How to sort out lingonberries from garbage. Project "Homemade method of peeling lingonberries"

In front of you is a bucket of blueberries picked by hand, and you need to sort it out. Yes, picking blueberries in a good year is a pleasure, but picking them... However, this is not such a big problem.

We take, therefore, an enameled pan with a wide bottom and low sides or a dish and, tilting the bucket, pour about a handful or two of berries into the vessel. Then, shaking the dish, we roll the berries along the bottom. After that, just pour the blueberries into a bowl for clean berries.

It will turn out that about 90 percent of the leaves will be stuck to the pan, and the larger rubbish will become easily accessible to our nimble hands. Adhering leaves are easily removed with a dishwashing sponge; we kind of just wipe the pan from the inside, preparing it for the next serving of berries. I'm sure whoever sorted through the blueberries already understood me and appreciated all the advantages of the proposed "non-professional" method.

The main thing is that we do not touch tender forest berries with our rough hands at all. By the way, when collecting these berries, it is also better not to crush them with your fingers, but to carefully collect them with the so-called harvesters or rakes. And you will not have such weed berries, and even with petioles, as in the picture.

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I will share the method that was used in my village.
True, mainly for lingonberries ...
Under a pair of kitchen table legs, something is placed to tilt the countertop. The oilcloth, with which the table is covered, is tucked up to make a chute out of it. A stool is placed under the edge of the gutter. On the stool is a bucket for a clean berry.
You throw a handful of berries and roll them along the chute. From time to time you remove the garbage and wipe the oilcloth.
You cope with a bucket of berries pretty quickly ...)

Thanks, Alexey!

I understood the method. It is not very suitable for blueberries, since blueberries are soft berries,
and crushed berries do not roll well. In addition, this berry is also very wet, so it will stick to a smooth surface ... For cleaning blueberries, I have a gutter made of unplaned boards with low sides and a length of two meters. You install it obliquely and in a strong wind it turns out very productively. Professionals use this method most often. In general, we have a bucket of sorted blueberries like two unpicked ones. It's about something.

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There are several ways to quickly sort out lingonberries and clean them of debris. All of them differ in the complexity of implementation and the speed of cleaning the berries with their use. The most famous and often used are:

  1. Cleaning on an inclined surface with a vacuum cleaner switched on for air suction;
  2. Cleaning in the basin with a vacuum cleaner set to suck air;
  3. Cleaning on an inclined surface with a vacuum cleaner for blowing, or with a hair dryer or fan;
  4. sifting in the wind;
  5. Sifting on a sieve, the mesh of which is smaller than the diameter of the berry;
  6. Cleaning on rough surfaces.

All of them allow you to clean much faster than is done by simply taking out the garbage from the lingonberries with your hands.

With so much garbage, lingonberries cannot be used for culinary or conservation purposes, and their commodity price is significantly reduced.

In the most common methods of cleaning, the principle of cleaning is that the berries are heavier than garbage. When it enters the air stream, the berries either roll down the surface or fall off, and the debris is blown away by air or sucked into the vacuum cleaner.

Less often, cleaning is done due to the fact that the debris either sticks to the surface or wakes up in the cells through which the berries cannot pass.

How do these methods look in detail?

Cleaning on an inclined tray with a suction cleaner

In common parlance, this method is also called "rolling a berry." It is suitable not only for peeling lingonberries, but also for sorting through almost any other round berries. Its essence is as follows:

  1. An even wide long (more than a meter) smooth board is taken, the sides are nailed to it along the edges;
  2. The resulting chute is installed obliquely, resting its lower edge on a bucket or basin into which pure lingonberries will be poured;
  3. A vacuum cleaner is installed nearby, from the hose of which the brush is removed so that the hose remains open. The vacuum cleaner turns on;
  4. Cowberries with garbage are poured into the gutter from above in small portions (1-2 cups each). The berries roll down the chute into the receiving dish, and the debris remains on the surface of the board and is removed with a vacuum cleaner.

The video below shows how this happens:

If the gutter is installed securely, then one person can clean the lingonberries in this way. With his left hand, he pours berries, with his right hand he holds a vacuum cleaner hose and removes debris. Given the size of the entire structure, all these operations can be carried out at home: the chute with a vacuum cleaner will fit in the room.

With a large number of lingonberries, this method can be scaled up somewhat: a longer gutter is taken (up to 2-3 meters), 3-4 people with vacuum cleaners sit down along the edges of it, one pours berries on top, another one directly from the bucket takes out twigs that accidentally fall here, needles or leaves.

As a result, in 1 hour alone, you can clean a bucket of lingonberries. 5-6 people per evening after cleaning "roll out" 12-14 buckets - the entire batch collected during the day.

This method is well implemented if the lingonberries are fresh and have not let the juice out. A berry stained with juice sticks to the surface of the gutter and rolls poorly.

In extreme cases, you can clean lingonberries in this way without a vacuum cleaner, simply picking out the garbage with your hands or a rag, but this option is more labor-intensive, and cleaning from them is much slower.

Cleaning in the basin with a vacuum cleaner set to suck air

This method is not as fast as the previous one, but it compares favorably in that it does not require the manufacture of a gutter. In it, the berries are poured into the basin in such an amount that they lie in one layer, and from above the garbage from them begins to be sucked off with a vacuum cleaner without a brush. At the same time, the lingonberries are mixed with fingers. The main thing here is to adjust the distance from the vacuum cleaner pipe to the berries so that the leaves and twigs are sucked in, and the lingonberries themselves are not drawn in.

When a portion of lingonberries is cleaned, it is poured into another container, the same portion is poured into the basin, and the cleaning is repeated.

After cleaning, lingonberries should not contain any impurities.

Cleaning on an inclined surface with a blow-out vacuum cleaner

The whole device in this version looks the same as in the version with a vacuum cleaner for suction, but the only difference is that the debris is blown out of the chute by the vacuum cleaner, and not sucked up. This method has no obvious advantages, except that it can be implemented not only with a vacuum cleaner, but also with a hair dryer - more compact and light. Still, in places where berries are picked, especially in camps where visiting hired pickers live, there are usually not a lot of vacuum cleaners.

The peculiarity of this option also lies in the fact that you need to clean the lingonberries on the street so that the garbage does not fly around the room. Here, therefore, it is necessary to resolve the issue of how to connect the device (hair dryer or vacuum cleaner) to the mains.

This option has several modifications. For example, in the case in the photo:

a sieve with berries is installed on a large powerful fan from the refrigerator. A jet of air blows debris out of the sieve, the peeled berries are poured into another container, new ones are poured, they are cleaned in a few minutes - and so on until the batch is completely cleaned.

Sifting in the wind

The principle of this method is the same as that of the seed sifting method: the berries are poured from one container to another in a strong wind, from a sufficiently high height - 1-1.5 m. In this case, the heavier berries fall with a slight deviation and fall into the lower container, and light debris and leaves are blown away by the wind.

The video below shows such an option on a ship that transports pickers from the forest:

Here, the air pressure is formed precisely due to the speed of the vessel.

Perhaps this is the fastest way to easily and without unnecessary tools to clean lingonberries. Literally in 15-20 minutes, you can sift several buckets of lingonberries in this way.

In real conditions, when implementing this method, difficulties may arise, since in the forest, where the houses of berry pickers are usually located, there is no strong wind, and in general it is rare in the taiga zone in summer. But if in an organized way to bring a large number of lingonberries by car to an open area - in a field, on the river bank - then here you can quickly and easily clean out a very large batch.

Sifting on a sieve, the mesh of which is smaller than the diameter of the berry

This method is usually used in addition to others, since it allows you to clean lingonberries from small debris - dust, earth or sand. Leaves and branches will remain with the berries, and therefore usually this is how a bulkhead is done either before sifting the leaves, or after it, to completely clean the lingonberries.

The essence of the method is to lay out the lingonberries on a sieve, the mesh of which is smaller than the size of the berry. As a result, sand, dust, small pebbles wake up through the meshes, and clean berries remain on the sieve. They are then poured into a container with clean lingonberries, and a new portion is poured onto a sieve.

On a note

In this method, by the way, the berries can be watered and washed from dust and sand directly on the sieve. The water will drain, and the lingonberries will remain completely clean.

Cleaning on a rough surface

This method, in principle, is similar to the very first - cleaning on the gutter. The only difference is that the surface of the gutter is lined with fabric (sometimes it is even recommended to put a checkered towel there). Berries at a certain slope will even roll down the fabric, and the leaves and twigs will remain on it.

This is how this method is implemented on the example of honeysuckle:

The disadvantage of this method is that after each batch of berries, the fabric must be removed and shaken out. This slows down the whole process, but, unlike the vacuum cleaner method, it allows you to sort out the lingonberries away from the power source, even in the forest.

Of course, they are suitable for cases when there are a lot of lingonberries and many kilograms of them need to be sorted out. If at home you need to sort out 1-2 kilograms, it is better to use a simple basin with a vacuum cleaner or a small chute made from improvised materials for this.

Finally, sometimes it will be right to combine several methods in order to clean the berries faster and more completely. Whether it is worth doing this, and what methods to combine, will depend on what the berry is contaminated with and how severe this contamination is.

The harvested berries need additional attention - before processing the fruits, it is necessary to sort them and remove any rubbish that has accidentally fallen. Is it possible to facilitate this procedure, how to quickly sort through the berries?

How to sort out juicy berries?

Juicy berries (, ) are sorted by hand immediately before processing (these gifts of nature actively secrete juice, so it is not possible to store them for a long time).

The berries are not poured from the containers in which they were stored after picking. The fruits are taken one by one from the basket (box), sepals are removed, as well as adhering rubbish (straw, leaves), rot is rejected. If necessary, the berries are sorted by size, and then washed in the shower or in a bowl of water, dipping a half-filled colander into it. Raspberries, in order to remove the larvae of the raspberry bug, are immersed in a salt solution (20 g / 1 l) before washing. The sorted fruits are transferred to a shallow container or to an enameled basin for further processing.

How to sort berries with a dense skin?

And other berries, which have a less delicate texture, are sorted out using different methods. With a small harvest, the work is done manually (as is the case with juicy berries). In order to make it more convenient, the berries are poured in small portions into a flat tray (this makes it easier to remove debris and discard spoiled fruits).

This method does not justify itself with a large crop (the work takes a lot of time), so the process is often simplified. For this one raise the edge of the table by 30-40 cm. Barriers are organized on the sides of the tabletop (use planks or towels rolled up with a roller). At the bottom there is a container for collecting berries. Instead of a table, a tray is often used, closed with planks on three sides (the shape of this device resembles the letter P, the length of the sides is 1.5-2 m, and the height of the sides is about 15 cm). As in the case of the table, the top edge of the tray is raised. Fruits are poured in small portions onto the surface of the table or tray. Thanks to the slope, they roll down, and the debris remains on the surface (at least most of it). As the garbage accumulates, it is removed from the table.

Another method involves the use of a cold jet of air (a hair dryer is used). The berries laid out on an inclined plane are left for a while (so that excess moisture evaporates), and then the litter is blown off with a hair dryer.

If it is necessary to sort the berries by size, use sieves made of stainless steel or soft material (sheet rubber, plastic) with cells of the desired diameter (8-16 mm).

At the next stage, the fruits are immersed in cold water and gently mixed. This allows not only to wash the crop, but also to remove the remaining rubbish (twigs and leaves float to the surface, from where they can be easily removed). In case of severe contamination, the procedure will have to be repeated 2-3 times.

How to sort out wild berries?

When harvesting wild berries, you can sort them directly on the spot. You can organize an inclined plane with the help of poles and a piece of cellophane. It will not be possible to completely remove the garbage, but there will be much less work (upon arrival home, it is enough just to immerse the berries in a bucket of water and remove the emerging debris). The berries sorted in this way will have to be processed immediately.

How to sort out viburnum and rowan berries?

Rowan and some other berries are harvested by cutting off the brushes. How to sort berries? For these purposes, they often use an ordinary fork - the prongs are threaded between the branches and the berries are carefully removed into a bowl. The rest of the branches have to be cut off manually.

How to pick berries? Having collected a rich harvest of fruits, you will have to spend a rather long period of time on the processing process. A few simple tools will make your job easier.

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- a fairly common berry in the middle lane, from which you can make blanks for the winter. Grated with sugar, soaked, prepared in its own juice or without cooking - look for these and other recipes in our selection.

What is useful cranberries? Blueberry berries are a powerful antioxidant that slows down aging. In addition, lingonberry berries and leaves have a wide range of medicinal properties and are used for the prevention and treatment of many diseases (colds, beriberi, rheumatism).

What to do with cranberries? At home, you can cook a lot of tasty and healthy preparations for the whole family from lingonberries. And at the first sign of malaise or as a prophylactic, regularly open a jar of jam, compote or a bottle of homemade tincture.

You will need: 1 kg cranberries, 1 kg sugar.

Cooking. Sort the berries, wash and dry well. Place the prepared berries in sterilized jars in layers, alternating with sugar. Shake the jar occasionally to compact the layers. The top layer should be a layer of sugar. Close the jars with ordinary nylon lids and store the workpiece in the refrigerator.

In such a blank, all the beneficial properties of lingonberries will be preserved.

You will need: 1 kg cranberries, 1-2 kg sugar.

Cooking. Sort the berries, rinse, dry and sprinkle with sugar to taste. Grind the berries with a blender or mash with a potato press. Let the berry mixture stand, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon to dissolve the sugar. Then put the lingonberries in sterilized jars, close the lids and store in a cool dark place.

This fragrant tasty jam will fall in love with the whole family.

You will need: 1 kg lingonberries, 1 kg apples, 1.3 kg sugar, 1 glass of water.

Cooking. Rinse the berries and blanch in boiling water for a couple of minutes. Peel the apples from the skin and seeds, cut into thin slices and also blanch. Then put the berries and apples in a saucepan, pour the syrup prepared from sugar and 1 cup of water and cook, stirring, until tender. Arrange the finished jam in jars, cork and store.

Such jam will be an excellent independent dessert or filling for homemade pies.

You will need: 1 kg of cranberries, 1 kg of pears, 1.5 kg of sugar, 3 cups of water.

Cooking. Sort the berries, rinse, pour boiling water for a couple of minutes, then discard in a colander and dry. Peel the pears from the skin and seeds, cut into slices. Boil syrup from sugar and water, place berries and pears in it, mix, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Leave on for at least 2 hours or overnight. Then bring the jam back to a boil, cook for 10 minutes, immediately place in jars and roll up.

This easy-to-prepare preparation of lingonberries is not only tasty, but also useful as a cold prevention.

You will need: 1 kg lingonberries, zest of one lemon, 300 g sugar, 2 tbsp. water.

Cooking. Rinse the selected berries and put them in sterilized jars. Boil the syrup from water, sugar and grated lemon zest, cool it and pour over the prepared berries, roll up.

Spicy soaked lingonberries will be an excellent addition to meat dishes.

You will need: 1 kg cranberries, 2 tbsp. sugar, 2 tsp salt, cinnamon sticks, vanilla pods, cloves, peppercorns to taste.

Cooking. Place the selected, washed and dried berries in an enameled or glass container. For the brine, boil water, add sugar, salt and spices, cool and pour over the berries. Cover the container with gauze and leave for several days in a cool, dark place. Then spread the berries along with the brine in jars and cork.

Prepare such a compote and drink at the first sign of a cold.

You will need: 1 kg lingonberries, 800 g sugar, 8 liters of water.

Cooking. Sort the berries and wash. Boil the syrup from water and sugar, place the berries in it, bring to a boil and cook for 2-3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then pour into sterilized jars and roll up.

If you don’t know what to make from lingonberries, grind it with sugar!

You will need: 2 kg cranberries, 2 kg sugar.

Cooking. Sort the berries, rinse, pour boiling water over and dry. Then mix them with sugar and puree with a blender. Arrange the berry mass in plastic containers with a lid or jars of drinking yogurt and store in the freezer.

The best preparation for the winter from lingonberries is jam.

You will need: 1 kg cranberries, 800 g sugar, 1 glass of water.

Cooking. Place the selected and washed berries in a deep enameled saucepan, pour in water and cook over low heat for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add sugar, stir and cook for another 40 minutes. Arrange the finished jam in jars, cork, cool and store in a cool dark place.

A quick way to make delicious jam from lingonberries.

You will need: 3 kg of berries, 2 kg of sugar.

Cooking. Pour the washed berries with boiling water, place in a saucepan, sprinkle with sugar and let stand for 1 hour. Then put the pan over medium heat, stirring, bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes. Cool the finished jam, put it in jars and close the lids.

Orange will give the lingonberry preparation a pleasant citrus aroma and additional vitamins.

You will need: 1 kg lingonberries, 1 kg oranges, 1 kg sugar.

Cooking. Sort the berries, rinse, dry and place in a saucepan. Sprinkle with sugar and put to cook on a slow fire. Dip the oranges in boiling water for a couple of minutes, dry, cut into slices and, removing the seeds, twist into a meat grinder along with the zest. As soon as the berries with sugar boil, boil them for 15 minutes and add the crushed orange mass. Boil the jam for another 30 minutes, then immediately spread it into jars, close the lids and cool. Store the workpiece in the cellar.

The classic lingonberry sauce is the perfect accompaniment to game dishes.

You will need: 2 cups lingonberries, 0.5 cup sugar, 0.5 cup apple cider vinegar, 1 cinnamon stick, 5 clove buds, 1 thyme sprig, salt to taste.

Cooking. Combine all ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil over low heat. Cook, stirring, for about half an hour. Remove the spices from the sauce, transfer it to a sterilized jar, cork and store in the refrigerator.

You can make delicious jelly from lingonberries with a pleasant taste and unique aroma.

You will need: 8 cups lingonberries, 4 cups sugar, 50 g gelatin, 3 cups water.

Cooking. Pour boiling water over the selected berries, discard in a colander and rub with a potato press. Then squeeze the resulting berry mass through gauze. Add sugar to the resulting juice and cook over low heat, stirring until it dissolves. Bring the mixture to a boil, add gelatin, stir and cook for a couple more minutes. Arrange the finished jelly in jars, sterilize and roll up.

You will need: cowberry berries.

Cooking. Sort the berries and divide into two parts. Squeeze the juice from one part, mix with the other part of the berries and bring to a boil. Immediately spread the berries along with the juice in jars, cork, cool and store in a dark, cool place.

After reviewing our selection of recipes, you will definitely know how to save lingonberries for the winter. Add the material to your bookmarks and cook with pleasure!

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Content

Introduction

What is lingonberry?

Positive and negative aspects of cranberries

Poll "How do you clean lingonberries?"

Research work “Which method of cleaning is fast and high-quality?”

Practical work "Homemade lingonberry cleaner"

Conclusion

References

Introduction

Each family has its own traditions. One of our family's favorite traditions is going out into nature. We walk, pick berries, chop firewood.... Every year we pick lingonberries. And this year we collected 20 buckets. And before us was the question "How to quickly clean lingonberries?". Therefore, I decided to write this work.

The purpose of the work: to explore a quick way to clean lingonberries.

Tasks:

    To study the literature on the topic "Cowberry";

    Conduct a survey "How do you peel lingonberries?";

    Find out which cleaning method is fast and high-quality using your own example;

    Homemade "Quick cranberry cleaner from debris."

In coniferous forests in the winter cold, you can see small, green, leathery leaves peeking out from under the snow.This lingonberry is a valuable plant, its leaves and berries are used in cooking and to eliminate a wide variety of diseases. The benefits of lingonberries have been known since antiquity, but due to the medicinal properties, the plant can also cause negative consequences, so you need to use it, observing some nuances.

Due to its medicinal properties, lingonberries are valued in our republic.For the winter, people try to prepare as many berries as possible; thanks to benzoic acid, lingonberries are stored in a cold place even without adding sugar. For treatment, both fresh fruits and leaves are used.Berries are used with a lack of vitamins in the body, with coronary heart disease, pulmonary tuberculosis.Berry juice helps to cope with scabies, lichen, psoriasis. Drinking juice reduces high blood pressure. Cowberry treatment is carried out in case of detection of renal and cardiac pathologies, gastrointestinal diseases. It is recommended to eat berries during the recovery period after severe somatic diseases. Lingonberries are useful for rheumatism, diabetes. Lingonberries are harvested in different forms - preserves, jams, often stored simply in a dry container at a certain temperature. Especially useful lingonberries in old age.Its constant use reduces the risk of developing heart disease, reduces the likelihood of a heart attack, and removes accumulated salts from the body.

From the berries they prepare fruit drinks that are magnificent in their properties.In order to properly prepare it, frozen or soaked berries in the amount of half a glass should be poured with a liter of boiled water and crushed, after which the drink is filtered. Morse has a good diaphoretic property, helps to cope with colds, improves immunity, reduces temperature. Cowberry juice removes toxins accumulated in the body, which improves well-being and reduces the days of illness.

The results of the survey "How do you clean lingonberries?"

20 families were interviewed. It turned out that they use the following methods:

    With the help of the palm;

    With fan;

    With the help of the wind;

    With the help of a saucer;

    With the help of a grid;

    With a vacuum cleaner;

    By using

I researched which way is best. For this, I cleaned a three-liter bucket of lingonberries in 4 ways. In three days, the grid turned out to be the fastest way. The results are shown in the diagram.


We took the mesh from my grandmother. And I decided to do this. We did not find a grid, but a radiator from an old refrigerator came in handy.

Conclusion

Having done the work, I came to the following conclusions:

    learned positive andnegative sides of lingonberries;

    There are many ways to clean lingonberries from debris;

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