Frozen hawthorn berries: benefits and harms: how to take them

Hawthorn is a tall shrub from the Rosaceae genus. It grows in temperate latitudes and grows wild in North America and Eurasia. On the territory of the Russian Federation, two types are most common: large-fruited hawthorn and blood-red hawthorn (popularly known as the so-called garden hawthorn, the benefits and harms of which will be discussed). No less famous is the black hawthorn, which grows in the Czech Republic, Hungary and the Balkan Peninsula.

It is a valuable medicinal plant, planted for decorative purposes, and is considered a good honey plant.

Wild hawthorn berries were used for health benefits back in Ancient China and Asia, first to treat diarrhea, and then to improve the functioning of blood vessels and the heart. Cultivated plant species were bred in the 16th century.

What does hawthorn help with and how is it useful, how to take it correctly and to whom herbal medicine with plant preparations can cause harm, read our new article.

Is it possible to freeze hawthorn?

Naturally, you can freeze hawthorn berries, just like other berries.
But in order to preserve the beneficial and valuable properties of the fruit, it is necessary to follow some freezing rules.

The first and important rule: it is recommended to freeze berries very quickly.

It’s good if you have a refrigerator with a quick or deep freezing function.

So, ripened, washed and dried hawthorn berries with a paper towel

Spread in the freezer compartment in a single layer on foil.

When the berries are frozen, you need to transfer them to bags or containers.

They are subsequently stored in the normal freezer compartment.

They don’t stick together when frozen like this, you can take a handful or two and use them as soon as you want. Be healthy!

Ripe sweet hawthorn has so many vitamins and health benefits that if you eat the berries, you need to freeze them, everything is tastier than dried. Especially after defrosting, the berries are just as juicy and tasty. You can also cook a compote of frozen berries, you can add hawthorn berries to baked goods or to jelly.

The medicinal properties of hawthorn are preserved - it helps with high blood pressure, insomnia, stressful situations, cholesterol levels drop if you are nervous, but you just shouldn’t overdo it, you don’t eat it in jars like strawberries or cherries, it is believed that you can eat half a glass of berries a day at most .

I think that it will be easier to prepare hawthorn for the winter in this way: rinse the berries, blanch them in boiling water and rub through a sieve; however, you can put the resulting mass in containers and freeze. My friend does this. You can also mix this mass with honey and place it in containers or brick-shaped bags and freeze. The mass of hawthorn is thick, you can easily form “bricks” and put it in the freezer. Takes up little space and is convenient. You can also make jam with this mixture and use it perfectly during tea drinking in winter. Of course, such granular jam is not for everybody, but if you imagine that you eat it as a medicine, the benefits will be even greater.

Contraindications and side effects

• A clear contraindication for consuming hawthorn is an allergy to it.
• Despite the fact that the berry is useful for cardiac patients, it should be used with extreme caution by people who are constantly taking medications for diseases of the cardiovascular system. This recommendation is due to the fact that the bioactive substances of hawthorn can change the activity of many medications. In particular, they interact with digoxin, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, nitrates, phenylephrine and phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors.

Therefore, if you take any medications on a regular basis, be sure to consult with your doctor before you start taking hawthorn tincture or indulging in tea with this berry.

• The special beneficial properties of hawthorn for men are due to the fact that it can improve erectile function due to its positive effect on the blood vessels of the genital organs. However, there are also contraindications - this fruit is incompatible with means to enhance potency.
• Berries are not recommended for active use by those people who are prone to lowering blood pressure and/or reducing heart rate.

Excessive consumption of hawthorn can lead to nausea and upset stomach, loss of strength and sweating, headaches and dizziness, palpitations and nosebleeds, insomnia and increased nervous excitability.

The best recipes for preparing hawthorn for the winter

Sweet-tasting hawthorn berries with juicy pulp are valued not only for their taste, but are also known for their beneficial properties.

The plant will be an excellent helper for diseases of the cardiovascular system, will help normalize blood pressure and strengthen the immune system.

Therefore, when looking for berries and fruits for the winter, you must definitely use our recipes and prepare the most valuable hawthorn for future use. With proper processing, the berries will be able to retain all the beneficial substances and vitamins throughout the year.

Beneficial features

Help with cardiac ailments

The benefits of hawthorn for the human body are associated with a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular system. Moreover, this plant is useful for almost any disease of the heart and blood vessels. For angina pectoris and atherosclerosis, hypertension and arrhythmia.

Regular consumption of hawthorn has been shown in clinical trials to help normalize blood pressure and heart rate, increase cardiac output, and improve exercise tolerance. The beneficial effect is noticeable even in patients with congestive heart failure.

Such a pronounced healing effect is explained by the ability of bioactive substances in hawthorn to reduce the tension of blood vessels and expand them. It is important that this effect affects both the coronaries and peripheral vessels.

Additionally, the cardiac benefits of hawthorn are related to its ability to improve blood lipid profiles and reduce levels of inflammation in the endothelium of blood vessels. Both influences are important for the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis.

Antioxidative and anti-inflammatory activity

Since hawthorn fruits are filled with an unusually large number of bioactive compounds, their benefits and harms to the health of the worm are much broader than the effect on just the cardiovascular system.

So it can be argued that the fruits save you from all serious illnesses, because they suppress inflammatory processes in the body, strengthen the immune system and destroy free radicals.

Most serious diseases (cancer, diabetes, atherosclerosis, neurodegenerative pathologies) are associated with the negative impact of free radicals on cells and their genetic apparatus and the resulting inflammation. That is why, by suppressing the activity of free radicals and inflammation, hawthorn saves from deadly diseases.

Other medicinal properties

Beneficial properties of hawthorn also include:

• reduction in the severity of symptoms of chronic anxiety (may manifest as VSD);
• elimination of increased gas formation, pathological rumbling in the abdomen, chronic constipation;
• support of beneficial microorganisms in the intestines;
• prevention of intestinal infections;
• relief of symptoms of eczema and psoriasis.

Freezing fruits for the winter

If you doubt whether you can freeze hawthorn for the winter, then pay attention to this recipe. When stored for a long time at low temperatures, hawthorn does not lose its healing properties.

Hawthorn frozen by nature

The process of freezing berries is as follows:

1. Sort out the ripe fruits, discarding spoiled green berries and leaves. Separate the hawthorn from the branches.
2. Rinse the berries under running water, pouring them into a colander or sieve.
3. Dry the fruits by scattering them on towels.

Attention! Before freezing, it is advisable to remove the seeds from the fruit.

1. Arrange the dried hawthorn in one layer on a tray. Place the container with fruit in the freezer for 1-2 hours.
2. Pack the frozen fruits into plastic containers or bags, releasing as much air as possible from them.
3. Place the product in the freezer for long-term storage. Store the product for a year.

Attention! You can freeze fruits in another way. To do this, immediately place the prepared berries in ziplock freezer bags and put them in the freezer.

Frozen fruits can be used in tea, compote or added to the filling of pies.

Dried hawthorn

Another convenient way to prepare berries for the winter is drying. Hawthorn preparations are easy to make at home and then used for medicinal purposes. For example, in winter, prepare a healing tea or decoction that can overcome the first symptoms of colds and flu.

1. Sort freshly picked berries from twigs, garbage, spoiled and rotten fruits. Wash the hawthorn and dry.
2. Spread the hawthorn in an even layer on a baking sheet, which has been previously wrapped in parchment paper.
3. Heat the oven to 60 degrees.
4. Place the baking sheet with the berries in the oven. Leave the oven door slightly open.

Attention! You can use the “Convection” mode for drying. In this case, close the oven door.

1. The degree of readiness of dried berries is determined by squeezing the fruits in your hands. If no juice comes out when pressed, the product is ready.
2. Cool the finished dried berries.
3. Store the workpiece, scattered in fabric bags or paper bags, in a dry, cool and dark place.

Alternative methods for drying hawthorn

In addition to the oven, you can also dry the berries as follows:

• In an electric dryer. To do this, pour the washed and dried fruits onto the grilles of the device. Setting the temperature to 50 degrees, dry the berries until tender;
• In an air fryer. Pour the fruits into a special mesh, set the “Drying” mode, setting the fan speed to medium;
• Outdoors , scattering the berries in a thin layer on a tray and leaving them in a well-ventilated area. When drying the berries, stir periodically;
• On hot batteries. To dry the berries in this way, you need to place the prepared fruits in fabric bags or cardboard boxes. Hang them to the battery and install them on top.

What can you do with fresh fruits?

From fresh berries of large-leaved garden hawthorn, you can prepare a variety of preparations for the winter. These include preserves, jams, jellies, and marmalades. But due to the presence of an abundance of sugar, none of these foods will have health benefits. On the contrary, they can be harmful, just like any other overly sweet foods.

The most acceptable type of sweet preparation for the winter is compote, since it still contains less sugar than jam. But if you want not only to cook something from fresh hawthorn fruits for the winter, but to prepare them for health benefits, then it is better to dry or freeze the berries. And only then use it for making teas and tinctures.

How to dry?

There are three ways to dry hawthorn at home: in the oven, in an electric dryer (or convection oven) and in the air indoors.

The latter method is rarely used. Because it takes a lot of time. In addition, it is not so easy to find a suitable room for drying fruits. After all, it should be well ventilated, but at the same time be very warm. In our latitudes in September-October it is not easy to find such a room.

Oven drying

The most affordable method of drying hawthorn at home.

Fruits are usually not washed before drying. Immediately lay them out in one layer on a baking sheet lined with baking paper or foil. And put in the oven, preheated to 60 degrees.

Do not close the oven door tightly. Be sure to leave a gap.

The procedure for drying hawthorn fruits in the oven may seem tedious. It takes about 4 hours, during which the baking sheet must be regularly removed and shaken to turn the berries.

The readiness of the fruits is determined by squeezing one of them between your fingers. The berry should not be soft inside.

You can take several berries into your fist at once and squeeze them too. Properly dried fruits should not produce juice. If the juice is released, you need to dry it some more.

Drying in an electric gadget

Modern electric dryers make it much easier to harvest hawthorn for the winter at home. In this modern gadget, the berries dry in 5 hours. The advantage compared to the oven is that the drying process does not need to be monitored all the time.

Usually the berries are laid out on the middle rack and the temperature is turned on at 60 degrees for 2 hours. Then reduce it to 50 degrees.

Store dried hawthorn in paper bags or glass jars. At room temperature.

Freezing

Like any other berry, you can prepare hawthorn for the winter by freezing it.

To do this, the berries are laid out on a tray in one layer. Cover with a bag (you don’t need to wrap it carefully) and put it in the freezer for several hours.

When the berries become hard, they are transferred to other more compact storage systems and put back in the freezer.

You can also freeze hawthorn in the form of berry puree. To do this, the fruits are ground in a blender or passed through a meat grinder. The resulting mass is distributed into small containers, which are placed in the freezer. No sugar is added.

Candied hawthorn without cooking

You can make a tasty and healthy treat with sugar without cooking from hawthorn for the winter. Since the berries are harvested without additional heat treatment, they retain all the beneficial properties, vitamins and minerals that make up hawthorn.

• Berries – 1 kg
• Granulated sugar (powdered) – 1 kg.

The procedure for preparing a healthy treat:

1. Prepare sorted and washed fruits.
2. Dry the berries. Roll each berry in sugar or powdered sugar.
3. Prepare a clean jar or bottle with a wide neck.
4. Fill the container ¾ of the way with sugared hawthorn. Fill the remaining space with granulated sugar, reaching the neck.

Attention! When placing the berries in a jar, you need to compact each layer a little. To do this, lightly tap the jar of hawthorn on a soft surface.

1. Cover the container with hawthorn with gauze folded in 3-4 layers.
2. Place the container on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.

Hawthorn, ground with sugar

When choosing what and how to prepare from garden large-fruited hawthorn for the winter, pay attention to this recipe. This preparation will require a minimum of effort, time, and ingredients.

Hawthorn ground with sugar

• Hawthorn – 1 kg
• Sugar – 700 g
• Lemon – 2 tbsp.

The preparation process is as follows:

1. Wash freshly picked fruits and remove sepals.
2. Dry the berries on a towel.
3. Use a wooden pestle to crush the hawthorn. Rub the resulting mass through a sieve, thus separating the puree from the seeds.
4. Mix berry puree with sugar and lemon.
5. Transfer the fruit mass into sterilized jars, leaving 1-1.5 cm free from the neck.
6. Pour sugar into jars with “raw” jam.
7. Cover the sugar layer with a parchment circle dipped in alcohol.
8. Close the jars with the blanks with lids and store them in the refrigerator.

Hawthorn jam

Among the methods of preparing hawthorn for the winter, preparations from the berries, which can be stored for years, occupy a special place. At the same time, berry preparations such as jam can be used as a filling for pies, spread on toast and even added to tea.

• Berries – 2 kg
• Sugar – 1.6 kg
• Water – 0.8 l
• Lemon – 1 pc.

Hawthorn jam

1. Place the fruits, peeled from branches, leaves and seeds, into a saucepan.
2. Pour water into the container and bring the mixture to a boil. Boil the fruits until soft.
3. Drain the water in which the berries were cooked into a separate container. Rub the fruits themselves through a sieve.
4. Mix granulated sugar and berry water into the resulting puree.
5. Boil the berry mixture over low heat until thickened.
6. At the end of cooking, pour lemon juice into the jam.
7. Pour the jam into sterile jars.
8. Sterilize the workpiece in a water bath for 12-15 minutes.
9. Seal the jars with disinfected lids and turn the top upside down.
10. Cool the roll under a woolen blanket and store it in a cool, dry room.

Attention! Do not expose workpieces to direct sunlight.

Hawthorn jam

We offer you another recipe for making hawthorn for the winter - jam. It is better to cook it from large-fruited, juicy and pleasant-tasting fruits. In this case, the berries can be either peeled or used for harvesting whole.

The procedure for preparing a delicious hawthorn treat:

1. Cover the prepared and pitted fruits with sugar. Leave the berries for 3-4 hours, release the juice.
2. After the time has passed, boil the mixture for 5 minutes and cool. Repeat the process the next day.
3. On the third day, boil the thick jam for 2 minutes and seal it in disinfected jars.
4. After the jars have cooled, put them in a dry cellar or pantry.

Hawthorn jam

Hawthorn compote

In addition to all of the above, which can be prepared for the winter from hawthorn, there is also a recipe for compote. A fragrant drink with a pleasant sourness will not only quench your thirst, but also saturate your body with vitamins for the whole day. At the same time, preparing compote is very simple, following the step-by-step instructions given below.

• Berries – 0.5 kg
• Water – 0.65 l
• Granulated sugar – 0.45 kg.

Procedure for preparing the drink:

1. Wash the berries and cut them in half. Remove the seeds and pour water over them again.
2. Dry the berry slices.
3. Prepare the syrup. To do this, pour water into the pan and add granulated sugar. Bring the liquid to a temperature of 80-85 degrees.
4. Place halves of berries into the hot liquid.
5. Remove the hawthorn drink from the heat and leave for 10 hours in a cool place.
6. After time, strain the drink through cheesecloth. Boil the syrup and place the berries in sterilized jars.
7. Pour boiling syrup over the hawthorn pulp. Cover the jars with lids.
8. Sterilize the workpiece in a water bath. Subject half-liter containers to pasteurization for 15 minutes, liter containers for 20 minutes, and three-liter containers for 30 minutes.
9. Roll up the jars with lids, turn them upside down and cool under a warm blanket.

Attention! Hawthorn compote is useful to consume for vitamin deficiency, colds and as a prophylactic during the flu and ARVI season.

Hawthorn compote

Hawthorn berry juice

You can prepare hawthorn for the winter not only according to the recipes described above, but also in its form as juice.

• Berry pulp – 2 kg
• Granulated sugar – 0.2 kg
• Water – 4 l.

The algorithm for preparing hawthorn juice is as follows:

1. Prepare sorted, washed and dried berries. Divide each fruit in half and remove the seeds.
2. Boil the hawthorn pulp until soft and grind through a sieve.
3. Pour water and sugar into the resulting puree. Bring the liquid to a boil.

Attention! Do not boil the drink, but just bring it to a boil and immediately remove the pan from the heat.

1. Pour the boiling juice with pulp into clean jars. Roll up the containers with lids, wrap them and cool for 24 hours.
2. After 24 hours, store the preserved food in a dark, cool place.

Hawthorn jam. Recipe for hawthorn jam with seeds

The recipe describes how to make jam with whole hawthorn fruits with seeds and liquid lemon syrup.

Externally, hawthorn is a little similar to small apples of paradise (a variety of apples), but in jam this similarity is even stronger. Homemade hawthorn jam can be served with white ice cream: place 3-4 berries in each serving bowl and pour a large spoonful of syrup.

Whole berries with seeds do not wrinkle at all and shine with smooth “sugar” sides. The orange color of the fruit looks somewhat exotic. If you try to convince your guests that you are offering them tropical berries, many will take it at face value. Hawthorn in syrup is served in transparent coffee cups or small bowls. The addition can be crackers or any sweet pastries.

Recipe ingredients:

• hawthorn berries - 600 gr.
• sugar - 600 gr.
• lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l.
• water - 150 ml.

How to make hawthorn jam with seeds for the winter - Recipe with photo

For some reason, everyone tries to dry hawthorn for decoctions and tinctures, forgetting that these small berries are quite edible in their raw form. And five-minute jam will be a great way to preserve this fresh taste at home, giving it a soft lemon flavor.

Wash the hawthorn and remove the stems.

Pour sugar into the pan according to the recipe. The syrup in the finished jam will be translucent liquid and not very sweet.

Pour cold water over sugar and stir. The syrup should simmer for 2-3 minutes over medium heat.

The prepared fruits are poured into a pan with hot syrup when the fire is already turned off. The hawthorn must not be allowed to boil. Only raw berries with seeds can “share” their color, taste, and unobtrusive aroma. According to the recipe, the berries are infused in syrup for about 12 hours.

The juice squeezed from the lemon is poured into the pan. To enhance the citrus flavor, you can add large pieces of lemon peel to the jam.

Small hawthorn is boiled for 7 minutes, large hawthorn for about 10. Remove the lemon peel from the hot jam and discard it.

Hot hawthorn jam is packaged in small jars that have been previously sterilized.

Screw on the lids, turn the jars over and cover them. The hawthorn in the syrup did not boil for long, so you need to wrap it carefully and voluminously. Unwrap the jars after 10-12 hours. Both the syrup and the berries turned orange.

Berry marshmallow

You can also make a sweet treat from hawthorn, which will be an excellent alternative to sweets and can be stored for a long time in a glass container.

1. Prepare berries, peeled and softened in hot water.
2. Grind the fruits through a meat grinder.
3. Melt honey in a water bath and add to chopped berries.
4. Place the resulting mass on a baking sheet moistened with water. Spread the berry puree over the surface in a thin, even layer about 1 cm thick.
5. Set the oven temperature to 70 degrees. Place the baking sheet in the oven. Leave the oven door ajar.

Attention! The marshmallow will be ready after 6-8 hours of drying. To speed up the process, you can use the “Convection” mode. The degree of readiness of the product is determined as follows: if, when pressed, the marshmallow retains its shape and does not stick to the fingers, then the treat is ready.

1. Cut the finished delicacy into portions, sprinkle with powdered sugar and package in glass jars.

Hawthorn marshmallow

Pastila stores well and is an excellent alternative to candy when you want something sweet. Peel the berries and boil a little until softened. Make puree - for this you can use a meat grinder, a sieve or a blender (whichever is more convenient). You can add a little honey and lemon juice to the puree.

Spread the resulting puree evenly over a baking sheet and place in an oven heated to 60°C. Open the oven door slightly. Instead of an oven, you can use a special dryer. Cut the finished marshmallow into pieces and place in glass jars. Cover with paper and tie with thread, so it can be stored well for a long time.

How to store hawthorn for the winter?

Hawthorn is one of the medicinal plants widely used in folk recipes to combat diseases of the cardiovascular system. You can preserve its fruits for a long time in different ways.

What is the best way to store hawthorn?

Most often, hawthorn fruits are frozen or dried. In any of these storage options, the fruits must first be prepared - collect fully ripened berries (bright red or orange), sort through the collected material, remove damaged berries.

After collection, it is not advisable to delay processing. Hawthorn should be washed under running water, blotted with a cotton towel and spread in a thin layer on cloth or parchment to dry completely.

If you are going to dry the berries, then leave them spread out for several days, turning them over periodically. You can use special dryers for berries, mushrooms and herbs. They need to be set at +40ºС…+60ºС. Or you can use a regular oven, heated to a temperature of +40ºС. The door must remain open during the drying process.

Pharmaceutical preparations of hawthorn

In the pharmacopoeia, the flowers and fruits of hawthorn, common, and blood-red are used to obtain medicines, of which there are a lot. Let's talk about the most popular ones.

Is it possible to freeze hawthorn?

Naturally, you can freeze hawthorn berries, just like other berries.

But in order to preserve the beneficial and valuable properties of the fruit, it is necessary to follow some freezing rules.

The first and important rule: it is recommended to freeze berries very quickly.

It’s good if you have a refrigerator with a quick or deep freezing function.

So, ripened, washed and dried hawthorn berries with a paper towel

Spread in the freezer compartment in a single layer on foil.

When the berries are frozen, you need to transfer them to bags or containers.

They are subsequently stored in the normal freezer compartment.

They don’t stick together when frozen like this, you can take a handful or two and use them as soon as you want. Be healthy!

Ripe sweet hawthorn has so many vitamins and health benefits that if you eat the berries, you need to freeze them, everything is tastier than dried. Especially after defrosting, the berries are just as juicy and tasty. You can also cook a compote of frozen berries, you can add hawthorn berries to baked goods or to jelly.

The medicinal properties of hawthorn are preserved - it helps with high blood pressure, insomnia, stressful situations, cholesterol levels drop if you are nervous, but you just shouldn’t overdo it, you don’t eat it in jars like strawberries or cherries, it is believed that you can eat half a glass of berries a day at most .

I think that it will be easier to prepare hawthorn for the winter in this way: rinse the berries, blanch them in boiling water and rub through a sieve; however, you can put the resulting mass in containers and freeze. My friend does this. You can also mix this mass with honey and place it in containers or brick-shaped bags and freeze. The mass of hawthorn is thick, you can easily form “bricks” and put it in the freezer. Takes up little space and is convenient. You can also make jam with this mixture and use it perfectly during tea drinking in winter. Of course, such granular jam is not for everybody, but if you imagine that you eat it as a medicine, the benefits will be even greater.

Is it possible to freeze hawthorn?

Naturally, you can freeze hawthorn berries, just like other berries. But in order to preserve the beneficial and valuable properties of the fruit, it is necessary to follow some freezing rules. The first and most important thing is right

How to prepare hawthorn for the winter: recipes

But in order for them to retain their taste and benefit the body, you need to know how to properly collect and store hawthorn for the winter.

Rules for collecting and preparing berries for storage

Harvesting of this unique plant begins at the end of September, when the fruits begin to ripen, and ends with the first frost. The weather for harvesting berries should be sunny and dry. They are picked during the day, when the dew has gone, and immediately sorted, discarding those that are rotten or spoiled by birds. You don’t need to pick individual berries, but the entire scutes.

How to dry the fruits of a plant

Several methods are suitable for drying the berries of this wonderful plant:

• in a special dryer at a temperature of no more than 60 °C, since at higher temperatures valuable substances are destroyed,
• in an electric or gas oven with the door ajar,
• in the sun, laying the fruits in one layer on a linen cloth and covering them with gauze to prevent flies, periodically turning them over and selecting the spoiled ones,
• on radiators in the apartment - the berries are hung in fabric bags or poured into cardboard boxes and placed on top.

Preparation of hawthorn, ground with sugar

Jams, jams, purees

This is why housewives love hawthorn, it is for its availability, productivity and variety of recipes for preparations from it.

This type of preparation is great as a filling for pies. To prepare it you need the following ingredients: 2 kg of hawthorn, 1 kg 600 g of sugar, 800 ml of filtered water, 50 ml of lemon juice.

To prepare tasty and healthy glod puree for the winter, you need to boil the seedless pulp in water until soft, wait until it cools and pass through a sieve.

Another healthy treat that is made from berries and can replace candy is marshmallows. Grind the fruits, peeled and softened in boiling water, into a meat grinder, add a little honey, melting it first in a water bath.

How to make juice

Among the many different drinks made from hawthorn, the easiest to prepare are compotes and juices.

Dried hawthorn for the winter

The process of preparing dried hawthorn is similar to the process of drying the berries, only they are first soaked for 10-12 hours in saturated sugar syrup, then taken out, the syrup is allowed to drain and dried in any available way.

Other unusual preparations: candies, marmalade and other sweets

How to prepare hawthorn for the winter: recipes

Everything about how and when to properly collect hawthorn, how to store it in winter, what recipes exist for preparing hawthorn for the winter and desserts made from it.

Hawthorn through a meat grinder. Hawthorn for the winter. Methods for preparing boyarka for the winter

Harvesting hawthorn for the winter: recipes. Prepare hawthorn for the winter, and you will be provided with a tasty medicine. Its use will help reduce high blood pressure, strengthen the heart muscle, and normalize sleep. You can make not only compote, but also jam from hawthorn berries, or simply puree them with sugar, just like currants.

Hawthorn for the winter: step by step recipes

How to prepare hawthorn for the winter? If there are a lot of hawthorn berries, but there is no cellar, we offer the following methods for harvesting hawthorn without the hassle. Try this recipe for hawthorn jam for winter. Wash the berries. How much water does it take to boil hawthorn before straining it through a sieve? Observe the following proportions: 1 glass of hawthorn and ½ glass of water. Boil the berries in water until they soften.

Strain the broth and rub the hawthorn through a sieve. You will receive a mass without skin and seeds. Mix the pureed berries with the broth. Add sugar (1 kg of pureed berries and 1 kg of sugar, 1.5 g of citric acid). Place on low heat. Stirring constantly, boil the hawthorn in sugar until it becomes thick sour cream. Roll the resulting jam into sterile jars. In winter, hawthorn prepared in this way is well stored at room temperature.

Hawthorn for the winter, ground with sugar without cooking

Boyarka rubbed through a sieve with sugar. Blanch the hawthorn in boiling water for three minutes. Rub the berries through a sieve. Sprinkle the resulting hawthorn mass with sugar (0.5 kg of sugar per 1 kg of pureed hawthorn).

Place in sterile jars and cover with iron lids, sterilize for 30 minutes in boiling water. Roll up the jars, cover with a thick towel and leave to cool. Harvested candied hawthorn can be stored in the room for the winter. In winter you will feel the benefits of these preparations.