Honeysuckle for the winter: the properties of the product without cooking and interesting recipes

Very often, the human body is sorely lacking in vitamins, especially after the winter cold.To replenish strength, it is good to use a very tasty honeysuckle, from which you can make a lot of interesting things. For example, compote is often cooked from honeysuckle, jam is closed and it is simply frozen.

Moreover, from this berry, you can easily prepare blanks and jam without cooking. Before you make something out of honeysuckle, it is very important to learn more about the benefits and harms of this berry, about its beneficial properties for the body, as well as not less important to familiarize yourself with tips on freezing and, of course, recommendations from experts.

Before you consider the basic recipes with this berry, it is very important to determine the benefits and harm you can get from it.

• Honeysuckle is often included in the diet diet for weight loss, as it is very low-calorie. 100 grams of berries is no more than 30-35 calories.
• Honeysuckle is of different types, there are also inedible varieties, the color of the berries is red. Edible honeysuckle has a color exclusively blue, shades can vary.
• Some experts believe that the smell of this berry is very soothing.
• Honeysuckle berries for many years and in many countries around the world are in great demand in the recipes of traditional medicine.
• In the berries is a large amount of vitamin C, which is so beneficial to the body. Moreover, experts have proven that there is a large amount of potassium and magnesium in honeysuckle, which best influence the state of the cardiovascular system.
• The presence of iodine in the berries is an excellent prevention for people with problems with the endocrine system and the thyroid gland.
• Honeysuckle is very often eaten by the fair sex, because the berries bring a very great benefit to the hair and nails, due to the presence in them of a mass of useful microelements.
• Of this berries often make tinctures that help with diseases of the genitourinary system.

It is difficult to say that such a useful berry, which has a lot of advantages, can be harmful. However, it is worth remembering that allergic reactions are possible to any fruit or berry. Individual intolerance is not excluded. Moreover, if you improperly make a herbal infusion with honeysuckle, you can get a muscle spasm.

At home, out of honeysuckle, you can cook a lot of interesting and tasty. Next, consider the most relevant recipes that may be of interest.

One of the easiest and simplest recipes is the preparation of the product for the winter with sugar. This recipe does not require cooking berries. The output is a delicious mixture, reminiscent of the consistency of honey, but it has a very unusual taste. This kind of workpiece can be used anywhere. For example, the product is used directly as a jam for tea, in the form of a syrup for ice cream or confectionery, as well as a base for compote or for making homemade jelly.

As ingredients for this recipe without cooking you will need:

• kilogram of honeysuckle;
• kilogram of sugar.

And also it is necessary to take care of the availability of several plastic pans and a jar for closing the blanks.

• Berries should be thoroughly washed and sorted.
• Next, you should grind the honeysuckle through a sieve over a pre-prepared bowl.
• Getting a porridge from honeysuckle syrup is a good sign. In the grated berries need to pour sugar.
• Next, you should let the mixture brew until the sugar is completely dissolved for several hours. Mixture do not forget to stir. To do this, it is best to use a wooden spoon that does not attract smells. However, if the sugar melts too slowly, you can put a bowl next to the stove or something warm, but not on the fire.
• In the prepared jars it is necessary to lay out the mixture obtained from honeysuckle and sugar. It is very important to close them immediately with boiled capron caps.

A similar recipe is a billet with less sugar, which will require:

• selected honeysuckle (one kilogram);
• sugar (600-700 grams).

Honeysuckle should be washed and immediately add sugar to it in the right amount. Next, the mixture of berries and sugar should be poured into a blender and grind. For a more unusual taste, you can try using cane sugar. Honeysuckle get no worse if she was just rubbed through a sieve. However, in a blender, the consistency is more pleasant. After the blender, the mixture should be rolled into sterilized jars.

A particularly popular type of preservation of berries at home is their freezing. Honeysuckle can be frozen in pure form or by adding sugar to it.

Honeysuckle can also be frozen:

• making her berry mashed potatoes;
• whole berries.

Before freezing the berries is very important to thoroughly wash and dry.

• The whole berries should try to gently spread out one layer and freeze them a little in the freezer.
• If you mix the berry with sugar, then you need to add it when the honeysuckle is already in a light frost.
• It is advisable to put the berry with sugar in a sealed container and put everything in the freezer.

The shelf life of whole frozen honeysuckle with sugar is not more than one year.

In order to cook delicious kissel or fruit compote in the winter, you can easily use a prepared honeysuckle preparation in which all the useful vitamins and trace elements are stored. You should also listen to the advice of experts.

• If you decide to close the raw jam, and the honeysuckle is sour, then the amount of sugar can be increased by 100-300 grams.
• Honeysuckle can try to freeze not with regular sugar, but with powdered sugar. This can be done both in a plastic container and in special jars. When using the latter, honeysuckle and powder should be applied in layers.
• Blanks of honeysuckle without cooking, which are stored in the refrigerator, can be further used for the preparation of berry sauces. They are well served with desserts. To do this, it is enough to heat the preform, as soon as its consistency becomes liquid, the sauce is ready.

Also, no one forbids adding to the raw jam various spices, which can add them even more unusual taste. When cooking compote or fruit drink from sugar preparation with honeysuckle, it is best to add strawberries, which will give this drink an unusual sweet flavor.

The following video presents the recipe for jam from honeysuckle.