Jam from a bilberry

Every summer, thousands of people go to the forest to search for berries. What can be more delicious than freshly picked blueberries, which contain the scent of the forest, filled with milk, with a large piece of white bread? Of course, it is good to enjoy delicious berries in the summer, however, and about winter, do not forget. Prudent housewives make jam from blueberries and roll them into cans. But in the winter it will be possible to open this jar and smear the delicious jam on bread with butter or sip sweet dessert. In addition, blueberries (jam or fresh berries) are very useful for sight.

How to cook blueberry jam?

First you need to clear the berries brought from the forest from the litter: leaflets, small twigs and insects. Then they should be washed in a colander and allow the water to drain. Jam made from blueberries is made from the calculation: kilograms of sugar per kilogram of berries. Prepare sugar syrup - transfer the sugar into a saucepan and pour it with a glass of water. Turn on a small fire and cook the syrup, stirring constantly, until the crystals completely dissolve. Then lay the washed berries, mix them and add a little fire. When the jam of blueberry boils, the fire is reduced to a minimum, and after five minutes completely off. Prepare the banks - wash them with soda or laundry soap, rinse well and sterilize over the steam. Half-liter banks will last for ten minutes, banks for 0.75 liters will take at least a quarter of an hour. Then the hot jam is laid out on cans, covered with boiled lids and rolled up.

Blueberries with citric acid

For the jam it will take: 1.5 kg of sugar and one kilogram of berries, a glass of water and a third of a teaspoon of citric acid. Berries sorted, spread on a metal colander and put it on a pan with boiling water for 4 minutes to process blueberries with steam. Dilute sugar in water in a saucepan and cook sugar syrup. They put there the prepared berries and cook them on medium heat for about 5 minutes after boiling, constantly removing the foam. Turn off the fire, add citric acid to the jam and roll it into jars.

Harvesting blueberries for the winter is not limited to a single jam. This berry can be sugaried or cooked from it compote. For compote, you need three-liter cans, sugar and blueberries, based on 1 kg of berries and 0.5 kg of sugar per can. Lay the peeled and washed berries on the jars. A pint of sugar is poured with a liter of water, boiled until it dissolves, and the syrup is transferred into a jar. Allow to stand for about 10 minutes, after which they are added with boiling water to the neck. The can is immediately closed with a lid and spun.

Jam made of blueberries is delicious, and the candied berry is even more delicious. In addition, it turns out thick and viscous like jam, with a rich taste and aroma.

One kilogram of fresh berries will require a half kilogram of sugar. Washed and peeled berries are put in a blender and ground in a puree. There, sugar is poured and rubbed all to a homogeneous mass. Candied berries are transferred to washed and sterilized jars and tightly rolled. Ready blueberries are stored in a cool place.

This recipe can be slightly modified, leaving the main ingredients: 1 kg of berries and one and a half kg of sugar. The berries are cleaned of litter and rinsed. Mash them with a crib and cover with sugar. Then mix and give blueberries to stand up. After an hour, stir again and look, dissolved sugar or not. When it dissolves, the berry mass can be placed in jars.

You can cook a jam-five-minute out of a mixture of blueberries and strawberries. Berries are cleaned of litter and mixed in equal parts: 50% of blueberries and 50% of strawberries. For a kilo of berries take a kilogram of sugar and 1.5 cups of water. Sugar is poured into a saucepan, poured into water, mixed with it, a syrup is cooked over a slow fire and berries are poured into it. When the jam boils, reduce the heat, remove the foam and cook for 5 minutes.