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On forest edges and along river banks, you can often find bird cherry. Where there are no good gardens, its sweet berries replace cherries. Children eat them, housewives prepare delicious pastries. Bird cherry, rolled with sugar, is added to apple compotes, like filling in pies, liqueurs, wine, sweet vitamin jam are made from it.
What is the use of bird cherry, grated with sugar
This black berry was used as food by ancient people. During the excavation of the stone man's site, fruit pits were found. Probably, even then, people appreciated the nutritional and healing properties of bird cherry. Interestingly, scientists consider this berry to be a distant relative of the plum, but for some reason hybrids are bred together with cherries.
For a very long time, people have consumed wild herbs and berries. Thanks to this, they had good health, endurance, and a lot of strength. Now the need for wild-growing vitamins can be covered by wild berries. Bird cherry with sugar will help to form strong immunity for children, and replenish the body of adults with valuable nutrients:
- amygdalin, which is present in bird cherry pits, as in almond pits, gives the berries an aroma, in small doses it is useful not only for humans, but also for animals;
- tannins, have astringent properties, are effective for enteritis, infectious colitis, dyspepsia of various etymologies, dysentery, disorders of the intestines, stomach, diseases of the oral cavity;
- essential oils;
- pectins;
- coloring elements;
- organic acids such as citric, malic;
- glycosides;
- fixed oils;
- vitamin C;
- phytoncides, exhibit antimicrobial activity, they are possessed only by fresh berries;
- Sahara;
- flavonoids.
Bird cherry fruits exhibit strong astringent properties as well as anti-inflammatory properties. They have a hemostatic effect, strengthen the capillary network and are an excellent remedy for various pathologies of the vessel walls. Bird cherry berries contain a lot of vitamins, help to avoid hypovitaminosis in the cold season, to get less colds and other seasonal diseases. Aromatic tea is brewed from mashed bird cherry, and compotes are made in combination with other berries.
Recipe for mashed bird cherry with sugar
Bird cherry fruits have a sweetish and slightly astringent taste. In the middle there is one rather large bone. These berries are edible, they are healing and quite tasty, they are used to prepare a variety of dishes. Harvested at full ripeness, this is usually July.
Harvest the fruits of bird cherry for the winter in the form of jelly, jam. This can be done very simply. Boil the fruits, cleaned of debris, stalks and dust in a small volume of water (1 glass). Wipe with a metal sieve, mix with sugar (1 kg per 500 g), add a tablespoon of gelatin. Sterilize in half-liter jars for 20 minutes.
Multicooker recipe
The following ingredients will be needed:
- virgin bird cherry - 1 kg;
- black gooseberries - 0.15 kg;
- blackberries - 0.2 kg;
- red currant (juice) - 0.2 l;
- ginger - 0.05 kg;
- sugar - 1 kg.
Turn on the multicooker for frying vegetables. Prepare sugar syrup by adding juice to it. Boil the bird cherry separately in a cup of water, wipe it, separating it from the seeds.Add the resulting paste and the rest of the berries to the syrup. Bring to a boil, remove the foam and add the ginger shavings. Close the lid tightly, after 5 minutes the multicooker can be turned off, but the jam should languish for another 1 hour. Then pour into jars, tighten the lids.
Twisted bird cherry with sugar for the winter
Previously, in this way, wild bird cherry berries were harvested in the villages for the whole year. Clean the fruits from impurities, wash, remove excess moisture. Twist in a meat grinder several times. Add the same amount of sugar, arrange in jars, close with sealed plastic lids. If the mass will freeze, it should be packaged in plastic containers (containers, cups).
Storage periods
You can store bird cherry blanks until spring. The most suitable place for this is a dark cold cellar or basement. The bottom shelf of the refrigerator is even better suited for this purpose. In the freezer, the twisted berry mass can retain its properties for a whole year, until the next harvest.
Conclusion
Bird cherry, rolled with sugar, can successfully replace jam from cherries, currants and other berries we are used to. It is in no way inferior to them in its nutritional and taste properties. And gentle processing without thermal effects allows you to keep them in full.
