How to cook dried fruit compote for a child: instructions for mom!

The first thing a doctor prescribes for high fever, vomiting and intestinal disorders in children is a rehydration solution to restore the water-salt balance in the body in order to avoid dehydration. But, even special children's electrolytic rehydration formulas have a salty taste, and it is very difficult to give them to children under three years of age, I would even say from the realm of fantasy.

An alternative to tasteless rehydration solutions is dried fruit compote, which must necessarily contain raisins or dried grapes, as well as dried apricots, or any other type of dried apricot.

The fact is that it is in raisins and grapes that the mineral salts of magnesium, manganese, potassium, chlorine, boron and phosphorus are contained. Not inferior in its mineral composition and dried apricots - potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, iron - an ideal cocktail to restore the water-salt balance of the child's body.

Well, and most importantly, dried fruit compote tastes good, not salty, tasty, and children really like it, like babies, and older kids there. Therefore, every mother should know how to cook dried fruit compote for children in order to quickly give the child a drink if necessary.

Ingredients:

• 3 l. water
• 500 gr dried fruits
• honey or sugar to taste

Cooking:

For compote, I use a ready-made mixture of dried fruits, which I buy on the market. This mixture has a lot of dried grapes and apricot - what you need for the right dried fruit compote!

Be sure to pour dried fruits with cold water, and wash thoroughly, then drain the dirty water. If necessary, repeat several times until the water is clear.

Pour a saucepan with clean and washed dried fruits with cold water, and leave for at least 6 hours to infuse. It is best to do this in the morning or afternoon.

After the dried fruits are infused (already in the evening), put the pan on the fire, and bring to a boil. Boil the compote for no more than 2 minutes, then turn it off.

Now again we leave the compote to infuse until it cools completely, usually I do this at night.

In the morning, the finished compote must be strained to make a beautiful and transparent drink. Dried fruit compote must be stored in the refrigerator. At room temperature, the compote will quickly turn sour, due to the presence of grapes in it, which contributes to the fermentation process.

Boiled dried fruits can be thrown away, if you taste them, you will see for yourself that they are tasteless, because. completely gave their taste to the compote.

That's all! Delicious and healthy dried fruit compote is ready! Pour compote into a bottle with a nipple, or give compote to a child from a spoon. I wish health to your kids!

You can add sugar or honey to the finished compote to taste, but I never do this. From the specified amount of ingredients, a compote is obtained that is quite sweet and rich in taste. But if the child refuses to drink dried fruit compote, you can add a little honey, provided that there is no allergy, because our task is to give the child a drink and make up for the loss of fluid, remember?