Dogwood - a southern berry, very beautiful, spectacular dark red color. A pleasant, sweet and sour taste with light astringency makes it unusually popular with lovers of natural treats. Yes, it’s not a secret that dogwood with great pleasure is eaten fresh, as jam and jam. And juices and compotes from it perfectly refresh, quench thirst and are extremely useful both to people in general and to especially weakened people, with obvious signs of anemia, exhaustion, and low hemoglobin. Doctors advise regularly giving dogwood drinks to children and people suffering from diseases of the liver, cardiovascular system. After all, this oblong berry with a large oval bone is a real storehouse of vitamins.
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Dogwood compote can be cooked using different technologies. Let's consider some of them. Since the taste of berries is quite sharp, saturated, they require a lot of sugar. Most often, if you close the drink in its pure form, the calculation of the products is almost 50:50. That is, in order to make compote from dogwood, sugar is taken about 300 g less than the main product. But during sterilization, the time required for heat treatment is not as much as, for example, when harvesting cherries. But back to the recipes:
- Common dogwood compote . Sort the berries (1.5 kg), wash, fill in jars. Fill about a quarter or a little higher. Covering the neck with your hand, turn the containers over to drain the water that has fallen from the berries. Then pour the products in very hot syrup. To make compote from dogwood, the syrup is prepared as follows: boil 2 liters of water, add 1.2 kg of sugar (remember the sugar / berry ratio!), Boil for 5 minutes. Remove foam. Cover jars filled on the shoulders with sterile lids and put on sterilization. Time: half liter containers - 8-10 minutes, liter - 12-15 minutes, 3 liters - half an hour. Then the lids are rolled up, banks are turned over, covered and left to cool for a day. After that, they can be put in the cellar or pantry. If all the actions are followed, then the stewed dogwood compote, the recipe of which we just examined, can last for a long time, for 2 years, and not lose its beneficial qualities and taste. Yes, clarification: when boiling cans, try so that your water bath does not boil too much. Otherwise, the compote will boil and evaporate very much, a lot of liquid will be lost.
- Compote "Healthy platter". It is worth noting that cornel is well combined with other berries and fruits. Therefore, a drink from it turns out to be very tasty if a berry mixture is put in a jar. We suggest you consider the option of how to cook compote from dogwood, sea buckthorn and apples. By the way, thanks to the noble ruby color, he will perfectly decorate the table in decanters and glasses. And the consumption of products is this: for every kilogram of sea buckthorn there are as many apples and 600 g of dogwood. The berries are washed, they need to drain. Peel the apples from the seeds, cut into small slices, dip in boiling water for 2-3 minutes - for blanching. Then all the components are put in jars. We prepare syrup: for every 2 liters of water there is as much sugar. It should be boiled for 10 minutes, then poured into cans - to the "neck" of the neck. Cover and sterilize: half-liter containers - 12-15 minutes, liter - 25 minutes, 3-liter - 35-40 minutes. Then roll up, allow to cool, put in place.
As you can see, closing the cornel compote is no more difficult than any other. But how fragrant and pleasant it is - a true drink of the gods!