Dogwood is a shrub with bright oblong red berries. This plant is southern, in our Caucasus it is very common both in the wild and in summer cottages. Dogwood is valued not only for its unusual taste, but also for the healing properties that it possesses. In addition to the standard set of vitamins that all berries are rich in, dogwood contains a lot of vitamin P, so it helps strengthen the walls of blood vessels, prevents fragility of capillaries, helps with venous insufficiency, swelling of the legs, inflammation of the veins. Dogwood jam is a very tasty and healthy delicacy. In the Caucasus, it is often used as an antipyretic and anti-inflammatory agent for colds and flu. Here I will talk about how to cook dogwood jam so that it is not only tasty, but also retains all the benefits of an unusual berry.

For jam, you can use any dogwood - both wild and garden. In healing properties, they are equivalent. But, since dogwood is always boiled with a stone, it is useful to know that in garden varieties, as a rule, the stone is smaller, the berries are more fleshy, and therefore it is preferable to use garden dogwood in culinary terms. The jam from it is thicker and richer. When buying dogwood in the markets, be sure to try and choose a berry of dark burgundy color, sweeter taste, with fleshy and juicy pulp.

You will need:

• dogwood 1.5 kg
• sugar 1.5 kg
• water 100 - 300 ml

You will also need enameled dishes - a bowl with a flat bottom and high sides with a volume of 3-3.5 liters is better.
Advice: lAlways boil any jam in a small bowl, no more than 1.5 kg of berries. In this case, the jam will warm up faster and more evenly, the berries will not boil soft and the syrup will turn out to be transparent..

From this amount of products, 4 half-liter jars of jam are obtained.

Step by step photo recipe:

Sort the berries, clean them of debris and impurities, wash them, put them in a colander so that the water is glass.

Prepare the syrup: Pour sugar into a bowl, add 100 ml of water and, stirring, bring to a boil. If the sugar does not melt well, this may be due to its quality, add more water.

Boil the syrup for 5-7 minutes, stir constantly. Once the syrup thickens, it is ready.

Dip the berries in the syrup mix gently and leave to cool for 10-12 hours(I leave overnight). Do not be embarrassed that there is not enough syrup - soon the dogwood will give juice and the syrup will cover all the berries.

Morning d bring the jam to a boil. No need to boil the jam for 5 minutes, as many cookbooks advise. At the first boil syrup should form., which will cover the berries. Turn off the fire and leave the jam to cool for 10-12 hours- if you started cooking in the morning, then leave it until the evening. When cooling, it is useful to gently stir the contents of the bowl several times. Do not be alarmed if, when stirring, you find undissolved sugar at the bottom, this is normal, because the cooking process is still at the very beginning.

Cook jam in three steps: morning-evening-morning. Or evening-morning-evening, to whom it is convenient. For the second cooking, as well as for the first, just bring the jam to a boil. For the last third time, boil the jam for 5 minutes, pour into clean sterilized jars and close the lids. There is no need to wrap jam in a blanket. See how to sterilize jars and lids → Leave closed jars to cool at room temperature, then remove for storage. Any "hot jam" can be stored at room temperature.

With this bright and unusual, and for the northerners quite exotic delicacy, you can forget all your business!

The area of ​​cultural growth of dogwood is the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Crimea and Asia. There they prepare traditional dogwood jam with bones. Since this berry is slightly sour in taste, a little more sugar is taken for cooking jam than the berries themselves. Or add other fruits or berries to them, for example, pears or apples.

We will prepare dogwood jam with bones, but you can also pull them out, in any case, you will get a great addition to tea or coffee. Delicious and healthy even in one teaspoon!

Ingredients

• fresh dogwood - 1 kg;
• granulated sugar - 1.2 kg;
• water - 250 ml.

Cooking

Rinse the dogwood berries thoroughly, remove the twigs and leaves, and sort through. To make jam, it is important to take only whole berries without signs of spoilage. Bad berries can start the fermentation process and the whole batch will go bad. Since this jam is made from a whole dogwood, each berry must be whole. Leave the washed berries in a colander for a while to drain the water or spread on a clean kitchen towel for a few minutes.

Pour water into a saucepan and add sugar. Boil the syrup over low heat. It needs to be stirred from time to time so that the sugar does not burn to the bottom. After the sugar is completely dissolved, and bubbles appear on the syrup, cook for another 5-7 minutes.

In the meantime, the syrup is being cooked, we need to pierce each berry in 2-3 places. You can use a toothpick or other sharp wooden stick. Yes, this procedure is rather dreary, but the berries in the jam will be whole, and the skin will not burst. And still, the syrup is not ready yet.

The boiled syrup needs to be cooled down a bit. The temperature of the syrup should be around 80°C. Since it is impossible to measure this without a special thermometer, leave the syrup on the table for 10 minutes to cool. Lay out the berries very carefully so as not to burn yourself with hot syrup. Then gently shake the saucepan so that the syrup covers all the berries. Cover the pot with the dogwood with a clean towel and leave it on the counter for at least 8 hours. During this time, the berries are saturated with syrup and will not burst during cooking.

When the time has passed, put the dogwood jam back on the fire. After boiling, cook for 15 minutes over moderate heat, constantly removing the foam. Cool completely.

Put the jam on the stove again, detect after boiling for 10 minutes. If you are preparing jam for long-term storage, the foam must be removed with special passion. If you plan to use jam within the next 2 weeks, you can not be too zealous with foam. Sterilize jars and lids in boiling water. To do this, simply pour a little boiling water into clean jars and leave for 5-7 minutes. When it's time to fill the jars with jam, pour out the water. Bring the lids to a boil in a pot of water. It is better to take small jars for jam, because open jam is stored in the refrigerator for no more than a week. Spread the jam to the very thread of the jars and close with iron lids. Pour the jam and cork only hot. It is even possible for the jam to simmer in the pot while you pour it into the jars.

Although for the preservation of jam, you can also omit the sterilization of jars and lids. Rinse and dry jars and lids. And spread the jam in them completely cooled. Before this, it is better to stir it well with a clean ladle or spatula. This method will not affect the storage of jam in any way.

Store dogwood pitted jam in a cool, dry place for up to a year. You can cook such jam from frozen dogwood according to the same principle.

Dogwood is a tree or shrub that grows berries that have a sweet and sour taste, with a pleasant, slightly astringent effect, it is possible to benefit from the dogwood components: leaves, berries, bark, roots and seeds. Its healing properties are widely used in folk medicine, and are also widely used in cooking. Compotes, wines, jams, liqueurs, sauces, soups - and this is not a complete list of what can be prepared from this fruit. In this article we will tell you how dogwood jam is useful and its properties.

The benefits and harms of dogwood jam

The correct preparation affects the safety of useful properties: vitamins and minerals. They have a beneficial effect on human health. The shelf life of raw berries is only twelve days, after this time they become dangerous for consumption.

So, what is the benefit of dogwood jam:

1. Anti-inflammatory and cleansing action for the body.
2. Increased immunity, strengthening and tonic properties.
3. Regular use helps protect against infectious colds.
4. It has a positive effect on cardiovascular diseases, indigestion and intestines.
5. Clears the bronchi.
6. Antipyretic effect.

Dogwood is saturated with various useful properties, jam from which contains a high level of ascorbic acid, vitamins E, C and P, provitamin A (carotene). Among the minerals included in the composition stand out such as iron, calcium, potassium, sulfur and magnesium. Dogwood is rich in biologically active components: glucose, essential oils, tannins and organic acids.

Due to its effective medicinal properties, dogwood jam is effective in the prevention of sclerosis, liver disease, stomach infections and skin diseases. It has an antibacterial effect, normalizes blood pressure, strengthens the walls of blood vessels, increases the level of hemoglobin in the blood. Helps bring down body temperature during fever.

These features are widely used in the treatment of many diseases, for example:

• avitaminosis;
• anemia;
• hypertension;
• influenza and acute respiratory infections;
• gout;
• stomatitis;
• eczema, etc.

Benefits of dogwood jam with pits

The benefits of dogwood jam with pits are the high content of pectin, which helps to remove harmful toxins from the body. Since the bones are less susceptible to loss of useful qualities during heat treatment, such a delicacy will bring maximum benefit. It is also useful for improving the gastrointestinal tract.

Unfortunately, some of the valuable properties of berries are lost during cooking. In order to minimize losses, it is necessary to reduce the heat treatment time.

But at the same time, one should not forget about the harmfulness of the fetus. It is contraindicated in pregnant and lactating women, with individual intolerance, excitable nervous system, gastritis, diabetes mellitus, increased blood clotting, as well as people suffering from insomnia, as they excite the body, giving it a boost of energy. Excessive consumption of dogwood jam leads to flatulence, diarrhea, kidney disease and weight gain. Any food with the addition of dogwood is not compatible with the simultaneous use of drugs.

When using jam as a traditional treatment, it is recommended to avoid Jamaican dogwood, as it is potentially highly toxic and contraindicated in food. It is prescribed exclusively in extreme cases of acute diseases and only under the strict supervision of a doctor in exact dosages.

Dogwood is a red sweet and sour berry about the size of an olive. It has found wide application in cooking. So, these berries are used in dried form as a dessert, they are used to make compotes, jelly, marshmallows, as well as sauces and gravies for meat and fish. From the same article, you will learn how to make dogwood jam, the benefits and harms of which are discussed in its very first lines.

Properties of dogwood jam

The benefits of dogwood jam

Properly prepared dogwood jam has a number of useful properties. It preserves the vitamins and minerals found in fresh berries, and they have a positive effect on health.

Rich chemical composition of berries

The benefits of any product are due to its mineral and vitamin composition. As for dogwood, it is famous, first of all, for its high content of ascorbic acid. In its concentration, it surpasses even blackcurrant and lemon. Also in the berries of the dogwood there are vitamins E and P, provitamin A (carotene). The mineral composition is dominated by iron, calcium, potassium, sulfur and magnesium. Organic acids, tannins, glucose and fructose, essential oils stand out among the biologically active components.

As you know, during cooking, useful substances are partially lost. In order to preserve them as much as possible, it is necessary to reduce the duration of heat treatment. Below you will find jam recipes that help minimize the loss of vitamins and minerals. The result is not only tasty, but also a healthy treat.

Help with a cold

Since there is a lot of vitamin C in dogwood jam, as well as other substances that can have an antibacterial effect, it copes well with various symptoms of colds. In this case, it is often used in the same way as honey. It is useful to use jam with warm drinks - tea, milk, herbal decoctions, for a speedy recovery. The same can be done for prevention. But in this case there are no strict rules. To protect yourself from colds, it is enough to eat jam in reasonable quantities throughout the cold season. You can simply spread it on fresh crispy buns, add it to porridge, cottage cheese, desserts, serve with tea, etc.

General strengthening of the body

Since dogwood berries and leaves are rich in biologically active compounds, they are used in folk medicine for the preparation of therapeutic agents. Jam does not have a high concentration of nutrients, so it can only act as a tonic product. In particular, lovers of this dessert are less likely than others to suffer from cardiovascular diseases, indigestion and intestines. Such people are distinguished by cheerfulness and mobility, rarely get sick.

Harm of dogwood jam

But when you begin to regularly use dogwood jam, its benefits and harms should be fully known to you. In particular, such a delicacy has contraindications. First of all, they include diabetes, since any jam is prepared on the basis of berries or fruits and sugar, including dogwood.

For the same reason, it should not be consumed in large quantities. Sugar is not good for the body as a whole, and it also adversely affects dental health.

Dogwood dishes are not recommended for people with high stomach acidity and chronic constipation. In addition, individual intolerance sometimes manifests itself in berries, in which it is also worth abandoning jam.

Dogwood: useful base for jam with a long shelf life

How to make dogwood jam?

Quick Recipe

To get not a simple, but a healthy dogwood delicacy, jam should be cooked according to a special, quick recipe.

Proportions of ingredients:

1. Dogwood - 1 kg;
2. Sugar - 1.5 kg;
3. Water - 2 glasses.

Fresh berries must be carefully sorted out, freeing them from twigs and leaves, and then washed well. Next, prepare the syrup. To do this, mix sugar with water and boil until a homogeneous liquid mass is obtained. Pour the berries with hot syrup and put them on a small fire. Boil for about 10 minutes, and then immediately pour into sterilized jars and twist. Store jam in a cool, dark place.

Dogwood jam with wine

Wine is often used in the preparation of dogwood jam. It gives the dessert an exquisite refined taste. To prepare it you will need:

1. Dogwood - 1 kg;
2. Sugar - 1 kg;
3. Dry or semi-dry wine - 350 ml.

Sort the berries, rinse and pour hot water. After a few seconds, a maximum of a minute, drain it. In a separate container, heat the wine, add sugar to it and, stirring, cook until a homogeneous syrup is formed. Pour the berries into it and simmer all together, removing the foam, no more than 7 minutes. Turn off the heat and wait for the jam to cool completely, then bring it to a boil and cool completely again. The last stage of cooking - put the container on the stove and after boiling the contents, simmer it over low heat for about 7 minutes. Pour the jam into prepared sterile jars, wait for it to cool and send it to a cool place for storage.

To maintain good health, you need to pay attention to what you eat. Even desserts can be helpful. Choosing dogwood jam, the benefits and harms of which depend only on compliance with the rules of use, you get a delicacy that can protect you from various ailments. It will help to cope with a cold, strengthen the immune system, give cheerfulness. It is only important to remember about contraindications and eat jam in reasonable quantities.

I like the slightly sour taste of this jam. I make it every year, although the preparation itself takes time and patience. And since dogwood reluctantly gives juice, this berry needs special preparation.

Dogwood jam is prepared with and without seeds, sometimes it is ground.

Dogwood jam, recipes for the winter

Secrets of delicious jam:

• Dogwood cannot be cooked for a long time, with prolonged heat treatment, the berries become hard. Therefore, the best option is several cooking approaches.
• Berries need to be pricked before cooking, it is best to do this with an ordinary toothpick so that the juice comes out easier.
• To make dogwood jam beautiful, you need to preserve the integrity of the berries, for this you can simply hold them in a weak soda solution (a teaspoon of soda per liter of water), and then rinse thoroughly. It is enough to keep the dogwood in soda for 10 minutes.
• If you do not want to cook dogwood with bones, then it is better to rub it through a sieve and select the bones.

Dogwood jam with pit

Ingredients:

• Kilo of dogwood berries
• One and a half kilograms of sugar
• Half a liter of water

Sort the berries, leave only the good ones, rinse. Prick each berry with a toothpick. Then boil the syrup from water and sugar and pour the prepared dogwood into a very hot one. Keep in syrup for 3-4 hours.

Now carefully remove the berries with a slotted spoon, and boil the syrup for about five minutes. Put the berries back in for the same time and pull them out again. In general, repeat the whole process. For the third time, also stand the berries for several hours, only this time do not pull it out, but boil it until tender. At the end, determine readiness with a drop of jam, if it holds its shape, then it can be poured into sterilized jars.

Delicious dogwood jam

Cooking takes less time, and the jam is thick and beautiful.

It will take:

• Kilogram of dogwood berries
• Two hundred grams of sugar
• 1/4 cup water

How to cook

Wash and select only good berries, without stains and damage. Prick each with a toothpick, in this case the juice will stand out faster. Pour dogwood with sugar and wait until the sugar is saturated with juice without residue.

Pour water into it and put it on fire. As soon as it boils, immediately remove the fire and remove the foam that has appeared. Allow the jam to cool, and then repeat the whole process. Next, we lay out the finished jam in jars.

Pitted cornel jam

Such grated jam is convenient to use for various types of pastries, it is very tasty, for example, a pie with such a filling.

Products:

• Half a kilo of ripe dogwood
• Half a kilo of sugar
• Glass of water

How to cook dogwood jam

In this option, it is advisable to choose the most ripe berries, sort them out and wash them. To grind them, you need to fill the berries with water and simmer a little, about 15 minutes. Then rub through a sieve and mix with sugar. The cooking time of this dogwood jam after boiling is 3 minutes.

A simple recipe for dogwood jam

This recipe is easy, as it takes a little time and this makes it popular.

We'll need:

• Kilogram of ripe dogwood berries
• Half a liter of water
• Kilo five hundred sugar

Preparing jam

We review all the berries so that there are no spoiled or rumpled ones, at the same time we remove all the branches. Rinse under the tap several times, let the water drain.

While excess water drains from the berries, we begin to boil the syrup. Boil it for five minutes and immediately pour the berry, leave it in this form for five hours. Only after that we put on a gentle fire and cook the berry for ten minutes. Then immediately pour into clean and dry jars.

Dogwood jam with apples

Dogwood ripens in autumn, at the same time as apples. And this allows you to cook very tasty, delicious dogwood jam with the addition of apples.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 kilograms of dogwood
• 0.5 kilograms of apples
• 1.5 kilograms of sugar
• 1.5 cups of water

The process of making jam

We remove the seeds from the berries, selected and washed. Wash apples, peel and cut into slices half a centimeter wide. Separately, boil the syrup from water and sugar. Pour two thirds of it into the berries and begin to cook over low heat, and pour the rest of the apples and cook until the slices become transparent and soft. Then mix the dogwood with apples and cook until the mass thickens. Distribute in sterile jars.

The benefits of dogwood jam

Dogwood has various beneficial properties, jam from it contains a high level of ascorbic acid, vitamins E, C and P, provitamin A (carotene).

Among the minerals that make up the composition, we note such as: iron, calcium, potassium, sulfur and magnesium. Dogwood is rich in biologically active components: glucose, fructose, essential oils, tannins and organic acids.

Due to the valuable qualities of dogwood, jam also has such useful properties as:

• astringent for people who have problems with the stomach and intestines;
• enhances the activity of the pancreas;
• improves digestion of food, increases appetite;
• has a diuretic, anti-inflammatory, bactericidal, choleretic property, therefore it is used for cystitis and inflammation of the bladder;
• tones, invigorates and strengthens the body;
• improves immunity;
• normalizes the pressure of blood vessels in the brain and arterial;
• prevents the occurrence of sclerosis;
• reduces headaches;
• strengthens the walls of capillaries and blood vessels, as a result of which it is useful for inflammation of the veins, leg edema, fragile capillaries, venous insufficiency;
• used for diseases of the joints, skin diseases, eczema, gout, diseases of the liver and kidneys;
• improves and normalizes metabolism;
• useful for gastritis and ulcers, acute gastroenterocolitis, rheumatism, polyarthritis;
• has an antiscorbutic effect;
• used for deficiency of vitamins, micro- and macroelements, anemia, fever;
• helps with colds, flu, bronchitis, tonsillitis, sinusitis, scarlet fever;
• reduces joint pain;
• has antipyretic properties;
• used for hemorrhoids, typhoid, anemia, gout, dysentery;
• recommended for bleeding and diseases of the oral cavity.

Harm of dogwood jam

However, there are contraindications, the use of dogwood is not recommended for:

• increased acidity;
• constipation;
• excitable nervous system, nervous overexcitation and excitation (especially not to be used at night);
• individual intolerance.

Recipe for simple dogwood jam, video