Cranberry is useful in various diseases. It serves to prevent urolithiasis, improves the secretion of gastric juice with low acidity, improves immunity, and lowers the temperature during a cold. However, all these properties have only fresh berries, because during the heat treatment, many vitamins are destroyed. That is why the best preparation of this berry for the future is cranberry, mashed with sugar. Moreover, the process of cooking this “cold jam” is not too troublesome, because it does not require cooking.
Cooking Features
Heat treatment contributes to the destruction of pathogenic flora, thereby increasing the safety of canned food. When blanks of berries are made without cooking, you must follow certain rules. This also concerns the preparation of cranberries, mashed with sugar.
- Every single berry must be inspected to prevent rotten, spoiled.
- Rinse the cranberries too carefully. This can be done both in running water and “bathing” the cranberries in a large container: for this, the berries are placed in a colander, which must be dipped several times in clean water.
- Having touched and washed cranberries, it needs to be dried. If moisture remains on it, an environment favorable for the reproduction of microorganisms can be created in a jar with grated berries.
- Banks must also be clean: sterilized and dry.
- It is possible to store cranberries, mashed with sugar, only in a cool place, ideally in a refrigerator.
Some of the nuances of harvesting cranberry grated with sugar for the winter depend on the recipe.
A classic recipe for cranberries mashed with sugar
Composition:
- cranberries - 1 kg;
- granulated sugar - 1 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Pick and wash the berry. Spread it on a towel, wait until the water is completely drained and the berry dries.
- Grind to puree in a blender bowl. This is the easiest way to mash the cranberries, although there are others. So, many housewives use a meat grinder, although it is often clogged with oilcake: if there are many berries, you often have to interrupt the process in order to clean the unit. Others wipe the cranberries through a sieve. This method is the most time-consuming, but effective, as the mash is especially tender.
- Fill the cranberry mass with sugar, cover with a cloth and let it stand for 8-12 hours in a cool place.
- Arrange in jars. They need to prepare in advance. Covers should also be sterilized.
- Close the jars tightly and put in the refrigerator. Open as needed.
If someone likes sweeter jam, can increase the amount of sugar by 30-50%. But if you need to reduce the amount of sugar, you will have to use another recipe.
Cranberries under a sugar “cork”
Composition:
- cranberries - 1 kg;
- granulated sugar - 0, 9 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Clean and dried cranberries with any of the methods listed in the previous recipe.
- Pour into three glasses of sugar and put in the refrigerator overnight.
- Spread in half-liter jars, pre-sterilized.
- Cut circles from parchment. Their diameter should be about 2-3 cm higher than the diameter of the banks.
- Place the parchment on top of the “jam”.
- Put a couple of spoons of sugar on each circle.
- Close the jars with lids.
- Put in the fridge.
The berry according to this recipe is not too sweet, but it is stored well, since the released juice, mixed with sugar, forms a kind of “cork” at the top that prevents air from entering the berry.
Cranberries, grated with sugar, for storage in the freezer
Composition:
- cranberries - 1, 5 kg;
- sugar - 0, 25 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Wipe the prepared cranberries in the way that you think is the easiest.
- Spread into tight bags or clean plastic containers.
- Sprinkle with sugar, close and hide in the freezer before winter.
In the freezer, frozen cranberries can be stored completely, completely without sugar, but the method described in the recipe can significantly extend the shelf life of the berry.
Cranberries, grated with orange and sugar
Composition:
- cranberries - 1 kg;
- orange - 0, 25 kg;
- sugar - 1, 5 kg.
Method of preparation:
- After washing and drying the cranberries, turn them through a meat grinder or wipe them in another way.
- In the same way, wipe an orange, after clearing it, cutting it into pieces and removing the bones.
- Mix the cranberries with the orange, add sugar and sugar to the fruit mash.
- Put on a slow fire or water bath and heat, in any case, not bringing to a boil. Your goal is to ensure complete sugar dissolution.
- Pour the cranberry-orange delicacy on sterilized jars, seal. When cool, rearrange in the fridge.
Cranberries, mashed with sugar according to this recipe, is a great dessert, which also perfectly strengthens the body's immune system.
From the above recipes it is clear that it is easy to cook cranberries with sugar for the winter. Given the benefits of this dessert, it will not hurt anyone to prepare several jars of such “cold jam”. It can be used to prepare fruit juice, spread on sandwiches instead of confiture, and be included in other sweet dishes. The main thing is not to forget that during the heat treatment the useful properties of the cranberry delicacy can be lost, and try not to warm it.
