Cook lingonberry jam for 40 minutes.
How to cook cranberry jam
Jam proportions
Lingonberry – 1 kilogram
Sugar – 1 kilogram
Water – 1 cup (300 milliliters)
How to cook cranberry jam
Select ripe dense lingonberries for jam, clean from garden debris, wash and put in a bowl. Pour boiling water over the lingonberries, hold them covered for 5 minutes. Then pour the boiling water into a saucepan, put on fire, add sugar and cook after boiling for 10 minutes. Pour lingonberries into the syrup, cook after boiling for 30 minutes. Pour hot jam into fresh sterilized jars, tighten the lids, cool and store.
Lingonberry jam with apples
Products
Lingonberry – 1 kilogram
Water – 250 milliliters
Apples – 250 grams
Sugar – 250 grams
Cinnamon – 1 stick
How to make lingonberry jam with apples
1. Pour sugar into a deep metal container for cooking jam, pour water, stir.
2. Place the container on moderate heat, melt the sugar until a thick syrup. 3. Carefully wash the lingonberries so that the berries do not crumple.
4. Put the lingonberries in a container with syrup, stir, wait until boiling.
5. Remove the container with lingonberry jam from the heat to stop boiling.
6. When the boil stops, place the container with the jam on a moderate heat, bring the jam until it boils again.
7. Wash the apples, wipe them with paper towels.
8. Cut each apple in half and core.
9. Cut the apples into medium-sized and free-form slices.
10. Put apple slices in lingonberry jam, stir, hold over low heat, apples should soften.
11. Break the cinnamon stick into several pieces.
12. Put pieces of cinnamon stick in lingonberry-apple jam, keep on the burner for several minutes.
Delicious facts
– To taste, at the end of the jam can add some cinnamon, cloves and lemon zest.
– If the berries are harvested ahead of time, you can make to keep up… To do this, put a ripe red apple or tomato in a bowl with lingonberries.
– When cooking lingonberry jam, you can add less sugar, the jam will not deteriorate during storage. Berries contain benzoic acidsuppressing the development of bacteria that cause putrefaction.
– Aromatic and tasty jam is obtained from lingonberries, cooked with addition apples, pears, oranges and walnuts. Honey is added to lingonberry jam, replacing some of the sugar with it. – Lingonberry contains antioxidants – vitamins C and E, it contains a lot of vitamin A, useful for the skin and hair. Lingonberry jam is rich in pectin, which helps to remove cholesterol and toxins.
– To keep the maximum amount of vitamins, it is better not to cook the lingonberries, but to grind them with sugar. In folk medicine, lingonberry jam is recommended for women in the postpartum period, and for men for the prevention of prostatitis.
– Lingonberry jam served for garnish to fried meat and poultry. Sweet and sour lingonberry jam is a great filling for pies and pancakes.
– Calorie value lingonberry jam – about 245 kcal / 100 grams.