How to make jam from serviceberry: recipes for delicious berry jam

Collection of serviceberry

This berry grows on a tree whose height can reach 3-4 meters. The irga fruits unevenly, which allows you to collect the fruits in several passes over 2-3 weeks.

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Before cooking, the shadberry must be washed in warm water and sorted. Sorting involves removing twigs and leaves that fell into the basket during collection, as well as discarding berries pecked by birds.

After the irga has undergone water procedures, it is placed in a colander and allowed to flow around the liquid for 15-20 minutes.

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Method No. 1 – With whole berries

Pure serviceberry berries, 1 kilogram, are placed in a wide saucepan or basin for cooking. They are poured with hot sugar syrup on top. The syrup is prepared separately.To prepare it, take 200 milliliters of water and 500 grams of sugar. Combine the ingredients and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes.

After the syrup has been poured into the shadberry, the bowl or pan with the food is placed on low heat and cooked, stirring constantly, for 10 minutes. Add the second 500 grams of granulated sugar. To make the jam thick, boil it for another 30 minutes. The lid is not used when making jam.

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Method No. 2 – With chopped berries

A kilogram of shadberry is placed in portions in a blender bowl and pureed until pureed. You can replace the blender with a meat grinder or food processor. The gruel is covered with a kilogram of sugar, mixed, and the mixture is allowed to brew for 3-4 hours. For better juice separation, the shadberry and sugar are mixed periodically. After this, the container with the puree is placed on low heat and boiled for 10 minutes, removing the foam. Remove the irgu from the heat and allow the jam to cool on its own. To prevent insects from landing on the workpiece, cover the top of the basin with gauze, but under no circumstances with a lid. The cooled mass is put back on the fire and boiled. The procedure for interval boiling of jam is repeated 3-4 times. At the final stage, add ¼ teaspoon of citric acid, diluted in 1 tablespoon of boiled warm water, into the jam.

Method No. 3 – Delicate, homogeneous serviceberry jam

Children love this dessert for its delicate texture and pleasant taste.

Berries, 1 kilogram, are first blanched. To do this, pour 100 milliliters of water into a wide saucepan and place the container on high heat. After the water surface bubbles, the washed shadberry is placed in a bowl.Constantly stirring the berries, boil them for 3-4 minutes. During this time, the delicate skin of the serviceberry will burst and curl.

Place a fine metal sieve on a saucepan for making jam and place blanched shadberry on it. The most labor-intensive process is grinding the berries. This is best done with a wooden pestle or tablespoon. All the pulp of the serviceberry will end up in the cooking container, and only the skins and tender seeds will remain on the grill.

Add 800 grams of sugar to the berry puree, mix it, and set to simmer over the lowest heat. Literally 15 minutes of boiling and the jam is ready!

How to store serviceberry jam

The workpiece can be stored in glass jars. To do this, they are first sterilized and thoroughly dried. The jam is poured into prepared containers while hot and screwed on top with lids that have also been heat-treated.

The second storage method is freezing. If, when making jam, you immediately plan to freeze it, then the amount of sugar in recipes can be reduced by half or a third. The jam is pre-cooled, and only then put into containers for freezing.

To save space in the freezer, the inner surface of the freezer containers is lined with cling film or a clean plastic bag is inserted inside. A day later, after placing the jam in the freezer, the workpiece is removed from the containers and packaged in the free part of the film or bag.

If you plan to freeze serviceberry jam in portioned cubes, then the ice tray, if it is not silicone, is also lined with cling film or lightly greased with vegetable oil. After freezing, sweet jam cubes are transferred to a common container or bag, tied tightly, and sent back to the cold.

The shelf life of jam in jars is 1.5 years, and frozen jam can be stored in the freezer for up to a year.