In the autumn, such natural gifts as cranberries and lingonberries are incredibly popular. These berries were highly appreciated by our ancestors, they were harvested for the winter, stewed compotes, jam, syrups were made from them. Cranberries and lingonberries were used as a filling for pies, added to sauerkraut, and dried fruits were used as the basis for medicinal tea.
I must say, cranberry or lingonberry dishes are really very tasty, and even very useful. If the popularity of cranberries in this duet is beyond doubt, then for some strange reasons, cranberries go into the shadows. By the way, in vain.
We will try to correct this injustice. What do we know about lingonberries? The berry contains a huge amount of useful substances: vitamin C, vitamins B1, B2, flavonoids, anthocyanins, potassium salts , iodine, glucose, sorbitol, malic, citric and other organic acids, fructose, essential oil.
Due to such a rich chemical composition of berries, dishes made from lingonberries bring great benefits to those who regularly use them. For example, cranberry drinks and jelly improve the stomach function of patients suffering from gastritis with low acidity. It is also an excellent diuretic, and therefore can be used as a prophylaxis of stone formation in the kidneys. Lingonberry fruit drink lowers blood pressure, lowers temperature, quenches thirst, and helps with pancreatic inflammation. An incomplete list of the advantages of lingonberries includes its beneficial effect on the skin, and therefore it is not surprising that lingonberries are actively used in cosmetology.
Lingonberry fruit drink is very popular. Its recipe may vary somewhat, although this does not affect the taste and benefit of the drink. Morse is made from fresh berries, as well as from frozen or canned lingonberries. Lingonberry drink perfectly fights manifestations of colds, and therefore is simply indispensable in frosty periods.
Now let's focus on how to cook fruit juice from lingonberries. A few tips for making this tasty and healthy drink. To prepare the fruit drink, we need the berries themselves, water and sugar (or honey, it was he who was part of the fruit drinks of our ancestors). By combining these components at a certain stage, we get the coveted cowberry juice. A drink recipe requires a component like water. Tap water is not suitable for making fruit drinks, it is best to use spring water.
First you need to sort through the berries, eliminating the leaves and garbage. If the berries are frozen, then before cooking they must be thawed for several hours. Pure berries are placed in glass, ceramic or porcelain dishes (lingonberries contain a lot of acid that can come into contact with metal) and knead until juice appears.
The resulting mixture is wiped through a sieve and cooled in the refrigerator. Then add water to the berry mixture and boil over low heat over five minutes. After adding sugar, boil the drink for a while (a couple of minutes are enough), then remove from heat. Covering the pan with a lid, let the drink brew and cool for three hours. Lingonberry fruit drink, the recipe for which, it turns out, is completely uncomplicated, is ready. Preparation of the necessary ingredients does not take much time. For fruit drink, you need only three hundred grams of berries, two hundred grams of sugar and two liters of water. The resulting drink should be stored in the cold for no more than 24 hours from the time of its preparation.
Here, in fact, all the wisdom of preparing an exquisite, tasty and healthy drink, called cowberry juice. Its recipe is very simple, so even the most inept chef will not be difficult to cook cranberry juice.