Many plants were brought from Europe to America. Among them there are both unhealthy (tobacco) and indispensable in modern cooking (potatoes, tomatoes and others). Chokeberry mountain ash , a tall and beautiful shrub with a decorative appearance, also belongs to the "emigrants" from the New World. This plant is also called chokeberry or chokeberry. Aronia “reached” Russia at the beginning of the 19th century and at first it was used only for decorative purposes. And since the homeland of the aronia is Canada with a far from tropical climate, this plant turned out to be unpretentious. Aronia was able to take root in any conditions and on any terrain. She is not afraid of disease, and its fruits are not affected by pests. But then Michurin became interested in it, and this plant found its new application.
And Michurin found that chokeberry is a very valuable medicinal plant. This is especially true of its fruits. They contain a lot of malic acid, and other organic acids, too. Also, aronia fruits have ascorbic acid, pectin, vitamin P, tannins, riboflavin, carotene and many more vitamins, trace elements and other useful substances. Its fruits have a sweet and slightly sour, as well as a slightly tart taste. And the juice from these fruits has a high coloring ability. Its color begins with ruby and ends with ink-purple.
Chokeberry retains its healing properties after processing. And from its fruits make jams, jams, jelly and syrups. They also make a filling for pies, juice and make tea. The flavonites in its composition have the ability to eliminate the fragility of capillaries and, accordingly, increase the elasticity of blood vessels. Because of the chokeberry produce drugs that are used to treat the cardiovascular system, intestines and stomach. Also, these drugs help treat the effects of radiation exposure.
And in an ordinary kitchen, you can easily cook compote from chokeberry. To do this, you need 250 grams of chokeberries, 0.5 cups of sugar and 0.5 liters of water. First you need to boil the syrup, that is, add sugar to the water and heat to a boil over high heat. Then thoroughly washed berries should be put in this syrup, let it boil again and cook after that for another 20 minutes. Everything, the compote is ready. You just need to let it cool under the lid.
Also, compotes can be cooked not only from one aronia. Aronia and apples will give this drink a new taste. For such a compote, you need two glasses of rowan berries, one apple, a liter of water, 400 grams of sugar and two tablespoons of cherry juice. First you need to thoroughly clean and rinse the fruits of the chokeberry. Then they are stacked in a double boiler and steamed for three minutes. And syrup is made from water and sugar. Cherry juice is added to it just before the end of the cooking process. It gives the compote the necessary acid. In the meantime, we are preparing banks in which we will roll this compote. In each of them, steamed mountain ash and apple slices. They should also be passed through a double boiler. Then we fill the fruits with hot syrup and put the jars on sterilization. It should take about 10 minutes at a temperature of 85 degrees. And after its completion we roll up the banks.
But from chokeberry you can cook not only compote, but also syrup. It will require 1.5 kilograms of berries, 50 cherry leaves, two liters of water, a kilogram of sugar and 30 ml of lemon juice. Rowan need to sort out, remove the spoiled berries and rinse. Then you need to put it in a pan and add lemon juice and cherry leaves to it. All this is filled with water and boiled for half an hour, and then filtered. Then the berries should be passed through a meat grinder, and then squeeze the juice from them. After this, the juice must be combined with the broth, add sugar and again put to cook. And this liquid is boiled until a syrup is obtained. Then the finished chokeberry syrup can be poured into jars and stored for a long time.