Berries of a rowan are used everywhere in food, cosmetics, medicines. Chokeberry jam is popular thanks to a set of chemicals, useful to health. The rowan lifts protective functions of an organism, gives cheerfulness and forces
It is required to you
- - 1 kg of berries of a chokeberry
- - 1.5 kg of sugar
- - 1.5 l of water
Instruction
1. The chokeberry already won reputation of excellent raw materials for jam. From the prepared products it is necessary to weld syrup 50 - percent concentration (on 1 kg of sugar of 1 l of water).
2. Berries of a rowan need to be separated from fruit stems and crests. Then the rowan should be washed out and blanched well in water at a temperature of 95 - 100 degrees within 10 minutes. Do it in order that the berries differing in some zhestkovatost became softer. In this case the thin skin of a rowan will easily pass a sugar syrup. If such scalding is insufficient, berries need to be crushed slightly a spoon or a pestle, keeping their integrity.
3. The prepared berries fill in with a part of a sugar syrup, maintain 1 - 2 hour. Then berries should be cooked at weak boiling of 10 - 12 minutes. Jam is removed from fire, maintained 5 - 8 hours and again cooked, adding the remained syrup.
4. Chokeberry jam can be used as medicine. Fruits of a rowan normalize arterial blood pressure, reduce load of a cardiovascular system. Berries and juice of a rowan bring excessive liquid out of an organism and reduce puffiness of extremities. It is useful for people to apply a chokeberry with an excess weight and diseases of a thyroid gland. However the rowan shouldn't be eaten at diseases of a stomach or a lock.