Cranberries and lingonberries are two sisters from the far north. These berries have long been known for their healing properties, so they are widely used not only in cooking, but also in medicine. They differ slightly from each other in taste, and chemical composition. Cranberry is sour, and its main wealth is ascorbic acid. However, in addition to it, the berry contains vitamins B2, PP, folic acid, carotene and pectin.

Lingonberries are slightly sweeter than cranberries and are no less unique in composition. It is rich in fructose and glucose, contains a large amount organic acids, carotene, vitamin C, pectin, fiber and tannins. Cranberries and lingonberries are often recommended for colds. These berries bring many benefits. They have antipyretic and antiviral effects, are an excellent medicine for cystitis or constipation.

The latter is especially true during pregnancy, therefore, compote cooked from these berries is recommended for expectant mothers to drink. In summer, it perfectly quenches thirst and helps keep the body in good shape. In winter, it can be easily cooked from frozen berries, and the rich vitamin and mineral composition will support the body, exhausted by long cold months. Let's analyze step by step process preparing a drink.

Recipe for lingonberry and cranberry compote

Ingredients

Servings: - + 10

• cowberry 650 g
• cranberry 100 g
• lemon 1 PC.
• sugar 100 g
• water 1 l

per serving

Calories: 37 kcal

Proteins: 0.29 g

Fats: 0.17 g

Carbohydrates: 8.97 g

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Berries are placed in a colander and washed thoroughly. We remove garbage and spoiled fruits.

My lemon, using a fine grater, remove the zest. Cut into 2 halves and squeeze the juice.

Pour the required amount of water into the pan and bring to a boil. Then add berries to the boiling syrup and lemon juice, bring to a pronounced seething and reduce the fire to a minimum. In this state, cook for about 3 minutes.

We fall asleep sugar, zest and cook until the crystals are completely dissolved. Let it boil for another 5 minutes.

Finally, remove from the stove and cover with a lid. Let stand until cool.

delicious fragrant compote from lingonberries and cranberries as in the photo is ready! You can safely pour it into a decanter and serve. In a cool place, the drink can be stored for several days. See the video recipe for a compote with apples.

Features of making compote from frozen berries

This drink is easy to make. You need to take 200 grams of cranberries and lingonberries, 3 tablespoons of sugar and 2.5 liters of water. No need to waste time defrosting berries. Directly from the freezer, we send them to the pan, cover with sugar and pour water. Bring to a boil and then cook for another 5 minutes. Let's wait a bit, and delicious drink with the aroma of northern summer is ready.




The same recipe can be used to make compote in a slow cooker. In addition, 2 finely chopped apples and 100 grams of sea buckthorn can be added to the compote. From this, the drink will only benefit in taste.

It is much more useful than purchased juices and nectars and, unlike them, contains only natural ingredients. Cranberry and lingonberry compote, no doubt, will appeal to everyone - both adults and children. It will be a wonderful decoration of the festive table and at the same time saturate your body with vitamins and minerals. If desired, you can add other berries and fruits to it - this will enrich the taste and make the drink even more aromatic.

Cowberry is a very valuable and useful wild berry. It is known to be used in the treatment diabetes as it helps lower blood sugar levels. Cowberry berries contain substances that help purify the blood to prevent atherosclerosis, help with gastritis and hypertension.

Cowberry infusions have long fought gout and rheumatism, kidney stones, and taken as a diuretic. Cowberries effectively affect the human body in case of colds, as a diaphoretic and expectorant. What to know to cook lingonberry compote?

Choose ripe lingonberries for compote, unripe berries give the compote a bitter taste. Sort the berries from foreign impurities, stalks, rotten and unripe berries, rinse thoroughly in cold water. It is very important that lingonberries are not digested during the preparation of compote.

Compote should be cooked 3 hours before the time when it needs to be served at the table. How to cook lingonberry compote? It will be especially tasty if you add a little citric acid during cooking. It is good to put some lemon peels into the compote during cooking, and take it out immediately after it has cooled down.

Pour purified water into an enameled pan. Put on fire, boil water. Rinse currant berries under running water. Put berries and fruits into boiling water, add sugar, cook for 5-10 minutes. Ready compote cool, strain, pour into glasses. Store in a cold place.

Compote from frozen berries is not inferior to cooked from fresh fruits. The fact is that low temperatures freezer provide berries long-term storage without loss of taste and useful properties, thanks to which housewives can prepare fragrant, vitamin-assorted drinks, combining with each other harvested for the whole season.

How to cook compote from frozen berries?

How much to cook compote from frozen berries is the most common question that arises before preparing a drink. Here everything is determined by the variety of berries, but if you do not go into subtleties, then the cooking time should not exceed 10 minutes. At the same time, it takes 5 minutes to cook the sweet syrup, and the remaining time is given to the boiling of the berries in it.

1. Delicious compote from frozen berries will turn out only in enamelware. The use of aluminum utensils is strictly prohibited. Berries contain a lot of acid, which reacts with aluminum, causing the drink to become tasteless and "harmful".
2. Berries are not defrosted before cooking. Defrosting leads to loss of berry juice.
3. If you want to combine several varieties of berries, it is better to adhere to the proportions: a concentrated compote from a frozen mixture will require 1 kg of berries, 1 liter of water and 750 g of sugar. For a regular drink, 100 g of berries and 100 g of sugar are taken per liter of water.

Frozen cherry compote occupies a leading position among winter vitamin drinks. It's quick and easy to prepare, and taste properties berries, enough for the compote to acquire a rich sweet and sour taste without any additions. In addition, cherries and syrup are boiled at the same time, which allows the drink to be served after 5 minutes.

Ingredients:

• water - 3 l;
• frozen cherries - 550 g;
• sugar - 250 g.

Cooking

1. Pour the berries with water, add sugar and put the pan on the fire.
2. Bring to a boil and cook compote of frozen cherries for 5 minutes.
3. Insist until completely cooled under a closed lid.

Frozen cranberry compote will save you from buying pharmaceutical preparations for colds, because a small berry contains vitamin C, citric and quinic acids, which makes it a powerful natural remedy. True, due to the high acidity, cranberries acquire a bitter-sour taste, which is easily softened by increasing the amount of sugar.

Ingredients:

• frozen cranberries - 350 g;
• sugar - 200 g;
• water - 2 l.

Cooking

1. Pour sugar with water, put on the stove and bring to a boil.
2. Add berries and simmer for 10 minutes over low heat.
3. Infuse frozen cranberry compote for 30 minutes.

Frozen lingonberry compote will cure colds, relieve hangovers, cleanse the circulatory system, invigorate and refresh. Another northern berry with a vitamin composition and a sour taste. Unlike cranberries, lingonberries do not tolerate heat treatment, so the berries are thawed and boiled in syrup for no more than 3 minutes.

Ingredients:

• lingonberries - 300 g;
• sugar - 250 g;
• water - 2.5 l.

Cooking

1. Take the berries out of the freezer and let them thaw.
2. Make syrup from water and sugar.
3. Drain excess liquid from thawed berries and put lingonberries in syrup.
4. Boil for 3 minutes and immediately remove from the stove.
5. Compote of frozen cranberries is infused until completely cooled, filtered and served.

And frozen currants are an original combination in which blanks of different texture and storage have turned into a bright, rich vitamin drink. This recipe is a balanced combination in which sour currant complements the taste and color of a spicy-sweet base of apples, raisins and dried apricots.

Ingredients:

• frozen currant - 150 g;
• dried fruits (apple, dried apricots, raisins) - 50 g each;
• sugar - 200 g;
• water - 4 l.

Cooking

1. Pour the sugar with water, bring the syrup to a boil and put the dried fruits.
2. Boil compote for 15 minutes.
3. Add frozen currants and cook for another 10 minutes.
4. Strain after an hour.

The easiest and most convenient way to enrich yourself with vitamins is to cook frozen cherries. The availability of apples and their cheap price make it possible to enjoy a natural drink regardless of the season. This also applies to cherries: if you don’t have one prepared with your own hands, you can always find it in the refrigerator of any store.

Ingredients:

• apple - 4 pcs.;
• frozen cherries - 250 g;
• sugar - 125 g;
• a slice of lemon - 1 pc.;
• water - 3.5 l.

Cooking

1. Remove the stalk from the apples and cut the fruit into slices.
2. Pour apples with sugar, pour in water and cook, after boiling, for 10 minutes.
3. Add cherry, lemon slice and boil for 10 minutes.
4. Give it time to stand.
5. Strain before serving.

Compote of frozen berries and herbs

Frozen berry compote - a recipe that involves various combinations. Combinations of berries with herbs are especially popular, among which raspberries and mint are often chosen. The latter has a fresh taste and bright aroma, which is well revealed at high temperatures, and because the drink can be drunk hot, which is important in winter.

Ingredients:

• dried mint - 100 g;
• frozen raspberries - 500 g;
• water - 2.5 l;
• sugar - 200 g.

Cooking

1. Pour mint with a liter of hot water and leave for 30 minutes.
2. Strain, add slightly thawed raspberries, sugar and the remaining water to the broth.
3. Brew on small fire 7 minutes. Insist for an hour under the lid.

Frozen gooseberry compote is an exclusive drink. The berry season is short, and store-bought gooseberries are rare, so housewives have to harvest berries on their own. The effort is worth it, thanks to the high benefits of gooseberries and their pleasant taste, which is complemented by lemon and mint.

Ingredients:

• gooseberries - 500 g;
• water - 1.8 l;
• sugar - 250 g;
• lemon - 1/2 pc.;
• fresh mint leaves - 5 pcs.

Cooking

1. Pour thawed gooseberries with water, add sugar and bring to a boil.
2. Add lemon wedges, mint leaves and simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Give the compote time to infuse, strain and refrigerate.

According to the cooking technology, compote from frozen berries for a child does not differ from an adult. Here the focus is on the choice of components. Assorted berries will bring the maximum benefit, provided that there are no allergenic fruits. The most harmless are currants, cranberries, blackberries, raspberries, and it is better to refuse strawberries and wild strawberries.

Ingredients:

• blackcurrant - 100 g;
• raspberries - 50 g;
• blackberry - 70 g;
• cranberries - 50 g;
• sugar - 120 g;
• water - 3 l.

Cooking

1. Pour water over sugar and boil for 5 minutes.
2. Add berries.
3. from frozen berries, boil for 10 minutes, let it brew for 30 minutes and strain.

Compote from frozen berries in a slow cooker - recipe

Many housewives prefer frozen berries classical way cooking. In the latter version, the berries strive to “get out” of the pan, requiring constant stirring. This is not required in a modern unit, where you just need to mix the berries with sugar and water, and strain the drink after 20 minutes.

Among the people, lingonberries have earned the title of "berry that gives immortality", this culture is treated with such reverence because of its magical gift to heal and rejuvenate.
Fruits and leaves are a source of a unique complex of useful components:

• Vitamins A, groups B, PP, C and E. Beta-carotene, from which vitamin A is synthesized, is necessary for vision and skin regeneration. Vitamin C, which is involved in the production of collagen, makes blood vessels elastic and makes the immune system stronger. Vitamin E is important for women's health. Vitamin PP helps lower cholesterol. B vitamins are responsible for the adequate functioning of the nervous system and providing the body with energy.
• Minerals: iron and manganese. Manganese has a positive effect on the process of hematopoiesis and metabolism (carbohydrate and lipid), it is impossible to do without this element in the formation of insulin, it also fights fat deposition in the liver.
• acids of organic origin. Benzoic acid is a well-known antioxidant, it rejuvenates cells by strengthening their membrane; in addition, it is a natural antiseptic that inhibits fermentation and decay. Tartaric and salicylic acids are able to resist rheumatism. Ursolic acid fights stress.
• Flavonoids have a beneficial effect on blood vessels.
• Arbutin. This glycoside acts as an antiseptic.
• Dietary fiber and pectin. Fiber and pectin help our body get rid of harmful substances - a miracle berry can even remove salts of heavy metals

This red "forest doctor" has so many healing components available that the range of ailments with which he can help is very wide. Lingonberries are known for their strong diuretic effect, so they are indispensable for kidney disease and gout. It is useful for hypertensive patients, because it reduces pressure. Lingonberries are used for colds and to strengthen the immune system. The miracle berry also has an anti-sclerotic effect and is used for heart diseases due to its effect on blood vessels. Bright red berries are useful even with diabetes, because they normalize glucose levels.

The uniqueness of this berry does not end with its powerful healing effect. Arbutin, which in large numbers contain fruits, it is a strong preservative, so any blanks that contain only lingonberries are very well stored, even without additional sterilization or pasteurization of filled jars, and heat treatment is reduced, because the berry is calmly stored even when wet. It turns out that the process of preparing compote with lingonberries is much simpler than with other berries. You can harvest lingonberries for the winter different ways. It can be frozen, soaked, ground and prepared in own juice- in this form, without boiling at all, the berry retains the maximum percentage useful substances. However, not everyone likes the tart taste of lingonberries in their pure form. In compotes, the berry loses some of its useful properties, but acquires incomparable flavors. Here are the most popular options for lingonberry compotes. In a word, lingonberries are good, we have prepared recipes for preparations especially for you.

This recipe keeps healing properties berries in the maximum volume, because the fruits go through the minimum heat treatment. Compote can be prepared as a diuretic and bactericidal agent and used for cystitis, urethritis, pyelonephritis, or kept in stock to supplement festive table refreshing sour drink.

Lingonberry Compote Ingredients:

• Lingonberries (fresh, but frozen) - 0.25 kg
• Granulated sugar - as much as berries (or to taste)
• Water - 2 liters

How to cook lingonberries for the winter:

1. Carefully sort out the berries, remove small rubbish and spoiled or unripe fruits, because. because of them, the drink can ferment;
2. Wash, dry and blanch fresh berries for 1-2 minutes, and arrange frozen berries on a dry dish to thaw;
3. cook sugar syrup chik: pour 200 g of sand into an enamel saucepan with water brought to a boil, stir carefully so that the sand is completely dispersed;
4. place the fruits in a sugar syrup, wait until the water boils, cook for another 3-5 minutes;
5. remove the drink from the fire, carefully pour it hot into a sterilized jar, roll it up, you can sterilize the jar before rolling it up, but such a compote is well stored even without sterilization.

Thick lingonberry compote in Czech

Cowberry preparations for the winter are traditional for the inhabitants of Russia, but we want to introduce you to a recipe from Eastern Europe. This drink gives a very rich taste, because the berry is boiled in batches, and it gives all its juices, and very little water is added. Compote in Czech will not only be an excellent nourishment for immunity, but also an interesting dessert, because it contains a decent amount of sugar.

Ingredients:

• Lingonberries - to taste (about 0.3 - 0.4 kg)
• Sugar - as much as fruit
• Water - 0.35 - 0.4 liters
• Citric acid - half a teaspoon

The process of making lingonberry compote for the winter:

1. Sort, carefully rinse and dry the berries;
2. While the fruits are flowing around in a sieve or a special basket for drying, make sugar syrup: pour water into an enamel saucepan, cook over low heat, gradually add sugar and stir, wait for the moment when the grains completely disperse;
3. Gradually put the pure berries into the syrup, cook each portion for 2-4 minutes, then remove the fruits with a saucepan and put them on the bottom of the jar;
4. When all the berries are boiled, mix citric acid into the syrup, wait for the foam and remove it;
5. Immerse the berries in hot syrup, cover with lids and pasteurize the jars at temperature regime 85-90 degrees, carefully monitoring that the water does not boil: half-liter jars - 10 minutes, 1 liter jars - a quarter of an hour, 2-3 liter jars - about half an hour.

Spicy lingonberry compote with wine

This lingonberry compote for adults will keep you warm on long winter evenings, a sip of aromatic drink with spices will add a special charm to a romantic evening. As you can see, the recipes for lingonberry blanks are very diverse.

Ingredients (for about two liter jars):

• Cowberry - 1200 g
• Sugar - 600 g
• 350 ml white wine
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 cloves
• Lemon - 3-4 slices

How to cook lingonberry compote:

1. Make a thorough sorting of the berries, remove unripe and spoiled ones, wash and place in a colander so that they flow around and dry;
2. Place lingonberries in jars in layers, alternate lingonberries and sugar;
3. Top with cinnamon, cloves and lemon slices;
4. Pour the berries with wine, cover the jars with lids;
5. Put them on sterilization, sterilize after the water boils, 10 minutes, you can replace sterilization with pasteurization at a temperature of 80-85 degrees, then the process will last 30 minutes for liter jars;
6. Roll up jars, cool and send for storage.

Cowberry compote with apples "Assorted with sourness"

What to cook from lingonberries? And try this wonderful assorted compote, which gives a double boost of vitamin C, supporting depleted immunity in the winter. In addition, both apple and lingonberry contain powerful antioxidants that help cleanse the body of toxins.

Cowberry compote with apples for the winter, ingredients:

• Cowberry berries - 1 kg
• Apples (preferably green) - 500 g
• Sugar - 400 g
• 2 liters of water

Cooking process:

1. Sort, remove berries with defects and unripe fruits, because. because of them, compote can ferment;
2. Let the berries flow around and dry in a colander;
3. Wash the apples, remove the cores and cut into medium-sized slices;
4. Prepare apple syrup: pour water into an enameled saucepan, add sugar and start stirring, cook until the sand is completely dispersed;
5. When the syrup begins to boil, load apple slices into it and keep it on fire for about a quarter of an hour;
6. Remove all fruits with a slotted spoon and place in jars that have been sterilized;
7. Put the berries in the syrup and cook until the preparation becomes almost transparent, do not forget to remove the foam if it appears;
8. Add berry layer to jars;
9. Pour the berry-fruit mixture with hot syrup, roll up and store in a cool place. Now you know what can be made from lingonberries.

Cowberry compote with blueberries "Forest girlfriends"

The drink that beneficial features lingonberries are enhanced by the powerful healing effect of blueberries. This wild berry contains a very strong antioxidant anthocyanin, which not only gives the fruits a dark color, but is also able to intensively remove harmful substances from the body. In addition, blueberries have a beneficial effect on the digestive tract, providing a bactericidal effect, inhibiting all putrefactive processes. However, it is not only the benefit of this duet: when we walk through the forest, we usually pick one or the other berry, two berries mix in the mouth, this is the taste of the summer forest, it is this that blueberry-lingonberry compote is able to preserve.

Ingredients:

• Lingonberries - 0.3 - 0.4 kg
• Blueberries - as much as lingonberries
• Sugar - 3-4 tablespoons
• Water - approximately 1.2 liters
• Lemon peel - 1 teaspoon
• Lemon juice - 1 tablespoon

Cooking process:

1. Sort the berries, remove damaged and unripe fruits, rinse thoroughly and leave the berries in a colander so that the fruits dry well and all the water is gone;
2. Make sugar syrup: pour 1.2 liters of water into an enameled container, stir in it the amount of sand indicated in the recipe or in accordance with your own taste, add lemon zest; stir constantly until the water starts to boil and all the sugar has dispersed;
3. Pour the berries into the syrup, cook for 5-7 minutes;
4. Pour hot drink into sterilized jars, roll up;
5. Put the jars upside down, cover with something warm, let the jars cool and check the tightness of the seam.

If after cooking you still have berries, then you can cook from them, and, instructions for the manufacture of which we also included in our piggy bank of recipes on the site.

Sweet lingonberry compote with pear

This flavored drink will bring not only benefits (the peel of a pear contains a lot of fiber), but it will also be an excellent dessert, because this berry-fruit combination gives an amazing taste.

Ingredients:

• Pears (ripe, but not soft) - 1.5 kg
• Lingonberries - 250-300 g
• Sugar - 0.2 kg per 1 liter of water
• Citric acid - 4 g per 1 liter of water

The ingredients indicated in the recipe are enough for about two three-liter or three two-liter jars (these are more convenient to sterilize), it is better to cook the syrup with a margin.

Cowberry compote recipe:

1. Wash and sort lingonberries;
2. Wash the pears, cut out the cores and cut into slices;
3. Put fruits in water citric acid to protect them from darkening;
4. Pour water into an enameled saucepan, add sugar, achieve sugar dissolution;
5. Gradually add the pears, cook until the fruit pierces easily and slides off the prong of the fork;
6. Remove the pears with a slotted spoon, boil the lingonberries in the same water, keep on fire until the fruits become translucent, pull them out with a slotted spoon;
7. Lay the pear and lingonberries in layers in jars;
8. Bring the sugar syrup to a boil, remove the foam and gradually pour hot into sterilized jars;
9. Cover the jars with lids - pasteurize the blank at a temperature of 80-85 degrees for half an hour (for three-liter jars), roll up the jars.

Note!

Lingonberries have a strong medicinal effect, therefore, in case of certain diseases, this berry and lingonberry blanks should not be consumed:

Gastritis (with high acidity), ulcer, hypotension.

Lingonberry compote and other preparations with lingonberries should be consumed on an empty stomach or before meals, and not after meals.

It's no secret to anyone that berries, containing a lot of vitamins and nutrients, have simply miraculous healing properties. Knowing this, many people try to stock up on them for future use or, if possible, buy them frozen in stores. Today we will talk about lingonberries, and how to cook from this berry healthy drink- compote.

What berry to use

For cooking compote, you can take fresh berries. It is usually harvested in early September in damp swampy areas. In addition to cooking compotes, syrup is prepared from fresh lingonberries, jam is boiled or soaked in water with sugar.

The frozen product, which can be found on store shelves or in the bins of your freezer, is also an excellent basis for compotes.

Thrifty housewives also prepare a fortified drink from dried lingonberries.

Cowberry compote recipes in a saucepan

The easy way

Boil 1.5 liters of water in a saucepan. AT hot water lay sugar (150 grams) and, stirring, achieve its complete dissolution. Then 250 grams of fresh cranberries are put into the syrup, and the liquid is allowed to boil. To preserve vitamins, continue cooking for no more than 3 minutes, and then close the pan with a lid. To make the taste of the drink as saturated as possible, it is insisted for at least 5 hours.

Vitamin lingonberry compote with cranberries

This recipe is ideal for treating colds and viral diseases.

100 grams of sugar is diluted in 1 liter of water. The mass is brought to a boil and put in it 100 grams of fresh lingonberries. After 3 minutes of cooking on minimum heat, the compote is filtered, and the berries are pressed through gauze to remove the skin.

Cranberries (50 grams) are ground through a metal sieve and vitamin puree is added to the compote. Bring the drink to a boil, but do not boil. Before pouring the dessert into glasses, they give it time to cool on its own under the lid.

Frozen cranberries with apples

Sweet apples (2 pieces) are washed and cut into cubes or slices. With the second cutting option, the time for cooking compote can be reduced. Apple slices are placed in boiling syrup, boiled from 2 liters of water and 150 grams of granulated sugar. After 10 minutes of active boiling under the lid, frozen berries (250 grams) of lingonberries are introduced into the compote, and after boiling the drink for 3 minutes, turn off the fire.

Infused compote is served hot or cold. If desired, the drink can be filtered.

From dry fruits with ginger and lemon

Dried lingonberry compote is best cooked in a multicooker pan. In this case, the berries do not need to be soaked or pre-filled with boiling water.

To prepare a drink, put a handful of dry lingonberries, 3 lemon wheels with peel and 3 slices of fresh ginger root into the multicooker bowl. Products are poured into 2 liters cold water. Cook compote with the lid closed for an hour. The program can be selected at your discretion "Soup" or "Stew".

The finished compote is left under the lid for another 3-4 hours, so that the taste of the drink becomes more saturated. The keep warm function is disabled.

Cowberry compote for the winter

Drink with pears with sterilization

Ripe, but not overripe, the pears are washed and the core is removed from the pits. Depending on the size of the fruit, they are cut into 4 or 8 pieces.

Clean jars of small size (700-800 milliliters) are filled with lingonberries by 1/3. From above, up to half the volume of the jar, pear slices are laid.

Syrup is boiled on the stove (150 grams of sugar are taken for 1 liter of water). The berry-fruit compote base is poured with boiling liquid, and the jars are covered with sterile lids.

The workpiece is placed in a wide pot of water and sent to the stove for sterilization.

After 15 minutes, the lids are tightly screwed or twisted with a special seaming key.

Without sterilization with apples

Apples are washed, freed from seed boxes, and cut into slices. In clean, sterilized jars, put berries with apple slices. Boiling water is poured into containers to the very edge of the neck. From above, the jars are covered with lids scalded with boiling water and left to “rest” for 15 minutes.

After that, the water is poured back into the cooking pot, and 2 cups of sugar are added to it. The sweet syrup is boiled for 5 minutes, and the puffed lingonberries with apples are poured over them.

After that, the workpiece is immediately twisted and covered with a blanket or a warm towel. A day later, lingonberry compote can be stored for storage with the rest of home canned food.

The Household Troubles channel shares with you a video lesson on harvesting lingonberry compote for the winter