Red rowan is very useful. It strengthens blood vessels, lowers blood cholesterol levels, removes toxins and toxins from the body. And you can use these useful properties by making jam from this berry.
Rowan jam
Required:
- 1 kg of berries;
- 3 glasses of water;
- 1.5 kg of sugar.
Rowan berries should be washed and dried. From ½ part sugar and three glasses of water, you need to cook the syrup. Then pour the resulting syrup over the berries and leave for four hours. Then the syrup must be drained and a third of the remaining sugar added to it. Boil the syrup for 5 minutes, then leave for 5 hours.
This should be done two more times in order to use all the granulated sugar and cook the jam during the last, fourth cooking. In general, the cooking time for red rowan is about forty minutes. The berries do not burst, they remain beautiful and whole.
Rowan berries must be selected when ripe, firm and healthy, preferably after frost.
The second method of making rowan jam
It is necessary:
- 1 kg of berries;
- 1, 3 kg of sugar;
- 400 ml of water.
The sugar syrup should be boiled. Pour the berries with hot syrup and leave the mountain ash for 10-12 hours. Then you need to boil the jam until cooked in one go. When ready, the berries will turn transparent and sink to the bottom.
Red rowan and apple jam
You will need:
- 1 kg of rowan berries;
- 300 g of apples;
- 1.5 kg of sugar;
- 3 glasses of water.
700 g of red rowan berries must be blanched for five minutes, then put on a sieve. On the resulting broth, prepare a syrup from 800 g of sugar and two and a half glasses of water. Cut the apples into slices and blanch too. Then put apples and berries in the finished syrup, leave for 10 hours. After that, bring the jam to a boil and leave again for ten hours. Then cook the jam on low heat for ten minutes, take a break at 8 hours and cook two more times in the same way. At the very end, add 400 g of sugar.
Red rowan jam should first be cooled, and only then rolled up with sterilized lids.
Red rowan jam with walnuts
For this jam you will need:
- 1 kg of berries;
- 3 glasses of water;
- 3 cups walnuts (coarsely chopped);
- 7.5 glasses of sugar.
Rowan should be washed, dried and slightly crush the berries with a rolling pin. Then pour boiling water over them and leave for fifteen minutes. Boil a not too thick syrup, add berries to it and cook until tender, periodically removing the foam. Add walnuts 10-15 minutes before the end of cooking.
Red rowan jam with honey
Required:
-1 kg of berries;
- 2 glasses of water;
500 g of honey.
Honey must be poured with water and heated until it completely dissolves, then bring to a boil and add rowan berries. Cook this jam in one step until tender.
