How to make hawthorn compote?

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

Many housewives store he althy canned food for the winter - jam, compotes and others. These products are not only tasty treats, but also allow you to get a boost from vitamins, minerals and other useful substances during the cold season. For example, hawthorn compote. It is easy to make, and the necessary ingredients for this can be found at hand. And the result will be useful both for colds and other diseases, and just as a delicious drink.

Plant "Hawthorn"

The hawthorn plant is medicinal, and useful substances are contained not only in its red fruits, but also in the leaves. Due to the presence of elements such as vitamins C and P, minerals and organic acids, choline, trimethylamine, flavonoids and others, this natural medicine is used as a strengthening and regenerating agent for the followingdiseases:

• heart disease: arrhythmias and others;
• disorders in the vascular system;
• diseases of the gallbladder and liver.

And the content of pectin in leaves and fruits allows the use of hawthorn (there are various recipes) for poisoning the body with heavy metals.

Cooking Methods

This healing agent can be used both in its raw form (just fruits), and in various decoctions and tinctures. You can also prepare hawthorn compote with other fruits, such as apples.

For this you will need the following products:

• medium-sized apples (about 9 pieces);
• hawthorn fruit (500 g);
• drinking water (9 l);
• sugar (1 kg).

Hawthorn compote can be made by following a series of steps.

1. Preparation of apples. They need to be washed, spoiled places and stalks removed, then divided into slices, while cutting off the inner part with seeds.
2. Preparation of hawthorn. Remove the stalks from the fruit, wash and, if possible, divide in half.
3. Preparing the syrup. Boil water in a saucepan, add sugar and keep on fire for about 3 minutes.
4. Main work. Put apples and hawthorn into sterilized glass containers, pour hot syrup over and seal the container.
5. Put the jars of compote to cool, while they need to be turned over on the lids.

Other recipes

Compote from hawthorn can be prepared in another way, for this you need to peel and cut the fruits of this plant (500 g) into halves, then, after clearing the seeds, put them in prepared glass containers. Pour in a pre-prepared syrup of water (1 l), citric acid (5 g) and sugar (400 g). Hold the jars in a water bath (approximately 85 ° C) for about 30 minutes, then roll up the lids.

Jam is also good from hawthorn. A recipe from the fruits of this plant with apples is known, the main points of which are presented below.

1. Peel the apples and divide into slices, remove the cotyledons.
2. Hawthorn needs to be de-seeded.
3. Sprinkle all the ingredients with sugar and let it brew until the juice is released, while the ratio of all components is 1:1:1.
4. The process of cooking jam consists of several stages. First, the mass is heated to a boil and boiled at low heat for about 5 minutes. After 8 hours, these actions are repeated, while the mass should acquire viscosity and a rich taste. The hot mass is laid out in a prepared container and corked.

Cooking hawthorn does not require much effort, and you can make various preparations from this useful product. The use of this healing agent will enrich the body with vitamins and other necessary elements during the cold period and protect against the occurrence of colds and other ailments.