Jam

The shelf life of mulberry, or mulberry, is very short. It is impossible to keep it fresh, unless you freeze it? But the freezer compartment is not rubber, and mulberries can be preserved in another way, for example, by making jam from it.

If as a child you looked for the “lucky flower” of lilac with five petals in bunches of lilacs, made a wish and ate it, then you probably remember this bitterness and at the same time honey-like sweetness on your tongue. You might be surprised, but excellent jam is made from lilac, which tastes slightly like buckwheat honey, but this jam is more delicate, with a light floral aroma.

For me, spring begins when the bird cherry blossoms. The sweet and intoxicating aroma of bird cherry is difficult to confuse with anything else; it makes your head spin and smells like spring.Alas, bird cherry blossoms do not last long, and its aroma is carried away by the wind, but some part remains in the berries. If you love spring and miss this freshness, I offer you several recipes for bird cherry jam.

Many varieties of cherry plum have one unpleasant feature - an ingrown seed. It is simply impossible to remove this seed without turning the cherry plum into puree. But there are also varieties in which the seed is easily pushed out with a stick. When choosing how to make cherry plum jam, you need to take this feature into account.
Cherry plum, unlike its fellow plum, contains less sugar, but more calcium. Cherry plum seeds are used as one of the components for the manufacture of activated carbon tablets. So, even if you have to make jam with seeds, take comfort in the fact that you are getting more benefits from your jam.

Rosehip is a widespread shrub. All parts of it are considered useful: greens, flowers, fruits, roots and twigs. Most often, rose hips are used in cooking and for medicinal purposes. Flowers are less popular. This is due to the fact that it is necessary to collect pink inflorescences during their active flowering period, which occurs for a fairly short time. Simply delicious jam is prepared from fragrant rosehip petals. You can buy it in stores, but the price for this delicacy is very high.To give you the opportunity to enjoy an unusual dessert, we have collected detailed information for you about the rules for collecting and processing delicate rosehip petals, as well as all the ways to make jam from them at home.

Yoshta is a kind of hybrid of black currant and gooseberry. This is a large berry, the size of a gooseberry, but devoid of thorns, which is good news. The taste of yoshta, depending on the variety, may be more similar to gooseberries or currants, however, in any case, yoshta jam is incredibly tasty and healthy.

Pomegranate jam is difficult to describe in words. After all, ruby ​​seeds in a transparent ruby ​​viscous syrup are something magical and tasty. The jam is cooked with the seeds, but they don’t interfere at all later. And if you add pine or walnuts to pomegranate jam, then the presence of seeds may not be noticed at all. But, nuts, like other additives, are not necessary. The jam turns out to be extraordinarily tasty.

For a long time, black elderberry was considered exclusively a pharmaceutical plant. After all, all parts of the bush are suitable for preparing medicine, from flowers to roots.
Elderberry contains certain toxins, and you need to skillfully prepare medicine, or especially desserts from it. Also, you can’t use it “as much as your heart desires.”Although the content of toxins decreases after heat treatment, people with chronic diseases or pregnant women should eat elderberry with extreme caution.

Persimmon is a rather specific fruit. You'll never know what you'll get. Will it be a sickly sweet and fleshy fruit, or a tart-astringent pulp that is impossible to eat? When making jam, all the shortcomings can be removed, corrected and you can get jam that you won’t be able to pull away by the ears.

The unusually shaped squash is increasingly winning the hearts of gardeners. This plant of the pumpkin family is absolutely easy to care for and almost always produces a great harvest. For the winter, various kinds of snacks are mainly prepared from squash, but sweet dishes from this vegetable are also excellent. In our article you will find a selection of the best recipes for making delicious squash jam.

Pine shoot jam is very popular in the north. After all, this is both medicine and a treat in one jar. It is prepared in different ways, depending on the size of the shoots.

Spruce shoots are rich in unique natural vitamins.Medicinal decoctions for coughs are made from the young shoots, but it must be said that they are terribly tasteless. You need to have enormous willpower to drink even a spoonful of this decoction. So why mock yourself if you can make wonderful jam or “spruce honey” from the same spruce shoots?

White cherries are incredibly sweet and aromatic berries. It’s simply impossible to spoil cherry jam, it’s so easy and quick to cook. However, you can diversify the taste somewhat and make a little unusual white cherry jam.

One of the very first spring berries is the beautiful strawberry, and my household loves this berry both raw and in the form of jams and preserves. Strawberries themselves are aromatic berries, but this time I decided to add tea rose petals to the strawberry jam.

Floral cooking never ceases to amaze us. Nowadays you won’t surprise anyone with jam made from rose petals, but jam made from peonies is unusual. Fabulously tasty and indescribably beautiful. It doesn't have the sweetness of rose. Peony jam has sourness and a very delicate aroma.

Zherdela belongs to the small-fruited wild apricots.They are inferior to their cultivated relatives in size, but superior to them in taste and yield.

There are a great many varieties of plums. After all, the black sloe is the wild ancestor of the plum, and the degree of domestication and crossing has produced many varieties of different sizes, shapes and tastes.
Blackthorn plums make simply magical jam. After all, blackthorn has a more pronounced taste than its domestic relative.

Spring has arrived - it's time to make jam from pine cones. Harvesting young pine cones should be carried out in environmentally friendly places.

Candies? Why do we need sweets? Here we are…indulging in peaches! 🙂 Fresh raw peaches with sugar, prepared for the winter in this way, will give real pleasure in winter. In order to safely enjoy the taste and aroma of fresh aromatic fruits during the gloomy and cold seasons of the year, we will prepare peach jam for the winter without cooking.

Sea buckthorn contains a lot of organic acids: malic, tartaric, nicotinic, as well as trace elements, vitamin C, group B, E, beta-carotene, and it is very beneficial for human health.I suggest making thick sea buckthorn jam.