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This berry pleases the eye for a very long time, standing out as a bright spot in a snow-covered garden. But for processing, the viburnum needs to be collected much earlier – as soon as it was touched by frost a little. The bitterness inherent in it becomes less, the berries gain sweetness, become softer.
Healing properties of viburnum
In Our Country, viburnum has always been used. They dried it, cooked jam, baked pies with it, made a healing fruit drink. Herbalists knew that juice with sugar helps with high blood pressure, and with a severe cold or sore throat, an infused decoction with honey will alleviate the condition. Juice mixed with honey, even malignant tumors were treated.
This bright berry is a storehouse of vitamin C, it contains more of it than in an overseas lemon. To preserve this wealth and use it in winter, it must be prepared. For example, make viburnum jelly for the winter. It can be cooked without cooking, then you have to store the workpiece in the refrigerator. If it is boiled, then the hermetically rolled blank can be stored even in a room.
How to cook viburnum jelly so that it fully retains the healing properties of berries? There is a recipe for making raw jelly. We prepare it without cooking, so it is best suited for medicinal purposes.
Berry preparation
Whatever way you are going to make viburnum jelly, the berries definitely need to be prepared. It is better to collect viburnum after the first autumn frosts. Collect brushes carefully, otherwise the berries will burst easily. Wash them without removing them from the brushes, always under running water.
Delicious cooking recipes
Viburnum jelly without cooking
In such a product, all healing substances are preserved as much as possible. To prepare a delicious preparation, you will need the same amount of sugar for each glass of pureed juice with pulp. The bones of the viburnum are hard and very bitter, so they will have to be removed. For this, the berries are rubbed. This process is quite labor intensive. But for the preparation of tasty and healthy jelly, it is not a pity to work hard.
You can crush with a wooden pusher, and wipe with an ordinary spoon. Vitamins are better preserved if it is made of wood.
Stir juice with sugar until dissolved. Pour the resulting jelly into clean, dry jars.
Store viburnum jelly in the cold, preferably in the refrigerator. It should be consumed within 3 months.
Viburnum jam-jelly
If there are no conditions for storing raw jelly, it is better to boil the berries with the addition of sugar.
According to the method of preparation, this blank is more likely a jam, but its consistency resembles jelly. A kilogram of berries will require 800 g of sugar. We put the prepared berries in a saucepan or basin and completely fill with water. To make them soft, cook viburnum for about 20 minutes. The fire doesn’t have to be big. We strain the berries.
We wipe the soft berries through a sieve or colander. It’s easier to do this before they’re cold.
Measure the level of the berry puree in the saucepan. This will be useful to us in the future. A wooden spoon with a long handle or just a clean wooden stick is good for this procedure. Make a mark on it, noting the level of the pureed berry.
Mix berry puree with broth. The mixture must be well strained. It is convenient to do this through gauze, which must be laid on a colander in 2 layers. Let the resulting liquid stand for at least 3 hours. Carefully drain it from the sediment. Stir in sugar until completely dissolved.
Filter the mixture again. Now it should be boiled down to the volume that the berry puree occupied. Pour the finished jelly hot into a dry, sterilized dish. Seal tightly and store in a cool place.
Results
Viburnum jelly is an excellent preparation for the winter, which is not only good for tea, but with its help it will be possible to cure a cold, prepare a tasty and healthy fruit drink, and make homemade marmalade.
