Viburnum Recipes; The Use Of Viburnum For Medicinal Purposes

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

Viburnum brushes - an autumn gift

How often in the fall, walking through the streets of our or other neighboring gardens, I see bright red viburnum brushes everywhere. But rarely any of the summer residents will take advantage of these free gifts of nature. Most of the berries go to birds or fall off.

Our distant ancestors knew about the healing properties of viburnum and successfully used it to treat various diseases. And now, in folk medicine, extracts and infusions from leaves and bark are used for nervous diseases, seizures, and also as a hemostatic agent for internal hemorrhages.

The fruits are used for stomach ulcers, colitis and other gastric diseases, and also as a vitamin, tonic and diuretic. A decoction of berries is used as a diaphoretic for colds, hoarseness, bronchitis. The seeds can be used as a coffee substitute.

Fresh viburnum berries are not very tasty, but, seized by frost, they become quite edible. In addition, after boiling and stewing in a sealed container, the bitterness disappears.

Viburnum fruits can be preserved throughout the winter, for this you need to fill them in a box and bury them in the snow. Can also be stored in a glacier or in a cold, unheated room.

Viburnum compote with apples

Boil washed viburnum berries and chopped apples in cooked sugar syrup for 8 minutes. Serve chilled.

For 200 grams of viburnum berries - 400 grams of apples, 300 grams of sugar, up to two liters of water.

Kalina in sugar syrup

Put the prepared viburnum berries in boiled glass jars, pour hot sugar syrup and pasteurize for 15-20 minutes.

For 1 kilogram of viburnum - 1 liter of sugar syrup (4%).

Viburnum pastila

Blanch the selected and washed viburnum berries in boiling water for three minutes, drain the water, pour the berries with 1 glass of fresh water and cook until softened. Rub through a sieve, add granulated sugar and boil until pasty. Transfer the resulting mass to wooden trays and dry in a Russian oven. Store in a cool dry place.

For 1 kilogram of viburnum - 800 grams of granulated sugar, 1 glass of water.

Viburnum jelly

Blanch the selected and washed viburnum berries in boiling water for 5-6 minutes (to reduce bitterness and soften the skin). Drain the water, pour the berries with 2 cups of fresh warm water and cook until softened. Rub through a sieve and mix with granulated sugar. Cook again for 50 minutes and place in hot, clean jars. Store in a cool place.

For 1 kilogram of viburnum - 1 kilogram of granulated sugar, 2 glasses of water.

Viburnum filling

200 grams of viburnum juice, 150 grams of sugar, 1 liter of vodka, 1 glass of water. Dissolve granulated sugar in water, add viburnum juice and vodka, stand for two days.

Viburnum juice

Squeeze the juice from the picked and washed berries. Pour the pulp with water, boil for 5-10 minutes, drain. Combine the broth with squeezed juice, add granulated sugar, stir and cool.

For 1 kilogram of viburnum berries - 200 grams of granulated sugar, 200 grams of water.

If you add applesauce to the juice from viburnum berries, then you can cook marmalade.

From the fruits of the viburnum, you can make jam, filling for pies and cheesecakes.

Many people love stewed porridge and cakes from viburnum (viburnum). Viburnum keeps well dried. Viburnum berries are dried in the sun for 2-3 days in attics and other well-ventilated areas.

So, if there are viburnum bushes with berries on your site, find a use for them using one of the proposed recipes, and, I am sure, you will never regret it.