In our country, tea drinking has become a real tradition - at any time of the day or year, at home and at work, in the company of friends or alone with yourself. It is especially pleasant to brew hot aromatic tea and enjoy drinking it while sitting warm when the window is cold and windy. In winter, jam is the perfect complement to this warming drink. Even if you are not a fan of sweets, you are unlikely to refuse a serving of vitamin berry or fruit jam. In this case, the jam is made of thorns - a small wild plum of dark blue color. To taste it is sweet and sour, with a pleasant astringency and slightly "astringent." Sweet tooths will also like it. It is prepared no harder than from other berries and fruits. Choose one of these recipes and start cooking your “winter pleasure”.
What ingredients does thorn jam contain? The recipe is extremely simple. The fruits themselves will be required (kilogram). For this amount, take 1.5 kilograms of granulated sugar and 3 cups of water. We prepare the berries: sort, wash, dry. Then we cook sugar syrup from the above components. When it boils, we throw the berries, once again bring to a boil and set aside.
The jam should cool, after which we spend the second cooking - put the pan on low heat and wait until it boils. Remove the foam, remove from the stove. The third cooking is final. We bring the jam from the turn to readiness and, if we are going to close it with plastic covers, we cool. In another case, immediately pour into banks and twist the tin lids. A delicious winter harvest is ready and waiting in the wings.
The turn itself has a very rich taste and does not require the addition of other components to create flavoring shades. However, this does not interfere with combining it with other berries and fruits. So, good taste turns jam from thorns and dogwood. The last berry has a beautiful bright red color and an oblong shape with one or two long bones inside. Dogwood also has a sweet taste with sourness and astringency, which makes it a great pair of thorns. To prepare a small jar of jam, you will need 200 grams of one and the other berries and 400 grams of sugar. We spread washed and dried berries in a saucepan, add sugar, pour a small amount of water (so that the sugar dissolves well) and put on a slow fire. Cook until tender, stirring occasionally. Then we catch the berries (slotted spoon, for example) and transfer them to a jar. Boil the syrup until thick, and then fill it with fruit. Cool and cover with lids. Done.
Now you know how to make jam from thorns, ordinary or in combination with dogwood. There is nothing complicated in both recipes. But for the winter you will have a delicious and even healthy treat. After all, these berries are rich in vitamins, organic acids, pectin, aromatic and tannins. They are especially useful for problems with metabolism and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. But even if there is no need to treat any ailments, the jam from the thorns is just very, very tasty, aromatic and ideal as an addition to hot tea with lemon, especially in winter.