The fruits of mountain ash are widely used in the medical and food industries. The berries, in terms of their vitamin composition, surpass many popular fruits, as they contain ascorbic and folic acid , which accumulate in the fruits to deep autumn and last for a long time with proper processing. The most common method of processing, which allows you to maximize the beneficial properties of berries - jam from rowan.
Jam from black chokeberry with orange for the winter
Ingredients:
- chokeberry - 800 g;
- orange - 2 pieces;
- sugar - 860 g;
- water 280 ml.
Preparation
We cook the prepared rowan to soften the berries. In the decoction of the mountain ash add two thirds of sugar and cook for another five minutes, cool the syrup. Citruses are crushed together with the peel, add the citrus mixture to the cooled jam and place it on the fire. After boiling, add to the jam the remaining sugar, stir and boil for 20 minutes. Prepared dessert is laid out on a sterile container and rolled.
Blackberry ashberry jam with cherry leaves
The cherry leaf will enrich the tart, specific taste of the aronia and add cherry flavor to the jam.
Ingredients:
- ashberry - 900 g;
- water - 650 ml;
- cherry leaf - 120 g;
- sugar - 920 g.
Preparation
Prepare a cherry decoction for berries of mountain ash, boiling half the leaves for 3-4 minutes. The broth is allowed to cool, the leaves are taken out. Warm broth pour berries rowan and insist 7 hours, after which the berries are removed, and in the broth we add the remaining cherry leaf and boil a couple of minutes. We get rid of the cooked cherry leaves, we get berries with the infusion and leave it to cool. We fold the berries on the sieve to dry and prepare the syrup from the cherry broth with the addition of sugar. In a viscous syrup we add berries, boil for 20 minutes, stirring. We distribute the prepared jam in a sterile container and immediately roll it up. After cooling, we store it in a cool place.
A simple recipe for jam from black chokeberry
Ingredients:
- ashberry blackberry - 900 g;
- water 450 ml;
- sugar - 1,2 kg.
Preparation
In the water, we cultivate 300 g of sugar, after boiling the syrup, we fill in the prepared berries of mountain ash. Boil the fruits in syrup until boiling, leave for 10 hours, so that they are soaked in syrup. After the specified time, pour the remaining sugar into the jam and boil the berry mass for 15 minutes. Cooked berries are rolled in a sterile container.
Apples jam with red ashberry
Ingredients:
- apples - 1.2 kg;
- red mountain ash - 180 g;
- sugar - 850 g.
Preparation
Before boiling the jam from the mountain ash, the prepared berries are placed in the freezer to eliminate bitterness. Sprinkle the apples with sugar and leave the juice. Add the unfrozen rowan. Place the container over the fire and boil for 10 minutes immediately after boiling the liquid. A ready-made vitamin mix is rolled in cans.
Jam of ashberry with apples
Ingredients:
- rowan - 950 g;
- sugar - 1,1 kg;
- apples - 350 g;
- water 780 ml.
Preparation
Blanch the berries, extract them, and pour the sugar into the broth and cook for another 5 minutes. In the resulting syrup, place the previously-peeled fruits together with the prepared mountain ash, completely cool, then re-boil and leave again. Repeat this procedure three times, and after the last boiling, roll the workpiece in sterile jars.