Many housewives annually prepare preparations for the winter in the form of compote. Raspberry drink, closed in cans, tasty and healthy. How to properly prepare homemade blanks from berries, as well as how to store manufactured products, read below.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
Compote is prepared only from carefully selected and prepared berries. In order to preserve vitamins and minerals, raspberries must undergo minimal heat treatment before they get into cans. Fruits for seaming should be freshly picked, without rot, diaper rash and other flaws.
Important! Berries must be washed and disinfected, for this they are placed in a slightly salted solution, which is prepared from 20 g of salt and 1 liter of water. Processing takes place for 15 minutes, after which the fruits, together with the liquid, are filtered through a colander and left for 2-3 minutes. to drain.
To diversify the taste of the drink, currants, strawberries, apples and other fruits are added to it. These ingredients are also carefully selected. Fruits that do not contain traces of the life of insects and diseases, do not have mold or diaper rash on their surface are put into the blank.In order for preservation to be successful and the workpiece to be stored for a long time, care must be taken to sterilize the cans and pans that will be used in the cooking process. The containers are washed with baking soda and thoroughly rinsed. Immediately prior to the rolling process, each can goes through a steam sterilization process for 20-30 minutes.
Step-by-step recipes for raspberry compotes for the winter
There are a huge number of simple recipes for making a raspberry drink, which in the winter will delight you with its exquisite taste and pleasant aroma. For cooking, you need a minimum amount of ingredients that are easily available in the summer.
Classic recipe with sterilization
3 cans of 1 liter30-40 min
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Pour raspberries into a 3 liter container.
- Then fall asleep citric acid.
- Boil water with sugar in a saucepan for 5 minutes.
- Made sugar syrup pour to the top of the jar and cover.
- To sterilize, prepare an enameled pan filled with water, to the bottom of which to line a terry towel.
- Place the jar in a container with water and sterilize over low heat for 20 minutes.
- After the sterilization time, remove the container from the pan and roll up the lid.
Did you know? The first raspberry in Russia was grown by order of Prince Yuri Dolgoruky. The garden was so large that even bears were found in it.
Preservation in own juice
1.5 L40 min
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- In a jar of 1.5 liters, pour layers of berries with sugar.
- Leave the contents of the containers for 2 hours, empty the juice.
- Next, cover the container with a lid and put in a pan for sterilization. At the bottom of the dish, put a towel and fill it with warm water, slightly not reaching the top of the can.
- The sterilization process is carried out for 30 minutes.
- Then the jar is rolled up and put aside for storage.
Raspberry and apple
3 cans of 1 l15 min
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Make sliced apples in the form of slices.
- Pour berries and fruits into a container for harvesting.
- Within 5 minutes boil syrup from water and sugar.
- Pour the syrup into a jar and roll up the lid.
Did you know? According to the botanical classification, raspberries are not a berry, but a multi-seedling, which consists of a large number of small fruits bound together.
With currant
3 cans of 1 l20 min
- Pour fresh berry picking into a jar.
- Within 5 minutes boil syrup from water and sugar.
- Pour the syrup into a container with berries and roll up the lid.
- Turn the jar upside down and set aside in a warm place.
Household storage rules
Freezing berries for the winter is a rather troublesome process, requiring compliance with the temperature regime and optimization of humidity. To preserve the beneficial properties of raspberry berries, it is easier and faster to prepare a canned drink that is stored for 12 months.
Important! Stewed fruit should be stored in a kitchen cupboard or cellar, where it will not be exposed to sunlight, otherwise the drink becomes cloudy and deteriorates.
It is necessary to preserve cans with preforms at temperatures from + 4 ° С to + 25 ° С. Making raspberry compote is not a troublesome task, which even a beginner in culinary art will cope with. This drink is very useful and has excellent taste, therefore it is so in demand in the winter.