Do you know why it is imperative to keep fresh blueberries for the winter without boiling with sugar? The berry is amazingly useful. Our ancestors also noted that blueberries improve eyesight, energize the body, and prolong youth. Then they came up with recipes that allow you to make "raw jam" by grinding the berries with sugar and freezing.
With the advent of the refrigerator, it has become quite easy to prepare the fruits of the shrub, since the berries retain all valuable substances in the freezer. And recently, it has been proven that frozen blueberries are even healthier than raw ones.
How to prepare blueberries with sugar without cooking
It is very important to observe the proportions of sugar and blueberries, since the workpiece is not hot processed. That is why, despite the sweetness of the berry, a little more sugar is taken: 1.5 kg per kilogram of blueberries. sweets.
How much sugar per liter of blueberries:
A liter jar usually contains approximately 600 gr. berries, if it is large. Smaller a little more. Here you have to do some math. For every 100 gr. fruits will need 150 gr. granulated sugar. Multiply by 6, you get 900 gr. sand on a jar.
Recipe for mashed blueberries with sugar without cooking for the winter
Take:
- Sugar - 1.5 kg.
- Berries - kilogram.
How to cook:
- Sort the fruits, remove debris and leaves. Rinse well, preferably under running water if the berry is not overripe.
- Be sure to dry by laying out on paper or a towel.
- Chop blueberries with any accessible way. How to wipe a berry? Work with a blender, pusher, pass through a sieve and a meat grinder. I love it when whole berries float in the puree, so I don’t try too hard.
- Pour sweetness into the pan with blueberry puree, stir and go about your business.
- Stir again after an hour. Divide the mass into jars or containers. It is advisable to sterilize jars intended for storage on a refrigerator shelf. You don’t have to roll it up, lately I’ve been using screw caps more often - very convenient.
- Place trays of grated blueberries in the freezer and store all winter.
Blueberries in their own juice with sugar
Plus, the blanks are able to leave the fruits whole. It is very convenient to cook dumplings in winter, stuff bagels, pies and other pastries. Berries without cooking, so they will have to be stored in the freezer. There are no specific proportions in the recipe.
How to freeze:
- Fill the jar up to the shoulders. Pour as much sugar on top as you like.
- Leave for a few hours. Depending on the juiciness, blueberries will give juice after 2-4 hours.
- Divide into trays and stack in the freezer. Blueberries frozen in this way are stored for up to 2 years.
Blueberries grated with strawberries and sugar without cooking
The berries ripen at the same time, and they are usually harvested together. I feel sorry for wasting time sorting and sharing fruits with strawberries. Therefore, I often prepare them together. According to the recipe, you can make a blank with raspberries, forest or garden.
- Blueberries and strawberries - 1 kg.
- Sugar - 1 kg.
How to prepare:
- Rinse the berries carefully, as strawberries are an extremely delicate berry. Spread on a sheet of paper, a napkin, so that the glass is excess moisture.
- Wipe in any way, sprinkle the puree with sugar.
- Stir, cover and hold for a couple of hours. Stir contents periodically.
- During this time, sterilize the lids and jars.
- When the sugar is completely dissolved, place in a container. Sprinkle a layer of sugar on top (the original recipe uses powdered sugar) - this is an additional preservative. Roll up and send to the pantry for the winter.
Video recipe for harvesting blueberries for the winter without cooking with sugar. Good luck with your preparations and winter tea parties.
Blueberry picking season is in full swing. Experienced berry growers boast: every summer they take it out of the forest in buckets and earn decently on the sale. Some repay the loan for berry earnings, others go to the seas, and still others manage to collect for their children to study at the university. The R correspondent left her comfortable office and went to the forest: she found out how many blueberries can be harvested in a day, how much a berry is now, and whether it is easy to get rich in such a business.
Berry to berry
Experienced buttocks assure that they know the local forest like the back of their hand. Indeed, after a couple of minutes we chose a clearing rich in the treasured berry.
Author's photo
In the forests of the Shchuchinsky region, as well as in Polissya, there are many "blueberry barons". You go into the forest in the morning with the first roosters, and they are already dragging several buckets of berries on a bicycle. Rest and fight again. The locals teach me, a beginner, to go for wild plants as early as possible, otherwise everyone will be chosen - only twigs with leaves will remain.
The alarm clock rings at 4.30. We leave in half an hour, not later: it is very hard to work under the scorching sun. Lyudmila and Galina kindly agree to become my guides - experienced buttocks assure that they know these places like the back of their hand. Indeed, after a couple of minutes we chose a clearing rich in the treasured berry. While I rejoice with joy, my colleagues lament - the harvest is modest, but richer than last season:
In 2017, blueberries froze, and in this dry weather did not allow the berries to pour enough juice - the forest does not indulge again. But there are still berries, if you know the place.
And we find the right clearings easily: in a couple of hours I fill my three-liter can. The interlocutors are pulling ahead - they already have 5 kg of blueberries! Sports interest makes me work faster, but with a prerequisite: to pick the berries only by hand. There are several reasons: if you use a special harvester - you can get a serious fine, and also a scoop for picking berries can destroy a bush - next season it will be bald and dry. However, neither one nor the other scares the woman who comes our way. She continues the lightning-fast "harvest" of blueberries and explains:
While you are neatly folding the berry to the berry, I will clean the bush in five seconds!
We decide not to follow a bad example. At a normal pace, each of us collects about 1.5 kg of berries in 1 hour. We work with short breaks for almost the whole day - each has 15 kg. Fatigue takes its toll. Resolved: turn around.
Now there are a lot of blueberries in the seasonal markets. Sellers compete, but prices are not in a hurry to reduce. On average, a black berry costs 6.5 rubles per liter.
Road is more expensiveBlueberries appeared not only in the forests, but also in the markets. I'm going to explore: to find out how much a black berry is now. At the counters, the mood is improving: the price tags are normal, which means that the “hunchback” was not in vain. For 1 kg of wild plants, sellers ask for an average of 6.5 rubles. I strike up a conversation with an avid buttock who, in addition to buckets of blueberries, is given out by burgundy fingers on his hands. Teresa, as she appears, is often chosen for berry plantations:
First, I collect blueberries for myself: for jam, compotes and freezing for all family members. When stocks for the winter replenished, I collect for sale. With my daughter, we usually collect two buckets of 8 kg. It is more profitable to stand on the market, but you can also sell a berry.
Sellers are divided: blueberries are accepted by both raipo stores and home purveyors, private traders. The purchase price on average ranges from 3 to 4 rubles per 1 kg. It turns out that theoretically for 15 kg of berries I can get 52 rubles or more. So we decide to do with my forest prey - literally in 15 minutes I find my buyer. It was not difficult: during the season, announcements about picking berries in the countryside are pasted on almost every pole and fence. You choose a profitable money offer and go there with buckets.
Lyudmila, with whom I picked an equal number of berries in a day, decides to sell them on the market. It didn't take long to go through the analysis and book a place. But it required money: for a radiation test, she gave half a liter of berries and almost 3 rubles, the counter on the popular row cost 4 rubles.
Come try it for free! - unexpectedly for me, a colleague shouted to the whole market. - Buy it, you won't regret it! Only a kind word will be remembered!
In general, he trades skillfully - people stop at our counter, are interested in the price. Half-liter cups of blueberries for 3 rubles were snapped up the fastest. But by the end of the day, liter cans were also gone - some were sold for 6, others for 7 rubles.
They did not get rich, but they earned decently, - we conclude by calculating the profit. - If we subtract the costs of organizing a market place, 90 rubles per 15 kg of berries come out clean.
You haven't earned much yet, newcomers, - the seller at the next counter grins. She sells raspberries, but she knows all the subtleties about blueberries. - I have a friend who earns up to 4 thousand rubles during the berry season. True, he is cunning: he picks berries with a combine harvester, collects from 20 kg per day in such a barbaric way.
During the experiment, I briefly felt like a businessman, but there is little joy from such revenue: I worked for ten hours, and now I just want to lie down and relax. For the sake of interest, I found out how much profit that day was received by a woman who harvested blueberries with a combine. In just half a day, she collected 15 kg of berries and sold them near the highway - she received 120 rubles in profit.
To trade the gifts of the forest in the market, you need to have a certificate of passed fluorography, pass blueberries for analysis (it does not take much time), after which you can rent a counter.
mushroom themeDespite the complaints of many berry growers about the poor harvest, scientists are not so pessimistic. The situation with the gifts of nature is commented by Tatyana Moiseeva, a researcher at the Forest Institute of the National Academy of Sciences:
There are no disasters this year. Last season, things were much worse: due to frosts, blueberries did not have time to bloom and set fruits. This spring has been warm. Then the drought gave way to heavy rains. In many districts of the Minsk and Grodno regions for the first half of July, a monthly rainfall fell, and in the Brest region - almost two monthly norms. There are blueberries in our forests, but you will not find a good harvest everywhere. Large berries can be found in swampy areas, in a pine forest the berries are smaller. Warm rainy weather was in the country this week as well.
Tatyana Moiseeva notes: if not for the long-awaited downpours, the blueberry bushes would dry up.
Yes, and cranberries could turn yellow and leave us without a crop. But the weather was kind - there should be a lot of these berries. The same with lingonberries. True, in last years you will meet this berry more in the northern part of the country. There are very few lingonberries in the Gomel region.
Those who actively earn on the gifts of the forest may not worry about the mushroom harvest. There were heavy rains, the soil was well wetted. If this continues, mushroom pickers will rejoice in August and September. Tatyana Moiseeva is reassuring: already now in the forests there are porcini mushrooms, boletus, boletus, chanterelles, russula, summer mushrooms. According to forecasts, there will be a lot of mushrooms in autumn. So, the market price will not go off scale. By the way, today in the popular Minsk seasonal market, a kilogram of blueberries costs 6-7 rubles, wild blueberries - 8-9 rubles, a bucket of chanterelles and boletuses - 12 and 10 rubles, respectively.
Table of measures and weights for cooking. Product volumes are measured in glasses, tablespoons and teaspoons.
| Products | Glass or cup | Tablespoon | Tea spoon |
| Sugar / powdered sugar | 230 / 180 | 25 / 25 | 10 / 10 |
| Flour | 160 | 25 | 8 |
| Potato starch. / corn flour | 200 / 160 | 30 / 30/ 10 | 10 |
| Water | 250 | 18 | 5 |
| Milk: regular / condensed / powdered | 255 / – / 120 | 18 / 30 / 20 | – / 12 /5 |
| Cottage cheese / cream / sour cream 10% / mayonnaise | 250 | 17 / 14 / 18 / 15 | 5 / 5 / 5 / 4 |
| Butter: plum.melted/vegetable | 230 / 230 | 17 / 20 | 5 / 5 |
| tomato paste | 220 | 25 | 8 |
| Vinegar | 250 | 15 | 5 |
| Soda | – | 28 | 12 |
| Lemon acid | – | 25 | 8 |
| Salt | 325 | 30 | 10 |
| Cocoa | – | 25 | 10 |
| Cinnamon | – | 20 | 8 |
| Ground coffee | – | 20 | 7 |
| Poppy | 150 | 18 | 6 |
| Raisin | 190 | 25 | 7 |
| Hazelnuts, almonds (kernels) / peanuts (kernels) | 170 / 175 | 30 / 25 | 10 / – |
| Honey | – | 30 | 8 |
| Liquor | – | 20 | 7 |
| Juice, compote | 250 | 18 | 5 |
| Berry puree | 350 | 50 | 17 |
| Jam | 330 | 50 | 17 |
| Cherry / strawberry / currant | 190 / 150 / 180 | 30 / 25 / 30 | – |
| Oat flakes (herules) / corn | 90 / 50 | 30 / 17 | 12 / 2 |
| Rice, barley / buckwheat / millet | 230 / 210 / 220 | 25 | 8 |
| Manka | 200 | 25 | 8 |
| Shelled peas / beans / lentils | 230 / 220 / 210 | 12 / 15 / 12 | – |
| Breadcrumbs / egg powder | 125 / 100 | 25 | 5 / 10 |
| Dry yeast | – | – | 5 |
How to use the table of measures of weight and volume
In the recipes posted on the site, a glass = 250 g of water (it is also called a “thin tea glass”).
I measure with simple tea cups of the same capacity. I didn’t give a measure of the weight of products in a faceted glass (= 200 g of water), I suggest using the same ordinary tea cup, focusing on the approximate consistency and basic principles of cooking, on the proportions and idea of \u200b\u200bthe dish, which are described in each recipe posted on site.
The weight of the product is indicated in a glass filled to the top, and in spoons - at the maximum possible filling (up to the brim for liquid, with a slide for dry and viscous).
Dry products such as flour and starch should be poured into a measuring dish with a spoon - with light movements.
If you begin to scoop up, voids will appear between the flour waves and you will not get the desired volume, but will tamp it down - the weight of the product will increase, therefore, the consistency of the dish will change.
If you plan to sift flour, first measure the right amount, and then do the sifting.
Other useful proportions
1. How many berries are in 1 liter (in a liter jar)
In a container with a volume of 1 liter is placed, on average:
- liter meadow strawberry - wild strawberry- 400 g;
- liter garden strawberry- about 600 g;
- liter raspberries or blackberries(kumaniki) - 600 g;
- liter cherries or cherries- 800 g;
- liter currants black, red, white - about 700-750 g;
- liter gooseberry- 840-850 g;
- liter sh Christmas trees(mulberry) - 780-800 g;
- liter blueberries- 800 g;
- liter cranberries- 580-600
What container contains 1 kg of berries
1 kg of berries different types fits in containers (jars, glasses, pots, basins) of the following size:
- meadow (field) strawberries, wild strawberries - 2.5 liters;
- garden strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, cranberries - 1.5 liters + almost a full glass;
- cherry, sweet cherry, blueberry, mulberry (mulberry) - 1 liter + glass;
- currants are different, approximately - 1.5 liters or a little less;
- gooseberries - 1 liter + 1 glass with a top.
The weight of all berries and the volumes they occupy are given approximately. No one knows what kind of berries you picked and how you laid the berries. But according to these guidelines, it is convenient to cook all jams and compotes if you do not have scales.
2. How to make table vinegar from 70% vinegar essence 6% - 9% and 3%
Follow the instructions on the bottle of vinegar essence - 70% acetic acid
The proportions of vinegar essence (acid) to obtain vinegar
- 3% vinegar: 1:22 \u003d 1 part essence diluted in 22 parts water (1 tablespoon of acid in 22 tablespoons of water);
- 6% vinegar - 1:11 = 1 part essence to 11 parts water;
- 9% vinegar - 1:7 = 1 part essence dissolved in 7 parts water.
3. How to replace sugar with powdered sugar in a recipe
If the weight of sugar is given in the recipe, then you need the same amount of powder by weight.
We proceed from the weight of the product. From 100 g of sugar you get 100 g of powdered sugar (but it will be larger in volume). I.e. more powder will come out of 1 glass of sugar, it will not fit back into the same glass. Therefore, if the recipe is converted into glasses, then more powder will be required in this measurement. And if in grams (by weight), then as much as sugar.
- In 1 glass (in a container equal to 250 ml of water) \u003d 230 g of sugar or 180 g of powdered sugar.
How much powdered sugar comes out of 1 cup of sugar
From 1 cup of sugar (this is 230 g) you get 230 g of powdered sugar.
- If the recipe says 1 cup of sugar, then you need to take, approximately, 1.5 cups powdered sugar.
- If the recipe contains 1 cup of powder, then you need, approximately, 4/5 cup sugar.
