Blackberries are a berry like raspberries, far surpassing the latter in utility. Blackberry berries contain a lot of very valuable for the human body substances in high concentrations. Regular inclusion in the menu of blackberries excellently improves immunity and improves the performance of all body systems. Blackberry is not only used for food in various forms due to its super-megalomania, but it is also widely and successfully used in folk medicine (not only berries, but also leaves and shoots).
Ways of preparation (and harvests) of blackberries are exactly the same as the ways of making raspberries. Blackberry berries are made with infusions (brewed with boiling water, like tea), refreshing soft drinks, jellies and syrups, and also jam.
Tell you how to make jam from blackberries. Of course, to choose for the purchase should only good non-lethargic and not flowing with the juice of berries. You can, of course, and this is, of course, even better, to collect berries on your own plot of land or from wild bushes growing in places with normal ecology. The longer we cook, the more losses vitamins C - it's an axiom. When exposed to temperatures above 85 degrees C, vitamin C is destroyed. Therefore, we recommend the fastest method of preparation.
Recipe for jam-five-minute out of blackberries
Ingredients:
- berries blackberries (preferably slightly immature) - 1 kg;
- sugar (domestic production, Polish is not good) - about 1.3 kg.
Preparation
We wash blackberries. It is most convenient to lay berries in a colander and gently dip it into a container of cold water (rather than rinse under a jet), and then remove - so the berries remain intact. We let the water drain, we sort out, we remove the waste berries and sepals. Berries in an enamel saucepan are covered with sugar and leave for 8-10 hours in a cool place, so that the berries well let the juice. We put the saucepan on the fire, bring it to a boil, reduce the fire to the smallest, and, gently stirring, cook for about 5 minutes, no more.
Banks should be thoroughly washed and sterilized. We put jam in the dry from the inside (this is important) banks and roll
Jam from raspberries and blackberries is prepared exactly the same way (see above).
In general, the blackberry is perfectly preserved in a frozen form. Modern refrigerators can cope with the function of shock freezing products and solve such problems well.