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Bird cherry can often be found on forest edges and along river banks. Where there are no good gardens, its sweet berries replace cherries. Children feast on them, housewives prepare delicious pastries. Bird cherry rolled with sugar is added to apple compotes, as a filling in pies, liqueurs, wine, and sweet vitamin jam are made from it.
What are the benefits of bird cherry ground with sugar?
This black berry was used as food by ancient people. During excavations at the Stone Man site, fruit seeds were discovered. Probably, even then people appreciated the nutritional and healing properties of bird cherry. It is interesting that scientists consider this berry to be a distant relative of the plum, but for some reason hybrids are bred together with cherries (cherry cherry).
For a very long time, people 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 children develop strong immunity and replenish the body of adults with valuable nutrients:
- amygdalin, which is present in bird cherry kernels, as in almond kernels, gives the berries flavor and, in small doses, 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, and diseases of the oral cavity;
- essential oils;
- pectins;
- coloring elements;
- organic acids, such as citric, malic;
- glycosides;
- fixed oils;
- ascorbic acid;
- phytoncides exhibit antimicrobial activity, only fresh berries possess them;
- Sahara;
- flavonoids.
Bird cherry fruits exhibit strong astringent properties, as well as blocking the inflammatory process. They have a hemostatic effect, strengthen the capillary network and are an excellent remedy for various pathologies of the walls of blood vessels. Bird cherry berries contain a lot of vitamins and help to avoid hypovitaminosis during the cold season and suffer less from colds and other seasonal diseases. Aromatic tea is brewed from pureed bird cherry, and compotes are made in combination with other berries.
Recipe for pureed 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, and a wide variety of dishes are prepared from them. Harvested during the period of full ripening, which is usually July.
Bird cherry fruits are prepared for the winter in the form of jelly and jam. This can be done very simply. Boil the fruits, cleaned of debris, stalks and dust, in a small volume of water (1 cup). 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.
Recipe for cooking in a slow cooker
The following ingredients will be needed:
- Virginia 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 to fry vegetables. Prepare sugar syrup by adding juice to it. Separately, boil the bird cherry in a cup of water, wipe and separate from the seeds. Add the resulting paste and the remaining berries to the syrup. Bring to a boil, skim off the foam and add ginger shavings. Close the lid tightly, after 5 minutes you can turn off the multicooker, but the jam should simmer for another 1 hour. Then pour into jars and screw on the lids.
Twisted bird cherry with sugar for the winter
Previously, wild bird cherry berries were harvested in villages in this way for the whole year. Clean the fruits from foreign impurities, wash them, and remove excess moisture. Twist in a meat grinder several times. Add the same amount of sugar, place in jars, and close with airtight plastic lids. If the mass is to be frozen, it should be packaged in plastic containers (containers, cups).
Shelf life
You can store bird cherry preparations 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 new harvest.
Conclusion
Bird cherry rolled with sugar can successfully replace jam from the usual cherries, currants, and other berries. It is in no way inferior to them in its nutritional and taste properties.And gentle treatment without thermal effects allows you to preserve them to the fullest extent.
