How pleasant it is to enjoy delicious on a winter's daya drink that is cooked in the sunny summer. The appearance of the numerous jars, in which compotes are kept for the winter, pleases the eye, and their contents give pleasure to the stomach. Components for them can be anything. Compotes for the winter are made from fruits, berries, aromatic herbs and even vegetables. Having learned to cook such a drink, and most importantly - to keep it for a long time, you can prepare more useful vitamins for the cold season.
The manufacturing option is quite simple.The main attention should be paid to sterilization and the quality of fruits and berries. Taking as a basis one compote for the winter, and changing the main component, you can stock up various drinks.
Winter compotes for berries
Collected berries carefully sorted.All the crushed and corrupted fruits are removed for the preparation of jam or jam. We need to take three glasses of choice berries, two glasses of granulated sugar and 2.8 liters of water. This amount is enough to roll up one three-liter jar of compote. Selected berries are well washed, remove all foreign garbage and put into a prepared clean jar. We bring the water to a boil, dissolve the sugar in it and prepare the syrup, which is poured into the jar by the shoulders. We roll up the lid, turn it upside down and wrap it up with a blanket. We leave to cool for a day. After that, you can turn the banks and put them in the vault or the basement.
In order to prepare compotes for the winter, dothere is no need to maintain a private plot. All components can be bought on the market. The choice of various fruits and berries is great and there is an opportunity to prepare something exotic, for example compote of oranges or kiwi jam.
Compote of apricots for the winter
You can use it for cookingfruits with a stone, and cut in half. The three-liter jar will require 2.1 kilograms of sliced apricots without stones, 2.5 liters of water and 2.5 cups of sugar. The fruits are well under my stream of running water. After that, cut in half and remove the stone. Prepared apricots are laid in a clean jar. We prepare syrup from water and sugar. Fill it in a jar, close it with boiled lids and sterilize for 40 minutes. We roll up the jars, turn it upside down, wrap it up with a blanket and leave it for a day.
No less favorite compotes for the winter of apples
We put small apples in the jar entirely.We cut large fruits into lobules. All apples are well mine and remove the peduncle. Fill pure banks with 1/3 of the fruit. Three glasses of water will require two glasses of sugar. Of these, we are preparing syrup, which is poured into cans. Before laying apples in cans, they should be blanched in boiling water for about five minutes. Filled with syrup and fruit cans sterilized for about 40 minutes. Then roll up the lids and leave to cool under the blanket.
If you want to give your compote a goodaroma, then add a seasoning or a mixture of herbs. They can fall asleep during the preparation of syrup, put in a jar or hold in a gauze pouch in syrup for five minutes until ready. Adding cinnamon, mint, melissa, cloves, ginger or other ingredients, you can get an interesting and rich taste of the finished drink.
If you want to cook compotes for the winterlow-calorie or in your family someone suffers from diabetes, then use instead of granulated sugar 400 grams of xylitol or sorbitol. The drink will turn out not less tasty and fragrant. The process of making compote is no different from the main recipe.
Bring a rich color to a drink or improvearoma can be mixed with various ingredients for compote and combining fruits and berries in one bank at the same time. Adding a little cherry, cherry or black chokeberry to the jar, you will get a rich red tint. And putting together with them apples or pears, give the drink a little sourness.
