Another easy way is to start using lingonberry powder in your daily diet. Lingonberry powder is made by freeze-drying or heat-drying the fresh wild berries immediately after picking and then powdering them.
The heat-drying process compromises the nutritional value and taste of berries. On the other hand, the freeze-drying process guarantees that the berries maintain their excellent nutritional value, taste, and flavor. We add no sugar or any other preservatives. Ten grams of powder equals about grams of fresh berries, so a spoonful of powder is equal to a handful of fresh lingonberries. Use it just like you would fresh berries: for salads, smoothies, yogurt, desserts. Visit some of our lingonberry powder-based recipes: Layer cake with lingonberry cream filling , Homemade vegan lingonberry coconut ice cream without ice cream maker.
The only place to buy fresh or frozen lingonberries is usually in the regions where they grow wild: Northern Europe and Northern American regions like Alaska. The lingonberries season is relatively short, so the fresh berries are available for only about a month or two, typically towards the end of the summer. On the other hand, wild lingonberry powder is available all year round. It can be stored at room temperature, and it stays fresh for six months after opening a package.
We hope you enjoyed this blog post covering some of the most important facts about lingonberries. If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to us on our social media channels:. Have you ever heard of lingonberries, what they are and where they grow?
What are lingonberries? Where do lingonberries come from? How do lingonberries look? How do lingonberries taste? Taste of the wild lingonberry powder. Rated 5. Add to cart. How do you use this berry? Luckily there is no shortage of ways you can use it. In Sweden where I live lingonberry is consumed almost only as jam. It is commonly served with traditional foods like Sunday steak, the famous Swedish meatballs, reindeer but also for other parts of the day like topping a bowl of porridge.
To make it easier you can say that you can use lingonberries in any recipe where you normally use cranberries. The flavor and texture are close enough so most recipes work great. So pies, lemonade, jams, drinks all work great.
I even served lingonberries with a beef carpaccio once so it works for plenty of things. If you want to learn all there is about the Swedish meatballs you can head over here. To learn how to make lingonberry jam and a few other things with lingonberries just keep reading. Rinse the lingonberries so there are no leaves or twigs left.
Add the lingonberries and water to a pot and bring to a boil. Remove any of the foam which can build up on top. Add the sugar and stir and then let the jam simmer for about minutes. Pour into clean glass jars and seal. To make sure it will last you can add preservatives but the lingonberry jam usually keeps for a long time without anything added thanks to the sugar and its natural benzoate acid.
Especially if stored cold. This translates to raw stirred lingonberries and is exactly what it sounds like. All you have to do is to add fresh or frozen lingonberries to a bowl. Add sugar and stir. It is best to let the berries and sugar stand in the fridge overnight to make sure all the sugar has dissolved. It is super easy and very delicious. The ratio of the berries and the sugar depends on how sweet you like it.
I prefer to use about 2 parts lingonberries to 1 part sugar by volume. As a bonus there will be some juice left that you can use for something else, maybe the lingonberry cocktail that is coming up.
The raw stirred lingonberries will keep at least for a week in kept cold and covered. Benzoic acid is a potent natural preservative. All you had to do to store lingonberries was to put the berries in some kind of container, pour in water and put on a lid.
This made it possible for you to store the lingonberries for months. You can read in the texts that they ate lingonberries to all foods; like meat, fish, porridge, potato and other Scandinavian foods. Many poor people had boiled potatoes and lingonberries as their main food throughout the 19th century. It was landowners who first noticed that they could make money of the berries. Suddenly, there was an interest in buying the lingonberries.
There was a demand for the lingonberries from people who were unable to pick the berries themselves. Merchants realized that there was a lucrative market for the berries and through cooperation with landowners transformed the common lingonberry to a more valuable resource.
In the early twentieth century the railroad was built throughout the country. Germans in particular were very interested in the wild lingonberries from Sweden. To meet the growing international and domestic demand for these red super-berries landowners started hiring poor people during the picking season. This made it possible for children to help with the picking of the lingonberries.
It was during this time, the late 19th century, a lingonberry picking tool was put to use. When demand grew for the lingonberries, there was a need for a more effective way to pick the berries. This tool was actually developed in the end of the 18th century, but had not seen a widespread use before.
The value of lingonberries and the cost of labor had to reach a certain point before it was deemed worthwhile to invest in specialized tools. The tool itself is best described like a box with "teeth" that you rake over the lingonberry bush which are then gathered inside the box. It was a clever tool that made the work go alot faster. A lot more effective than picking every little berry one by one.
The funny thing is that the berry picking tool they used, is very similar to the ones you can buy today. Today we call it a hand rake. Before the tool was crude, bulkier and made of wood and iron. Now its more flexible, lighter and often made entirely of plastic. The more luxurious ones have metal instead of plastic on the part that separates the berry from the bush. You can of course pick other berries with this tool. It'll, for example, do wonders for your huckleberry picking needs aswell.
Take it with you next time you go out picking berries and try it out. In Scandinavia you can't really find cultivated lingonberries. You'd have to go to other countries to find the cultivated ones. But despite the fact that the lingonberries aren't cultivated, it's still big business in particularly Sweden. It is still most profitable for company's in Sweden to hire people to pick the lingonberries when it is season, instead of cultivating them.
So even if more than a century has passed, merchants are still hiring people to pick the berries in the same forests that our great-great-grandparents did. Lingonberries grows wild in Canada but it wasn't until as they really understood how important and fantastic this berry is. This was when they seriously started to look into the lingonberry as a new super fruit. I really hope that is not the case anymore. I hope that everyone in Canada knows about the lingonberry, how tasty it is and all about the health benefits it can provide.
If you are interested of knowing more about the health benefits, uses, taste and what and where to buy lingonberries I recommend you go to our dedicated lingonberry section. There are generally two types of lingonberry plants. The wild lingonberry called Vaccinium vitis-idaea. Then there is the cultivated lingonberry which they call the European lingonberry.
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