Berries - a real storehouse of vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Now the season of strawberries, strawberry, raspberry, soon podospeyut currants, gooseberries. How to prepare them for the winter, while maintaining all the beneficial properties?
Many housewives are harvested in the winter varietyjamand jams, but in a revised form berries lose most of its beneficial properties. We invite you to freeze berries and enjoy them and use all year round.
Choose and prepare berries.Try to choose the best for freezing fresh berries, perfect if they just ripped from the bush. Whole fruit will not have time to put the juice and can be frozen completely. Berries should be washed, it is better to do it in durshlake or sieve under running water so that it just flowed. Rostik and remove cuttings, dry the berries, spread them on a towel.
Pre-freeze.Take the pan from the refrigerator or conventional baking parchment and lay the laid strawberries, raspberries and strawberries in one layer. Send in the freezer for 3-4 hours. When the berries are firm, they can be shifted to a special container or zip package for freezing.
Such packages are reusable and very convenient to use, easy to open and close. Berries that are allowed juice and hurting, too, can be frozen. Kill them in a blender, add sugar if desired, pour into molds for ice and freeze. Frozen mash remove from the mold, to shift the container or the bag and place in a freezer for storage. Such fruit "cubes" ideally added in porridge or yogurt, as well as pastries.
Currants, blueberries and cranberries can be frozen immediately in batches, simply carefully go, wash and dry the berries.
Storage conditions.Frozen berries should be stored in a freezer at a temperature of -18 degrees, about 8-12 months. The main thing to avoid thawing and re-do not freeze. Defrost the berries in the refrigerator is necessary.
This method of storing fruits are very convenient and trouble-free, compared with boiling jam or drying, and good taste and much more!
Also be sure to ask about how to eat strawberries, not to harm the health of
