Strawberry or raspberry jam is known to all. It’s also hard to surprise someone with apple jam . But jam made of fir cones is not so common. At the same time, it belongs to the most useful desserts - with its help you can defeat the common cold, vitamin deficiency, gum and throat diseases, respiratory diseases and even asthma.
Properly prepared jam from fir cones is full of useful phytoncides that help the body cope with pathogenic microorganisms. So how to make this amazing dessert?
Preparation for cooking
It’s worth starting with the procurement of raw materials. Not all cones are suitable, so you need to choose the right moment. In the middle lane, cones ripen by the beginning of summer. You need to collect only the freshest, still soft and green, no more than four centimeters long. Only in this case will you get tasty jam from fir cones, the use of which is invaluable in treating colds and flu. In hard and old fruits there is not such a quantity of volatile, they are unsuitable for food. So for the manufacture of this original drug, you will have to walk through the woods in late May or early June and carefully look for a suitable product. The bump should be easily cut with a knife or even pierced with a fingernail. Then it is definitely suitable for your purposes. So, how to make jam from fir cones?
Dessert Recipe
There are several cooking methods.
The first is a classic jam made of fir cones. Sort out everything collected from needles and debris, rinse and pour into an enameled pan. Fill with water so that it covers the cones by a centimeter and a half. Boil and add a kilogram of sugar for each liter of liquid, wait until it boils again and reduce the heat. You need to cook over low heat for about an hour and a half, periodically removing the foam. Readiness can be judged by the color of the cones - they must be soaked in syrup and acquire a reddish tint.
The second recipe suggests cooking a kind of "honey." In fact, this is also jam from fir cones. How to cook it? Sort and rinse the cones, fill in a pan with water. Boil for twenty minutes with the lid closed, after which leave it to stand for a day in the room. Get a greenish infusion. It needs to be transferred to another pan, and the cones can simply be thrown away.
In the infusion, add a kilogram of sugar per liter and boil it for about an hour and a half. Please note that this jam from spruce cones can be made exclusively in enameled pots. Ready "honey" should be a crimson hue. Still hot, you need to pour it on pre-warmed cans. It is not necessary to sterilize, it will be stored in any conditions for so long.
Finally, the third method does not require cooking. Sort and rinse the cones, cut each and run in sugar. Lay in layers in jars. In this case, pour each sugar. Cover the spruce cone jam with gauze. Put in a warm and dark corner and periodically shake until sugar is completely dissolved. This dessert is incredibly useful for diseases of the respiratory system, and just to strengthen the immune system is very good. It is enough to eat a dessert spoon of jam with hot water twice a day.