Dandelion is considered a medicinal plant that helps with hepatitis, cholecystitis, asthma and other diseases. Making jam from this flower is easy. The main thing is to collect raw materials in an ecologically clean place, away from cities and highways. Dandelion heads are plucked on sunny May days, when the flowers are fully open.
Preparing dishes
Any dish intended for food is suitable for making dandelion jam - enamel pots or basins, stainless steel products.
Moreover, the jam from stainless steel will have to be immediately poured into jars, and the jam can be left to cool in an enamel container.
The jam is poured into glass jars, which are pre-washed and sterilized. The covers must be hermetically sealed, because containers filled with jam must be placed upside down, insulated and left for a while to cool the contents.
Preparing flowers
For the jam, you need 400 dandelion flowers. Whole basket inflorescences with yellow petals and a green calyx are used. Stalks and leaves are not put into the jam.
Flowers are poured over 1/2 liter of cold water, put on fire and boiled for two minutes. Then the broth should be thrown into a colander or cheesecloth and filtered. For subsequent preparation, you will need liquid, and the flowers can be discarded.
Recipe number 1
The easiest and fastest way to make dandelion jam is to pour 7 glasses of sugar into the broth, place on the fire and boil for 7 minutes. Then pour into jars. This jam is kept in the refrigerator.
Recipe number 2
This recipe uses lemon. Dandelions are soaked in water for 24 hours, then squeezed out, 1/2 liter of water is added and boiled for 15 minutes. Lemon is cut and added to dandelions. Then the syrup is filtered and 1-1.5 kg of sugar is poured. The syrup is boiled, making 2-3 breaks, during which the jam is cooled.
Recipe number 3
Another way to make dandelion jam is with the addition of oranges. For 250 grams of flowers, take 2 oranges and 1 lemon.
Flowers are washed and dried. Oranges are cut into small slices. Put everything in a saucepan, pour water (1.5 liters), bring to a boil. The syrup should cook for one hour. Then it is filtered and sugar is added (750 g per 1 liter of liquid).
Then the syrup is filtered, lemon juice is added and boiled for another 20 minutes. The dandelion jam is allowed to cool before being poured into the jars.
Recipe number 4
This cooking method does not require boiling. Dandelion flowers are minced. You can also use stems. Honey is added to the mass at the rate of 2 tbsp. l. 1/2 liter of the mixture. Then the container is closed with a lid and left to infuse for 12 hours. During this time, you need to mix the jam several times. This folk remedy is taken as a tonic with tea.
Advice
After boiling the flowers, squeeze them out so that the maximum amount of nutrients gets into the jam.
You can use citric acid instead of lemon.
Dandelion jam for its medicinal properties is compared to honey. As a medicine, it is recommended to take it in the morning on an empty stomach, for which 1 tbsp. l. the jam is dissolved in water.
