Berries of cowberry not only are very beautiful, but also are useful to health. Various compounds of manganese, benzoic and complex organic acids and also tannins and vitamins are their part. Cowberry is used at treatment of atherosclerosis, a light form of diabetes, hypertension and some forms of gastritis. The jam made from these berries keeps practically all their useful properties and has unique refined taste.
It is required to you
- 1 kg of berries of cowberry;
- 500 g of sugar;
- 500 ml of water;
- 3 g of cinnamon;
- 1 tsps of a lemon dried peel;
- 3 buds of a carnation.
Instruction
1. Separate cowberry berries from branches, wash out their baking plate a stream of cold water and touch: remove dry garbage, the spoiled and immature fruits. Again wash out cowberry under flowing water and cast away on a colander then scatter berries on a towel that they completely dried.
2. As learn to prepareTo bvarenye/b from strongbrusniki/strong of"" class= "" colorbox imagefield imagefield-imagelink" of" rel= "" gallery-step-images""> Take a pan of the small size (on three-four liters), gain in it 500 ml of water and bring to the boil. Fill up with small portions in boiled water of berry and boil them 3-5 minutes then it is careful not to crush, take out by means of a skimmer and place in specially prepared ware (cup, a bowl, a pan). This procedure will help you to save berries from soft bitterish taste. In water in which you blanched cowberry, add sugar and, constantly stirring slowly, you cook on slow fire of 7-8 minutes. In ready syrup lower berries of cowberry and you cook the received mix of 15-17 more minutes, periodically stirring slowly. Later the put time, disconnect jam and set aside it for 2 hours that berries well became impregnated with a sugar syrup and gave juice.
3. Again put a pan with jam on slow fire and, having heated to a boiling point, you cook 15-17 minutes. Let's jam cool down completely and again bring to a boiling point. Add to it cinnamon, a lemon dried peel and a carnation. You cook jam on slow fire to full readiness, for 25-30 minutes. At the same time it it is necessary to stir slowly constantly to exclude a possibility of burning. In ready cowberry jam the thin skin of berries becomes transparent, and the drop of syrup doesn't spread on a plate. In case syrup is still thin, and berries will be already ready, take out cowberry from a pan by means of a skimmer. Then continue to cook syrup until ready, constantly stirring slowly. Then again connect berries to syrup and boil thoroughly them together 1-2 more minutes. At once pour hot jam on the prepared banks and roll up. Remove to the warm place for 7-8 hours.