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My family loves to eat lard. And they eat it in considerable quantities. Therefore, different methods of salting lard were tried. But one of my favorites was the recipe for salting lard in brine.

The season of sweet peppers is here. Many housewives close different varieties of lecho and other different winter canned salads with bell peppers for the winter. Today I propose to make delicious marinated bell peppers in quick-cooking pieces.

I started looking for the recipe for the most delicious zucchini salad for the winter after I returned from a planned and long-awaited trip. Traveling around Italy, seeing its sights and admiring the beauty of this wonderful country, I became a real fan of Italian cuisine.

Don't know what to do with large cucumbers? This happens to me too. They grow and grow, but I don’t have time to collect them in time. A simple and tasty salad of cucumbers with onions, peppers and garlic helps out, which in winter goes in great demand with any side dish. And even the largest specimens are suitable for it.

“To get really tasty preparations for the winter, the whole procedure must be carried out with love,” as famous chefs say. Well, let's follow their advice and start preparing pickled gherkins.

At first glance, it seems that there is nothing in water except a “transparent liquid,” but in fact, it contains a large amount of useful impurities, thanks to which all organisms live. Therefore, improper storage (that is, there is something in it to spoil) of clean water at home can provoke its deterioration.

Svinushka mushrooms are rare guests in pantries, compared to honey mushrooms or chanterelles. Only the most experienced agree to collect them; the family is considered partially edible. For storage and safe consumption, it is important to understand how to salt pork mushrooms at home.

October is the ideal season for mushrooms.Good autumn weather and a forest walk ends with trophies in a basket. Collection can be continued until the first night frosts and daytime temperatures exceed +5.

Recipes for winter preparations of lecho are very diverse, but preparation methods using tomato paste occupy a place of honor among them. And the secret of such popularity is that this option is the least labor-intensive. After all, modern housewives do not have to waste time preparing a base from fresh tomatoes. This process is quite labor-intensive: it is necessary to remove the skin from a large number of ripe fruits, twist them through a meat grinder or grind them in a blender, and then boil them over fire for 20-30 minutes. It is clear that such preparatory measures take quite a lot of time, so the use of ready-made tomato paste for preparing lecho is quite justified. So, let's look at the most popular recipes among housewives.

Undoubtedly, the vegetable salad “Lecho” is one of the most popular winter preparations. In addition to the main ingredient, sweet pepper, a variety of seasonal vegetables are added to lecho. Spicy vegetables and herbs add zest to the dish. Today we offer you to get acquainted with lecho recipes that contain a garlic note. Stay with us! It will be delicious!

Tireless breeders have not bred any variety of tomatoes: brown, black, speckled, and green, which, despite their appearance, have reached a full degree of maturity. Today we will talk about pickling green tomatoes, but those that are still at the stage of technical maturity or have not yet reached it. Typically, such fruits are harvested at the end of summer due to changing weather conditions, in order to save the crop from disease. The tomatoes will not have time to ripen on the branch, but they are quite suitable for preparing very tasty winter preparations.

If you haven't tried pickled garlic, then you've missed out on a lot in life. This simple dish is so tasty and healthy that you simply must correct the mistake and, using the recipes in our article, try to pickle the aromatic spicy vegetable yourself.

Salting, pickling and pickling are the main types of canned homemade vegetables. Today we propose to talk specifically about pickling, or more precisely, about pickling tomatoes. Fermentation caused by the activity of lactic acid bacteria allows the maximum amount of nutrients to be preserved in tomatoes. They taste simply wonderful!

In the 90s, homemade preparation of a variety of letcho salads was almost mandatory for every family. Salads were made from vegetables alone or with additives from various types of cereals. Canned food with rice and barley were especially popular. Such snacks were popularly called “Tourist’s Breakfast”. Today we will look at the most popular recipes for making homemade lecho with rice.

The classic lecho recipe involves using a large number of peppers and tomatoes. But, if there is no excess of these vegetables, then you can supplement the preparation with carrots and onions. Carrots will add additional sweetness to the preparation, and onions will add a piquant taste.

Natural tomato juice is the basis of the classic lecho recipe. For many housewives, in the modern rhythm of life, the procedure for processing fresh tomatoes into juice and further boiling them is too time-consuming. Therefore, savvy chefs have learned to use ready-made canned or packaged tomato juices, as well as tomato paste and ketchup for cooking lecho in tomato. Read more about all the tricks of preparing a winter salad from various vegetables in tomato sauce in our article.

Some people grow honeysuckle in their garden as an ornamental shrub, but more and more people are learning about the benefits of these berries, and, accordingly, about ways to consume them. Honeysuckle berries are widely used in cooking and folk medicine, and the only question is how to preserve the benefits of these fruits for the winter.

A delicacy that always pleases the eye during a festive feast is a sandwich with butter and red caviar. Unfortunately, dishes with lightly salted red caviar are not so common in our diet. And the reason for this is the “biting” price for a very small volume of seafood. The situation can be smoothed out by purchasing an ungutted carcass of a female salmon from the store and salting its caviar yourself. All the intricacies of this process will be discussed in detail in our article.

Natural grape juice contains such an amount of useful substances and elements that can be compared with real medicines. Therefore, you can’t drink a lot of juice, but you can make grape juice from the juice.

Harvests of red currants can be significant, so you should pay close attention to this berry when preparing vitamin drinks.Today we hasten to offer you a selection of recipes for red currant fruit drinks. Both fresh and frozen fruits are used.

Although cherries are rich in antioxidants and are useful for many diseases, they are almost never harvested for the winter, and this is very in vain. Cherry juice has a mild taste, it refreshes and restores the necessary supply of vitamins in the body, depleted in winter.

Lingonberry has many beneficial properties, but alas, its growing area is quite small. Most often, we can see these healthy berries not in the forest, not in the market, but in the supermarket, in the frozen food department. However, there is no need to be sad, because freezing does not harm the berries in any way and lingonberry juice, even if it was frozen, turns out no worse than fresh one.

Cranberry juice is unusually useful at any time of the year. Not only does it have an anti-inflammatory effect, but it also promotes gene expression. This means that the substances contained in cranberries are beneficial for women and children. They improve the functioning of the body at the cellular level, making it stronger, healthier and better. Well, the pleasant sweet and sour taste of cranberries does not need advertising at all.

For most of the summer and autumn, housewives work at the stove, making numerous jars of jam from various fruits for the winter. If the year was fruitful, and you managed to enjoy fresh berries and fruits, then the winter preserves, for the most part, remain untouched. It's a pity? Of course, it’s a pity: both time, and effort, and products! Today’s article will help you manage your jam reserves and process it into another dessert dish – jelly.

Chokeberry pleases with its magnificent harvest, regardless of what weather conditions were in the summer. This shrub is very unpretentious. The berries remain on the branches until late autumn, and if you did not have time to pick them, and the birds did not covet them, then the chokeberry, along with the fruits, goes under the snow.