Due to its high resistance to low temperatures, viburnum is well-established in our latitudes, and its bushes, dazzling with red berries, can be found in almost every city. However, not everyone knows that in addition to the amazing appearance, the fruits of this plant also have many useful properties. Our article is designed to help you in the manufacture of various blanks using viburnum and sugar.
About the benefits of viburnum
The entire miraculous range of beneficial properties of these berries is due, primarily, to the rich vitamin and mineral composition, as well as the presence of a large number of various biologically active substances, such as amino acids, pectins and tannins. 
Here is just a small part of the huge list of all beneficial properties of these fruits:
- help easier to transfer various viral diseases and activate the immune system;
- contribute to the normalization of the gastrointestinal tract;
- when applied externally, promote wound healing, speedy disposal of purulent infections, acne and other minor dermatological diseases are treated;
- help speed up the repair processes of the skin, hair and nails;
- possess diuretic properties, which allows their use for the treatment of diseases of the kidneys and the urogenital system in general;
- help to stop minor bleeding;
- when used systematically, they act as antidepressants and help to cope with nervous overstrain, stress and insomnia more easily;
- have a general tonic, rejuvenating and general healing effects.
Learn more about the health benefits of viburnum (for women), viburnum bark, mountain ash.
Preparation of viburnum
Before you begin the process of preparing blanks, you must properly prepare the berries. This stage is quite important, and in no case can one approach its implementation without due attention, since this is fraught with the receipt of a poor-quality product or a decrease in the duration of its shelf life. 
First of all, after the purchase, it is necessary to carefully sort through all the berries and select those that have a stale, wrinkled appearance, as well as black, wormy, crushed and green ones. This stage is necessary to minimize the presence in the final product of various substances that can reduce the duration of the "life" of the workpieces.
After that, the berries must be thoroughly washed under running water, trying to wash each berry, because getting into the preservation of dirt from the berries can ruin the entire final product. Then you need to allow the water that was on the berries to drain, after which, if you bought the berries on a branch, you should separate them, after which you can begin the process of creating blanks.
Check out the recipes for harvesting viburnum for the winter.
Preparation of cans and lids
Preparation of cans and lids is in their thorough sterilization, which, despite the seeming complexity of the process, can be quite successfully carried out at home with the help of the simplest kitchen utensils. To carry out this manipulation, you will need an ordinary kettle with a spout for disinfecting the cans and a small saucepan in which the lids will be sterilized.
Important! Before starting the sterilization process, it is necessary to thoroughly wash the cans and lids with mustard powder or soda solution in order to remove all large dirt particles that are not affected by high temperature.
Fill the kettle with water halfway and set it on fire. After the water boils, put the jars on the spout and hold them in this position for 1.5-2 minutes. After the allotted period of time passes, carefully remove them from the nozzle, using tacks or a rag to protect themselves from burns. 
With lids, everything is even simpler - just put them in a pan filled with water, and then put on fire. After the water in the pan boils - remove it from the heat, drain the water and remove the lid.
The hostess invented many ways to sterilize cans: steam over a saucepan or kettle, in the oven, in the microwave, in a double boiler.
Kalina, ground with sugar
This dish, first of all, is good because the overwhelming majority of biological active substances, and therefore useful properties, remain unchanged. We offer you one of the easiest recipes for its manufacture.
Kitchen tools
To prepare this product, you will not need any specific inventory, everything that you will need can be found in each kitchen. The list looks like this:
- masher;
- pan;
- spoon;
- jars and lids.
Ingredients
This preparation does not require a large number of different ingredients. You just need:
- viburnum berries - 0.5 kg;
- sugar - 0.5 kg.
Important! The specified weight of components is calculated on an average family of three people, however you can increase their weight at will, but without changing the proportion of 1: 1.
Step by Step Cooking Process
All the above-mentioned advantages of this blank can also include a fairly simple cooking process. It looks something like this:
- Place the viburnum berries separated from the branches into a pot with high walls. It is advisable not to put all the berries at once, but to divide them into 5-6 servings;
- then pour a small amount of sugar on top of the berries so that it lightly covers them on top;
- using potato mash crush the fruit and mix with sugar. At this stage, you need to carefully monitor not to miss a single berry;
- transferred to the state of liquid gruel Kalina with sugar, move to another container to make room for the next portion of berries;
- after all the viburnum has been ground, add sugar to it, if there is a need in it, bringing the ratio of ingredients to a ratio of 1: 1, and again thoroughly mix everything with a spoon;
- With the help of a spoon, transfer the obtained substance to sterilized jars, which can be covered with both iron and nylon covers.
Video: recipe cooking ground with sugar viburnum
Read also about the cultivation of viburnum on the site: the popular types of viburnum, planting and care, reproduction.
Kalina in sugar
This preparation has a shorter shelf life for consumption, but allows you to enjoy the berries in their almost unchanged form, except with the addition of a small amount of sugar, which can be washed if desired. Like the previous product, this preparation retains all the beneficial properties of fruits that would have been lost during heat treatment.
Kitchen tools
As in the case with the previous recipe, for the manufacture of this blank does not require any specific equipment, namely:
- jars and lids;
- spoon;
- watering can of medium diameter.
Ingredients
The list of components did not undergo any changes at all and their proportions remained exactly the same - 1: 1. This recipe maximizes the preservative properties of sugar, which allow Kalina to remain intact for up to 2-3 months. The list of components is the same:
- viburnum berries - 0.5 kg;
- sugar - 0.5 kg.
Did you know? In our area, viburnum since ancient times was considered a symbol of girlish beauty and has always been an indispensable component of wedding rituals. She decorated the tables, wreaths and dishes.
Step by Step Cooking Process
Everything is done fairly quickly and requires absolutely no culinary skills. It looks like this:
- cover the bottom of the can of the size you need with sugar, pouring it with a spoon, if necessary, using a watering can to facilitate the process;
- then put so many berries on the sugar layer that they completely cover it, and the sugar disappears from sight;
- Pour a layer of sugar on top of a layer of viburnum, so that viburnum is not peeking out from under it;
- repeat the process until you have finished viburnum, considering at the same time that the first and last layer in any jar should consist of sugar. Filled jars can be closed with both plastic and metal lids.
Video: recipe for making viburnum in sugar
Familiarize yourself with the recipe of the preparation and the healing properties of viburnum juice.
Kalina with pitted sugar
This recipe differs from the previous two in that the resulting product will be deprived of many unpleasant bones and skins of viburnum berries, which endow them with a specific, recognizable flavor. In addition, the product obtained on the basis of this recipe, as in the previous cases, does not undergo any heat treatment, which means it retains all the useful properties.
Kitchen tools
All that is required for the preparation of this recipe, surely everyone has at home:
- pan;
- fine mesh sieve;
- spoon or masher;
- clean gauze;
- jars and lids.
Did you know? In former times, viburnum could often be found in the red corner of the hut, because the people gave it mystical properties and believed that it was able to protect it from the evil eye and evil spirits.
Ingredients
Unlike the previous two recipes, this already familiar ratio of ingredients will be broken, now it will be 1 part of viburnum and 2 parts of sugar. But such preparation can be used as a sweet additive to tea, or almost as a traditional jam. The list of ingredients does not change:
- viburnum berries - 0.5 kg;
- sugar - 1 kg.
Step by Step Cooking Process
The manufacture of this product is somewhat stretched in time, which may in some cases cause inconvenience, however, the product obtained as a result differs from that described in the previous recipes in more elegant taste and lack of bones. The process itself is as follows:
- thoroughly washed and dried viburnum is placed in a sieve with fine cells, after which they are pushed with a masher or spoon into a saucepan;
- the cake remaining after the previous item is collected in a clean gauze bag and pushed again;
Important! Please note that the amount of the substance obtained is different from the weight of the berries that you originally had, so it is better to re-measure its volume with a glass.
- then add sugar at the rate of 2 cups for each glass of jelly to the pot with viburnum jelly;
- carefully mix everything up to the state of a homogeneous substance and leave it in a dark, cool, inaccessible place for children for two days;
- periodically check the product for completely dissolved sugar and stir it;
- the finished product is poured into clean sterilized jars, which can be closed with both plastic and metal lids.
Video: Recipe for making viburnum with pitted sugar
Where to store the workpiece
Due to the fact that in these blanks no preservatives are used, but only sugar, the preservative properties of which are expressed rather mediocre, it is advisable to keep them in the refrigerator, on the shelves for vegetables.
Read also about harvesting medicinal berries for the winter: cherries, cherries, currants, lingonberries, blueberries, cranberries, sea buckthorn, chokeberries, yosht, gooseberries, sunberry, hawthorn, cornels.
The optimum temperature at which these blanks are able to stand for 4-5 months is from 0 to +3 ° C. When placed in a warmer place, this period is reduced to 2-3 months. If they are constantly in a room with room temperature and sunlight will fall on them, this period may be reduced by up to several weeks. 
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We hope that, guided by this publication, you will be able to prepare for yourself and your family the best blanks of viburnum. This product will delight you in the winter not only tasty and sweet, but also practically fresh berries.
