Bird cherry flour - what can be prepared from it?

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Unpretentious savage bird cherry is considered a Slavic symbol. She is sung in verses and pictures, always excites with fragrant color and pleases with taste. The bactericidal, anti-inflammatory, vitamin, tonic properties of this plant are well known.

On grocery counters and windows of he alth food stores, you can almost always see small bags with the inscription "Bird cherry flour". For some, their contents are exotic and unknown, while for others, they are a kind greeting from childhood.

He althy treat

Flour from bird cherry is the berries of this tree dried and ground together with seeds. It has a dark color, the smell of amaretto and a sweet, slightly astringent taste. This is a he althy and tasty product, rich in vitamins, trace elements, tannins.

At home, bird cherry flour is obtained with a good mill - hard bones of dried berries are difficult to grind - coffee grinder knives may suffer.

Like whole berries, bird cherry flour is used to make jelly, liqueurs, vitamin drinks, it is good to make the basis for cakes, rolls, gingerbread and stuffing for sweet pies.

Siberian pie

For many Siberians, onefrom childhood memories - an open pie made from yeasty pastry with a thick layer of bird cherry filling, smeared on top with thick rustic sour cream with sugar. A porous, egg-yellow base, a thick dark purple berry mass and white creamy tenderness gradually colored by it - an amazing dessert pleased the eye and asked to be in the mouth!

Siberians harvested and dried bird cherry in large quantities and took it to the mill to be ground.

Pie made from bird cherry flour, baked on a large baking sheet, could be stored and even frozen for future use, just spread with sour cream when serving.

He althy recipes

We are starting to revise and change most of the usual recipes for sweets, motivating this not only by the high cost of products, but also in order to reduce calorie content or to cook in fasting.

So, yeast dough in milk, with lots of eggs, butter and sugar, is, of course, delicious. But you can try other recipes. Bird cherry flour is great for these purposes.

Lean yeast cake

For the dough, sift 450 grams of flour, dissolve 20 g of pressed yeast (or 8 grams of dry) in 250 ml of warm water, add 1/3 teaspoon of s alt, 2-3 tablespoons of sugar (you can increase the amount to 0, 5 glasses). When the yeast disperse and rise with a "cap", add flour and add a few tablespoons of vegetable oil.

Knead the dough, cover, let rise. Roll on oppositelifting at the sides.

(The same dough with less sugar can be used for meatless buns and pies with any savory fillings: cabbage, potatoes, fish, mushrooms and even pickles!)

For the filling, bird-cherry flour is brewed with a small amount of hot water or milk. Sugar may not be added. Put the thickened filling on the dough in a layer 1-2 centimeters thick, bake at 180 degrees until the sides of the dough are browned.

For fudge, grind sugar into powder, drop a little lemon juice and add boiling water with a spoon until a mass is obtained that can be spread or applied in the form of a grid on the cooled filling.

For such a cake you need at least a glass of ground bird cherry.

If you have a bag weighing 50 grams, you can make a variation of the American "Crazy Cake", taking bird cherry instead of cocoa.

Light black cake

For him you need to take:

• 300 g flour;
• 150 g sugar (less possible);
• 50g bird cherry flour;
• 0.5 tsp soda;
• a pinch of s alt.

Mix dry ingredients. Add:

• 200 ml water (juice or milk);
• 50-100ml refined vegetable oil.

Mix well, pour into a mold, bake until tender (check with a toothpick).

Piece flour cake can be cut into two layers and glued togethersour cream whipped with sugar. Refrigerate for a few hours to soak.

Top the finished cake with fondant or sprinkle with powdered sugar. Enjoyment guaranteed!

Bird cherry roll with curd filling

Delicate, fragrant, black and white roll will please any sweet tooth.

For it you need to beat 2 eggs with 100 grams of sugar and 200 grams of sour cream, add 50-60 grams of bird cherry flour and a pinch of soda.

Pour in 100 grams of flour, mix quickly and pour the dough onto a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Flatten and bake for 12-15 minutes. It is important not to overdry.

Use soft cottage cheese with cream and powdered sugar, cream cheese or sweet curd mass as a filling.

Spread the baked biscuit and gently roll up the roll. Decorate with fondant, powdered sugar and/or coconut flakes.

Raw jam

And you can also make raw jam from bird cherry, but this will have to work hard.

It is the crushed seeds that give this jam a piquant taste, although such a consistency may seem rough to an unaccustomed person.

Scroll the berries at least twice through a meat grinder, using first a large and then a small grate. If desired, you can additionally rub through a sieve to remove large fragments of the bones. Then mix with equal or slightly more sugar, mix well and arrange in jars. Store jam in a cool place.

Dense viscous massGood on its own and as a topping. You can make fruit drink or jelly out of it.

Unfairly forgotten, but useful products are gradually returning to our lives, giving pleasant memories and helping to maintain he alth. Among them, bird cherry flour occupies a worthy place.