Jerky cranberries

In our latitudes, cranberries are not uncommon berry, which is distinguished by a rich bright red color and an incomparable sweet-sour taste. It is customary to prepare a lot of delicious and unusually healthy dishes from it. Fresh cranberries have a very long shelf life, so you can enjoy these berries for a long time. In addition, often hostesses harvest juicy cranberry berries for future use, freezing or drying them. By the way, as an option, cranberries are often cured.

Cured cranberries are specially dried cranberry berries. Not only is it a great dessert decoration, but it's also a flavoursome tea supplement. In addition to the fact that jerky cranberries are often used as an independent product, they are also added to baking as a substitute for raisins or candied fruits. Many people like to cook on the basis of these fragrant fruit fruit berries, compotes, kvass, extracts and jelly. The calorie content of dried cranberries is about 308 kcal per 100 grams of berries.

If you want to make jerky cranberries yourself, you need to carefully approach even the preparatory process. The best period for acquiring or harvesting fresh cranberries is considered the end of September. It is recommended to choose shiny, plump and intensely colored berries. Without regret, wrinkled and soft berries are removed, as well as brown cranberries. In fact, good cranberries are very resilient: when checking for quality, berries should jump back like a ball.

To prepare cured cranberries, in addition to the berries themselves, you need 2 more ingredients - a small amount of water and granulated sugar. Clean fresh berries are poured with sugar syrup and boiled until they crawl. At the next stage, the berries are laid on parchment in a uniform layer and in this form at a temperature of 60 degrees for three hours sluggish in the oven. Then the paper changes and the process continues for about 4-6 hours.

Finished jerky cranberries are perfectly stored, while not losing their qualities. By the way, in addition to excellent gastronomic advantages, the useful properties of cured cranberries are also important. For example, in folk medicine, this product is recommended for diseases of the liver, kidneys and pancreas. In a positive way, its use also affects hypertension, Adisson's disease, fever, ascites, diatheses, metabolic disorders, as well as diseases of a rheumatoid nature.

Other useful properties of jerky cranberries are also known. In particular, it has been proven that this healing product has antipyretic, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, hypotensive, antisclerotic and anti-inflammatory actions. In addition, substances in the composition of berries have a positive effect on water-salt metabolism, stimulate the activity of the pancreas and adversely affect cholera vibrio.