How to prepare tender jam from rose hips?

It is impossible to walk calmly past a blooming, abundantly covered with pink flowers Hips of a dogrose. Bright and at the same time, the delicate aroma of a flowering plant unobtrusively attracts and makes one involuntarily slow down a step to enjoy this amazing smell. But not everyone knows that a part of this wonderful fragrance can be kept for a long time in the form of a delicious jam from fragrant flowers. A fragrant tender jam from the petals of the dog rose can not boil not everyone, but only a very patient person. For cooking, freshly blown rose hips are suitable. Imagine how much time to spend, how much hard work to make to collect at least a half kilogram of weightless petals? Three-liter jars can not be cooked for future use. So this recipe is for very patient and hardworking.

How to collect and prepare for boiling petals of dog rose?

To make the jam from the dogrose it turned out fragrant and tender, we need the petals of the flower that has just bloomed. How to collect them? All the petals of the flower gather in a pinch, tear them, then with scissors cut off the white and pink part of the petals with which they were attached to the peduncle. It is advisable to collect and put them in a basket, not primed. It is impossible to keep it in its assembled form, it is necessary to cook the jam from the dogrose petals immediately after collection, as they will not give off the juice during further processing. Raw materials weigh, pour into a wide enamel dishes, add lemon juice (it can be replaced with citric acid). Then, the petals of the dog rose to grind. Their volume will greatly decrease, they will give off the juice, will turn red. For 500 grams of raw materials, you need to add juice of one lemon or five grams of citric acid.

How to cook jam from rose hips?

Often, during the preparation of jam, sugar is poured into prepared raw materials and given a certain time for it to dissolve and become saturated with juice. Indeed, in this case the raw material gives an abundant juice, the sugar dissolves in it, but the jam cooked in this way turns out to be liquid. If you cook it longer until the thickening, then the berries, and in this case - the rose hips, they will be stiff, their peculiar flavor will be lost. It is highly recommended to cook jam from the rose hips in cooked sugar syrup, for this, pour in sugars in an enamel pot and add water: for one kilogram of sugar you need 0.5 liters of purified water. Let the syrup boil, stirring frequently so that it does not burn. In boiling syrup, fill in the prepared petals of the dog rose, allow the mass to boil, remove from heat and leave to insist for a day. The pan should not be covered with a lid, but with gauze or a towel. Then the present mass should be put on small fire, let it boil and pour into sterilized small jars, cover them with lids, pasteurize for ten minutes in hot water. Keep in a place protected from light.

A fragrant and gentle jam from the hips of the dog rose is ready. Pleasant memories of a warm summer in the long cold winter evenings.