Dishes with hawthorn — 9 delicious homemade recipes

In terms of vitamin C content, hawthorn ranks first among all the fruits and berries that grow in central Russia.

Hawthorn is used in cooking, both freshly picked and dried.
From fresh fruit we usually make at home jam , preserves , jelly and compotes . A very tasty jam also comes from a berry as useful as hawthorn.

When dried, hawthorn berries are ground and added to the flour when baking various buns. Dried hawthorn berries can also be crushed. A good tincture comes from a berry like hawthorn. You can also make various drinks from them, such as tea. Fresh hawthorn berries are great for cooking various hawthorn dishes .

We offer hawthorn recipes for home cooking.
To make a hawthorn sauce that you can eat with pancakes or cheesecakes, take ripe hawthorn, cook the berries until tender, and drain the water. After that, mash the berries, sweeten to taste, and rub the mixture thoroughly until smooth.
To make a delicious filling for hawthorn buns, take half a kilo of mashed hawthorn berries, 200 g of apples, 100 g of peanuts, and a little sugar. Apples should be grated or finely chopped, then everything is mixed together. After that, simmer the resulting hawthorn mixture on the stove for ten minutes.
For hawthorn pastille, take 1 kg of mashed hawthorn berries and add a glass of sugar. Heat it all until the sugar dissolves, spread it on a baking sheet, and dry it in the oven.
Take ripe hawthorn berries, coat them with sugar, pour them into a jar, and pack them down. Then add more sugar and pack again. Pour more sugar on top. You'll get hawthorn in sugar .