ground bird cherry- it is natural food supplement, which is very often used for making desserts and pastries. It is a powder made from the fruit of dried berries, which is crushed by hand. However, ground bird cherry can also be bought at the store in special sealed bags.
At the moment, there are three varieties of bird cherry: late, common and virgin. Based on these species, scientists have managed to artificially develop several other varieties that differ from their predecessors in a much larger size, as well as enhanced flavor.
Bird cherry was used not only as a decoration or filling for desserts. Due to its beneficial properties, the product is often used to treat certain ailments. Also, flour was made from bird cherry, on the basis of which tasty and tender pastries were obtained.
If you do not trust the manufacturers of aromatic additives and want to make ground bird cherry with your own hands, then in our article you will find a few recommendations that will help you simplify the process.
How to grind dry bird cherry?
You need to grind dry bird cherry correctly so that lumps do not form. You also need to make sure that the berries are not undercooked. To prepare ground bird cherry at home, you will need such a set of items:
- meat grinder;
- coffee grinder;
- bird cherry.
Before grinding the bird cherry, it must first be dried. To do this, take a baking sheet, cover it with parchment and lay out the berries in one layer. After that, send the baking sheet to the oven, heated to a temperature of one hundred degrees. Wait until the bird cherry is dry enough, then you can start grinding it.
In order to properly grind dry bird cherry, you will need a meat grinder. Many hostesses grind berries in a coffee grinder, but this is fraught with overheating of the device, as a result of which it may become unusable.
Pour dry berries into a meat grinder and chop as finely as you can. Only after the meat grinder can you additionally grind the bird cherry into powder.
Useful properties and harm
The beneficial properties of ground bird cherry are due to its composition, while harm can occur if the product is abused.
Bird cherry benefits due to a number of vitamins and trace elements that are contained in berries. So, it contains vitamins A, C, E, K, PP, D and all B vitamins. In addition, bird cherry contains iron, cobalt, zinc, copper, magnesium and other trace elements. Together, they help to saturate the body with the components it needs, which will positively affect the functioning of the immune system and internal organs.
The beneficial properties of ground bird cherry do not end there. Very often it is used for such purposes:
- as a means of lowering the temperature, since bird cherry has a diaphoretic property;
- for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and increased potency in men;
- to protect against unwanted conception, since bird cherry lowers the reproductive abilities of the body;
- for the treatment of colds and coughs;
- as an appetite enhancer.
Ground bird cherry is not suitable for diets, as it can increase the feeling of hunger, which will negatively affect the figure. But you can easily prepare cough decoctions based on it.
As for the harm, bird cherry can cause it if contraindications are not observed. So, it is not recommended to use it for people who have an individual intolerance to the product. It is also strictly forbidden to take the supplement to pregnant women or women who want to have a baby, as well as nursing mothers and children under eight years old.
Application
Ground bird cherry is used not only in cooking, but also in medicine, making useful decoctions based on it. For example, some venereal diseases and thrush in women can be cured with a warm decoction of ground bird cherry, used externally.
Among other things, infusions of dried bird cherry are used as an anesthetic for toothache. In order to appease her, you need a liter of hot boiled water add two tablespoons of ground bird cherry and leave to infuse for four hours. Rinse your mouth with this solution three times a day. Of course, it is still better to visit the dentist if the problem is quite serious, but a short-term toothache can be removed with such a decoction.
With bruises and sprains, you need to make compresses from the infusion of ground bird cherry. To do this, add four tablespoons of the product per liter of water, and also use a few bird cherry leaves. Leave it all to infuse for five to six hours, then moisten a clean cloth with the resulting liquid and apply it to the bruised area.
Here are a few more recipes for using ground bird cherry in medicine:
- For the treatment of gastritis and colic in the stomach, you need to make a special infusion. To do this, take 500 milligrams of boiling water and add ten grams of ground bird cherry. Place the infusion in a thermos and let it brew for about twelve hours. You need to take the remedy one hundred milliliters three times a day.
- With inflammation of the eyes or the formation of wounds and ulcers on the skin, it is necessary to prepare another decoction. Take 500 milliliters of boiling water, add a spoonful of ground bird cherry and twenty grams of its flowers to it, leave to infuse for twenty minutes. After the infusion is ready, you can treat your eyes and skin with it.
- Radiculitis, osteochondrosis and joint diseases can be treated with alcohol tincture of bird cherry. To do this, pour one hundred and fifty grams of ground bird cherry with 500 milliliters of vodka and leave to infuse in a cool, dark place for two weeks. Use the finished product as a liquid for lotions.
Among other things, ground bird cherry is also used in cooking. With its help, they make delicious cakes and pies, muffins and buns, add it to custard and sprinkle it on pastries. There are many recipes for making desserts that include ground bird cherry. With the help of our recommendations, you can grind it yourself, as well as protect yourself and your family from possible harm that this product can cause.
Pies of this molding are called "scallop pies", as they look like cock's combs. This is one of the most simple ways making baked pies. Such products are especially beautiful if you cut off the edges of the gluing with a curly wheel.
The filling can be anything, but I suggest you make it from dried bird cherry flour. If you were lucky enough to buy already ground bird cherry, then the filling can be prepared in a matter of minutes, and if fresh berries, then it will take much longer to cook. Fresh bird cherry is washed under running water, dried on a napkin and put in a warm oven until completely dry. After that, the berries are cooled and ground (possibly in a coffee grinder) into flour.
Bird cherry filling in Europe is still exotic. Products from it (patties, pies, rolls) are most often prepared in Siberia and the Urals. I loved it so much, you should try it too!
Ingredients
Dough:
- Premium wheat flour 400 g
- Yeast dry fast-acting 6 g
- Chicken eggs 1 pc.
- Butter (margarine) 75 g
- Milk (whey) 250 ml
- Sugar-sand 2 tbsp. spoons
- Salt 0.5 tsp
Filling:
- Dry bird cherry flour 175 g
- Granulated sugar 75 g
For finishing and baking:
- Chicken eggs 1 pc.
- Refined sunflower oil 1 tbsp. l.
How to cook pies stuffed with dried bird cherry
Beat the egg with salt.
Dissolve sugar in warm milk (35°C).
Sift the flour through a sieve, add instant yeast and mix.
Grate into the flour mixture on a coarse grater butter or margarine, add a beaten egg and pour milk with sugar in portions while stirring.
Knead the dough with your hands for about 20 minutes. It should not be dense, but elastic, and not stick to your hands. Roll it into a ball, put it in a bowl and cover with a linen napkin.
Leave the dough for 1 hour in a warm place until it doubles in volume.
Pour bird cherry flour with a small amount of boiling water, cover with a lid and then simmer over low heat until the mass thickens.
Add sugar to the hot bowl.
Stir the filling thoroughly until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Divide the dough into small walnut-sized balls.
Roll the balls into cakes and put 1 teaspoon of bird cherry filling on them.
Form pies in the form of large dumplings, cut with a zigzag wheel and put on a baking sheet greased with oil. Leave the products for proofing for 15–25 minutes, and then brush with a lightly beaten egg.
Bake pies until browned. Drizzle finished pies warm water and cover with a towel for 10 minutes.- Cool the pies and serve with tea, coffee or other drinks.
Pies, lush, soft, the very ones with which, as you know, the red hut is the best decoration for any hospitable table. What they don't do with! The list is endless. We will focus on a rather rare version of the wild berry filling - the famous bird cherry, which blooms in cold weather and whose taste, tart and sweet with a slight bitterness, is so pleasant.
Cherry jam for pies
The most elementary bird cherry filling for various kinds of pastries is jam. This is a ready-made product, which you just put in the dough and put in the oven. How to prepare it for the future? The collected berries are removed from the brushes, sorted out, then blanched in boiling water for 2-3 minutes for softness. On the same water, you can cook and from which you get an excellent filling of bird cherry. The consumption of products is as follows: for each kilogram of berries, at least 1.3-1.5 kg of sugar and 600 g of water are required. Pour the berries with hot syrup, let the jam boil again, and then keep it on low heat, stirring and skimming off the foam, until the dessert is ready. To make the future filling of bird cherry for baking tastier, you can add a couple of grams to the berries when cooking citric acid. When the syrup reaches the desired density and will "seize" and not spread, transfer the workpiece to sterilized jars and roll it up. One more piece of advice: since this is not just a jam, but a bird cherry filling for pancakes, pies, cookies, then at the very end put a little vanilla sugar in the bowl with the berries. Thus, this dessert itself will already smell like baking!
If the bird cherry filling for the pie in the form of jam turned out to be watery, you can do this. First, put the contents of the jar in a colander, which is placed over a saucepan. The syrup will drain, and the berries can be safely put into the dough. Secondly, there is another way to make bird cherry filling more tender and tastier. Wipe the berries through a sieve and add grated cottage cheese to them. Or beat cottage cheese with bird cherry syrup. The air mass will be very pleasant to the taste. If it doesn't seem sweet enough, add some sugar while beating.
dried bird cherry
Delicious, preserving all vitamins and beneficial features, is considered a filling of bird cherry for a pie, made from dried berries. Where to start in this case? Of course, from the fruits themselves. True, you can buy bags of berries in the store. However, everything that is made with your own hands is undoubtedly tastier and better. Spread the collected, sorted and washed bird cherry on baking sheets with a layer no thicker than 2 cm and dry in several steps in an oven heated to + 50-60 degrees. It needs to be turned over periodically. When the berries are wrinkled, sugar crystals will appear in their folds, and they themselves will acquire a tart-sweet taste, let them cool, pour into paper bags and store in places inaccessible to dampness. From such berries, a very unusual filling of ground bird cherry is made. But more on that below. How to use dried? About the same as raisins! That is, if you need to add berries to any dish, just steam some of them in hot water. The bird cherry will swell. Then it can be rubbed with the same cottage cheese. Or add to any fruit filling.
ground bird cherry
Ground bird cherry stuffing is a rather complicated product, primarily in its manufacture. Although in Rus' since time immemorial it has been used for various kinds of baking. To get such a filling, you need to grind the dried berries in a coffee grinder together with the seeds into powder. It turns out the so-called It can be put into the dough, mixed with ordinary wheat. And you can make a soufflé filling. To do this, pour the same amount of hot milk into 100 g of flour, boil for a minute or two and let it cool, brew, swell. Add sugar to taste, beat in an egg, put 150 g of curd mass, beat everything with a mixer or a whisk. This filling is suitable for biscuit dough pies.
Fresh berry filling
Here's another one healthy recipe, although somewhat labor intensive. Prepare the collected berries for processing. Scroll them several times in a meat grinder (at least 4, so that the bones are well ground) and sprinkle with sugar. Take products in a ratio of approximately 1 to 2, that is, for every 1 kg of berries, 2 kg of sugar. For taste, you can add a crushed small lemon.
When it comes to a pie, you should not forget that the filling plays a special role in it. The more unusual and tasty the combination of dough with any jam or jam, the more pleasure you will get from each piece of homemade cakes. Therefore, we offer you a wonderful recipe for a pie with bird cherry and sour cream.
This dessert is not only delicious, but also extremely healthy. Housewives rarely remember bird cherry when they are looking for a pie recipe, but in vain! Bird cherry with sugar is an ideal filling for baking. Slightly tart and sweet and sour berry goes well with yeast dough and tender sour cream. A pie with such ingredients will turn out to be hearty and healthy. Bird cherry pastries with sour cream can be treated to a large company, and everyone will be satisfied!
Cooking a pie with bird cherry and sour cream is not so fast, but quite easy. One thing is for sure: the result will pleasantly surprise you! Who knows - maybe after implementing this recipe, you will use bird cherry jam in baking much more often.
Ingredients
For the test
- wheat flour - 3 cups;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- butter - 65 g;
- cow's milk (3.2% fat) - 250 ml;
- vanilla sugar - 15 g;
- sugar - 3 tbsp. l.;
- salt - 0.5 tsp;
- dry yeast - 2 tsp (you can replace them with fresh yeast - 60 g).
For filling
- bird cherry berries (can be replaced with ground bird cherry) - 150 g;
- cow's milk (3.2% fat) - 500 ml;
- sugar - 150 g;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- cottage cheese - 200 g.
For sour cream
- sour cream (20% fat) - 400 g;
- powdered sugar - 100 g.
Cooking steps
Step #1. In order for the bird cherry pie to turn out fluffy and airy, it is necessary to knead the yeast dough in one of the most popular ways. The recipe for this test is simple. The main thing is to choose the right yeast. It does not matter what they are: dry or fresh, you will not feel much difference. True, with fresh yeast, a pie with bird cherry and sour cream will be more fragrant. Do everything in sequence, according to the recipe.
So, in a deep bowl, mix yeast, sugar, warm milk (but not hot!). This will be the dough for the pie. Leave the mixed ingredients alone for 10-15 minutes.
Step #2. In a separate bowl, break the egg, add melted butter, salt, vanilla sugar. Beat it all well with a whisk until smooth. Now add this mixture to the batter and stir. Gradually adding flour, knead the yeast dough for the pie. Remember - it should be without lumps.
Step #3. When kneading the dough, cover it with a napkin or towel and send it to a warm place. Let it rise until it doubles in volume.
Step number 4. While the dough is coming up, you can proceed to the preparation of the filling. The proposed recipe will turn out with any of the options for bird cherry jam.
Option one. Well, if you find ground bird cherry somewhere, then you can do it faster. Just pour the bird cherry powder with hot milk, add sugar and, stirring, cook the resulting mixture for three minutes. Then leave it for a while so that the bird cherry steams out.
Option two. However, if there was no ground bird cherry, or you want to use fresh berries, then we will share with you simple recipe cherry jam. Rinse the berries thoroughly and dry them (it is necessary that the excess liquid is glass).
As soon as the bird cherry berries dry up, pass them together with the seeds through a meat grinder two to three times. In no case do not grind the bird cherry in a blender, do it exclusively with a meat grinder! The more times you pass the minced meat through a meat grinder, the more tender it will be.
When the bird cherry stuffing is ready, in the same way as in the first version, pour it with hot milk, add sugar and cook for 3 minutes over medium heat. Don't forget to stir so the jam doesn't burn. After the specified time, remove the pan from the heat. The recipe for bird cherry jam has come to an end. It remains to let the future filling stand and swell.
Step number 5. In the cooled milk-cherry mixture, add the egg and curd cheese. Mix everything with a whisk until smooth, and then proceed to the preparation of the pie for baking.
Step number 6. Take any form with a diameter of 24-25 cm, put the yeast dough in it, forming high sides. Pour the filling on top of the dough. According to the recipe, after this step, put the form for half an hour in a warm place.
Step number 7. Now send the bird cherry pie to the oven preheated to 200 degrees and bake it for about 45 minutes. Then take the pan out of the oven and let the cake cool down.
Step number 8. Then proceed to the preparation of sour cream. His recipe will seem simple to you, but believe me - the cream will be very tasty! Mix heavy sour cream with powdered sugar. Make sure that there is no starch in the powdered sugar! Then beat the mixture and send it to the refrigerator to thicken it.
Step number 9. When the cake has cooled, remove the cream from the refrigerator and generously grease the pastries with a mixture of sour cream. Cream do not spare! Then the cake will turn out tender and soft. You can decorate it with mint leaves or bird cherry berries - there are already endless opportunities to show your imagination, although the recipe itself does not need any additions, because the cake looks very appetizing anyway!
Here the cake is ready! If you did everything consistently, then baking according to our recipe is simply bound to work out. Let the cake rest for a while, then cut it into small pieces and enjoy your homemade cakes. A pie with blueberries and sour cream will be a great decoration for any holiday table. Also, a delicacy is suitable as a breakfast on a day off or for a tea party with people close to you. Add this recipe to your bookmarks, write it down in a notebook and refer to it whenever you want to indulge in a healthy, juicy and tasty dessert!
And now the turn has come to the bird cherry, and we will cook a pie with bird cherry!
Here you are offered 3 simple and step by step recipe pie stuffed with cherry. It's worth a try!!!
The taste of such pastries is remembered for a lifetime. It is very thin and at the same time multifaceted.
But before moving on to the recipes themselves, I recommend reading a couple of lines about the bird cherry itself, as well as preparing the filling from it.
How to make cherry filling
By "bird cherry" I mean bird cherry jam (jam), fresh berries, and also dried (ground) bird cherry. And each of these ingredients will bring its own special notes to the overall taste of the cake!
You can buy ready-made bird cherry jam (jam). This saves time and maximum convenience!
You can make a filling with fresh berries. How to do this, because there are seeds in every berry ?! Very simple! Twist the bird cherry in a meat grinder several (5-7) times until a homogeneous mass is obtained. It may be watery or it may be thick. Then add sugar to it and cook, stirring constantly, over medium heat for 5 minutes. Let cool and thicken.
Most often, the filling is prepared from dried bird cherry. It is also called bird cherry flour. The berries were dried and then ground into powder along with the seeds. The filling is prepared simply: pour boiling water over it, mix it with sugar and let it brew (swell). In the markets, ground bird cherry is sold by weight, and in stores more often in such bags as in the photo above.
And if bird cherry grows near you, then you can pick fresh berries. Then you should dry them in the sun in a ventilated place or in an oven at a temperature of about 40 degrees. The resulting peas, similar to peppers, can be ground in a coffee grinder.
Recipes
Pie with bird cherry and sour cream
Very tasty yeast pie from bird cherry with sour cream filling. Looks beautiful, smells great!
This recipe is the most popular; similar pies used to be often sold in stores. Therefore, it is popularly called "pie from childhood", "grandmother's", "Siberian", "classic" and "Soviet". Touch and you to this legend!
Ingredients:
- Dry yeast - 1 teaspoon;
- Milk - 100 ml.
- Wheat flour - 550-650 g.
- Salt - a pinch;
- Sugar - 200 g.
- Butter (or margarine) - 100 g.
- Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
- Ground bird cherry - 1-1.5 cups;
- Sugar - 160 g.
- Sour cream - 200 g.
How to bake this cherry pie with sour cream
- Let's start with kneading the dough. Stir the yeast in warm milk, after 10-15 minutes, beat in the eggs, add sugar, salt and melted butter. Mix well until sugar dissolves.
- Pour flour into it and knead the dough. It should be soft and elastic. The degree of density can be adjusted by adding a little more flour or water.
- Leave the dough alone for the next 30-50 minutes - let yourself swell!
- While you can brew the bird cherry for the filling. Add enough boiling water to it to make a thick mass like jam. 50-100 g of sugar should also be mixed there. You can cover with a lid and wait, or you can additionally slightly sweat over low heat (5 minutes).
- Has the dough risen? Great! The baking sheet must be greased with oil, the dough rolled out, and then placed in this baking sheet, shaping the sides. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the dough for about 35-40 minutes until golden brown.
- Remove the resulting pie base from the oven, put a layer of steamed bird cherry on it.
- Beat sour cream with sugar residues (50-100 g), and then cover bird cherry on top with it. It turned out such a gentle sour cream, like a cloud covering the filling.
Yes, there is also such a cooking option: bird cherry is placed on raw dough, sent to the oven until fully cooked, and only then covered with sour cream.
Sand cake with ground bird cherry
Another one made from bird cherry flour, but cooked on the basis of shortcrust pastry. Not even just shortbread dough, but made in the form of crumbs.
Ingredients:
- Wheat flour - 320 g.
- Butter (or margarine) - 240 g.
- Sugar - 2-2.5 cups;
- Ground bird cherry - 210 g.
- Water (boiling water) - 0.5-0.7 cups;
- Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
- Sour cream - 240 g.
- Starch - 2 teaspoons;
Cooking a pie with ground bird cherry
- Let's start with the bird cherry. How to brew bird cherry for a pie? As easy as pie! Pour boiling water, mix and wait 30 minutes. The consistency should be like sour cream.
- Now let's move on to the test. Divide the butter into cubes and grind with flour and sugar (0.5 cups) until a lot of crumbs form.
- In the not yet completely cooled bird cherry mass, add the rest of the sugar, eggs, starch and sour cream. Mix well!
- Line a baking dish (preferably split and with high sides) with special baking paper. Pour on the bottom with an even layer of crumbs (70% of the volume). Then lay out the bird cherry filling, and sprinkle everything with the same crumbs on top.
- We put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 45 minutes. Then the cake should be allowed to cool completely.
Jellied pie with bird cherry
A quick pie based on batter and bird cherry jam (jam). But you can also use ground bird cherry from the recipe above.
Ingredients:
- Kefir - 270 ml.
- Wheat flour - 280 g.
- Baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
- Sugar - 110 g.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Butter (or vegetable) oil - 50 g.
- Bird cherry jam - 1 cup;
How to make cherry pie
- In a bowl, beat eggs with butter, baking powder and sugar. Put the flour there, and then mix again until smooth.
- Grease a baking dish with oil, pour 2/3 of the dough volume into it, then put the bird cherry, and then pour the dough again.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, put the cake in it for 35 minutes until a pleasant blush.
Puff pastry with bird cherry
Here everything is extremely simple and clear! We take ready puff pastry and a jar of bird cherry jam.
- Roll out the dough and divide into two layers.
- Place one on a greased baking sheet. Put the filling on the dough. If the filling is too liquid, then you can mix it with 1-2 tablespoons of starch.
- Cover with a second sheet of dough, pinch the edges, pierce in several places with a fork, and then send to the oven for 20-25 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.
Cherry and cottage cheese pie
This is not a complete recipe, but rather a tip, an addition to all the previous options. Just an additional ingredient that makes the filling taste more tender and nutritious.
Mash 200 grams of cottage cheese well with a fork, beat in 1-2 eggs and add 100-150 g of sugar. If desired, you can also add a pinch of vanilla and a couple of tablespoons of sour cream. Everything, this curd mass must be placed under or above the bird cherry layer.
Everything else is the same as in the recipes above!
see video how to make cherry pie
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