Chokeberry Jam - Excellent Harvestingfor winter. This berry is very unpretentious in storage (due to the content of a large amount of acid, plus a lot of sugar is added during cooking). You can make compotes and jelly in winter, use it as a filling for pies or as a remedy for colds - mountain ash is rich in vitamins C and carotene.
How to make black chokeberry jam
For 1 kg of fresh berries, take:
- 1.2 kg of granulated sugar;
- one and a half glasses of water.
Wash the mountain ash, remove debris (twigs,leaves, etc.), then put in a saucepan, cover with water (one and a half cups) and steam out under a closed lid. Berries should be completely soft. After that, rub the black chokeberry through a sieve. You should have mashed potatoes. Put the specified amount of sugar in it, put it on the stove and cook until ready - it usually takes a little more than half an hour. Ready jam from chokeberry should be packaged in sterilized jars, roll up the lids and store for storage in a cool place. By the way, the above recipe can be slightly modified. How to make a delicious harvest with apples or quince, read below.
Black chokeberry jam with apples
For cooking you will need:
- 1 kg of black chokeberry;
- three or four apples;
- one and a half kilograms of sugar;
- 2 cups of water.
First mash the berries as described.in the previous recipe: steam the mountain ash until soft, and then purirute through a sieve. The same should be done with apples: peel the fruit, and then cut it into pieces. You need to boil them in a very small amount of water, half a glass is enough. Then make a puree of apples and combine it with the berry mass, add sugar and put on the stove to cook until ready. Half an hour is enough for you to get a great rowan jam. It also needs to be packaged in sterilized jars, rolled up with covers and sent to a cool place before the onset of winter cold.
Black ash and quince jam
For cooking you will need:
- 1 kg of rowan berries;
- 400 g quince pulp (this is one large enough fruit);
- 1 (or slightly more) kilogram of granulated sugar;
- glass of water.
Ягоды хорошо промойте, а после разварите до soft in a little water. It will be enough to add 1 cup per kilogram of mountain ash. After that, pour sugar into the pan and cook for about 5-10 minutes, do not forget to stir it from time to time. Clean the quince from the skins and seeds, cut into slices and dip into jam. This fruit has a fairly dense texture, so it will cook for a long time - an hour or more. After everything is ready, pour the jam over the cans and roll up the lids. Now you know how not only to prepare a winter delicacy from black chokeberry, but also to make two of its varieties - with apples and fragrant quince. By the way, as we have already mentioned, this preparation is very useful in treating colds in winter, as it contains a large amount of vitamin C (about 100 mg per 100 g of the product), vitamins A, P, as well as a number of amino acids and a large set of trace elements. Therefore, this jam is not only tasty, but also extremely healthy. Cooked at home, it does not contain dyes, preservatives and other artificial additives and is completely natural.
