Compote is a pleasant and healthy drink. It perfectly quenches thirst and refreshes in the summer heat and nourishes us with much-needed vitamins in the winter and in the off-season. Sweet, with a mandatory sour taste, compote becomes a favorite treat of the whole family, and not just kids, as many may think. It can be harvested from almost any berries and fruits. But it turns out amazingly delicious from the royal berry - gooseberries.
Common gooseberry compote
For this drink, ripe but firm fruits are usually taken. They need to be well sorted and thoroughly washed, because berries often have a bluish coating. To close the gooseberry compote, half a kilogram of sugar is required for each kilogram of berries. Prepared products are poured into cans, filling them 1/3. Then they report sugar, distributing them equally in the containers (divide the grams from the indicated calculation). Or syrup can be prepared separately by calculating how much water is needed for your quantity and the dimensions of the cans in which you compote the gooseberry compote. Before the start of the neck, fill the containers with liquid and sterilize: half-liter - 10 minutes, liter - 15, 3-liter - half an hour. Then roll up, turn over, cover with a blanket or coverlet, and after a day put in the cellar.
Gooseberry with vanilla
Gooseberry compote will be original if you can preserve the berries with
vanilla pods, lemon balm and rum. 2.5 kg of the main product requires sugar 4 cups, a handful of lemon balm leaves (fresh), a liter of rum, half a vanilla pod for each jar. The rules for preparing for canning are already known to you. First, berries are packaged. In a gooseberry compote according to this recipe, they are taken a little greenish. Then sugar is distributed. Several leaves or twigs of greenery fall asleep, vanilla is put. If there is no leguminous, it is also suitable in bags. About half a bag per can. Then rum is distributed, water is added last. Sterilize the jars for 20 minutes, then roll up. Compote closed in this way will be well preserved for about a year and a half in a cool, dry place.
Gooseberries with wild strawberries
How to cook compote from gooseberries so that it turns out more saturated in taste? For this purpose, several types of berries can be combined. For example, with wild strawberries. For 1 kg of gooseberry, 700-750 g of this berry and a kilogram of sugar are taken. Sort the fruits, dry, distribute in banks. Pour in syrup (dissolve sugar and boil in 2 liters of water). Sterilization should be carried out as follows: banks of 3 liters - 25 minutes, 1 liter - 18-20 minutes. Close with tin lids, cover, let cool and take to the cellar or pantry.
Gooseberries with pears
And finally, another interesting recipe: how to make a gooseberry compote with pears. Ingredients: ripe, sweet pears - 2 kilograms, berries - 1 kilogram. Sugar - a glass in a 3-liter jar. Peel the pears, cut into slices or quarters. Distribute them into jars, add washed and dried gooseberries, sugar and water. Sterilize for 15-20 minutes, close. It is important to check the banks for "bombing" in a week and a half.
Enjoy a tasty and healthy compote!