Vsyak entering under the mysterious arches of the pine forest steadily feels how the vivifying air filled with aroma of needles that allows an organism to feel more young, more vigorously and more great joins it. Today experts explain medical nature of air in the pine forest with the phytoncides exhaled by these trees which destroy harmful microbes. However in an extreme antiquity when people also did not know about such sophisticated words, they guessed that if the pine does so life-giving air, then and parts of the tree have to be curative. And it is valid, needles, kidneys, pitch, that is pine crude turpentine, were fine raw materials for production effective medical and cosmetics. And the well-known jam from pine cones became the king of the products used in life created by means of this fine tree.
Structure and caloric content
It is clear, that so durable and evergreen tree which is not afraid of neither frosts, nor a heat had to worry about inheritance and supply the fruits in the form of cones with seeds a maximum of useful substances. So it also is actually.
At pine cones there are practically all known vitamins about And to U and also bioflavonoids, that is such similar to connection vitamins which in the form of antioxidants are extremely useful to cardiovascular human activity.
Whether you know? At the highest Lambert's pine among other pines reaching 82 meters in height, and a cone of very impressive sizes — about a half a meter in length (there are about 66 centimeters).
Pine cones macro - and minerals in the form of potassium, calcium, iron, aluminum, manganese, phosphorus, copper are very rich. Especially it should be noted existence in cones of a pine of linoleic, olein, resinous organic fatty acids which are widely known now for the ability to reduce cholesterol level in blood and by that to help with treatment of cardiovascular, brain and dental diseases. And in cones and, therefore, in jam there are essential oils having the antiseptic and anesthetizing properties.
As well as any other jam, this product too very kaloriyen as it is very saturated with carbohydrates so for persons interested to reduce excess weight it is hardly recommended.
Medicinal properties and advantage
So powerful set of useful substances turns jam into very effective remedy. For example, presence of many vitamins and first of all vitamin C does this tasty product also remarkable cold and flu medicine. This jam medicine is especially attractive to children when they observe inflammation of the upper airways, dry cough or asthma.
Well remove cold symptoms such herbs and berries as: thyme, dogrose, sage, green onions, clover, wild strawberry
Also still very valuable quality is revealed at jam: it can be real protection against oncological diseases, preventing developing of malignant tumors in a human body already at the cellular level. Is able also this remarkable jam is effective to help also at osteochondrosis, polyarthritis, and at problems with digestion, and at low hemoglobin, and at diseases of respiratory or cardiovascular systems.
Harm and contraindications
Daily consumption of jam is not welcomed to bring to more than three tablespoons. Especially it is relevant for pregnant women, nursing mothers, children up to twelve years and people is more senior than sixty. You should not be fond of this product sick with stenocardia, hepatitis, nephrite and also having the allergy interfaced to individual intolerance of one of components of soplodiya.
Important! Of course, excessive consumption of this jam does not lead to any very serious consequences, but it is worth to remember that it is after all not a usual dessert product, but very serious medicine.
When and how to collect
Now, probably, already even the small child knows that it is contraindicated to collect any fruits of any plants near big settlements, busy roads and the industrial enterprises. Therefore pine cones should be collected in those places of a pinery where the local ecology does not cause any suspicions. As for time of collecting pine cones then everything depends on a geographical location and climate.
In the warm regions it is possible to collect cones in the third decade of May and where is colder, it is necessary to wait even until the end of June. During this period the young shishechka as much as possible accumulate in themselves all valuable properties.
We recommend to you to esteem about useful properties of such fruit and vegetables as, corn, pumpkin, unab, durian, avocado, pomegranate, a feijoa, mango, banana, a kiwi, mango, orange, a lime and Pamela.
Two- and three-year-old are not so juicy and not so ecologically clean. But also one-year cones are good not all without discrimination. They should be collected only from trees absolutely healthy externally, and shishechka have to be rich green color with already defined convex scales under a thin layer of fragrant pitch. These scales are easily pressed through by a finger nail. As a rule, the collected shishechka in length have on average 4 cm. Collected cones of the house have to be carefully washed with clear water.
Important! Let's emphasize that exclusively one-year shishechka are suitable for jam.
Recipe
The most popular recipe advises on kilogram shishechek to take two liters of water and sugar at the rate of one kilogram on one liter of infusion. Cones should be filled in with water a layer in two centimeters above cones, and then to leave on a half of days to infuse. It is necessary to spend for process of cooking three days. The first two days should be cooked only five minutes every day, cleaning the formed foam thoroughly and adding sugar. In the third day the cooking lasts five minutes too, but here it is necessary to add a little more lemon juice, squeezed out immediately, and the remained sugar. And all — jam is ready!
But, it appears, it is possible to make jam without actually cooking, strangely enough it sounds. For this purpose carefully washed out cones in number of one kilogram need to be cut on three parts everyone, to put these parts layers, alternating each layer sugar. The last layer has to turn out the thickest. For everything it will be required two kilograms of sugar. Then the bank needs to cover well with three layers of a gauze and to expose in the place which is well warmed up by the sun.
Also jam can be made from berries of strawberry, blackcurrant, sea-buckthorn, cloudberries, a mountain ash red, cranberries, a quince
Each two hours the bank should stir up well, and it is necessary to repeat it until all sugar is dissolved in juice which will be started up by cones. On it preparation comes to the end then densely closed by a cover to bank it is necessary to send for storage to the cool and dark place.
How to use
Of course, this jam extremely tasty and very much attracts with the juicy aroma. However, as it was already told, it is not so much a dessert, how many remedy and therefore you should not be fond here. In the fall and in the winter as prevention of catarrhal diseases it is possible to eat no more than one shishechka from jam in day. And if you after all got sick then expediently once a day to drink a glass of tea with two tablespoons of jam.
For treatment of cough one tablespoon on a cup of tea suffices. School students for treatment of cough can accept on one teaspoon of jam with warm tea three times a day.
At attacks of polyarthritis about one teaspoon of jam in day is recommended to accept until pains stop. It should be noted especially that availability of pitch in such jam does it undesirable to children is younger than seven years because of threat of emergence of allergic reactions.
Whether you know? The pine growing in mountains of North America awned intermountain can live five thousand years and more.
Conditions and features of storage
Storage of the jam made without cooking as we already spoke requires the cool and dark room, and the vessel has to be densely closed by a cover. The cooked jam needs to be cooled, and then to pour it on carefully sterilized jars and to close them covers. The cold and dark place is not required to them.
Jam from pine cones perfectly fits into a formula two in one. It at the same time both original dessert, and effective remedy. Therefore it also demands at the use of observance of certain rules.