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Berry and herb vinegar: How to conserve the summer
Fruits and herbs from the garden taste fresh best. But the harvest season in summer is only short. To be able to enjoy them all year long, they must be conserved. One way is to make delicious vinegar out of it.

Fruits and herbs from the local garden
In addition to the warm temperatures, summer has another advantage: Now all the fresh fruits and herbs from the garden can be harvested and enjoyed. Out of season, they do not taste quite as tasty, but with the right preservation, you can take the taste of the summer even in the fall and winter. One possibility: make fruity vinegar out of it.

Now is the time to preserve the lush splendor of summer for the winter months. The abundance of fresh berries, but also on herbs, can be kept very well. You can use it to prepare jams or make vinegar from them. (Image: PhotoSG / fotolia.com)

Enjoy the harvest all year round
In the garden in summer you can often harvest many healthy herbs for seasoning. They taste best when you pluck the leaves or styles and freshly used. But the harvest is only stable for a short time.

To conserve a little of the summer, you can, for example, dry the plants, freeze them or make herbal oils with them.

Also, the fruit from the garden can be enjoyed through proper preservation throughout the year. Among other things, by making jam, jelly, syrup or juice from it.

Another option is to use fruits and herbs for the preparation of vinegar.

Vinegar from berries or herbs
The Provinzialverband Rheinischer Obst- und Gemüsebauer (Bonn) also believes that now is the right time to preserve the lush splendor of summer for the winter months.

"Because the abundance of fresh berries, but also on herbs, can be excellently preserved, in order to enjoy fruity and spicy in winter," the experts write on their website.

Both from berry fruits and from herbs you can prepare a delicious vinegar. For this simply let fruits or herbs in white wine vinegar for several weeks and then filter. This way you can achieve very individual flavors.

And those who have missed the season for their favorite fruits, can look at the direct marketing fruit farmers of his confidence once.

For in many farm shops vinegars are offered from their own production - or even liqueurs, which can also be made with fruits or herbs from the garden itself.

The Provincial Association points out that the rum pot was a very popular form of fruit preservation in the 70s and 80s. "Here a variety of fruits in rum and sugar were inserted and then enjoyed in the winter months." (Ad)