How to make jam from elderberry flowers and berries for the winter - two recipes
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.
Elderflower jam
This is an incredibly aromatic and tender jam. Elderberry flowers are used to make tea, flavor homemade wine, and we will make jam.
How to determine the amount of ingredients for such jam? It’s inconvenient to weigh flowers, and not everyone has electronic scales at home, so we count in jars.
For 1 liter jar of peeled flowers:
- 0.5 liters of water;
- 0.5 liters of sugar.
Make syrup from sugar and water.
Pour elderflower flowers into it.
Turn off the stove and cover the pan with a lid. Now the flowers should be infused for at least 10 hours at room temperature.
Put the pan back on the heat, bring to a boil, and cook the jam for 15-20 minutes.
It’s not that the elderberry flowers themselves are not edible, they’re just not good at all, and it’s better to get rid of them. Strain the hot syrup through a strainer and continue to simmer the jam until its volume is reduced by 1/3.
There is no need to improve the taste with vanilla or lemon. Elderflower jam is wonderful and aromatic.
Black elderberry jam
For 1 kg of elderberry:
- 1 kg sugar.
Rinse the elderberries and dry them slightly. Pick the berries from the clusters and place them in a saucepan.
Sprinkle the sugar over the berries and shake the pan to mix the sugar. Leave the berries for 1-2 hours so that they release their juice.
Place the pan over low heat and cook the jam until the desired thickness, but at least 30 minutes.
Periodically you need to skim off the foam and stir so that the jam does not burn or overboil.
Place the jam in jars, screw on the lids and turn the jars upside down.
Wrap the jars in a warm blanket so that they cool more slowly.
This jam can be stored for up to 18 months in a cool place.
How to make delicious and healthy black elderberry jam, watch the video:
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