A shrub from the Rosaceae family, which enchants with its beauty during flowering, becomes covered in yellow, orange, and purple foliage in the fall and bears fruit for decades. Serviceberry berries are rich in pectin, organic acids, carotene; during heat treatment they lose a minimum of useful substances. If you follow the proportions of ingredients, as indicated in the recipe for preparing for the winter, serviceberry jam acquires a thick consistency and a pleasant taste. Although the berries themselves are very sweet, the dessert cannot be stored without sugar.
Specifics of preparing jam from serviceberry for the winter
The fruits of the bush, which acquire a dark shade when ripe, are frozen, dried, and sealed in their own juice.
The useful components are preserved in the jam, but you need to cook the shadberry for no more than half an hour.
How to choose the main ingredients
To prepare dessert, you can use not quite ripe and even slightly crushed berries. The picked fruits are sorted, freed from twigs and leaves, washed under the tap, dried and ground with a spoon, crushed in a meat grinder or blender.
How to prepare containers
Glass jars into which jam is poured are washed with soda or mustard and disinfected by sterilizing over steam in the oven, microwave or electric grill. Lids are disinfected in boiling water.
How to make jam from serviceberry
Use one of the proven recipes.
With whole berries
The clean fruits of the bush are placed in a saucepan. Pour a glass of water into another container, pour in 0.5 kg of sugar, boil the syrup for 5 minutes and add it to the berries. Place the pan with the irga on the stove, when the mixture has boiled for a quarter of an hour, add another 500 g of sugar and, stirring with a spoon, cook the jam until it thickens. When hot, the workpiece is poured into a glass container.
With chopped berries
A dessert in which citric acid is added during preparation turns out not so sugary, does not grow moldy and is stored for a long time:
- The berries are ground with a spoon or passed through a blender.
- Place in a saucepan, add sugar and leave for 2-3 hours.
- Cook, stirring, until the mixture begins to thicken.
- Add 1 tsp. citric acid.
The finished jam is transferred to a sterile container and sealed with tin lids. For 1 kg of fruit take 500 g of sugar.
Irga is combined with sweet and sour berries, which ripen at approximately the same time and give the jam a pleasant aroma and improve the taste. To make jam:
- Grind the raspberries.
- Irga is dipped in boiling water and crushed.
- The berries are combined and mixed with sugar.
- After 5–6 hours, when the juice appears, the fruit mass is boiled for 15–20 minutes.
- The dessert is poured into a sterile container.
To make jam, berries are taken in equal quantities per kilogram, 2 kg of sugar is used. The delicacy is consumed with tea for illness and colds.
With gooseberries
Jam, for the preparation of which we use shadberry and gooseberries in equal parts, helps to normalize blood pressure, improve digestion, and restore efficiency. Two kilograms of berries are crushed and mixed with 2 kg of sugar, boiled for 40 minutes. The thickened mass is transferred to a sterile container.
With red currants
Sweet and sour aromatic jam of a beautiful rich color can be served with pancakes or pancakes; the dessert is used as a filling for pies. To cook a healthy delicacy, take:
- 2 kg sugar;
- 1000 grams of serviceberry;
- 500 g red currants.
The berries are thoroughly ground and mixed. The fruit mass is boiled over low heat for about 40 minutes, combined with sugar.
How to make jam from serviceberry
The dessert, thick as marmalade, is obtained by prolonged and repeated boiling. To make jam, rather than jam, from the berries of an ornamental shrub, use:
- 2 kg serviceberry;
- 2 tbsp. water;
- 1300 g sugar;
- 2 grams of citric acid.
The berries are washed and mashed with a spoon or masher, and placed in hot syrup for a quarter of an hour.When the mass has cooled, boil it again, each time increasing the boiling time by 5 minutes to bring it to 30.
Further storage of the finished product
Jam and jam from serviceberry are poured into glass containers with a volume of 250 to 500 ml. Under a plastic lid and parchment paper, the dessert will not spoil in the refrigerator for up to 3 months. For longer storage, the jam is sealed hermetically and taken to the cellar.
If the room temperature is more than 20 °C, the jam and jam from the serviceberry is candied; at low temperatures it does not lose its taste for up to 3 years.
If the seal of the container is broken, the product becomes moldy, acquires a specific smell, and such a product cannot be eaten..
After grinding the berries with sugar, they can be frozen and stored for a whole year. If serviceberry jam is cooked for up to half an hour, neither vitamins nor fiber are destroyed. With longer boiling, the aroma decreases and the taste of the product becomes less intense.
