Tasty and useful harvest for the winter: cranberries mashed with sugar

If you want to replenish the stock of winter preparations with something not only tasty, but also extremely useful, then cranberries are wiped with sugar - this is exactly what you need. Slightly sour stock is not only perfect for cooking morses or jelly in the winter, but will also be an excellent tool for maintaining immunity - the berries contain a lot of vitamin C and microelements needed by the body. How to prepare a delicious preparation, read in our article.

Cowberry crispy with sugar

For 1 kg of fresh berries you will need 1 kilogram of granulated sugar. Wash cranberries, peel off debris and leaves, and then put it on boiling water for a couple of minutes. Throw the contents of the pan in a colander or pull out with a whisk. Now enough soft berries can be mashed through a sieve, twisted in a meat grinder or chopped into a blender - as you like. In the berry mass, add sugar, mix well until the sand is completely dissolved and immediately spread over the jars. After they need to be sterilized, cooled, rolled up and put in a dark place to wait for the winter cold.

A fragrant stock: cranberries wiped with sugar and spices

You will need:

• 1 kilogram of fresh ripe cranberries;
• Slightly less than a liter of plain water;
• 200 g of sugar;
• Half a teaspoon of cinnamon.

Cowberry wash and scrape, place in boiling water and cook until all the berries do not splinter. Throw the mass in a colander and allow the water to drain. After add the sugar, cinnamon, mix and on medium heat bring to a light boil. Refrigerate and place on cans.

Cowberry mashed with sugar and orange

For fragrant jam you will need:

• On a kilogram of oranges and cranberries;
• Kilogram of granulated sugar.

The berries are washed and cut, oranges cut into slices, remove the stones - you do not need to remove the peel. After put the ingredients in a blender and whisk thoroughly, also berries with oranges can be turned through a meat grinder. After the resulting mass, add sugar and mix thoroughly. The mashed lingonberry with orange is ready - spread it over the jars, close the lids and store until the winter.

Useful properties of cowberries

In folk medicine this berry has been used since ancient times, it is attributed to tonic, antipyretic, wound-healing and other properties. It helps with the deposition of salts, stomach problems, reduces internal bleeding. It is also used for rheumatism, diabetes, tuberculosis and a number of other diseases. The berries themselves are fresh (note, the preparation of cranberries according to the above recipes does not require excessive heat treatment of berries, so they retain all the useful properties) contain a lot of vitamin A, C, E, acetic, malic acids, as well as essential oils and minerals. Therefore, in winter, as a preventive measure, it is recommended to drink cranberry juice or juice - for this, a tablespoon of any supplies dilute in a glass of water, add a little honey and drink with pleasure. But it will be delicious if you eat lingon billet and just snack with tea.