Harvest and process sea buckthorn

instagram viewer

Sea buckthorn berries have a very high proportion of vitamin C. While this makes them healthy, harvesting is so difficult that it is quite tedious to collect a significant amount. How the harvest can still be successful and how you can easily make a delicious liqueur from sea buckthorn can be read in the following instructions

Sea buckthorn is a real vitamin C bomb.
Sea buckthorn is a real vitamin C bomb.

Ingredients:

  • 4 handfuls of fresh sea buckthorn berries
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 250 g of brown sugar
  • 0.7 liters of vodka
  • clean glass bottle (1 liter)
  • knife
  • Sieve
  • key
  • funnel
  • cooking pot
  • stove

You may have wondered why sea buckthorn products are so expensive. On the one hand, this is due to the fact that the berries are difficult to harvest. On the other hand, a sea buckthorn plant must be at least 6 years old in order to be able to bear at all.

Harvesting sea buckthorn berries - this is how it works

  • Depending on the region and climate, the sea buckthorn berries are ripe for harvest by the end of August / beginning of September. The problem, however, is that ripe berries are very soft, which - in addition to the almost inevitable contact with the spines - makes harvesting difficult.
  • Arm yourself with a good pair of secateurs and gardening gloves (rose gloves) that are as strong as possible and cut off the branches that you want to harvest.
  • At home, put them in the freezer until the berries are frozen, making them hard. That way, they won't squish when you touch them and you can more easily pluck them off the branches.

Sea buckthorn liqueur - a recipe

  1. After you've done the hardest part - harvesting and cutting off the berries - wash them thoroughly and put them in a saucepan.
    2. Sea buckthorn tea - effects and preparation of the vitamin C bomb

    Sea buckthorn is not only extremely healthy because of its high vitamin C content. …

  2. Add a tiny bit water and briefly boil the berries.
  3. Then put the cooked berries in a clean bottle along with a sliced ​​vanilla pod and add the sugar.
  4. Pour that vodka and close the bottle carefully. Then shake it.
  5. Put the filled bottle near a sunny window or in a warm room for 6-8 weeks and shake it every few days.
  6. Then be the finished one liqueur through a fine sieve and fill it again into a clean bottle using the funnel.

How helpful do you find this article?

click fraud protection