Ground bird cherry. Seedless bird cherry jam - recipe

We continue canning, the time is now, vegetables, fruits and berries, everything is cheap, and whoever has his own garden, vegetable garden, just have time, turn around. This year there is a very large harvest of bird cherry, which has not been observed for many years. I want to offer you some delicious recipes for canning bird cherry for the winter. It is tasty and healthy, and for some diseases, a good medicine.

• It is necessary to store bird cherry blanks that were prepared with seeds (jam, compotes) no more than 9 months from the date of preservation. This is due to the high content of hydrocyanic acid in the bone.
• It is better to cook bird cherry jam without stones, it is stored longer.
• Before making jam, shake the washed berries several times in a bowl or saucepan, let stand for 10 minutes and shake again.

Cherry jam recipe

We take the number of berries arbitrarily. Ripe and well-washed berries are poured with water so that they slightly hide the berries and heat, bring to a boil. Cook for 2-3 minutes.

We put gauze in several layers on a colander and pour the contents, wipe, wring out. It turns out a homogeneous liquid mass-mashed potatoes, discard the bones. Add granulated sugar, mix thoroughly, let stand, mix again, until the granulated sugar is completely dissolved.

We lay out in sterilized jars, cover with iron lids and put in water for sterilization. We sterilize 0.5 liter jars - 10 minutes, 1 liter jars - 20 minutes from the moment the water boils. We take out, twist and put away for storage.
Take 1 kg of puree - 1 kg of sugar. How much puree you get, and count, you can put less, it won’t go bad, don’t be afraid.

Bird cherry and red currant compote

For a three-liter jar of compote we take 0.5 l of bird cherry berries and 0.5 l of berries, 0.5 kg of sugar. We wash the bird cherry and pour it into sterilized jars, pour boiling water over it and let it stand for 5 minutes.

Drain the water into a saucepan, add sugar and bring to a boil, boil for 2 minutes. Add red currants to bird cherry, pour boiled syrup and roll up. Let cool and put away for storage.

Cherry juice

We take the number of berries arbitrarily, fill it with cold water and heat it to boiling point. Stir the berries with a wooden spoon, trying to knead them. After boiling, pour the berries with liquid into a colander lined with gauze, leave to drain for an hour.

The resulting cloudy juice is left to settle. After a few hours, carefully drain the clear juice, and adding sugar (to taste), boil for 1-2 minutes and pour into clean bottles for storage.

Beautiful and tasty jelly

There are two options for making jelly:

1. Boil to a thick consistency, add granulated sugar before cooking, for 1 liter of juice - 1 kg of sugar. We lay out hot in jars and roll up the lids.
2. Add gelatin, granulated sugar swollen in water and stirring, bring to a boil, pour hot into sterile jars, roll up.

Cherry rolled with sugar

In this simple way, earlier in the village they harvested bird cherry for the winter, and even dried it. We scroll the washed bird cherry through a meat grinder twice and add sugar. For 1 kg of rolled mass 0.5 sugar. We mix everything thoroughly and put it in jars for storage, close with plastic lids.

Such bird cherry is not only a delicious filling for pies and rolls, but it has a very good fixing effect, it works well for indigestion, in the treatment of cough.

How to dry

The easiest way to prepare bird cherry for the winter is to dry it.

You can dry it on the stove, in the oven and dryers, but I prefer to dry it in the attic, in the shade, where the wind walks when you open the windows. I spread it thinly on baking sheets and let it dry on its own.

I keep it in a paper box. I grind part of the dry bird cherry in a coffee grinder into flour. It is useful to us for the preparation of fillings and various desserts, cakes and rolls. I strongly advise you to stock up on this wonderful powder, using it in cooking.

We make coffee from bird cherry flour

• 1 tsp flour
• 1 teaspoon ground coffee
• 200 ml of water
• 2 teaspoons of sugar.

Mix coffee, flour, pour water and bring to a boil. Add sugar and cream if desired.

This is where I end, today we talked about canning bird cherry. Try to cook at least one of the recipes, and you will forever remain a fan of this healthy berry.

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Today I want to show you how to cook for the winter. Previously, I have already shown how to cook delicious bird cherry jam, however, bones were present in that recipe. The recipe is here. Today's jam will not contain seeds, you must admit that it is very convenient. Such pitted bird cherry jam can be spread on a long loaf and used in homemade cakes. In addition, the absence of seeds in such a jam somewhat increases its shelf life.

Due to the fact that bird cherry berries are small in size and their stone is tightly connected to the pulp, it is almost impossible to get it with your hands. In some recipes, it is recommended to pass the washed bird cherry berries through a meat grinder several times. I categorically do not recommend doing this, since the bird cherry bones are dense and even a powerful blender or food processor is not able to completely grind them. There is such a jam, I would say, even dangerous.

The best way to get rid of the bones is by boiling. Before moving on to the recipe and seeing how to cook delicious pitted bird cherry, I would like to say that there are two types of bird cherry - black and red. For tinctures, wines, compotes, jams, liqueurs, you can use one or the other type.

To be honest, I have never seen red bird cherry in real life, only in a photo on the Internet, but I have known black bird cherry since childhood. The local children liked this berry, sweet and sour with a tart and slightly bitter taste, so much that the bird cherry bushes overate to the last berry.

Berries of black bird cherry are not only tasty, but also healthy. They contain a large number of useful vitamins, minerals, amino acids, organic compounds. If we talk about contraindications, then there are very few of them. In its raw form, the berry can be consumed by everyone, but not in large quantities.

And now I propose to go to the recipe and see how to cook pitted bird cherry jam step by step with a photo.

Ingredients:

• Bird cherry - 1 kg.,
• Sugar - 1 kg.,
• Water - 500 ml.,

Seedless bird cherry jam - recipe

As a rule, bird cherry berries are torn directly with tassels during harvesting. Separate the berry houses from the twigs. Wash them with cold water.

Put the washed cherry berries in a saucepan. Fill with water. Put on the stove. After boiling, boil the berries for no more than 10 minutes. During this time, the berries will become soft.

Scoop up boiled berries with syrup and put them in small portions in a colander with a fine mesh.

Thus, wipe all the bird cherry through a colander.

Discard the bones with skins, and pour the resulting pulp and juice into a saucepan.

Pour in the sugar.

Stir.

And now the turn has come to the bird cherry, and we will cook a pie with bird cherry!

Here you are offered 3 simple and step-by-step recipes for a pie with bird cherry filling. It's worth a try!!!

The taste of such pastries is remembered for a lifetime. It is very thin and at the same time multifaceted.

But before moving on to the recipes themselves, I recommend reading a couple of lines about the bird cherry itself, as well as preparing the filling from it.

How to make cherry filling

By "bird cherry" I mean bird cherry jam (jam), fresh berries, and also dried (ground) bird cherry. And each of these ingredients will bring its own special notes to the overall taste of the cake!

You can buy ready-made bird cherry jam (jam). This saves time and maximum convenience!

You can make a filling with fresh berries. How to do this, because there are seeds in every berry ?! Very simple! Twist the bird cherry in a meat grinder several (5-7) times until a homogeneous mass is obtained. It may be watery or it may be thick. Then add sugar to it and cook, stirring constantly, over medium heat for 5 minutes. Let cool and thicken.

Most often, the filling is prepared from dried bird cherry. It is also called bird cherry flour. The berries were dried and then ground into powder along with the seeds. The filling is prepared simply: pour boiling water over it, mix it with sugar and let it brew (swell). In the markets, ground bird cherry is sold by weight, and in stores more often in such bags as in the photo above.

And if bird cherry grows near you, then you can pick fresh berries. Then you should dry them in the sun in a ventilated place or in an oven at a temperature of about 40 degrees. The resulting peas, similar to peppers, can be ground in a coffee grinder.

Recipes

Pie with bird cherry and sour cream

Very tasty yeast pie from bird cherry with sour cream filling. Looks beautiful, smells great!

This recipe is the most popular; similar pies used to be often sold in stores. Therefore, it is popularly called "pie from childhood", "grandmother's", "Siberian", "classic" and "Soviet". Touch and you to this legend!

Ingredients:

• Dry yeast - 1 teaspoon;
• Milk - 100 ml.
• Wheat flour - 550-650 g.
• Salt - a pinch;
• Sugar - 200 g.
• Butter (or margarine) - 100 g.
• Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.

• Ground bird cherry - 1-1.5 cups;
• Sugar - 160 g.
• Sour cream - 200 g.

How to bake this cherry pie with sour cream

1. Let's start with kneading the dough. Stir the yeast in warm milk, after 10-15 minutes, beat in the eggs, add sugar, salt and melted butter. Mix well until sugar dissolves.
2. Pour flour into it and knead the dough. It should be soft and elastic. The degree of density can be adjusted by adding a little more flour or water.
3. Leave the dough alone for the next 30-50 minutes - let yourself swell!
4. While you can brew the bird cherry for the filling. Add enough boiling water to it to make a thick mass like jam. 50-100 g of sugar should also be mixed there. You can cover with a lid and wait, or you can additionally slightly sweat over low heat (5 minutes).
5. Has the dough risen? Great! The baking sheet must be greased with oil, the dough rolled out, and then placed in this baking sheet, shaping the sides. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the dough for about 35-40 minutes until golden brown.
6. Remove the resulting pie base from the oven, put a layer of steamed bird cherry on it.
7. Beat sour cream with sugar residues (50-100 g), and then cover bird cherry on top with it. It turned out such a gentle sour cream, like a cloud covering the filling.

Yes, there is also such a cooking option: bird cherry is placed on raw dough, sent to the oven until fully cooked, and only then covered with sour cream.

Sand cake with ground bird cherry

Another one of bird cherry flour, but prepared on the basis of shortcrust pastry. Not even just shortbread dough, but made in the form of crumbs.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour - 320 g.
• Butter (or margarine) - 240 g.
• Sugar - 2-2.5 cups;
• Ground bird cherry - 210 g.
• Water (boiling water) - 0.5-0.7 cups;
• Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
• Sour cream - 240 g.
• Starch - 2 teaspoons;

Cooking a pie with ground bird cherry

1. Let's start with the bird cherry. How to brew bird cherry for a pie? As easy as pie! Pour boiling water, mix and wait 30 minutes. The consistency should be like sour cream.
2. Now let's move on to the test. Divide the butter into cubes and grind with flour and sugar (0.5 cups) until a lot of crumbs form.
3. In the not yet completely cooled bird cherry mass, add the rest of the sugar, eggs, starch and sour cream. Mix well!
4. Line a baking dish (preferably split and with high sides) with special baking paper. Pour on the bottom with an even layer of crumbs (70% of the volume). Then lay out the bird cherry filling, and sprinkle everything with the same crumbs on top.
5. We put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 45 minutes. Then the cake should be allowed to cool completely.

Jellied pie with bird cherry

A quick pie based on batter and bird cherry jam (jam). But you can also use ground bird cherry from the recipe above.

Ingredients:

• Kefir - 270 ml.
• Wheat flour - 280 g.
• Baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
• Sugar - 110 g.
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Butter (or vegetable) oil - 50 g.
• Bird cherry jam - 1 cup;

How to make cherry pie

1. In a bowl, beat eggs with butter, baking powder and sugar. Put the flour there, and then mix again until smooth.
2. Grease a baking dish with oil, pour 2/3 of the dough volume into it, then put the bird cherry, and then pour the dough again.
3. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, put the cake in it for 35 minutes until a pleasant blush.

Puff pastry with bird cherry

Here everything is extremely simple and clear! We take ready-made puff pastry and a jar of bird cherry jam.

1. Roll out the dough and divide into two layers.
2. Place one on a greased baking sheet. Put the filling on the dough. If the filling is too liquid, then you can mix it with 1-2 tablespoons of starch.
3. Cover with a second sheet of dough, pinch the edges, pierce in several places with a fork, and then send to the oven for 20-25 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.

Cherry and cottage cheese pie

This is not a complete recipe, but rather a tip, an addition to all the previous options. Just an additional ingredient that makes the filling taste more tender and nutritious.

Mash 200 grams of cottage cheese well with a fork, beat in 1-2 eggs and add 100-150 g of sugar. If desired, you can also add a pinch of vanilla and a couple of tablespoons of sour cream. Everything, this curd mass must be placed under or above the bird cherry layer.

Everything else is the same as in the recipes above!

see video how to make cherry pie

Pies, lush, soft, the very ones with which, as you know, the red hut is the best decoration for any hospitable table. What they don't do with! The list is endless. We will focus on a rather rare version of the wild berry filling - the famous bird cherry, which blooms in cold weather and whose taste, tart and sweet with a slight bitterness, is so pleasant.

Cherry jam for pies

The most elementary bird cherry filling for various kinds of pastries is jam. This is a ready-made product, which you just put in the dough and put in the oven. How to prepare it for the future? The collected berries are removed from the brushes, sorted out, then blanched in boiling water for 2-3 minutes for softness. On the same water, you can cook and from which you get an excellent filling of bird cherry. The consumption of products is as follows: for each kilogram of berries, at least 1.3-1.5 kg of sugar and 600 g of water are required. Pour the berries with hot syrup, let the jam boil again, and then keep it on low heat, stirring and skimming off the foam, until the dessert is ready. To make the future filling of bird cherry for baking tastier, you can add a couple of grams of citric acid to the berries during cooking. When the syrup reaches the desired density and will "seize" and not spread, transfer the workpiece to sterilized jars and roll it up. One more piece of advice: since this is not just a jam, but a bird cherry filling for pancakes, pies, cookies, then at the very end put a little vanilla sugar in the bowl with the berries. Thus, this dessert itself will already smell like baking!

If the bird cherry filling for the pie in the form of jam turned out to be watery, you can do this. First, put the contents of the jar in a colander, which is placed over a saucepan. The syrup will drain, and the berries can be safely put into the dough. Secondly, there is another way to make bird cherry filling more tender and tastier. Wipe the berries through a sieve and add grated cottage cheese to them. Or beat cottage cheese with bird cherry syrup. The air mass will be very pleasant to the taste. If it doesn't seem sweet enough, add some sugar while beating.

dried bird cherry

Tasty, preserving all the vitamins and useful properties, is considered a filling of bird cherry for a pie, made from dried berries. Where to start in this case? Of course, from the fruits themselves. True, you can buy bags of berries in the store. However, everything that is made with your own hands is undoubtedly tastier and better. Spread the collected, sorted and washed bird cherry on baking sheets with a layer no thicker than 2 cm and dry in several steps in an oven heated to + 50-60 degrees. It needs to be turned over periodically. When the berries are wrinkled, sugar crystals will appear in their folds, and they themselves will acquire a tart-sweet taste, let them cool, pour into paper bags and store in places inaccessible to dampness. From such berries, a very unusual filling of ground bird cherry is made. But more on that below. How to use dried? About the same as raisins! That is, if you need to add berries to any dish, just steam some of them in hot water. The bird cherry will swell. Then it can be rubbed with the same cottage cheese. Or add to any fruit filling.

ground bird cherry

Ground bird cherry stuffing is a rather complicated product, primarily in its manufacture. Although in Rus' since time immemorial it has been used for various kinds of baking. To get such a filling, you need to grind the dried berries in a coffee grinder together with the seeds into powder. It turns out the so-called It can be put into the dough, mixed with ordinary wheat. And you can make a soufflé filling. To do this, pour the same amount of hot milk into 100 g of flour, boil for a minute or two and let it cool, brew, swell. Add sugar to taste, beat in an egg, put 150 g of curd mass, beat everything with a mixer or a whisk. This filling is suitable for biscuit dough pies.

Fresh berry filling

Here is another useful recipe, although somewhat time consuming. Prepare the collected berries for processing. Scroll them several times in a meat grinder (at least 4, so that the bones are well ground) and sprinkle with sugar. Take products in a ratio of approximately 1 to 2, that is, for every 1 kg of berries, 2 kg of sugar. For taste, you can add a crushed small lemon.

ground bird cherry- This is a natural food additive, which is very often used for making desserts and pastries. It is a powder made from the fruit of dried berries, which is crushed by hand. However, ground bird cherry can also be bought at the store in special sealed bags.

At the moment, there are three varieties of bird cherry: late, common and virgin. Based on these species, scientists have managed to artificially develop several other varieties that differ from their predecessors in a much larger size, as well as enhanced flavor.

Bird cherry was used not only as a decoration or filling for desserts. Due to its beneficial properties, the product is often used to treat certain ailments. Also, flour was made from bird cherry, on the basis of which tasty and tender pastries were obtained.

If you do not trust the manufacturers of aromatic additives and want to make ground bird cherry with your own hands, then in our article you will find a few recommendations that will help you simplify the process.

How to grind dry bird cherry?

You need to grind dry bird cherry correctly so that lumps do not form. You also need to make sure that the berries are not undercooked. To prepare ground bird cherry at home, you will need such a set of items:

• meat grinder;
• coffee grinder;
• bird cherry.

Before grinding the bird cherry, it must first be dried. To do this, take a baking sheet, cover it with parchment and lay out the berries in one layer. After that, send the baking sheet to the oven, heated to a temperature of one hundred degrees. Wait until the bird cherry is dry enough, then you can start grinding it.

In order to properly grind dry bird cherry, you will need a meat grinder. Many hostesses grind berries in a coffee grinder, but this is fraught with overheating of the device, as a result of which it may become unusable.

Pour dry berries into a meat grinder and chop as finely as you can. Only after the meat grinder can you additionally grind the bird cherry into powder.

Useful properties and harm

The beneficial properties of ground bird cherry are due to its composition, while harm can occur if the product is abused.

Bird cherry benefits due to a number of vitamins and trace elements that are contained in berries. So, it contains vitamins A, C, E, K, PP, D and all B vitamins. In addition, bird cherry contains iron, cobalt, zinc, copper, magnesium and other trace elements. Together, they help to saturate the body with the components it needs, which will positively affect the functioning of the immune system and internal organs.

The beneficial properties of ground bird cherry do not end there. Very often it is used for such purposes:

• as a means of lowering the temperature, since bird cherry has a diaphoretic property;
• for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and increased potency in men;
• to protect against unwanted conception, since bird cherry lowers the reproductive abilities of the body;
• for the treatment of colds and coughs;
• as an appetite enhancer.

Ground bird cherry is not suitable for diets, as it can increase the feeling of hunger, which will negatively affect the figure. But you can easily prepare cough decoctions based on it.

As for the harm, bird cherry can cause it if contraindications are not observed. So, it is not recommended to use it for people who have an individual intolerance to the product. It is also strictly forbidden to take the supplement to pregnant women or women who want to have a baby, as well as nursing mothers and children under eight years old.

Application

Ground bird cherry is used not only in cooking, but also in medicine, making useful decoctions based on it. For example, some venereal diseases and thrush in women can be cured with a warm decoction of ground bird cherry, used externally.

Among other things, infusions of dried bird cherry are used as an anesthetic for toothache. In order to calm it, you need to add two tablespoons of ground bird cherry to a liter of hot boiled water and leave to infuse for four hours. Rinse your mouth with this solution three times a day. Of course, it is still better to visit the dentist if the problem is quite serious, but a short-term toothache can be removed with such a decoction.

With bruises and sprains, you need to make compresses from the infusion of ground bird cherry. To do this, add four tablespoons of the product per liter of water, and also use a few bird cherry leaves. Leave it all to infuse for five to six hours, then moisten a clean cloth with the resulting liquid and apply it to the bruised area.

Here are a few more recipes for using ground bird cherry in medicine:

• For the treatment of gastritis and colic in the stomach, you need to make a special infusion. To do this, take 500 milligrams of boiling water and add ten grams of ground bird cherry. Place the infusion in a thermos and let it brew for about twelve hours. You need to take the remedy one hundred milliliters three times a day.
• With inflammation of the eyes or the formation of wounds and ulcers on the skin, it is necessary to prepare another decoction. Take 500 milliliters of boiling water, add a spoonful of ground bird cherry and twenty grams of its flowers to it, leave to infuse for twenty minutes. After the infusion is ready, you can treat your eyes and skin with it.
• Radiculitis, osteochondrosis and joint diseases can be treated with alcohol tincture of bird cherry. To do this, pour one hundred and fifty grams of ground bird cherry with 500 milliliters of vodka and leave to infuse in a cool, dark place for two weeks. Use the finished product as a liquid for lotions.

Among other things, ground bird cherry is also used in cooking. With its help, they make delicious cakes and pies, muffins and buns, add it to custard and sprinkle pastries with it. There are many recipes for making desserts that include ground bird cherry. With the help of our recommendations, you can grind it yourself, as well as protect yourself and your family from possible harm that this product can cause.