Beverages

Grapefruit compote is an unusual but wonderful alternative for those who don't like grapefruit juice. It’s really impossible to drink pure juice, but grapefruit is an ideal fruit for those who want to lose weight.

Many children do not like pomegranate because of its tartness and acidity. But pomegranate fruits contain many vitamins that children, and not only children, need. This is a real treasure in the natural world. But there is no need to force children to eat sour grains. Make compote from pomegranate, and the children themselves will ask you to pour them another cup.

Banana compote is rarely cooked specifically for the winter, because it is not a seasonal fruit. Bananas can be bought all year round in almost any store. But still, there is always a chance that you will find yourself with a huge amount of bananas that you need to quickly cook somehow.

You can drink refreshing drinks even in winter. Especially if these are such unusual drinks as watermelon compote.Yes, you can make a wonderful compote from watermelon for the winter, which will surprise your guests and delight your children.

Blackberries, in addition to being able to remove carcinogens from the body, have an incredible taste and forest aroma. Blackberries and the elements they contain are not afraid of heat treatment, therefore, making compote from blueberries, including with the addition of other berries and fruits, is not only possible, but even necessary.

Compote from apricots is cooked in winter and spring, when the summer prepared compotes are already running out, and the lack of vitamins makes itself felt. The good thing about apricots is that when dried, they were not subjected to any processing and the integrity of the fruit was not compromised. An apricot is almost a full-fledged apricot, but devoid of water, and now, to cook compote, we just need to add this water.

In addition to cherry plum, there are many varieties of yellow plum. It is somewhat different from the usual blue one in its taste. Yellow plums have a more pronounced honey taste and a stronger aroma. It is perfect for winter preparations, although there are some minor nuances.

You can endlessly do only three things - watch the wild pear blossom, drink compote from the wild pear and sing odes to it.If we talk about the beneficial properties of wild pears, then not even a day is enough. It is enough just that the compote made from it is incredibly tasty. It is sourishly tart, aromatic, invigorating and, I repeat, incredibly tasty.

In fact, this compote recipe is suitable for both dark and white grape varieties. But there is one “but”. White grapes are much healthier for the body. It contains silver ions, which, as we know, have bactericidal properties.

When dieting, ginger compote has proven itself very well for weight loss. There is no point in preparing it for future use, since it can be prepared from either fresh ginger root or dried ginger. To slightly diversify the taste of compote and enrich it with vitamins, apples, lemons, and rose hips are usually added to ginger.

Bird cherry has a very short harvest season and you need to have time to prepare it for the winter, or at least save it until autumn. Bird cherry is dried, jam is made from it, tinctures and compotes are made. But in order not to be disappointed in winter, you need to cook bird cherry correctly. Bird cherry does not like long-term heat treatment. This makes it lose its taste and aroma. Therefore, you need to cook bird cherry compote very carefully and quickly.

To prevent viburnum berries from becoming bitter, they need to be picked at the right time. And this right time comes immediately after the first frost. If you don’t want to wait for frost, you can freeze the viburnum a little in the freezer for 2-3 hours. This will be quite enough.

In all cookbooks they write that cherries for preparations must be pitted. If you have a machine for pitting cherries, that’s great, but I don’t have such a machine, and I ripen a lot of cherries. I had to learn how to make jams and compotes from cherries with pits. I make sure to put a label on each jar, since it’s not worth storing such cherry preparations with pits for more than six months; the taste of the famous Amaretto appears.

Plum has been in our diet for a long time. Since the geography of its growth is quite wide, it is loved and appreciated in many countries of the world. It is known that the Queen of England herself, Elizabeth II, preferred plums for breakfast. She was captivated by their taste and heard about their beneficial properties. But the main problem that housewives have faced at all times is how to preserve such finicky fruits for the winter.

Fragrant, moderately sweet and slightly sour blackcurrant liqueur, prepared at home, will not leave even the most fastidious gourmets indifferent.

Delicious and healthy homemade compotes for the winter are made from a wide variety of fruits and berries. Today I decided to make grape compote from black (or blue) grapes. For this preparation, I take the Golubok or Isabella varieties.

Nowadays, stores offer a wide variety of alcoholic drinks, as they say, for every taste and budget. But what could be tastier than homemade berry or fruit liqueur made with your own hands? By tradition, in the summer I prepare several types of such tinctures, liqueurs and liqueurs for my household.

Delicious homemade pear compote is a harmonious combination of a sweet, aromatic drink and juicy tender fruit. And at a time when the pears are filling the trees, there is a desire to prepare many, many cans of the drink for the winter.

Warm summer pampers us all with a wide variety of fruits and berries, which more than satisfy the body's need for vitamins.

Many people don’t like cherry plum. It has too strong a sour taste and is not colored enough. But such a sour taste is an advantage if we want to close the compote for the winter. For a good preserved color, it is better to combine cherry plum with raspberries.