Strawberries for the winter: pastille and jelly

Blanks from strawberries for the winter can please youduring the long cold months, if you take care of them in time to make them. In addition to the banal, albeit very tasty jam, this fragrant berry can make a pastille, jelly, and also freeze it with sugar or just like that.

Billets from strawberries for the winter - pastila

An unusual form of this bright sweetness recallschewing sweets of industrial production. And to taste it looks like both marmalade and lollipops, although it is much more fragrant. Also (in comparison with jam) in a pastil a greater quantity of useful substances is saved. So, let's make these original blanks from strawberries for the winter.

Three kilograms of large intact berries are neededwash, peel, shake with a blender. Add a teaspoon of salt and three to five tablespoons of honey. Stir, use a ladle to pour on pallets, lined with parchment, and evenly distribute. Dry at thirty-nine degrees Celsius about twenty-four hours.

From time to time you need to turn the products over. Ready pastille strong, dry and very slightly sticky. Separate it from the sheets, roll into long tubes and press down with the palm so that they become flat. You can cut into small sweets and put in a dry clean jar. Store the ready-made paste preferably wrapped in paper in the room where food moth and other pests are not found. You can not cut it into small portions, but roll it up with a roll, put it in a paper box or a wooden box, which you first need to cover with wrapping paper. If you keep the pastille in a container or in a package, then they should be tightly closed. It can absorb foreign odors, which must be taken into account when storing. Also, the pastille must be protected from the sun.

Strawberries for the winter - jelly

First of all you need gelatin or agar-agar. Jelly from strawberries for the winter should have a very dense consistency. You can make it from fresh, as well as from frozen berries. They need one kilogram, gelatin - twenty grams, and sugar - a full glass (250 milligrams).

Rectangle strawberries, rinse and very diligentlyclean it from the pedicels. Make a blender in the blender and whisk it. Pour the resulting mass into a saucepan, add sugar and add gelling agent. On medium heat, bring to a boil without forgetting to interfere, otherwise the jelly will not become homogeneous. Take off periodically the foam. After boiling turn off the fire, but continue to stir. Hot jelly in sterilized jars, and then boil them in a water bath. It's almost as simple as freezing strawberries for the winter. If you decide to make blanks using a freezer, you need to remember that without adding a small amount of sugar, the berries will lose their shape after thawing. To avoid this, strawberries are sprinkled with sugar or powder. And when she gives a small amount of juice, freeze in a special container.