In the old days they said that chopping viburnum is a big sin. You can only pluck its fruits and flowers, take a few thin twigs for treatment or conspiracies. And it was also believed that viburnum was able to console an offended woman – you just need to hug a tree or bush, cry, talk about adversity, and it will immediately become easier.
Be that as it may, viburnum has earned a reverent attitude towards itself – it decorates, heals, gives berries from which you can make sweets, sauces, compotes, wines, liqueurs. This plant can be called both medicinal and fruit. Let’s not argue about the right way, just let’s find out how to cook delicious healthy sweet preparations from viburnum with sugar for the winter without cooking.
The benefits of viburnum
Everyone knows that viburnum berries are very useful, they contain many vitamins, various useful elements. Vitamin C, for example, is as much as 70% more than lemons. All parts of the plant have useful properties:
- roots are most often used for insomnia, hysteria, rheumatism;
- leaves – for skin diseases, as a hemostatic, immunity-strengthening agent;
- the bark stops severe bleeding, treats periodontal disease, relieves spasms;
- flowers reduce temperature, are a quick remedy for allergies, restore voice, relieve hoarseness;
- bones have a strong antioxidant, diaphoretic, anti-sclerotic agent, remove toxins from the body, and sand or small pebbles from the gallbladder and kidneys.
Although many delicious sweets can be prepared from viburnum, it is not recommended to abuse them – the same vital vitamin C in case of an overdose will first cause itching, then a rash will appear. Treat viburnum as a pleasant and healthy addition to the diet, and not a staple food – enjoy it, but do not abuse it.
Blanks from viburnum without cooking
Cooked viburnum for the winter without cooking retains almost all the useful properties and is especially tasty. But not everyone likes the characteristic bitterness. To reduce it, the berries are harvested after the first frost. But there are people who simply love the bitter taste. Especially for them, we inform you that viburnum usually reaches ripeness in September. It can be safely plucked and recycled.
Most often, viburnum umbrellas are cut, tied in bunches and hung out to dry. Then, to cure a cold or just drink vitamin tea, the berries are brewed with boiling water, flavored with honey or sugar and enjoyed with an incomparable taste and aroma. But dry viburnum can fall down with dust, and you don’t always want to wait until it softens or infuses.
Meanwhile, many useful and tasty things can be prepared from it. Of course, if you cook jam, some of the healing substances will disappear. In order to preserve them as much as possible, we recommend cooking viburnum without boiling.
Kalina sprinkled with sugar
This is the easiest recipe for viburnum with sugar without cooking. Perhaps it is used by everyone who harvests berries for the winter. This requires equal volumes of sugar and viburnum, as well as a clean jar.
Sort the berries, rinse, dry with a paper towel. You can simply scatter them on a clean, dry cloth in a thin layer. At the bottom of the jar, pour 1-1,5 cm of granulated sugar, on top – the same layer of berries. To avoid voids, lightly tap the container on the table. Then again fill in the layers of sugar and berries.
Continue until you fill the jar completely. There should be a layer of sugar on top. If it is not enough, you can safely add – it will not be worse. Tap the jar on the table for the last time, add sugar so that all the berries are completely covered, close with a nylon lid, hide in the refrigerator.
Kalina grated with sugar
This is not one, but two recipes. To prepare them, you will need the same amount of sugar and viburnum.
1 method
Pour boiling water over the berries for 2 minutes, pour out the water, wipe through a colander or sieve. Mix viburnum with granulated sugar, arrange in jars, cover with lids. Keep in a warm place for a few days to melt the sugar, then refrigerate.
2 method
If you do not remove the seeds, the viburnum will turn out with a bitter, rich taste, it will contain more useful substances. Some people really like it.
Pour the berries with sugar, grind with a blender. Arrange in jars, let it brew, put in the refrigerator.
Raw viburnum jelly
This jelly is very tasty and healthy, as it is prepared without cooking. It hardens thanks to the pectins contained in viburnum. To prepare it, you need equal volumes of berries and sugar.
Dip the fruits in boiling water, squeeze the juice. Pour sugar, mix, put in a warm place. Stir the contents of the container well from time to time. When the sugar has melted completely, pour the jelly into jars, refrigerate.
It will freeze in less than a day. Cover the necks of the jars with parchment paper folded in half, tie. Jelly can be stored in the refrigerator, cellar, basement, at room temperature – anywhere, but not under the sun, otherwise the workpiece will lose its bright color and become ugly.
Raw viburnum jam with oranges
This no-boil jam recipe can again be prepared in two ways – with or without sugar. Decide if your household loves the bitterness of viburnum before starting to stock up.
Advice! To understand whether you like the taste of the seeds, trying them once is not enough. Two days 3 times a day, carefully chew a whole viburnum berry. The first time you want to spit it out. If by the end of the second day you have not fallen in love with this taste, you can immediately prepare seedless supplies in the future.
For 1 kg of viburnum, you need the same amount of sugar and 0,5 kg of oranges.
Berries with or without seeds, chop. Peel the oranges, beat with a blender. Combine fruits, add sugar, mix thoroughly. Pack in sterile dry jars, cover with lids, put in the refrigerator.
Candied viburnum berries
For 1 kg of berries you need 2 cups of powdered sugar and 2 proteins.
Wash viburnum, but do not dry. Whip egg whites with 1 cup of powdered sugar. First roll the viburnum with this mixture, and then in crushed sugar crystals. Place the balls immediately on a parchment-lined baking sheet or tray. Put in a dry warm room for 1-2 days. Arrange sweets in sterile jars, cover with lids, store in a cool place.
Chocolate candied viburnum berries
If you add cocoa to powdered sugar, you will get completely different sweets. Depending on the desired result, 2-1 tbsp is put into 3 cups of crushed sugar. spoons of chocolate powder.
Otherwise, the preparation of candied fruits is no different from the method described in the previous recipe.
Viburnum berries in powdered sugar
For this recipe, take 1 kg of viburnum, 1 cup of powdered sugar and 5 g of starch.
Rinse the berries, but do not dry. Mix sugar thoroughly with starch.
Roll the viburnum in the sweet mixture, put on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
Leave at normal temperature for 15 hours.
Scatter the berries in dry jars, close the lids, store in a cool place.
Surrogate coffee from the seeds of viburnum
Although our article is devoted to viburnum, prepared for the winter with sugar without heat treatment, we cannot ignore production waste – bones.
Let this simple recipe be a kind of bonus.
Wash the bones, dry well. Roast in the oven, grind with a coffee grinder. Store in a closed container. This is an excellent surrogate coffee that has a lot of useful properties.
Conclusion
By preparing viburnum with sugar without cooking, you will save a maximum of useful substances and get a delicious winter preparation. Enjoy your meal!
