It will take 1 hour to make blueberry jam, and 20 minutes to cook.
How to make blueberry jam
Blueberry jam products
Blueberries – 1 kilogram
Sugar – 4 cups
Water – 1 glass
How to make blueberry jam
Select ripe, dense fruits for jam. Remove forest debris and carefully, without disturbing the structure of the berries, rinse the berries in a colander. Dry the berries a little and pour into a saucepan for making jam.
Pour water into a saucepan and put on fire. Pour sugar into warm water, heat and dissolve completely. After boiling the syrup, turn off the heat, pour the syrup over the blueberries and leave for 10 minutes. After that, put a saucepan with blueberries and syrup on the fire, cook the jam after boiling for 20 minutes over low heat. When cooking jam, it is necessary to remove the foam.
Pour the finished hot jam into sterilized jars and roll up. Turn the jars of blueberry jam upside down, wrap them in a blanket and wait until they have cooled completely. Put the cooled jars with jam for storage.
Delicious facts
– Ripe soft berries are most suitable for cooking jam, unripe berries are not recommended.
– To make the blueberry jam dense, you do not need to add water: cover the blueberries with sugar and leave for 2 hours, then put on a quiet fire and cook with constant stirring: already in the first minutes of cooking, you can make sure that the juice released by the blueberries is enough to the jam is not burnt.
– When cooking in blueberry jam, some of the nutrients are retained. Jam normalizes the intestines and pancreas.
– In the scientific literature, in addition to the well-known name, there are other options: marsh blueberries, undersized, marsh blueberries. In Russia, many common names for this berry are associated with the fact that earlier they made wine from it: a water drink, a drunk berry, a drunkard, a drunkard, a drunkard, blue grapes, a fool, a fool, a fool, a fool. There are also neutral common names: cabbage roll, dove, titmouse, gonobob, gonobel, gonoboe, gonobol.
– Blueberries are a low-calorie berry, so they can be included in the diet. In addition, due to the large amount of vitamins and minerals, blueberries accelerate the metabolism in the body and enhance the effect of drugs that lower sugar. Berries strengthen blood vessels, normalize the work of the heart and digestive system.
– Blueberries grow in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere: in Eurasia from Great Britain and Scandinavia to the Far East and Japan, in North America – from Alaska to Newfoundland Island and to California in the south of the mainland. In Russia, it grows from the Arctic to the Caucasus. Prefers acidic soils, wetlands, rocky slopes.
Original blueberry jam
Products
Blueberries – 1 kilogram
Sugar – 1,3 kilograms
Dry fruits of a juniper – 4 pieces
Lemon – 1 medium lemon
Water – 1 glass
How to make blueberry jam
1. Go through and wash a kilogram of blueberries.
2. Crush 5 dry juniper berries in a mortar. This component will give the jam an unusual coniferous flavor.
3. Remove the zest from the lemon. This can be done quickly with a fine grater.
4. Pour a glass of water into a saucepan, add 1,5 kilograms of sugar there and stir.
5. Warm up over low heat until sugar dissolves.
6. Add blueberries, lemon zest, chopped juniper berries to the prepared syrup. To mix everything.
7. Cook for 30 minutes. The jam is ready if it has acquired a uniform consistency.
More vitamins will remain in blueberry jam if you cook it in stages: bring to a boil, then leave for 10 hours and so on three times.
Cooking tips
– Blueberries and blueberries are different species of the same family and genus, they are similar in appearance, but there are differences between them. Blueberry bushes almost creep on the ground, and blueberry bushes are much higher. It has a hard, stiff stem from root to crown. Blueberries, unlike blueberries, do not stain your hands. Its juice is clear, while that of blueberries is dark.
– The color of blueberries and blueberries may coincide, but more often blueberries have a bluish-blue tint, blueberries are almost black. Sometimes blueberries grow larger than blueberries, stretch out, acquiring a pear-shaped forum. Blueberries taste sweeter, but blueberries are more intense.
– When making blueberry jam, you can mix it with other berries that have a brighter aroma: lingonberries, blueberries, cranberries, cherries, raspberries. Blueberries go well with apples.
– During the season, the cost of blueberries is from 500 rubles / kilogram (on average in Moscow in June 2020). The relatively high cost is due to the fact that blueberries are grown in an artificial environment on a small scale, since they are demanding on conditions. Blueberries require acidic soil, a lot of moisture, light. In Europe, industrial cultivation of blueberries is better developed.