How to cook compote of gooseberries
How to cook compote of gooseberries
Compote, brewed from gooseberry, is very differenta gentle fragrance and taste. Many housewives add to it other berries and fruits to maximize its usefulness and taste - although even the simplest compote made of gooseberry is very tasty and nutritious.
Instructions
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Compote from some berries of gooseberry is the mosta common and simple version of this drink. For him, differently sized gooseberries with cut stems and sepals are used - berries are picked, washed, pierced with a fork from stainless steel and laid out on cans. Then 40% sugar syrup is separately cooked and they fill the cans with gooseberries slightly less than to the brim. Filled cans are covered with lids and pasteurized: half-liter - 10 minutes, liter - 15 minutes.
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No less popular is thecompote, prepared by hot filling without pasteurization. To prepare it, the gooseberries' berries prepared and spread over the banks are poured with hot sugar / fruit syrup or hot water, left for 5 minutes and drain all liquid. This manipulation is repeated twice, and on the third - water / syrup is left and the jar is clogged. For pouring korotvennogo compote, you can also use raspberry, strawberry, currant and strawberry juice, which is prepared 40% sugar syrup.
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For cooking kryzhovennogo compote-assorted,slightly cut the prepared berries, pour for a few minutes with boiling water, then drain it and cool it under cold water. After that gooseberries are layered in layers in cans - in the process it is shifted with apple slices, currants, strawberries, raspberries, cherries and so on. Then the compote is prepared by one of the above methods and is closed with hermetic lids.
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For children, you can cook compote of gooseberry andorange. For a half-liter jar of gooseberry berries you will need one orange in the skin, cut into slices. This compote does not need to be pasteurized or cooked - it is enough to pour the contents of sterilized cans with boiling 40% sugar syrup. To any krovozhvenny compote retained its useful and taste for a long time, you need to cover the freshly-jar with a warm blanket and leave them under it for a day, after which another day to keep in the refrigerator. After that, conservation can be stored even in a fairly warm room.