Blanks from serviceberry. How to prepare shadberry for the winter, recipes and cooking tips. What can be prepared from frozen shadberry

Sweet and healthy shadberry is popular and loved. Its high productivity facilitates the implementation of a wide variety of harvests. Today we will tell you some of the most interesting recipes.

How to collect irgu?

The berries that form a beautiful bunch do not ripen at the same time, so the shadberry is collected in several stages. In dry and hot summers, the berries ripen faster, so harvesting may be limited to a couple of “approaches”. A rainy summer requires 3-4 “approaches”. Those clusters on which most of the fruits have reached the stage of maturity are removed from the bush (sweet juice flows from ripe berries when pressed). Irga is placed in small baskets with a capacity of 2-5 kg. Ripe berries can be stored no longer than 3 days. For longer storage, irgu is left in a room with a temperature of 0-2º C.

Frozen shadberry

After thawing, it does not lose its shape and becomes even sweeter than fresh. Since the taste of this berry does not require any additions, it is advisable to freeze shadberry without syrup and sugar. Before freezing, the berries are washed, sorted and dried on a linen. After this, the game is laid out in one layer on a baking sheet or cardboard tray, freeze, put in bags and tie them carefully.

Dried serviceberry

Irga is dried in a warm and well-ventilated room, spread out on a net. You can also dry the berries in the oven or in a dryer at a temperature not exceeding 60º C. During the drying process, the berries are stirred periodically.

Serviceberry jam

Method No. 1

• Sugar – 1kg
• Water – 250 ml
• Citric acid – 3 g
• Irga – 1 kg

Syrup is made from water and sugar. Prepared berries are dipped into it and brought to a boil. So they repeat 2-3 times with an interval of 10-12 hours or they cook the jam in one step. Add before finishing cooking citric acid. The finished product is placed in jars and covered with plastic lids.

Method number 2

Irga is a very sweet berry, so it is advisable to cook the jam with less sugar than indicated in the first recipe.

• Sugar – 300-400 g
• Water – 200 ml
• Citric acid – 2 g
• Irga – 1 kg

The prepared berries are blanched in boiling water for exactly 2 minutes, allowed to drain and poured into boiling syrup. Bring the jam to a boil over low heat and set aside for 12 hours. Add before finishing cooking citric acid. The product is placed in jars and sealed.

Serviceberry jam

• Sugar – 500 g
• Citric acid – 3 g
• Irga – 1 kg

Prepared berries knead, sprinkle with sugar and let it sit for several hours. Next, cook the jam over low heat, stirring occasionally, until completely cooked. At the end they add citric acid. The finished jam is placed in jars and sealed.

Serviceberry marmalade

• Sugar – 0.5 kg
• Serviceberry puree – 1 kg
• Water – 200 ml
• Gelatin – 1 sachet

Ripe and thoroughly washed berries are blanched in boiling water (2-3 minutes), rubbed through a sieve, sugar and water with gelatin diluted in it are added. Mix everything and cook for a quarter of an hour from the moment it boils. The finished product is poured into jars and sealed.

Serviceberry marshmallow

• Sugar – 300 g
• Serviceberry puree – 1 kg

Blanch the shadberry for 2 minutes, grind through a sieve, add granulated sugar (add citric acid if desired) and lay out in a 1 cm layer on paper greased with vegetable oil. Dry over low heat with the oven door open until it stops sticking. For storage, the marshmallow is rolled into a tube and wrapped in cloth.

Compote of serviceberry

• Sugar – 450 g
• Water – 1 l
• Irga – 1 kg
• Citric acid – 3 g

Prepared berries are blanched for 2 minutes and placed in jars. up to half the volume, pour boiling syrup, cover with lids and pasteurize (0.5 and 1 l - 10 and 15 minutes, respectively). The jars are sealed and allowed to cool at room temperature.

Serviceberry juice

• Sugar – 300-400 g
• Irga – 1 kg
• Black or red currants – 500 g

Before receiving the juice, the shadberry is stored for 7 days. in a cool room, scattered on film (this increases the juiciness of the berries and enhances the aroma). After this the berries blanch, grind and squeeze the juice out of them(through several layers of gauze). Juice can also be prepared using a juicer. Sugar is added to the resulting liquid, heated over low heat until the crystals are completely dissolved, poured into jars, rolled up and stored in a dark and cool room.

Serviceberry puree

Ripe shadberry is washed, blanched for 1-2 minutes and allowed to drain. The berries are rubbed through a sieve or twisted using a meat grinder. Add sugar (1:1) to the puree, mix, leave for 6 hours, placing in a cool place. After this time, the product is placed in sterilized jars, covered with parchment paper and stored in a cool and dark place.

Serviceberry syrup

• Sugar – 0.5 kg
• Serviceberry juice – 1 l

Sugar is added to the juice obtained from serviceberry, boiled over low heat for at least 15 minutes, poured into sterilized bottles, sealed and stored in a cool place.

Wine from serviceberry

• Sugar – 1 kg
• Water – 2 l
• Serviceberry juice – 1 l

First boil the syrup, gradually adding sugar. After boiling for 15 minutes the syrup mixed with irgi juice, poured into a bottle. The neck is closed with a stopper with a water seal. When the young wine brightens, it is poured into another bottle, tightly closed and left for 3 months. After this time, the wine is bottled, capped and stored. in an inclined position(necks should be pointing down).

Serviceberry tincture

The bottle is filled 3/4 of the volume with berries, topped with vodka and left to infuse in a dark room for two days. After this, the berries are strained and discarded. Fresh shadberry is added back to the bottle (filling half the volume), filled with filtered vodka and left for another two days. The tincture is filtered, bottled, corked and placed in a dark, cool place.

Irga allows you to create truly delicious preparations. Be sure to please your family with them.

The beneficial properties of serviceberry berries include an anti-inflammatory effect on the intestines, as well as the content of high concentrations of vitamins. The plant is credited with the ability to improve the functioning of the cardiovascular system and prevent atherosclerosis. Having an aesthetic appearance, the round-leaved serviceberry can be used to decorate garden plots, as well as as a hedge. In each season, irga is beautiful in its own way, and its beneficial fruits will help maintain health.

Full description of the plant

Irga ordinary (round-leaved), tolerates frost very well, is undemanding to the composition of the soil, and can easily withstand strong winds. This made the plant an honorable guest of every estate. In addition, the blooming irga is an excellent honey plant.

Habitat

The plant came to the territory of the Russian Federation from Asia Minor, where there is a lot of both wild and cultivated forms of serviceberry. From Siberian places the plant quickly spread across the European continent.

At the moment, irga is often found in the Northern Hemisphere. Found in America and Africa. On the European continent it is distributed in the Center and South. The plant has spread very well throughout the Caucasus - in the Center, South and East. Often found on the Crimean peninsula. The greatest concentration of the range is observed in Korea, China, and Japan.

For its growth, irga chooses dry, well-lit slopes and edges in sparse forests. A sufficient amount of light is the main condition for the normal growing season of shadberry, allowing the plant to bear fruit well and resist diseases.

What does it look like

Unlike the Canadian serviceberry, which reaches a height of about eight meters, the round-leaved serviceberry grows very compactly, forming a small shrub, up to two and a half meters in height. The diameter of the crown often does not exceed the same indicators, and with heap planting it does not reach them. The shrub can withstand temperatures down to -50 °C. The flowering plant retains the ability to bear fruit down to -7 °C. Irga does not require a lot of moisture and a special air composition. As follows.

• Roots.
• The root system of the serviceberry is represented by long, cord-like roots that can penetrate two meters deep into the soil. Often, horizontal roots grow far beyond the shrub itself. Often the diameter of the root system is twice as large as the crown. It is this strong and deep anchorage that allows the shadberry to always receive the necessary substances from the soil, ensuring the plant’s growing season for 70 years.
• Stems. They are represented by ascending woody branches with powerful trunk-like wood. Since the plant is perennial, the diameter of the trunks increases every year. In spring, shoots begin to grow from horizontal roots, which are represented by young flexible shoots with thin brown bark.
• Leaves. In the serviceberry they are placed alternately on the branches, the fastening is long-petioled. The leaf blade has an ovoid or elliptical shape, the apex is rounded, the edge is often solid. The color of the leaf blade is rich green or light green, the surface is smooth, the structure is dense, venation is noticeable. By autumn, the leaves turn yellow-red and fall off. Young leaves may be covered with dense pubescence underneath.
• Fruits. The ripening of serviceberry fruits begins in early July and continues until the end of August. A characteristic feature of serviceberry is that one inflorescence can bear fully mature and completely green fruits. Externally, the spherical fruits resemble black currants, but have a bluish bloom. During ripening, the fruits turn red from green, and then turn black. The fruit is a false drupe with moderately juicy pulp and an insipid sweet taste. Greenish fruits taste sour. The diameter of one fruit rarely exceeds 1 cm.

Serviceberry bushes take root well, grow quickly, and tolerate pruning well. To form hedges, heap plantings are made to ensure compact shrub sizes.

What it contains

All parts of the plant to be harvested are rich in biologically active compounds. The greatest diversity is observed in the composition of the fruits.

• Coumarins.
• Natural anticoagulants and vasoprotectors that can prevent and cure thrombophlebitis, vasculitis, varicose veins.
• Phytosterols.
• They have vasoprotective properties. They normalize the permeability and resistance of vascular walls, improve peripheral blood supply, and reduce cholesterol levels in the blood. Prevent sclerotic vascular lesions.
• Pectins.
• Natural adsorbents that rid the body of toxic products. They have hepatoprotective properties.
• Cellulose . Improves intestinal function and has mild choleretic properties. Sahara. Sources of easily digestible glucose increase body tone. They charge with energy.
• Fatty oil.
• Structural components of cell membranes are necessary for the normal functioning of the nervous system and fat metabolism.

The main healing components of the chemical composition of the leaves and bark of serviceberry are tannins. Thanks to them, plant-based preparations have astringent, healing, anti-inflammatory properties, and accelerate the regeneration of the skin and mucous membranes. All parts of the serviceberry have a sedative effect on the body, gently reducing blood pressure and slowing down the transmission of nerve impulses.

Useful properties of berries, leaves and flowers of serviceberry

The rich composition of the plant determines the variety of its pharmacological effects and the list of indications for use. Official medicine recognizes irgu only as a dietary product that helps saturate the body with vitamins, while traditional healers see healing properties in the berry that can be used for preventive and therapeutic purposes. For this, various options for preparations from berries, as well as leaves and flowers of the plant are used.

Juice

It has astringent properties, therefore it is used for the treatment of diseases of the oral cavity (stomatitis, sore throat, periodontal disease). It can also be used to wash purulent wounds, since one of the effects of serviceberry is antibacterial. Serviceberry juice helps strengthen the cardiovascular system, creating reliable prevention of myocardial infarction and stroke, so its use is highly desirable for people in old age. Doctors recommend serviceberry juice as part of complex therapy for atherosclerosis to improve vision. Its additional property is to normalize the excitability of the nervous system, improve sleep quality, and is useful for children and adults. The juice quickly eliminates capillary fragility, relieves inflammation of the vascular walls, preventing their sclerotic damage.

Fresh and dried fruits

The use of serviceberry berries is indicated for adults and children over one year of age. Fresh serviceberry berries have the ability to eliminate intoxication, cleanse the intestines and blood, and treat diarrhea. Serviceberry berries improve metabolism; they can be eaten while on a diet, due to their low calorie content combined with a rich vitamin composition. In this case, the fruits will promote weight loss. The hypoglycemic effect turns irgu into a useful berry for diabetes. The fruits are able to cleanse the body of radionuclides, so their consumption is very useful during radiation therapy.

The medicinal properties of dried serviceberry berries are similar to those of fresh ones. They relieve inflammation of the gastric mucosa in gastritis, and intestinal mucosa in colitis. They have mild choleretic and diuretic properties. The antibacterial effect is appropriate for intestinal infections. For boils, you can apply dried berries, previously steamed with hot milk.

The use of serviceberry berries includes their internal use to prevent visual impairment or restore it. The plant will also be useful for various lesions of the retina and eye vessels.

Leaves and flowers

Treatment with irga at home involves the use of irgi flowers to improve heart function, prevent atherosclerosis, and reduce blood pressure. The leaves of the plant are used to prepare infusions with astringent properties. They can be used for diarrhea, inflammation of the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract, and also for external use for skin diseases.

Bark

Serviceberry bark is actively used for the treatment of skin diseases - wounds, ulcers, as well as for inflammatory diseases of the mucous membranes - stomatitis, sore throat, bleeding gums. A decoction of the bark can cure advanced trophic ulcers and bedsores.

To use for medicinal purposes, all parts of the plant must be thoroughly dried, and for storage, choose a dry, well-ventilated place to prevent the raw material from becoming damp.

Preparation of medicinal plant raw materials

Traditional medicine recommends harvesting the fruits, leaves, flowers and bark of the plant. They are collected at different times and prepared by drying. The fruits of the serviceberry can be frozen, juice can be extracted from them, or jam, preserves, or compote can be made. Even dessert dishes can be used in dietary nutrition, thanks to the low calorie content of the berry. The rules for harvesting plant parts are as follows.

• Harvesting bark.
• Starts after the first frost. It is better to remove it from branches cut to form the crown. The bark is removed from the wood. Lay out in the open air, protected from ultraviolet radiation, or dry in a dryer at a temperature of about 60 °C. Store raw materials in a paper bag in a well-ventilated dark room for up to a year. Preparation of leaves.
• To prepare irgi leaves, it is necessary to combine the beginning of collection with the beginning of flowering of the plant. Leaves are cut or picked and sorted for spoilage. After this, lay out a thin layer in the shade. Dry until completely dry, store in paper bags for a year. It is carried out simultaneously with the harvesting of leaves. The peculiarity of flowers is the need for very fast drying, so the flowers are laid out in one layer in the open air, or with through ventilation, with the obligatory shading of the tray.
• Harvesting fruits. The fruits ripen at different times, but do not fall off the stalks, so they can be harvested as they ripen, starting in August. It is undesirable to collect reddish berries; only black ones are suitable for harvesting. It is also better not to pick slightly wrinkled berries, since some of the valuable substances in them have already been destroyed. The berries are dried in a draft or in the open air; it is advisable to place pallets with raw materials in warm attics. Dried serviceberry fruits can be stored in paper bags until the next harvest.

You can preserve serviceberry berries for the winter by freezing them. Only ripe fruits are collected, washed, and dried on a paper towel. Lay out on a tray in a thin layer, put the tray in the freezer for a couple of hours. After this, the fruits are poured into a bag or container.

Recipes

The benefits of serviceberry manifest itself both in treatment and in cooking. For therapeutic purposes, infusions, decoctions, and tinctures are prepared from leaves, flowers and fruits. Berries rich in pectins are actively used for making jellies, fruit drinks, jams and other desserts. Dried fruits are added to porridges and sauces to give dishes a special, unique taste. Juice, wine, compotes, and jelly are also made from serviceberry.

Syrup

Peculiarities . The method is suitable as a preparation, since the juice is also used for therapeutic purposes and retains almost all the beneficial properties of the fruit.

Preparation

1. The collected ripe irgi berries are placed in a dry place for a week, spread out in one layer on sheets of paper, newspaper or cling film.
2. The juice is extracted using a juicer, mixed with granulated sugar (300 g of sand per liter).
3. For better dissolution, the mixture can be slightly heated over low heat.
4. After this, the syrup is rolled into sterile jars.

Jam

Peculiarities. It has vitaminizing and restorative properties. Improves digestion.

Preparation

1. A kilogram of washed and dried serviceberry berries is poured into pre-cooked, still hot sugar syrup, for which 800 g of sugar and 200 g of water are taken.
2. To prepare jam from serviceberry, a mixture of berries and syrup is boiled for 15 minutes, stirring the mixture regularly.
3. At the end of cooking, add citric acid (2 g) to the jam, cool slightly, pour into sterile jars and seal.

Infusion

Peculiarities. The infusion can relieve prolonged diarrhea and normalize microflora. The medicinal properties of serviceberry berries can eliminate acute manifestations of hemorrhoids.

Preparation and use

1. A couple of tablespoons of dried berries are poured into a glass of boiling water.
2. After wrapping the container, infuse the product for two hours.
3. After straining, squeeze out the cake and consume a third of a glass orally, three times a day, before meals.

Decoction

Peculiarities. The product is suitable for external use to treat any skin problems.

Preparation and use

1. A tablespoon of bark is poured into a glass of boiling water.
2. Place the mixture in a boiling water bath and heat for half an hour.
3. After complete cooling, the product is filtered and used for rinsing and washing in its pure form.

Water tincture

Peculiarities . Helps get rid of diarrhea, gastritis, colitis.

Preparation and use

1. A tablespoon of crushed dry leaves is poured into a cup of water.
2. The leaves are infused for an hour, after which they are filtered.
3. Take several tablespoons orally, three times a day, before meals. Use externally as a rinse.

Flower preparation

Peculiarities. Used for initial forms of hypertension, to reduce blood pressure, as well as to normalize sleep under increased psychological stress.

Preparation and use

1. A couple of teaspoons of dried flowers are poured into a glass of boiling water.
2. Infuse the product for 15 minutes.
3. Drink the strained infusion half an hour before your intended bedtime.

Cautions before use

When planning to start treatment with serviceberry or simply eat the berries, it is important to become familiar with the side effects that the berry may exhibit.

• Effect on blood. Irga helps thin the blood. If you have bleeding disorders and a tendency to bleed, eating berries can cause hemorrhages. The berry is contraindicated for patients with hemophilia.
• Effect on pressure. Irga helps eliminate spasms of blood vessels and expand their lumens, which can cause a decrease in pressure. In hypotensive patients it may be excessive.
• Effect on the gastrointestinal tract. The astringent properties of the berry are undesirable if you are prone to constipation, as well as during pregnancy. Patients who have problems with stool should consume the fruits very carefully.
• Effect on the central nervous system.

According to doctors, vitamin berries can be given to children as young as one year old. Nursing mothers should avoid eating irgi during the first months of breastfeeding. Contraindications for serviceberry berries include individual sensitivity reactions.

Other benefits of the plant

Serviceberry bushes are very popular in gardening. At any time of the year, this plant will delight its owners: in spring – with snow-white flowers, in summer – with bright fruits, in autumn – with colorful orange-red foliage. Gardeners note the only harm of serviceberry - the rapid growth of root shoots, which the owners will have to regularly fight to maintain the shape of the plantings.

It is enough to know the benefits of serviceberry berries in order to appreciate the need to have such a plant in your garden or summer cottage. The owners will be pleased not only with the benefits, but also with the luxurious appearance of the plant, many variations of its use for health, as well as the pleasant taste of ripe fruits.

An adult shadberry is a fairly large bush, consisting of a large number of thin branches growing from the ground. It bears fruit abundantly every year. Ripens in the second half of summer. The berry is dark blue in color with a bluish coating, sweet, honey-like taste.

Another name for the berry is currant. The largest specimens reach one or even one and a half centimeters in diameter. When using irgu, you need to know beneficial features this berry and contraindications to its use.

What is irga and how is it useful?

Irga is useful to strengthen blood vessels, it can be used for prevention and treatment varicose veins and atherosclerosis. The berries contain carotene, which is a powerful antioxidant and has the property of strengthening the immune system. The pectins contained in shadberry help remove harmful substances from the body, including cholesterol. The berry has a slight sedative effect. And you also need to remember that serviceberry berries lower blood pressure. The fruits can be eaten fresh, from the bush for prevention, as a vitamin remedy that can strengthen the body.

• Serviceberry berries can be eaten fresh, and also retain their beneficial properties well in various preparations, dried, or frozen.
• The berries are used to prepare compotes, make jams, marmalades and marmalades, store them in candied form, and even make wine. Below you will find several universal recipes for preparing these fruits.

Blanks. Irga: recipes for preparing fruits for the winter

Preparing juice from serviceberry for the winter

To prepare juice, you must first prepare the berries in a special way. To do this, place the collected clean berries indoors and keep them at room temperature for about a week. Dried in this way, the berries will release their juice more easily. Strain the squeezed juice, then boil and pour into a sterile container.

How to make compote for the winter - recipe

To prepare compote, which we plan to store all winter, you need to take slightly unripe berries. Clear them of debris and rinse. Then pour boiling water over or heat for about two minutes. Place the prepared berries in jars.

Let's prepare the syrup. To do this, take 350 grams of sugar for each liter of water. Bring the syrup to a boil, stirring constantly and skimming off the foam.

Next step. Pour boiling syrup over the arranged and pre-prepared berries and sterilize. Half a liter is enough to sterilize for 5 minutes. We roll up the jars with the workpiece and cool it at room temperature, then put it in a dark, dry place for storage.

Saskatoon jam for the winter - recipe

Jam can be prepared in different ways. From serviceberry alone and with various fillings and additives such as various citrus fruits or other berries and fruits.

By experimenting with flavors, you may find optimal combinations various products yourself.

So, for the simplest jam recipe we need berries, sugar and water.

For each kilogram of fruit, take the same amount of sugar and 300 ml of water.

The first step for this recipe, as usual, is to prepare the serviceberry berries, clean them of debris and sticks, rinse them and put them in a separate saucepan, in which we will use them later boil with syrup.

Then we need to boil the sugar syrup. To do this, add sugar to boiling water and cook with constant stirring until the sugar is completely dissolved. Pour boiling syrup over the berries and cook, stirring for 5 minutes, remove from heat, and cool. We repeat this technique at least three times. Pour the finished jam into pre-prepared jars.

When cooking jam using the method described above, the product may become “candied” after a while; if you want to store the jam for a long time and you don’t like “candied” jam, at the end of cooking, add citric acid on the tip of a teaspoon.

But serviceberry jam prepared according to the following recipe is guaranteed to remain in its original form for a long time.

Saskatoon jam with lemon - recipe

As usual, prepare the berries first. Place the fruits in a large enamel or other container suitable for making jam and add water.

Place on the fire and let the mixture boil. Then you need to close the container and cook the berries over medium heat for half an hour. Make sure that the mixture does not burn.

At the next stage of preparing delicious jamberry jam with filling (lemon), we need to add sugar to the prepared mass and, stirring, cook for another half hour.

In the final stage of this recipe, we need to add lemon to the prepared jam. To do this, wash and chop the fruit. You can do this to your taste; some people like it when there are larger pieces in a homogeneous mass, while others only need taste and aroma. In the latter case, it is better to grind the lemon using a meat grinder or blender into a paste.

• Boil the jam with lemon for some more time, determining the readiness of the product by its thickness.
• You can check by dropping the jam into the water; if the drop does not spread but remains at the bottom, the jam is ready.

For this jam you need to take one and a half kilograms of berries, 700 grams of sugar, 200 grams of water and one lemon.

You can also make jam, jam, confiture from shadberry

Recipe for homemade wine lovers. Wine from serviceberry

You need to extract the juice from the berries according to the first recipe. That is, pre-cooked berries, peeled and dried at room temperature for a week, then the shadberry will easily release all the juice.

Our juice is ready, now let’s dissolve the sugar in warm water, stir the syrup well until completely dissolved and let it cool. Mix cold sugar syrup with serviceberry juice. Place the mixture in a cool, dark place for at least three months. Let's strain and you can taste homemade wine from serviceberry using this simple and affordable recipe!

Irga is an incredibly tasty and healthy berry, but many people don’t know what can be prepared from it after processing it for preservation for the winter. Today I will introduce you to recipes for preparations. There are a lot of them: jam, jam, sweet wine and liqueur, juice, jelly, ground with sugar. If you want, just freeze or dry it without losing the vitamins.

In recent years, we have begun to grow berries and fruits that are not entirely familiar to us in our gardens. Fresh shadberry is not only a delicacy. By eating heartily during the season, we will normalize our blood pressure, lower our blood sugar, and begin to sleep better. And in winter we will eat delicious desserts, remembering the summer and praising ourselves for our efforts.

Saskatoon jam for the winter - Five-minute recipe

Irga is a friendly berry; it likes any neighborhood. But a particularly successful jam is obtained if you add raspberries and currants, which ripen at the same time. I offer 2 simple recipes for making dessert. If you decide to add other berries, cook any of them, just reduce the amount of serviceberry.

Take:

• Irga - kilogram.
• Water – 300 ml.
• Sugar - kilogram.

How to make delicious jam for the winter:

1. Start cooking by preparing the syrup. Add sugar to water and boil.
2. After the sugar has completely dissolved, discard the shadberry.
3. 5 minutes after the mixture boils, remove from the burner. Cover with a towel and let stand until cool.
4. The classic five-minute one is cooked in several stages. Usually do at least 3 approaches - place the container on the stove, bring it to a boil again, and let the jam cool.

Lemon jam - a simple recipe

If you like unusual recipes, make shadberry jam with lemon.

Required:

• Irga - 1.5 kg.
• Lemon.
• Sugar – 700 gr.
• Water – 200 ml.

1. Place the clean berries in a saucepan, add water, and wait until it boils.
2. Cook for 30 minutes.
3. Add sand to the fruits and stir thoroughly. Continue cooking for another half hour.
4. During this time, finely chop the lemon (optional with the zest). Add to the jam and cook for the last 10 minutes. The dessert will be thick, like jam.

Recipe for delicious jamberry jam

Citric acid will add sourness to the preparations, since the shadberry is too sweet. At the same time, it will become an additional preservative that protects desserts from fermentation and mold.

• Per kilogram of serviceberry 0.5 kg of granulated sugar.
• Citric acid – 3 g.

How to make jam:

1. Chop the fruits with a blender. If you like your jam to contain pieces of berries, crush them with a masher.
2. Add sweetener and stir. Leave on the table for 2-3 hours.
3. Place on the stove, boil the jam to the desired thickness, about 1-1.5 hours.
4. Shortly before the end, add the acid, stir well and remove from the heat.
5. Place in sterile jars and seal.

Compote of serviceberry for the winter

I advise you to take slightly unripe fruits.

Prepare:

• Per liter of water – 350 g. Sahara.

Canning:

1. Blanch the fruits in boiling water for 3-4 minutes. Immediately fill the jars and cover with lids.
2. At the same time, cook the syrup. When it boils and the sweetness has dissolved, pour over the irgu.
3. The workpiece requires sterilization. Place the jars in a pan of hot water. Wait for it to boil.
4. Sterilize 0.5 liter jars for 3-5 minutes. For a liter container, double the time.

Serviceberry juice

How to preserve juice:

1. Spread the berries on a baking sheet in a thin layer. Let it sit in room conditions for 5-7 days. If the room is very hot, move it to the refrigerator.
2. Squeeze the juice in any way possible. Nowadays, if there is no juicer, many people use a press.
3. Remove the pulp and pour the resulting juice into a saucepan.
4. Bring to a boil, distribute into sterile jars and roll under an iron lid.

Wine from serviceberry

If you don’t know what you can make from serviceberry, make wine. The berries are used to make amazingly tasty light alcoholic drinks - wine, vodka liqueurs, liqueurs, liqueurs. I offer you the simplest recipes for preparing food for the winter.

Required:

• Berry juice – liter.
• Water – 2 liters.
• Sugar - kilogram.

How to make wine from serviceberry:

1. First, squeeze the juice out of the serviceberry. Pour, freeing the pulp, into a jar.
2. Dissolve sugar in warm boiled water. Wait until the syrup has cooled completely.
3. Pour the syrup into a jar, shake it and hide it in a dark place.
4. Forget about wine for 3 months. After the expiration date, remove and take a sample. Good luck!

Tincture of shadberry with vodka

The only disadvantage of the tincture prepared according to this recipe is its short shelf life, which is not suitable for winter. The method is good for quick infusion when you need to make an urgent preparation.

Tip: serviceberry is a sweet berry. If you like drinks with sourness, add red currants or a little cherry.

How to infuse vodka:

1. Fill a 3 liter jar with irga.
2. Pour vodka, covering the berries, leave for 2-3 days.
3. After a specified time, you can use it.

Saskatoon liqueur with vodka

I make a lot of infusions using this recipe, using almost all berries except strawberries (I didn’t like the taste). It's easy to drink, makes your head spin, but leaves you clear. But it lifts your mood perfectly, and there are no unpleasant consequences in the morning. If you are interested in the degree, I can’t say for sure, approximately 20-25.

1. Fill the jar with berries, but not to the top, but up to the shoulders. Pour in enough sugar to reach the neck.
2. Pour vodka into the jar. It takes about 700 ml. cover with a lid and hide from yourself in a secluded corner.
3. You will have to wait quite a long time, at least 2 months, developing character. But all expectations will be justified, since the liqueur turns out very tasty.

How to properly freeze shadberry for the winter

Among the recipes for preserving berries for the winter, I highlight freezing. This method has many advantages. Easy to prepare, low labor intensity. And, most importantly, the amount of vitamins and other nutrients will not decrease one iota.

In winter, having taken out the treasured bag, prepare compotes for your pleasure, put them in baked goods, and grind them with sugar.

Procurement process:

1. Wash the berries, be sure to dry them, and remove the stalks.
2. Spread in a thin layer on a baking sheet and place in the freezer. Turn on fast freeze mode.
3. Transfer the frozen sherry into bags and return to the refrigerator.

Fresh shadberry, grated with sugar

We prepare:

1. Grind the berries with a blender. Add granulated sugar at a ratio of 1:1.
2. Stir the mixture and leave it on the table. Stir the mixture periodically so that the sweetness is well dissolved.
3. Place in jars and refrigerate. Or place portions in a bag or container and place in the freezer.

Raisins recipe - a simple recipe for the winter

A good way to prepare shadberry for the winter, preserving maximum benefits. Just like their grape counterpart, raisins are eaten as a snack, added to baked goods and compote.

1. Scatter the clean fruits on a baking sheet and dry in the sun. If you decide to make the product in the oven, then select a temperature of 60 o C. When drying, open the oven door slightly so that the moisture evaporates.
2. Place the dried berries in containers, sprinkling the layers with granulated sugar.

Irga without sugar in its own juice

Irga can be prepared in its own juice, without the use of sugar. To keep the product longer, add an additional preservative – citric acid.

1. Distribute clean and dried fruits into jars.
2. Boil water and pour over the berries. Add 2 grams per liter of boiling water. acids.
3. The workpiece must be sterilized. Liter jar - 20 minutes.

Video recipe for preparing shadberry jam for the winter. Good luck with your preparation! If you know interesting recipes, please share them in the comments, I will be grateful.

Many, quite wrongly, consider this berry to be useless and unclaimed. Irga (recipes for preparing for the winter are very simple and varied). A couple of jars of delicious preserves in the form of jam or a rich drink will definitely not be superfluous.

What can be made from serviceberry for the winter?

Irga canned in any way for the winter does not lose its beneficial qualities. The berry is rich in fiber, pectin and an impressive range of vitamins. Any preparation will become an indispensable assistant in the prevention of colds, strengthening the immune system and controlling blood pressure.

1. Dishes made from serviceberry for the winter are not limited to jam; the berry is rich in pectin, which is why jellies, jams and confiture will turn out thick.
2. The berry goes well with other seasonal fruits, so compotes and juices can be easily varied. The sickly sweet taste is successfully balanced by quince, cherry plum, sour varieties of apples and plums.
3. Recipes from irgi for the winter that do not involve heat treatment are considered the most useful, so making raw jam or freezing will be an ideal option for preserving the berries.

You can make simple jamberry jam for the winter by using any recipe for similar preparations made from other berries. The berry has a bright, sugary-sweet taste, which is why a small amount of sugar is added to the preservation composition. Before cooking the delicacy, cover the shadberry with sugar and wait until the released juice completely covers the berries.

Ingredients:

• irga – 1 kg:
• sugar – 300-400 g.

Preparation

1. Cover the washed berries with sugar and leave for 5-6 hours.
2. Let the jam cook, boil for 5 minutes, cool.
3. Repeat boiling and cooling twice more.
4. Distribute the hot jam into sterilized jars, seal, turn over and place under a warm blanket for self-sterilization.
5. After complete cooling, place in the basement or pantry for storage.

Irga (recipes for preparing it for the winter are very simple) has a rich sweet taste, so preservation can be one-component, but in addition to all its advantages, the berry goes well with other seasonal fruits: apples, pears, and well balances the sweetness of cherry plum. The recipe indicates the amount of ingredients for one 3-liter jar.

Ingredients:

• irga – 400 g;
• sugar – ½ tbsp.;
• citric acid – ¼ tsp;
• cherry plum – 200 g.

Preparation

1. Pour clean shadberry and cherry plum into the jar.
2. Pour boiling water over the contents, cover with a lid and leave for 20 minutes.
3. Pour the water into a saucepan, add sugar, bring to a boil.
4. Throw a lemon into a jar, pour hot syrup, and seal tightly.
5. Turn the jar upside down and place it under a warm blanket for 2-3 days until it cools completely.
6. Place the compote from the serviceberry in the basement or pantry for the winter.

It is not prepared quickly; the delicacy is cooked for a long time in several stages. No more than half of the original volume of berries will remain, but all the effort spent will pay off with interest. You can make jam from whole berries, slightly crushed or twisted through a meat grinder; you should not grind until smooth.

Ingredients:

• irga – 2 kg;
• sugar – 1 kg.

Preparation

1. Wash the berries, crush them a little with a masher, add sugar. Leave the juice to simmer for 4-5 hours.
2. Let it cook, boil for 30 minutes, removing the foam.
3. Repeat the cooking and cooling process until the jam thickens and is reduced by half.
4. Pour into a sterile container, seal tightly, place under a warm blanket until cool, then put in a cool place for storage.

Concentrated juice from serviceberry is squeezed out with a juicer for the winter. If the device is not available, you can use a meat grinder or blender, but in these cases additional grinding through a sieve will be required to get rid of the hard cake. Recipes for preparing irgi for the winter are often simple, so you definitely won’t have any problems preparing a rich drink.

Ingredients:

• irga – 5 kg;
• sugar – 2 tbsp;
• water – 2 l.

Preparation

1. Squeeze juice from berries, without pulp.
2. Add sugar, put on the fire to cook, skim off the foam.
3. After boiling, add water, bring to a boil, cook for 15 minutes.
4. Pour into sterilized glass bottles and seal tightly. Place for self-sterilization under a warm blanket.
5. After 2-3 days, store in a cool place.

Thick jam from serviceberry for the winter is obtained thanks to long-term boiling. The cooking process is repeated 3-5 times, each time cooling the mass for 5 hours. The delicacy will be ready in 2 days, and will thicken to the state of jam only during storage. The berries can be left whole, but it is better to crush them a little so that the skin becomes softer.

Ingredients:

• irga – 2 kg;
• sugar – 1.3 kg;
• water – 500 ml;
• citric acid – ½ tsp.

Preparation

1. Wash the berries and crush them in a bowl with a masher.
2. Boil syrup from water and sugar.
3. Pour the berry mixture into the boiling syrup. Cook for 15 minutes, cool.
4. Repeat the cooking and cooling process, increasing the boiling time to 20 minutes.
5. The jam will boil for the last time for about 30 minutes.
6. Pour into a sterile container and store.

Preserving irgi for the winter is a very rewarding activity. You can make a lot of sweet treats from the berries that kids will appreciate. A tasty, rich jelly will thicken the very next day if you add a gelling component to the composition. You will get a transparent jelly if you remove all the foam that forms in time and simmer the berry mass over low heat.

Ingredients:

• irga – 3 kg;
• sugar – 1 kg;
• gelatin – 50 g;
• water – ½ tbsp.

Preparation

1. Pour hot water over gelatin.
2. Punch the irga with a blender and rub through a sieve.
3. Add sugar, set to cook, remove all foam, boil for 10 minutes.
4. Set aside, pour in gelatin, mix well.
5. Place on low heat and cook without bringing to a boil.
6. Pour into sterilized jars, wait until the product has cooled, and store in the refrigerator.

Fresh shadberry prepared in this way with sugar for the winter will become an indispensable delicacy when served with pancakes or cheesecakes. The confiture is prepared with gelfix and has a very pleasant jelly consistency. The berries can be mashed if desired, but they are perfectly preserved whole. The treat cooks quickly and thickens during cooling and storage.

Ingredients:

• irga – 4 kg;
• sugar – 2 kg;
• Zhelfix 2:1 – 25 g.

Preparation

1. Cover clean berries with sugar and leave for 3-4 hours.
2. Let it cook, bring to a boil, remove the foam, add the gelfix, mix well. Boil for 5 minutes.
3. Pour the still liquid confiture into a sterile container, seal, and store.

Unusually prepared shadberry with sugar for the winter - in its own juice. Often such a recipe does not involve the addition of all kinds of sweeteners, but in this case there is very little sugar in the composition, and it serves more as a preservative than a sweetener. Not the fastest and easiest way to prepare, but a very tasty and healthy preservation option.

Ingredients:

• irga – 1 kg;
• sugar – 1 tbsp.

Preparation

1. Prepare a large saucepan and line the bottom with paper.
2. Place the jars of berries, fill the pan with water so that it reaches the hangers of the jars.
3. When the berries begin to secrete juice, the mass will decrease. You need to pour the shadberry into the jars, filling them up to the shoulders of the container.
4. As soon as the containers are filled with a thick mass, not reaching 1.5 cm from the edges, remove the jars, fill the remaining space with sugar, and seal tightly.
5. Without turning the containers over, place them under a blanket until completely cooled, then move them to the pantry for storage.

Irga pureed with sugar - a recipe for the winter

The most useful preparation is considered to be pureed shadberry with sugar for the winter without cooking. Preserve raw jam with sweetener and store in the refrigerator. If all the rules are followed, such a delicacy will not spoil within a year. From the remaining cake you can cook summer compote, make syrup or vodka.

Ingredients:

• irga – 2 kg;
• sugar – 1.5 kg.

Preparation

1. Wash the irgu and dry thoroughly.
2. Punch with a blender and rub through a sieve.
3. Add sugar, stir and immediately pour into sterilized jars, leaving 2 cm of filling to the rim.
4. Fill the remaining space with granulated sugar, seal with a lid, and put in the refrigerator.

Freezing irgi for the winter can occur in several ways. The puree is prepared, poured into molds, supplemented with sugar or without sweetener. The most common method is cooling whole berries. From such frozen food in winter you can make jam, compote and jelly will turn out excellent. Berries are successfully used as filling and for decorating homemade baked goods.