33 secrets of harvesting for the winter "golden berry" - sea buckthorn

In autumn. The radiant sunny berry, strewn with long branches of fragile-looking trees and shrubs, leaves no doubt: it was born for joy and health! Nature has invested so many vitamins and nutrients in each golden drop-berry that, in terms of its healing effects, sea buckthorn has long taken its “golden” place on the pedestal of world healing honor.

If sea buckthorn is already winking at you with its orange eye - it's time, it's time to open personal branches of a natural pharmacy, replenishing stocks of vitamin compotes, juices and jams! And we have a couple of the best recipes for you in secret ... Only no one else!

If you have a lot of sea buckthorn, you should definitely try to keep at least part of it in its natural form and cook as many different preparations as possible - after all, a useful variety is always better than monotony, even useful) And if there are not many berries, you will surely find something in our selection what you like best. Well, if you have not yet managed to decorate your site with this beautiful and useful culture, articles and will help you make a decision.

How to store sea buckthorn berries

Sea buckthorn berries are very useful to keep in their natural form, they perfectly retain their healing properties and all vitamins. This can be done in several ways.

In the cold

Cut sprigs of sea buckthorn with berries are easy to hang or lay out in one layer in a room with a temperature of 0 to +4°C. Under such conditions, sea buckthorn can be stored until spring. The method is very convenient in that it does not require time for processing, and the result is excellent.

in sugar

Sea buckthorn berries, covered with sugar in a ratio of 1: 1, are perfectly stored. Keep them in the refrigerator at +4°C. In winter, berries are used to make compotes, fruit drinks and drinks.

Dried

For drying, the berries must be harvested before frost, when the skin is still intact and has not burst from the cold. The berries should be washed and dried, laid out in one layer on flat surfaces (plywood, baking sheets) and dried in the shade (not in the sun). They are dried at home - in special dryers or in an oven at a temperature of +40 ... +45 ° С or with the help of infrared heaters.

In water

Surprisingly, the sea buckthorn crop can be stored in water for a long time. To do this, simply pour the berries of today's assembly with boiled water at room temperature in a sterilized glass jar, close the lid and put in the refrigerator, where they store at a temperature of + 4 ° C. The berries are not pre-washed.

in the freezer

Sea buckthorn berries are not afraid of frost, and it can be harvested after the onset of stable frosts. It is simple and profitable to store sea buckthorn in frozen form: put it in plastic bags or containers and quickly freeze it.

Sea buckthorn keeps well frozen

And in winter, get a handful of berries - and in compote or tea. Very fast, convenient, tasty and healthy!

Sea buckthorn blanks

A huge number of blanks are made from sea buckthorn berries, both “live” - without heat treatment, and with it. Moreover, it is surprising: the vast majority of vitamins and healing properties are preserved even during heat treatment. But you need to pay attention that when harvesting sea buckthorn, sterilization is not used - only pasteurization! They differ in the impact temperature: during pasteurization it does not exceed +85...+90°С. Let's start with the "raw blanks".

raw jam

"Raw" jam is one of the most sparing harvesting methods for the vitamin composition. Raw - means not subjected to heat treatment (it is also called "cold").

• sea ​​buckthorn berries - 1 kg;
• sugar - 1.3 kg.

Recipe:

1. Mix the washed and dried (on a napkin, towel) berries with an equal amount (by weight) of sugar and place in sterilized jars by 3/4 of the volume.
2. Pour the remaining sugar on top of the berries to the very edge of the jar, close the lid and refrigerate.

Such a blank will be stored in the refrigerator for more than a year. Gradually, all the sugar will dissolve, and the jam will preserve all the healing properties and the beautiful orange color of fresh berries.

Pureed sea buckthorn

For cooking you will need:

• sea ​​buckthorn berries - 1 kg;
• sugar - 1.0-1.5 kg.

Recipe:

1. Mix ripe, washed and dried berries with sugar and crush (grind) with a wooden pestle.
2. Place the resulting sea buckthorn-sugar mass in prepared jars, cover with paper on top, and press the lids on top of the paper. Store in refrigerator or cellar.

Wiping sea buckthorn with sugar is a great solution

Sea buckthorn can be wiped with other ingredients - for example, with apples or hawthorn. Then, after boiling apples (blanching hawthorn berries), they are ground and mixed with ground sea buckthorn berries. Such blanks must be pasteurized for 20 minutes (for 0.5 liter cans) and 25-30 minutes (for 1 liter cans) so that they can be stored for a long time.

Recipe for sea buckthorn mashed with apples:

• ground sea buckthorn - 1 kg;
• grated apples - 0.4 kg;
• sugar - 0.6-0.7 kg.

Recipe for sea buckthorn mashed with hawthorn berries:

• mashed sea buckthorn - 1 kg;
• Pureed hawthorn - 0.6 kg;
• sugar - 0.5 kg.

Sea buckthorn juice

Juice from sea buckthorn berries is prepared by direct pressing of crushed berries or by passing them through a juicer. Depending on preference, it can be made with or without pulp, with or without sugar.

The composition of sea buckthorn juice is a whole pantry of health. It includes many valuable unsaturated fatty acids, more than 10 vitamins, 15 important trace elements, and for all that, its calorie content is quite small - 52 kcal. Tell me, who does not need such a life-giving drink? And besides, making juice from sea buckthorn is not such a complicated procedure.

Sea buckthorn juice-wonderful healing drink

Recipe 1: "Juice without sugar"

For cooking you will need:

• sea ​​buckthorn (berries) - 1 kg;
• water - 0.35 l.

Recipe:

1. Grind or rub sea buckthorn berries and squeeze well.
2. Put the resulting juice in the cold, and knead (grind) the squeezes again, add warm (+40 ° C) water at the rate of 1/3 of the squeeze mass, mix, insist for 20-30 minutes and squeeze everything again. You can repeat this procedure 2-3 times.
3. Strain all the juice obtained through a double layer of cheesecloth, heat up to +75°С and, after straining again while hot, pour into jars and put on pasteurization (+85°С). 0.5 liter cans are pasteurized for 15 minutes, 1 liter cans for 20 minutes, after which they are immediately rolled up.

Recipe 2: "Juice without sugar"

Sea buckthorn berries are passed through a juicer, pasteurized at + 85 ° C (as in recipe 1) and immediately rolled up.

Recipe 3: "Sea buckthorn juice with sugar"

Squeeze the juice from the berries (according to recipe 1 or recipe 2), add hot sugar syrup in the ratio of 60% juice to 40% syrup, pasteurize and immediately roll up. Syrup: 1 liter of water and 0.4 kg of sugar.

Recipe 4: "Juice with pulp"

For cooking you will need:

• mashed sea buckthorn - 5.5 kg;
• sugar - 1.5 kg;
• water - 2 l.

Recipe: Rinse sea buckthorn berries, blanch in boiling water for 2-3 minutes, rub through a sieve (stainless steel or hair), add hot sugar syrup, pour into jars, pasteurize and immediately roll up.

Blending

If desired, you can add another berry juice to the sea buckthorn juice - blackberries, aronia, shadberry, blueberries. Proportions - to taste, desire, possibilities. Sugar is also to taste. Pour the mixture of juices into sterilized jars, pasteurize for 10 minutes (1 l), 17-20 minutes (2 l), 25 minutes (3 l jars).

Puree

Puree is the same preparation that is relatively easy to make, but in winter it is wonderfully used for making tea, sauces, or simply as a vitamin supplement.

Recipe 1: "Sea buckthorn puree"

For cooking you will need:

• sea ​​buckthorn (berries) - 1 kg;
• sugar - 600-800 g;
• water - 100 ml.

Recipe:

1. Add water to the berries (at the rate of 10 times less than the weight of the berries), heat up to +60 ° C and rub through a sieve.
2. Add sugar, mix, heat at a temperature of +90°C for 5 minutes, quickly place in sterilized and heated jars and roll up.

Recipe 2: "Sea buckthorn puree"

For cooking you will need:

• mashed sea buckthorn - 1 kg;
• sugar - 0.8-1.0 kg.

Recipe:
Rub the washed and dried berries through a sieve, add sugar, mix, heat to +70 ° C, place in heated sterilized jars, pasteurize for 20 minutes (0.5 l) or 25-30 minutes (1 l) and immediately roll up.

Compote

Sea buckthorn berries (as well as its bark) contain serotonin, called the “happiness hormone”. Just imagine what a wonderful gift you will make to your family by “rolling up” compotes of joy for the winter! They will support the body with vitamins in the winter, and add optimism.

Compote "September"

For cooking you will need:

• sea ​​buckthorn (berries) - 1 kg;
• sugar - 1 kg;
• water - 1.2 l.

Recipe: Rinse slightly unripe berries, dry, pour into sterilized heated jars, pour hot sugar syrup and put on pasteurization at a temperature of +90°C: 0.5 l jars - for 10-12 minutes, 1 l - for 15-17 minutes.

Compote "Concentrated"

• Syrup: for 1 liter of water - 0.4 kg of sugar.

Place the washed sea buckthorn berries in jars up to the shoulders, pour hot sugar syrup over and pasteurize (just like the September compote)

Jam

Sea buckthorn jam is a delicious and very healthy product. The finished jam has a pleasant pineapple smell, beautiful orange color and original taste. There are several options for its preparation - with and without grinding berries, with and without pasteurization.

Recipe 1

For cooking you will need:

• sea ​​buckthorn (berries) - 1 kg;
• sugar - 1.2 kg.

Recipe:

1. Rinse slightly unripe berries, sprinkle with sugar and keep for 5-6 hours in a cool room.
2. Put the juiced sea buckthorn on the stove and cook after boiling in one step until cooked, removing the foam.
3. Pour into prepared jars and seal immediately.

Recipe 2

For cooking you will need:

• sea ​​buckthorn (berries) - 1 kg;
• sugar - 1.5 kg;
• water - 0.5 l.

Recipe:

1. Rinse and dry ripe berries.
2. Prepare syrup. Immediately, while the syrup is hot, pour the berries into it and leave for 4 hours to infuse.
3. Drain the resulting syrup and boil it for 10 minutes. While it has not cooled down, put the berries in it and cook until tender (the berries will become almost transparent).
4. Pour the finished jam into hot sterilized jars and roll up.

Sea buckthorn jam can also be made in a home bread machine. It is enough to dissolve the sugar first (over low heat or leaving the berry sprinkled with sugar for 5-6 hours to let the juice flow) and send it to the bread machine on the “Jam” mode. You can add an additional ingredient to the sea buckthorn mass, for example, lemon juice.

In the next video clip - another option for making sea buckthorn jam:

Jam

Sea buckthorn jam is very tasty. It can be served with tea as an independent treat or with pastries, casseroles and toasts.

Recipe for jam "Amber"

For cooking you will need:

• sea ​​buckthorn -1 kg;
• sugar - 0.8 kg;
• apple juice with pulp - 200 ml.

Recipe:

1. Rinse the berries, blanch in boiling water for 2-3 minutes and, when the berries have cooled down, grind them through a fine sieve.
2. Add sugar to sea buckthorn puree and leave for 2 hours to gel.
3. Add apple juice with pulp to the puree, mix and cook with continuous stirring, without boiling, for 15-20 minutes.
4. Arrange the jam in hot jars, place in water heated to + 80 ° C and pasteurize: 0.5 l jars - 15 minutes, 1 l jars - 20 minutes.
5. Roll up the jars immediately after pasteurization. Store jam in a dark, cool place.

Sea buckthorn jam will acquire a completely different “sound” if, in the process of cooking berry puree (without apple juice), 4-5 mint leaves are put into it for 2-3 minutes or 3-4 tablespoons of lemon juice are added at the end of cooking.

Another recipe for making jam from sea buckthorn berries is in the following video:

Sea buckthorn jelly

Who didn't love fruit jellies as a child? Delicious, transparent or translucent jelly figures laid out on saucers… and if it’s also striped… and if there’s also a berry inside! It's just a miracle how good such treats are in childhood. Although, why only in childhood? Who is stopping us from making sea buckthorn jelly today? Moreover, it is quite easy to prepare. And it turns out very fragrant, tender, tasty and very, very useful.

To prepare jelly, you need to take 1 kg. berries and sugar. Warm the berries to give juice (without adding water), rub with a pestle through a sieve, then mix with sugar, bring to a boil and leave for 6-8 hours - for gelling. After that, stir and pour into jars. It can be stored under nylon covers in apartment conditions.

Some summer residents advise adding any gelling substance (gelfix, gelatin, and others) to grated or passed through a juicer, sea buckthorn, in addition to sugar. In the next video, professional gardener Ivanova Valentina Filippovna will tell you how to make delicious jelly from sea buckthorn:

Sea buckthorn oil

Although this is not a food product, it is necessary to prepare it for the winter at least in small quantities. This is a wonderful healing drug that contains a unique multivitamin complex and is an excellent antibacterial, wound healing and anti-inflammatory agent.

The oil from the pulp of berries and from the seeds is different in composition and color. More effective is considered "stone".

Cooking sea buckthorn oil at home is quite simple, it can be done in several different ways. Choose the most suitable for you:

Method 1: berry and seed oil

Chop and crush the berries. Squeeze out the juice.

Juice. When defending the juice, a layer of oil forms on top, it is carefully collected in the prepared dishes.

Pulp. Do not throw away! Rinse and dry at temperatures below +60°C (at home, this can be done on a radiator). Then grind through a meat grinder or coffee grinder and pour sunflower oil heated to +60 ° C (refined, not deodorized or olive) in a ratio of 1: 2 so that the oil covers the mixture. Mix thoroughly and leave. After 5-7 days, collect the oil that has surfaced and fill it with the next portion of the crushed pulp. If the procedure is repeated 3-4 times, sea buckthorn oil will become more concentrated. The last portion of the removed oil must be drained into a jar or bottle of dark glass, tightly closed and put in the refrigerator.

Method 2: sea buckthorn oil from juice

1. Grind ripe berries with a pestle, pour warm (+40°C) water, heat up to +90°C and pass through a juicer.
2. The resulting juice is pasteurized. After a daily settling, the upper thick orange layer is removed, poured with sunflower oil and left for 3-4 days to settle. Then skim the oil off the top.

The remaining mixture can be poured 3-4 more times with warm water and allowed to settle again. Each time oil will rise, however, in a smaller amount.

Of course, homemade sea buckthorn oil can hardly compete with commercially produced oil. But there are a lot of pluses in “your” oil - you know what and how they made it)

In the following video, Igor Gutov offers his recipe for making sea buckthorn oil:

Scrub and soap

Women can make healing cosmetics with their own hands! Perhaps everyone knows that sea buckthorn oil contains the rarest range of polyunsaturated acids, the so-called "youth factor", which, in combination with vitamins A, F, E, K, will have a miraculous effect on the skin, nails and hair, help with hair loss and baldness . And just imagine, with your own hands - such a miracle, without harmful additives, without chemistry ... Moreover, this is done quite simply.

Sea buckthorn soap recipe

For cooking you will need:

• white soap base - 100 g;
• sea ​​buckthorn oil - 1 tbsp. spoon;
• fresh milk (cow, goat) - 1 teaspoon.

Recipe:
Melt the soap base, add sea buckthorn oil and milk, mix and pour into molds. All! It remains to wait until it hardens - and you have your own sea buckthorn soap.

If desired, you can add 1 tbsp to the melted mass. a spoonful of crushed sea buckthorn seeds. Then you will have a scrub soap!

We hope that we have only strengthened your desire to save this wonderful berry for the winter. In any form: in compote, jam, jelly or in cosmetic soap, because in any form it will bring benefits and joy.
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