The fruits of this small tree or even a bushripen by the end of summer, closer to fall. Depending on the type of plant (there are about 50 of them in total), berries can be red, black or orange. In the food and for medical purposes it is worth to use only ripe fruits. What can be done with hawthorn, we will tell below. And now I would like to note that there are some groups of people who do not want to include in their diet its fruits in large quantities. This, for example, applies to persons with low blood pressure. Hawthorn should also not be consumed by lactating women and those in an "interesting position." So how can you use these fruits?
From ripe fruits can be cooked verytasty and healthy jam. The proportions should be the following: for one kilogram of berries (well washed, cleaned, without stalks and leaves) - 300 milliliters of water and one kilogram of sugar (if desired, this amount can be reduced). Hawthorn need to pour syrup, previously prepared from the remaining two ingredients, and leave for about 10 hours. During this time, the berries are soaked with sugar mixture. Then the future jam should be mixed with a pinch of vanillin and citric acid, stand on the fire. Remove the prepared dessert from the heat and cool.
You can grind berries in a meat grinder or coffee grinder.and add the resulting powder to the filling for the pies, use for preparing tinctures, decoctions. For example, in the amount of one teaspoon of dried leaves and hawthorn fruits, pour them into a glass and pour boiling water on them, and then infuse for about five minutes. Drink tincture should be, after adding the lemon and honey.
Medicinal properties of fruits, leaves and even barkhawthorn has been identified for a long time, and our ancestors gladly used this raw material both separately and adding to other useful herbs and roots. The composition of hawthorn includes carotene, fructose, essential oils, vitamins (B, C), choline, sorbitol, and so on. All these nutrients have a beneficial effect on the human body. Especially they are recommended for people suffering from diseases of the cardiovascular system, with an increased excitability of the central nervous system, problems with blood circulation.
Such a useful and multifunctional fruit is hawthorn. What to do with it and how to use it, choose for yourself. Maybe you make wine out of it, and maybe jam or even juice.
