Preservation of watermelons in the banks for the winter

Watermelon is a favorite berry that gives sweetness and moisture in summer. It is very rich in vitamins, microelements and other substances useful to humans. But what to do if winter has come, and without these berries "in any way"? In this article we will tell you how to properly prepare pickled watermelons in the banks for the winter so that they turn out tasty and healthy.

Watermelon as a snack

Strangely enough, but watermelons are used not only as a sweet dessert in summer, but also as an excellent snack for the winter period. These berries are salted and pickled in jars, and many consider them no worse than pickled tomatoes and cucumbers.

Canned berries are obtained in the seams are not as salty as tomatoes, the pickle in them is sweeter. As a preservative in such marinades used aspirin, citric acid and vinegar.

From this berry make various preparations for the winter:

• marinate;
• canned;
• soaked;
• salt;
• prepare jam and confiture.

How to choose a product

Watermelon for salting should be intact, small and slightly immature. If you choose not such a berry - the preparation will turn out to be jelly-like. The ideal weight of the object - 2 kilograms.

The fact that the fruit is overripe, may indicate cracks on its surface. Also, do not buy specimens on which there are dark spots, dents, as they are not suitable for blanks.

The taste of seaming hopelessly spoil if at least a piece of this fruit falls into seaming.

Sterilization Cooking Recipe

Watermelons can be preserved in two ways - with and without sterilization. The first method of seaming takes a little more time. Let's look at the classic recipe for canning watermelons with sterilization in a can.

Ingredients

For seaming the berries will require:

• cans (you can take three-liter, you can take liter, it is convenient as a hostess);
• covers.

The recipe is designed for 1.5-2 kg of product, so for rolling it is necessary to take such products:

• 1.5-2 kg of ripe watermelons;
• 70 ml of 9% vinegar;
• litere of water;
• one and a half tablespoons of salt;
• three tablespoons of sugar.

Step-by-step instruction

In order to pickle the berry, you need:

1. In the pot pour a liter of water.
2. Add salt, sugar and bring to a boil.
3. Boil for 10-15 minutes.
4. Add 70 ml of vinegar, mix.
5. Wash berries, dry.
6. Cut into slices (so that it was convenient to put them in jars).
7. Pour the jars with hot pickle fruit.
8. Cap the lids and sterilize for 20 minutes.
9. After get them and roll.
10. Turn upside down and wrap a warm blanket.
11. After the banks have cooled down, transfer them to the storage areas for the seals.

Without sterilization

These fruits can be rolled up for the winter and without sterilization. This method of preparation is easy and fast.Let's consider the option of canned watermelons without sterilization.

Grocery list

In order to preserve watermelons without sterilization, you need to take:

• three-liter jars;
• sealing caps;
• boiling water.

For their seaming in the calculation of one three-liter jar you need to take the following ingredients:

• Product - you need to take only ripe. Green watermelon will be tasteless.
• Three tablespoons of sugar.
• One tablespoon of salt.
• 2 tablets of aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid).
• A slice of lemon, peeled from the zest.
• As a spice, you can add cloves, cinnamon, coriander, tarragon, allspice and mint. Fans of spicy taste can add hot red pepper at the rate of one pod per seaming.

Cooking

For seaming, you can take the berries and faint, and thick-skinned. Preparing such seaming is very simple:

1. Three-liter jars to wash and dry. Sterilizing is not necessary.
2. If you decide to add red pepper in the roll-in, then you need to lay it on the bottom. Pepper is not cut, put entirely. If the pepper is not cut in the roll, the fruit will not be sharp. If the peppercorn is chopped or cracked, then the seaming will be fiery.
3. Prepare the fruit.Wash berries, wipe and chop. Properly cut in this way - cut off the upper part in the form of a cover and the same from the bottom. To cut in half. Next, cut into semi-circles. And then split each semicircle. Each piece must be of such size that it can pass through the neck of the jar. It is not necessary to press and tamp the watermelon pieces, because the pulp is juicy and brittle.
4. Next, add two aspirin tablets to each container.
5. Put three tablespoons of sugar in each pot.
6. In a container pour a tablespoon of salt.
7. In each of them put a slice of lemon, peeled from the peel and peel, preferably without stones.
8. Pour boiling water over the jars.
9. Cover and roll up.
10. Turn the rolled-up containers with the lid down. Wrap a warm blanket.
11. After the tanks have cooled down (approximately the next day), they can be transferred to the basement, cellar, and storage room.

This method of salting watermelons in jars without sterilization reduces the seaming time and simplifies it.

Storage rules

If you can not keep fresh watermelon at least for the New Year - canned and pickled berries are an excellent option. Canned berries in cans can be stored for up to one year.

Marinated berries are stored longer, but, in principle, marinated homemade products should not be stored for more than a year and a half. You most likely will not be able to save the salted berries until spring.

This is connected not so much with the storage conditions, as with the fact that the blanks will be eaten until a limited time. To pickle these berries, use the refrigerator or cellar.

Pickled fruit should be stored in the same place as salted. You can sour berries in jars and in barrels. Pickled berries from salted differ only in special spices, such as ginger, garlic. This blank has similar storage times, it is better to use it until spring.

There are many recipes for preparing watermelons for the winter in banks and other containers (without sterilization), some of which were disclosed in our article.

Using these recipes seaming favorite treats, reading the photo blanks, you will be able to save a watermelon for a long time and will enjoy it in the cold winter evenings.