Dried berries

Instead of raisins or other purchased dried fruits, you can use home-made dried cherries. By making them yourself at home, you will be 100% sure that they are completely natural, healthy and tasty. Such sun-dried cherries are preserved very well if they are properly dried and prepared for storage.

There are about 200 varieties of honeysuckle, but not all are edible. Many of them are very poisonous and should not be eaten. The berries are edible if they have an elongated, oblong shape and a color ranging from dark blue to black. The taste of the berries also varies, from bitterly sour to sweet and sour.

Dried cherries make an exquisite delicacy that can be eaten plain, added to baked goods, or made into compotes. You won’t confuse the delicate aroma of cherries with anything else, and it’s worth spending your time on.

Chinese lemongrass grows not only in China, but the Chinese told about its healing properties, and it is they who need to be thanked for this wonderful plant against a hundred diseases. In lemongrass, almost all parts of the plant are medicinal and useful, and not only berries, but also leaves and young shoots can be harvested for the winter.

Who doesn't like the taste of figs? And it doesn’t matter at all what form it is in - fresh or dried, its unsurpassed taste can put any exotic fruit into the shadows. Speaking of fruits. Did you guess that figs are not even a fruit at all? And not even a berry! This is a fig tree flower, which is commonly called a wine berry.

Cherry plum belongs to the plum subfamily and in some sources it is called cherry plum, therefore it must be dried in the same way as a not very large plum or a very large cherry.

The sweet-tart bird cherry berry is widely used both in cooking and in alternative medicine. At the same time, not only fruits, but also leaves, shoots, and bark are harvested for medicinal purposes. The fragrant bird cherry color is also in demand. Experienced herbalists also try to preserve it for the winter. The best and most popular way to store bird cherry is drying. We will talk about all the intricacies of this process in this article.

Mulberry (mulberry) is a tree that produces large yields of berries. Their benefits are determined by their rich vitamin composition, which stimulates the immune system. Berry juice is also a preventative against various infectious and colds. However, mulberry fruits are very delicate, and therefore they cannot be stored fresh for a long time. To preserve as much of the healthy product as possible for the winter months, the berries are frozen or dried. Today we’ll talk about different ways to dry mulberries at home.

Drying blackberries is easy; it is much more difficult to deliver them home from the forest or from the market whole. After all, blackberries are very tender, and easily wrinkle, release juice, and drying such blackberries does not make sense. But we won’t throw anything away, but let’s see what can be made from it.

Cranberry is the queen of berries. There are many legends associated with it; it is used with pleasure both in medicine and in cooking. But, unfortunately, fresh cranberries are available to us for a fairly short period, only from October to January. Therefore, everyone, without exception, tries to prepare it for the winter.

When you talk about the fact that you can dry a watermelon, many are surprised. After all, watermelon is 90% water, so what will remain of it after dehydration? And they are right, there is not much left, but what remains is quite enough to please your loved ones or surprise guests.

Strawberries are one of those plants in which not only the fruits, but also the leaves are useful. Properly dried strawberries retain their healing properties and aroma for 2 years, which is more than enough.

The best way to preserve strawberries for the winter is to dry them.This method allows you to preserve the maximum amount of nutrients and has virtually no effect on the taste. Dried strawberries can be used to prepare various desserts, baked goods, and also be brewed into tea. But in order to properly dry strawberries at home, you need to know the features of drying them in various ways.

No one can refuse the taste of the raisins of fresh grapes. This aroma and delicate taste can amaze any gourmet. What can we say about the benefits of grapes? But dried grapes are no less tasty.

Not only compotes can be made from dried cherries. This can be a great addition to baked goods instead of raisins, or just a treat for children and adults. There are several ways to dry cherries, and you can choose any of them, or come up with your own.

All parts of the plant are useful: roots, stems, leaves, flowers and, of course, fruits. Most often, people try to preserve the fruits of the plant for the winter, but its other components are also worthy of attention, since they contain quite a lot of vitamins. Today we’ll talk about drying rosehip fruits, leaves and flowers.

Dried lingonberries - what is easier to prepare for the winter than dried berries? Drying berries is the simplest and easiest way to prepare them for the winter. Everything about lingonberries is medicinal - both the leaves and the berries. Moreover, the leaves have even more medicinal properties than the berries. Therefore, for drying you need to collect the berries along with the leaves.

Drying berries is one of the simplest ways to prepare healthy fruits for the winter. And dried and dried red rowan, the beneficial properties of which our ancestors have long known, is one of the tasty, environmentally friendly and non-chemical options for strengthening the immune system. If you feed your family with such dry vitamins throughout the winter, then you probably won’t need “pharmacy” vitamins.

Dried red rowan is a guaranteed opportunity to benefit from dried berries all year round. After all, the many beneficial properties of red rowan explain the variety of ways to prepare it. Drying the berries reduces the possibility of spoiling the product, preserves its beneficial properties as much as possible, and is the most convenient way to store rowan.

Dried hawthorn berries are a very healthy product. The fruits contain B vitamins, as well as vitamin A, C, E, K, various minerals and organic acids.In particular, it is ursolic acid, which is essential for the human body. Dried hawthorn can be added to teas - this will enhance their already tonic effect. Hawthorn infusions lower blood pressure and help with atherosclerosis, insomnia, and fatigue. And these are not all the beneficial properties of this wonderful fruit.