This amazing blueberry pie. The recipe for bilberries for the winter

Few fruits and berries have both excellent taste and useful properties. Blueberries are just such a pleasant exception.

"Elite" forest berry, dizzyingly tasty, and at the same time able to restore the functions of a tired organism. Especially good is blueberries for the digestive tract. And it is used in a variety of forms: live (in raw form), ground, in the form of compotes and kissels, jams and even stuffing for pies. About this plant, you can also say that it is practically non-waste: the leaves of blueberries are used for medicinal purposes.

But let's not talk about sad things, and imagine for a moment that a cup of tea is smoking on the table, candies are winking in the vase, and a delicate aroma of blueberry pie emits next. The pie recipe is not at all complicated, and the result will delight even picky gourmets. So, for starters, the pie can be open or closed, and the dough is chosen for the taste of the cook. You can make a sand pie. To do this, we prepare the simplest dough (butter or margarine, eggs, flour, sugar, a pinch of salt and water), mix it and put it into the frying pan, not forgetting to make the skirts. In the "plateau" of the dough, we lay out blueberries: whole berries, sprinkled with sugar, or rub the berries with sugar and lay out already in the form of mashed potatoes. How to decorate a cake - the cooking decides. The finished product can be decorated with any cream, and you can serve it right. Closed cake with blueberry recipe suggests doing the following: the short pastry is rolled not too thinly, then not with a thick layer, laid out on a baking sheet (oiled), blueberry (whole or ground) is poured onto the dough, and another layer of dough is put on top, but Much thinner. At the edges of the dough, you need to tear to prevent the juice from "running off", and pierce the top layer of the dough with a fork in several places - this will prevent tearing and cracking of the cake when baking. Preparing the pie (closed and open) for a short time, 20-30 minutes. Variation with the test a lot: you can make a puff cake with blueberries - it will turn out to be airy and amazingly tasty; Yeast dough can be used. From yeast dough, by the way, you can make miniature pies with blueberries, which will become a wonderful snack.

Recipes for the preparation of blueberries are different for everyone. Do you want to pamper your relatives with vitamins in winter? This is very easy to do - it's just a matter of rubbing blueberries (you can with sugar), bagging and freezing. The main thing is not to defrost with the help of boiling water, otherwise there will be no vitamins - it's best to leave it just thawing warmly, slowly. You can also conserve blueberries: rub with sugar and, without provoking, roll up; With the help of such sunsets, you will be able to prepare a wonderful blueberry pie in the winter, the recipe of which is indicated above. You can also save the blueberries in dried form. To do this, clean dried berries are placed in the oven for a slow fire (if there is a possibility to dry on the stove - generally good) for several hours. Stored dried berries very well, most importantly, protect it from harmful insects. From dried blueberries in the winter will make a wonderful fragrant tea.

If you cook a blueberry pie, the recipe allows you to combine the berries, for example, with an apple. In this case, the taste and aroma of the cake will preserve apple and blueberry notes. This can be done if you do not have enough blueberries to make a big pie. Then, combining the sliced apples and blueberries, and sprinkling them with sugar, use as a pie filling.

Preparing for the winter dried or mashed blueberries, you can at any time be able to cook from it jelly, compote, add to yogurt, cook jelly, make a dessert with cream, bake a cake or blueberry pie. The recipe for the billet of a unique berry is different for everyone, but the value of blueberries and its refined taste remain always unchanged.