For those who do not know what can be done from house grapes for the winter, we will offer some ideas and tell you how to squeeze juice from juice, cook compote, and prepare delicious and useful raisins.
How to make juice from grapes?
Ingredients:
- grapes are ripe;
- sugar - to taste.
Preparation
If the harvest you harvested is white grapes, then to make juice from it you will only need to use the juicer , pre-rinsing the berries, having slightly dried and torn off the bunches. Grapes of red varieties have a more viscous flesh, which becomes more pliable and gives out a maximum of juice only after some preliminary actions. For example, grapes can be heated for a few seconds in a microwave oven or for several seconds in a saucepan with hot water, heated to a temperature of 75 degrees and only then subject to treatment with the device.
The resulting juice is poured into an enamel or stainless container, let it boil and boil for three minutes with moderate boiling, adding sugar in the process and allowing all the crystals to dissolve.
We pour the drink over the sterilized dry vessels, seal them with lids sealed for five minutes and dispose for self-sterilization under a warm "coat" until completely cooled.
How to make compote from grapes?
Ingredients:
Calculation for 2 liter cans:
- grapes ripe - 0.6 kg;
- filtered water - 1,2 - 1,5 l;
- sugar-sand - 220-260 g.
Preparation
The most delicious compote is made from grapes of red fragrant varieties. In this case, both the taste and color of the drink will be just perfect. Grapes are best cut directly before harvesting compote, separate from them and sort out the berries, and also rinse them and dry them. We fall asleep in sterile cans the necessary quantity of grapes and fill it with steep boiling water. Fifteen minutes later, the liquid base for compote is poured back into a saucepan and sugared with sugar. The crystals must completely dissolve with frequent stirring, and the syrup boils. After five minutes of cooking, pour the sweet liquid over the containers with grapes, cork them and turn them over under a warm "coat" for natural self-sterilization.
How to make raisins from grapes?
Compote and juice we have prepared, let's try to cook from the grapes delicious and incredibly useful raisins . Grapes for this must be taken only pitted, otherwise the product will be, to put it mildly, an amateur.
The most natural way to prepare raisins is to dry and dry the grapes in the sun. This process is long, but economical and low-cost. Depending on the attendant conditions, it will take from twenty to thirty days. Grapes for this we divide into small fragments or individual berries and lay out on a baking sheet or any blank sheet. To protect raw materials from insects, it is necessary to cover it with a gauze cut or mosquito net.
To speed up drying, some housewives stand grape for five seconds in a boiling soda solution, after which they are washed and spread out to dry.
In southern regions, the grapes are dried in the shade, since the high temperature of the air contributes to the same result as in the sun under moderate climatic conditions. However, the useful properties in this case, the finished product will contain more, and the appearance of raisins, dried not in the sun more attractive.
The oven will greatly accelerate the drying of the grapes. To do this, spread the grapes or small fragments of clusters on a baking tray and place it on the upper level of the oven heated to 70 degrees. Depending on the size of the berries for drying, an average of two days is required.