitamins.

You decided to freeze the berries, and the first thing to pay attention to is on the maturity of berries. When freezing berries on pies or compotes - they can be the average degree of maturity, which cannot be allowed when used to eat. It is always necessary to freeze only freshly placed good quality berries, no rotten and not familiar. All fruits, twigs and leaves are removed.

Before freezing the berries, you need to go through and over-sizes. Berries such as raspberries, blackberries and strawberries are treated very carefully - the main thing is not to damage the gentle fruit.

Berries that can abundantly let juice are always free to be frozen. The prepared fruits in one layer are declined to the flat pallet and are placed in the freezer until completely freezing. After that, the berries are shifted in the prepared capacity.

Berries, which have a dense shell (currant, gooseberry, cranberries, rowan, cherry) can be immediately layered in the curses or containers and freeze without preliminary work.

It is possible to freeze the berries with layers with sugar. The container filled with such a workpiece is hermetically closed and placed in a freezing and storage chamber.

The cooked sugar syrup of two parts of water and one sugar berries is flooded and also go to storage in the freezer.

From fresh berries, you can prepare a puree, which is mixed with sugar and frozen in the prepared containers.

It is important to know that frozen berries must be stored portionably packaged, in hermetically closed packaging in a separate box of the freezer. You can store such blanks during the year (it is desirable that each package is tag with the date). Properly harvested berries will delight their rich taste all winter and spring.