A cherry – one of the fruit-trees most widespread on Ukraine. Differs winter hardiness, the early introduction in fructification, annual big crops. Fruits of a cherry contain sugar, pectin, an inositol, organic acids (generally apple and lemon), tannins, carotene, vitamins C, In, RR, folic acid. From mineral substances contains a large amount of copper, potassium, iron, magnesium. Remarkable qualities of this plant possess not only fruits, but also stones, branches and leaves which are appreciated by unusual curative qualities. At the end of article the pie recipe Black wood, made on the basis of cherry products is provided.
A cherry – one of the fruit-trees most widespread on Ukraine
Cherry – one of the fruit-trees most widespread in Ukraine. Differs winter hardiness, pano enters fructification, annual big crops.
Cherry fruits with the painted juice (Morelia) use fresh and pererabatyvayut on various compotes, juice, jam etc.; with pink and neoyokrashenny juice (amoreli) and bales (cherry hybrids with chereshyony) – fresh, vozmozhna their processing on jam.
The tree of a cherry grows to 7 m, treats family of the pink. Blossoms at the end of April – the beginning of May. It is considered that the cherry occurred from neproizyovolny crossing of sweet cherry and a steppe cherry. Stones of a cherry are found in the iskopayeyomy remains of a paleolith. Plants consider by Rodiyona the city of Kerasund on the bank of the Black Sea. The first written data on a cherry belong to the IV century till a nayoshy era. In France a cherry and sweet cherry widely kultivirovali in the VIII century of a new era. In Russia for the first time the laying of podyomoskovny cherry orchards belongs to Yuri Dolgoruky’s board.
Fruits of this zamechatelyyony plant contain saxara, pectin, an inositol, organiyochesky acids (generally apple and lemon), dubilyyony substances, carotene, vitaminy With, In, RR, folic acid. From mineral substances there is a lot of copper (11,7 mg on 1 kilogramm fruits), potassium, iron, magnesium.
Seeds contain to 35 % of fat oil, amigdalin, essential oil. In a bark najdeny tannins, glycosides and lemon acid. In sostav gum enters araban, metilpentozan, a xylan. At different grades the content of vitamins variously. Average S-vitamin content of fruits makes 5-7 %. The cherry is rich with substances with R-vitamin activity – the pulp coloring is more dark, the it is more in it than these substances.
At the majority of dark red grades of type Vladimir the content of vitamin P makes to 1,5 %, at chernoplodny grades of Griot of ostgeymskiya, Shpank black, Chernoplodnaya Chistyakova – to 2,5 %. These grades almost don’t concede according to the content of vitamin P of an aroniya chernoplodny, to phaeochrous grades of garden mountain ashes (for example, Granatna), to apples.
Amount of folic acid in just ripened cherries of 0,05-0,15 mg of % (the daily consumer awn for the person makes 1mg). But if the cherry remains on trees of superfluous 10-15 days at warm, solar potode, the content of folic acid in it raises to 0,5mg %. It is a lot of in a B2 vitamin cherry. Usual grades contain it about 0,1 mg of %, and in some grades (for example, the Grotto the Victory) its quantity reaches 0,2 mg of %, or each 250 g of pulp of fruits contain 0,5 mg of B2 vitamin (at daily requirement of 2 mg).
To one of extremely valuable plants does a cherry existence of coumarins in it with prevalence oksikumarinov. These connections play large role in fibrillation normalization. They reduce coagulability and warn the heart attacks connected with formation of blood clots. Cherries are richer with iron, than them 1-3 mg of % of iron contain apples, pulp.
Cherry use in a crude, tinned and dried look.
From fruits cook compotes, kissels, jam, jelly, syrups, tinctures, fruit liqueurs, wines, a berry juice, fruit water.
Leaves apply during the pickling and a fermentation of cucumbers and other vegetables.
In medicine for treatment of some vascular diseases, stomach ulcers, gastritises use tinctures with amigdaliny, containing in cherry stones. But it reasonably, independently to resort to such treatment it is impossible, as overdose can negatively affect health.
The cherry improves appetite, taste of drugs. It recommend at an anemia, feverish conditions and as light laxative.
The pulp and juice have antiseptic properties. Cherry juice in nayorodny medicine apply as expectorant cure for bronchitis and bronchial asthma; arthritis; as febrifugal; at epilepsy and mental bolezhnyax.
Fruit stems use as a diuretic at otekax, an urolithic illness; as knitting at diarrheas, a dizenteyoriya; styptic at menstrual bleedings; branches – as knitting at zheludochyono-intestinal frustration; sveyozhy leaves – at jaundice, nosoyovy bleedings; roots – at stomach ulcer of a stomach; semena – at gout and a pochechnokamenyony illness.
Rayonirovanyony grades of a cherry are recommended: Gurtyevk, Payomyat Vavilov, Griot of ostgeymsyokiya, Griot Ukrainian, Shpanka early, Kentish (Skorospelka, May, Morel black, Kra sinsky, Shpanka krasnokutsky), Podbelsky, Turgenevka, Krasyony flag and others.
On the basis of cherry products we recommend to our readers preparation of fantastically tasty pie "The black wood".
On 12-14 portions it is required to you:
0,3 glasses of cherry jam, 1,5 glasses of a dried cherry, 2 tablespoons of cherry brandy, 400 g of black chocolate, 200 g of butter, 1,25 glasses of sugar, 1 h. l. vanilla sugar, 6 eggs, 0,3 glasses of a flour, vegetable oil.
For krema:2 a glass of the cooled cream fat content not less than 20 %, 0,25 glasses of powdered sugar, 4 h. l. cherry brandy, 4 tablespoons of a cherry from compote, 1 tablespoon of starch.
In a small stewpan to mix cherry jam with liqueur, to put on average fire and to heat up, constantly stirring slowly, 3 minutes. To add a dried cherry, to finish to boiling. To remove from fire, let’s cool down. Chocolate to pull down on small slices, to combine in a stewpan, to add butter and to kindle on average fire. To remove chocolate from fire, to pour sugar and vanilla sugar. Shaking up a nimbus, on one to hammer eggs. Without stopping to shake up, add a flour and accurately to pour in a cherry mix. To warm up an oven to 200ºS, a lattice to place on the lowermost level. A baking dish, it is best of all – hemispherical, to lay a foil so that edges acted on 7-8 cm, and a foil to grease with vegetable oil. To pour dough in the prepared form, to put in an oven and to bake 30 minutes. Then to cover form top with a foil and the furnace of 50 more minutes. To take out from an oven, let’s cool down completely. The pie can fall down a little in the center. It is necessary to press edges so that they were made even with on level to the middle. Densely to turn in a film and to leave for the night at room temperature. To prepare cream. To shake up a mixer cream with powdered sugar and liqueur. A cherry from compote carefully to dry, roll in in starch and to add in cream. To take out a pie from a form, to remove a film and a foil. To cut on 3 layers. Each layer to miss the mark with cream, to collect a pie. From above a pie also to grease with cream. Before coating cake layers with cream, it is possible to impregnate them with cherry vodka or cherry brandy.
Bon appetit!