Blackberry syrup

Chernoplodka is famous for its unusual taste and great benefits. There are several recipes for jams, compotes and jams. Each hostess chooses to her taste. Chokeberry syrup is also a great option for harvesting for the winter. It is not difficult to prepare a drink, and you can add a wide variety of ingredients, depending on the wishes of the hostess and personal preferences.

How to make chokeberry syrup

Chernoplodka contain a huge amount of useful substances. It grows on a shrub, which for a long time was considered decorative at all. Only fully ripe berries should be used to make a drink. Unripe fruits can be too tart and spoil the taste of the drink. The ripeness of the berry can be checked by color. Ripe chokeberries do not have a reddish tint. It is completely black with a bluish tinge. Only such fruits must be chosen for the preparation of the drink. Additional ingredients can soften a slightly tart taste. If you add apples, pears or lemon, the drink will become softer. In order to become a pleasant aroma, you will need to add a cinnamon stick or other spices to the taste of the hostess.

Be sure to rinse and sort the berries to remove all rotten, diseased and crumpled specimens. Then the taste will be excellent, and the drink will stand for a long time. The best option for sterilization is in the oven. Some housewives sterilize over steam at the spout of the kettle.

Classic chokeberry syrup recipe

To prepare a classic recipe, you will need simple ingredients:

• 2,5 kg blackberry;
• 4 liters of water;
• 25 g citric acid;
• sugar – 1 kg for each liter of the resulting drink.

The recipe is simple: mix all the washed chokeberry with water, which must first be boiled. Add citric acid. Mix everything and cover. After a day, strain the resulting liquid. For each liter of the resulting liquid, add 1 kg of sugar. Mix and heat for 10 minutes. Pour the hot billet into clean, sterilized jars and immediately roll up hermetically. To check the tightness of the jars, turn them over and leave for a day.

Simple blackberry syrup for the winter

Products for cooking:

• blackberries – 2,3 kg;
• 1 kg less sugar;
• mint – bunch;
• 45 g citric acid;
• 1,7 liters of pure water.

Preparation steps for the simplest recipe:

1. Rinse the chokeberry and place in a plastic container along with mint.
2. Pour boiling water over chokeberry, add citric acid.
3. After a day, drain the liquid into a saucepan.
4. Rowan twist through a meat grinder and squeeze.
5. Mix juice, infusion, granulated sugar and put on fire.
6. Boil for 15 minutes.
7. Pour boiling liquid into jars and close tightly.

After cooling, it can be put back into place for long-term storage.

Aronia syrup with cherry leaves

Products for harvesting:

• 1 kg of chokeberry;
• 1 liter of water;
• 1 kg of sugar;
• 2 small spoons of citric acid;
• 150 cherry leaves.

Cherry will give the workpiece a special flavor, it is one of the most common additional ingredients for a drink.

Cooking instructions:

1. Rinse the cherry leaves, add water and put on fire.
2. After boiling, turn off, cover with a lid and leave for 24 hours.
3. Rinse the chokeberry.
4. Put the leaves back on the fire and boil.
5. Add citric acid.
6. Pour chokeberry, boil and turn off.
7. Cover with a cloth and leave for another 24 hours.
8. Strain the liquid.
9. Pour in all the sugar.
10. Mix and send to the fire.
11. Cook for 5 minutes.

Then pour hot drink into jars and roll up.

Aronia syrup with citric acid

Citric acid is the main ingredient that is used in most recipes for making a blackberry drink for the winter. This is due to the fact that for the safety of the workpiece, which is sweet in itself, the presence of acid is necessary. Citric acid is the best option. It will give both a pleasant taste and ensure the safety of the workpiece during the winter.

How to make frozen chokeberry syrup

For a simple recipe, frozen berries are also suitable. The following products will be needed:

• 1 kg of frozen berries;
• half a liter of water;
• a teaspoon of citric acid;
• 1 kg 600 g of sugar.

Cooking instructions:

1. Mix water, chokeberry and acid, as well as 1 kg of sugar.
2. Put in the refrigerator for a day.
3. Keep at room temperature for another day.
4. Strain.
5. Add granulated sugar.
6. Boil for 10 minutes, pour into clean glass containers.

Wrap hot jars with a warm blanket and hide them in the basement or in the closet for storage in a day.

Recipe for chokeberry syrup for the winter with honey and cinnamon

This is a very fragrant version of the drink, which is harvested for the winter. It is not only tasty and fragrant, but also very useful. The components are simple:

• a glass of chokeberry;
• Xnumx buds clove;
• a large spoonful of grated ginger;
• cinnamon stick;
• water 500 ml;
• a glass of honey.

Preparation stage:

1. Put ginger, chokeberry, cinnamon, and cloves in a saucepan.
2. To fill with water.
3. After boiling, cook for half an hour.
4. Strain the syrup through a sieve or cheesecloth.
5. Add honey and pour into clean jars.

You can store in the refrigerator. If sterilized, then you can lower it into the cellar.

Chokeberry syrup with cherry leaves and citric acid

Cherry leaf black ashberry syrup is one of the most common options. The ingredients for the preparation are:

• weight – 2,8 kg;
• granulated sugar 3,8 kg;
• water – 3,8 liters;
• 85 g citric acid;
• 80 g cherry leaves.

You can cook like this:

1. Pour chokeberry, cherry leaves, citric acid into an enameled basin or pan.
2. Pour boiling water, leave for 24 hours.
3. Drain the liquid separately, and squeeze the juice from the berries.
4. Mix juice and infusion, add sugar.
5. After boiling, cook for 15 minutes.

Then immediately pour into sterilized hot jars and roll up.

Blackberry syrup with apples and cinnamon

One of the classic flavor combinations is apples and cinnamon. Therefore, many housewives make a drink from chokeberry with the addition of these ingredients. It turns out delicious and unusual.

Making this drink is easy. The step by step algorithm looks like this:

1. Rinse the berries, chop the apples coarsely.
2. Pour boiling water over everything, add citric acid, leave for a day.
3. Strain the liquid, add sugar and put a cinnamon stick there.
4. Boil for 10 minutes, pull out the cinnamon, pour the finished syrup into glass containers and roll up.

In winter, a fragrant drink will appeal to the whole family.

Aronia syrup for the winter: a recipe with lemon

To prepare a delicious drink, you can also use a fresh lemon, from which to squeeze the juice. In this case, the drink will be even more useful. Ingredients:

• 1,5 kg blackberry;
• 1,3 kg of sugar;
• half a glass of lemon juice;
• a bag of pectin.

Instructions for cooking:

1. Boil the chokeberry over medium heat.
2. Squeeze the chokeberry with a press or through gauze with your hands.
3. Add juice and pectin to the resulting liquid.
4. Pour in sugar and stir.
5. While stirring over the fire, bring the drink to a boil.
6. After boiling, cook for 3 minutes and can be poured into hot prepared jars.

The drink will be perfectly preserved all winter and will help fight colds, strengthen the immune system.

Aronia syrup with citric acid and mint

Chokeberry syrup with cherry leaves according to the recipe allows for various changes. For example, you can perfectly replace cherry leaves with mint or lemon balm, you can add currant leaves. The following components are required:

• 3 kg of chokeberry;
• the same amount of granulated sugar;
• 2 liters of water;
• 300 grams of currant and mint leaves;
• 3 tablespoons of citric acid.

Recipe for the winter:

1. Grind chokeberry with a meat grinder.
2. Add currant and mint leaves.
3. Pour with cooled boiled water and leave for a day.
4. Strain the liquid and squeeze out the juice.
5. Pour the resulting juice into a saucepan and add sugar with citric acid there.
6. Put on fire and bring to a boil.
7. If unstrained parts of the berries rise during boiling, then they should be removed with a slotted spoon.

As soon as everything boils, it is necessary to pour into hot prepared jars and roll up hermetically. Then turn the jars over and wrap them with a warm cloth, you can use a blanket. As soon as, after a day, all seamings have cooled, they are moved to a cool and dark room for storage during the winter.

Cherry chokeberry syrup with spices

This is a recipe for blackberry syrup with cherry leaves, which involves the use of a large amount of leaf and many different spices. Ingredients:

• 2 kg blackberry;
• about the same volume of cherry leaves;
• 2,5 liters of water;
• 25 g citric acid per liter solution;
• sugar in the amount of 1 kg per liter of semi-finished product;
• spices to taste: cardamom, saffron, cinnamon, cloves, vanilla.

The recipe for cooking consists of simple steps:

1. Wash the leaves and put them in a saucepan with the chokeberry.
2. Pour boiling water over, leave overnight.
3. Bring to a boil overnight.
4. Pour in the amount of lemon you need.
5. Discard the leaves, pour the berries with infusion and put again for a day.
6. Drain the semi-finished product again, discard all the berries.
7. Bring the infusion to a boil, add sugar 1 kg per liter, add all the necessary spices to taste.

Immediately after the liquid has boiled, the syrup must be poured into hot prepared jars and rolled up. The drink should be poured into the container under the very lid, since after cooling the volume may decrease.

Rules for storing chokeberry syrup

Cherry leaf and blackberry syrup is stored in cool and dark rooms. Sunlight must not be allowed to enter, as the drink may deteriorate in this case. If we are talking about an apartment, then an unheated pantry, as well as a balcony, is suitable for storage. But the balcony should also be insulated in winter, since for syrup the temperature cannot drop below zero. If the balcony is frozen, then it is not worth storing blanks on it.

If a cellar or basement is chosen for storing the workpiece, then there should be no mold and traces of moisture on the walls.

Conclusion

Chokeberry syrup will help you refresh yourself in the cold season, as well as strengthen your immune system and cheer you up. To prevent the taste from seeming too tart, you can add cherry leaves, apples, pears, and cinnamon. In order for the drink to be better preserved, it is advisable to add citric acid or freshly squeezed lemon juice. Then the workpiece will also have a pleasant sourness.