Raw dogwood jam. How to make dogwood jam without cooking

Dancing with banks!!!

Don't eat, these are wolf berries!
Never mind, the wolf will still find something for himself.

Dogwood got its name from the Turkic word “kyzyl”, which means “red” and fully corresponds appearance ripe berries. This berry ripens in late autumn and has not only a beautiful red color, but also a glossy skin, under which there is a whole treasure trove of useful substances...

Yesterday I bought dogwood at the market, I wanted to make jam, but looking at the seeds they seemed incredibly large, I decided to do everything my way and make jam.

So, dogwood jam. Dogwood - 2kg, sugar 3kg (but you can do 1:2m)

Method of preparation Wash the berries, strain through a colander, and place in a saucepan, preferably with a thick bottom. Add 1 cup of water to the pan. Heat for a while until the skin of the berries peels off. Set aside and cool; I rubbed them hot; it seems to me that hot berries are easier to rub through a sieve with a wooden masher or spoon.

Pour the pureed mass into separate dishes, measuring one glass at a time. First, one glass at a time, and when cooking, add as you like. Boil with sugar for 3 - 5 minutes. Cool (so that there is no condensation and the jam does not mold) and pour into jars.

It turns out 2 delicacies at once - jelly and jam. After cooking, rub the dogwood through a sieve. The jelly turns out transparent and very aromatic. The jam turns out very tender and not cloying. Great as a filling for pies, cookies, cakes, as well as for tea sandwiches

Dogwood fruit drink

Add about 2 liters of water to the pulp formed during rubbing, boil, strain through a sieve. Add sugar to the resulting broth, let it boil, drink the fruit drink hot or cold.

Good day!

Today I was visiting a friend, we actually sat, talked and drank tea with dogwood jam. Can you imagine? interesting name, at first I didn’t understand what it was. It turned out that this is what it is sweet and sour berry, it tastes different depending on when it was collected. I was struck, of course, by the color of this blank, it was so bright and somehow reminded me of a ruby. In general, I liked the delicacy, it was extremely tasty and very beautiful, I really wanted to eat more of it with.

A friend poured it into a jar for me as a gift so that I could pamper my kids. And they are so curious that they will climb into a vase with its contents, and then they will sit and lick their fingers and ask for more. I didn’t think long, I surfed the Internet and found a couple wonderful recipes, which I liked for their simplicity and accessibility. As you guessed, I will share them with you.

As usual, we’ll start with the easiest options, we’ll get to five minutes, but for those who are interested, we’ll make this jam according to Caucasian recipe, and we will also make the preparation without cooking. Moreover, the trick is that this dessert retains all its properties and vitamins after heat treatment. I don’t know how true this is, but that’s what they write on other sites.

And I also realized that such a delicacy can lift everyone’s spirits and charge them with energy and positivity. Imagine, it would be nice. Or maybe it is so, after all, I returned from my girlfriend completely happy).

To be honest, I thought for a long time about what this treat was like, and then suddenly I remembered fresh rosehip, here the berries are the same red in shape and color. Therefore, let's not spoil them, and cook them as a whole, and so that they don't shrink, we'll place them in sweet syrup.

There shouldn't be any difficulties, so get to work. Please note that water is used during cooking, but you can cook without it, that is, in its own juice.

The proportions of berries and sugar can be taken 1 to 1 or 1 to 1.5, depending on the acidity of the dogwood. Taste it before cooking.

We will need:

• fresh dogwood - 2 kg
• sugar - 2 kg
• water - 500 ml

Stages:

1. Select whole and juicy ripe dogwood fruits into a bowl. Then rinse the berries under running water, while removing twigs and sticks if they accidentally got into the bowl.

2. In order for the dogwood to remain safe and sound, you need to dip the fruits in sweet syrup, which you prepare in advance. Mix water with sugar and bring the mixture over the fire to a vigorous boil.

3. As soon as bubbles appear and the sugar grains have dissolved, throw in the red berries. Turn off the stove and leave to simmer, move the basin to the table, let the dogwood soak in the hot syrup for about 5-6 hours, you can leave it overnight.

4. Then bring the jam to a boil again and skim off the foam. It comes out very tasty and the kids will happily lick it off the spoon. So, cook for 15 minutes over medium heat, you can increase it to 30, depending on what consistency you want. But, don’t forget, when the treat cools down, it will still be thicker than when warm.

Pour the hot preparation into clean, sterile glass jars, close the lids and let cool until room temperature. And then store it in the refrigerator or cellar. Happy discoveries!

Advice! Don’t forget to pour the treat into your vase so that today you can drink tea with a crust of bread or smear a piece with dogwood jam.

Five-minute dogwood with seeds (simple recipe without water)

Probably the most favorite option, which everyone loves, for its ease of cooking. This is because the berries are little subject to heat treatment and retain many vitamins and nutrients. Let's prepare this jam in the form of confiture so that it is uniform in consistency.

Usually, in this combination, the seeds are removed, and we leave them and twist them together to improve the aroma and smell. If you wish, you can always remove them, it’s up to everyone.

Be sure to store this preparation in cool place and so that there is no access to sunlight, then nothing will happen and the contents in the jars will be in perfect order.

We will need:

• dogwood - 1 kg
• sugar - 1.5 kg

Stages:

1. Remove the stem and leaves from each berry. Then wash them under running water and prepare them for the upcoming work.

2. Then add bright and unusually attractive fruits granulated sugar. Stir the mixture.

3. Place the saucepan on the stove and select medium mode, after boiling, cook for 40 minutes, stirring. Next, remove from the stove and puree the berries in a blender until smooth.

4. You will get jam, which you will then boil again and pour into a hot bowl. glass jars. Screw on with clean twist caps and let cool. Store in a closet or somewhere cool and dark. Bon appetit!

Homemade dogwood jam with apples

If you are planning a tea party today, then this dish will always help you out, because it has a slight sourness and a beautiful color, and it is also incredibly tasty and aromatic. And plus, besides dogwood, apples are used here, it turns out fruit mix, which you will happily take out of the cellar and surprise everyone.

Be sure to try to cook it. The result will be a kind of jam that children simply adore and always eat with great pleasure.

We will need:

• Apples without peel and seeds - 1.5 kg
• Dogwood - 1 kg
• Sugar - 1 kg
• Drinking water – 200 ml

Stages:

1. Peel the apples, remove the seed box, and cut into plastic pieces, as shown in this photo.

2. Next, the apples should be simmered over a fire, pour 100 ml of water into them and cook over low heat for half an hour. At the same time, be sure to close the lid. Then take an electric assistant called a blender and grind the mixture into a puree.

3. In another bowl, boil the dogwood with 100 ml of water, the berries should release juice. Cook with the lid closed for 10 minutes.

4. After that, grind the stewed berries (but drain the juice and make it cool and aromatic) through a manual or automatic sieve.

5. Now connect the two fruit purees together. Add granulated sugar and stir.

6. Cook over low heat, and remove the foam when it appears with a spoon. Then add heat and cook for another 10 minutes over high heat, stirring occasionally, 10 minutes.

7. Then check the readiness, drop a drop of “red potion” on the saucer, if it does not spread, then everything is ok, the jam is ready.

8. Pack the treat in jars that you sterilize in advance. Screw on metal lids, wrap with a blanket and let stand for 24 hours. Then lower it into the basement and store it there all winter and spring. Have a nice experience!

Unusually beautiful dogwood jam - a delicious recipe for the winter

For a dense consistency, thickeners are often used, and of course citrus fruits, as they contain pectin. Therefore, I suggest taking an orange.

And then arrange fun gatherings with or.

We will need:

• dogwood - 0.5 kg
• orange - 1 pc.
• sugar - 0.5 kg

Stages:

1. Carefully remove the seeds from each berry with your hands, and wash the fruits in water in advance.

2. Combine pitted dogwood with sugar and bring the mass on the stove to a boil. Next, according to the plan, squeeze the juice from the orange and pour it in here. You can do this right away when you mix the sugar and berries. Stir and cook for no more than 15 minutes, stirring thoroughly and often.

3. Afterwards, leave it almost ready-made jam cool to room temperature, and when it becomes cold, boil it again and cook for 2-3 minutes. Pour only when hot and only in sterile jars, screw the treats with clean lids. Mmm, the smell is amazing, the color is awesome, and the taste is enchanting. Everyone will like it, without exception, and you too). Bon appetit!

How to make dogwood jam with stones according to a Caucasian recipe

You think that it is impossible to make such a miracle at home, you are mistaken. Especially when you have one at hand step by step instructions. Be sure that everything will work out for you. Take action. You don't need any special culinary skills, just good mood and a positive attitude.

We will need:

• dogwood berries - 2.5 kg
• sugar - 3 kg
• water - 3 tbsp.

Stages:

1. Remove dogwood from branches and sticks, wash in water under running water. Remove excess moisture using a colander. Then place the berries in a cooking pot along with sugar and water. Stir.

Put the mass on the stove and bring to a boil over low heat. Switch off immediately and let stand and cool.

2. In the meantime, sterilize the jars and lids.

Pour the batch hot into jars, and then tighten the lids. Cool the containers upside down, and then send them to any place where it is cool.

How to cook dogwood jam without cooking

Actually I want to offer an option for freezing, but in an unusual way, you have to grind the berries first, and then place the resulting delicacy in the freezer.

For this, you can even not use sugar, the most interesting thing is that the jam is thick from one pulp. If you are interested in the recipe, watch this video.

You can do otherwise, grind the berries in the same way, as shown in the video, and then sprinkle the dogwood with sugar, in proportions of 1 to 1.5. Put on the stove and heat slightly, stir so that the granulated sugar is completely dispersed.

Cool! Then pack in sterile jars, and sprinkle with sugar on top and close with metal lids. It is sugar that will prevent the jam from turning sour or moldy.

Happy discoveries!

Grated pitted ruby ​​dogwood jam

You will not believe, but I found another recipe that you can imagine is made on the basis of the juice of these ruby ​​berries. It turns out a mass similar to marmalade, but it will be without a jelly-like component, but the consistency will be thick.

Mmm… imagine how delicious it is! Then you take a donut and fill it with such a filling of dogwood jam, or you can bake pies or another.

We will need:

• Dogwood - 1.4 kg
• Sugar - 600 g
• Ordinary drinking water without gases - 600 ml

Stages:

1. Mix red fruits with water and cook for 15 minutes after boiling. And then take and place the resulting mass on a sieve and grind with an ordinary crush into gruel. This time, set aside the pulp and use the juice.

2. Pour sugar into it, stir and bring the mixture to a boil. Taste, if sour add more sugar.

Remember that about 200 ml of juice goes for 150 g of granulated sugar.

After a couple of days, when the jelly has completely cooled down, it will still thicken and will be of a dense consistency.

Such a “berry miracle” prepared according to this recipe is stored even in apartment conditions.

Today, friends have learned how to make dogwood jam, I hope you have taken at least a couple of recipes for yourself. And once again you will delight your loved ones. Surprise and create for your health!

I wish everyone sunny weather and excellent holidays. Bye!

Hello dear readers. Continuing the theme of sweet preparations for the winter, today we will touch on dogwood preparations. And we will prepare seedless dogwood jam, unusual for us, but useful in all respects. Dogwood has become popular lately, and for good reason. This berry contains so many vitamins and nutrients that it would be inhumane, in relation to our body, to leave such a berry without attention. Moreover, it improves metabolism.

We have long paid attention to the miracle berry, I even wrote an article about it. This year we also planned to make dogwood blanks, but it was thought that this would be in the fall. But walking through the market, we saw dogwood trees. They came closer, looked, and asked the price. In general, we liked the dogwood both for its price and its appearance. Without thinking, we bought a bucket of dogwood.

At first I thought about taking less, but when I saw the berry itself, I already planned what I would do this year more blanks from dogwood.

Dogwood jam recipe

We will cook as usual berry jam without the addition of foreign ingredients. For this we need dogwood and sugar, that's all.

Dogwood for jam is best taken ripe, you can even overripe. I will be doing several pieces at once. Together with jam I will do and. In both recipes, you need to grind the berries on a sieve. But do not worry, I will describe all the ingredients and actions in detail.

Let's start cooking by washing and sorting the dogwood. As I said, we bought a bucket of dogwood. I won't take it away ripe berries for compote, it is also a very healthy and tasty drink, but I will talk about it in one of the following articles.

It’s just that unripe berries are more difficult to grind and they are not as fragrant, but we will make the compote another day, and they will have time to ripen.

The photo on the right shows that all our berries are ripe and there are even overripe ones. Now you need to put the berries on the fire to soften and evaporate the juice.

I just washed it and put it on the fire, we have a large volume, and the water that drained from the berries covered the bottom. If you have a small volume and will make jam, for example from one kilogram, then pour a little water into the container. There should be approximately one centimeter of water at the bottom. You can do more, but then it will take longer to evaporate the water.

Place on low heat and simmer the dogwood berries for about an hour. During this time, the berries will release juice and will be completely in their juice, becoming soft, ready for grinding.

Now we take the dogwood and grind it on a sieve. I will say right away that for grinding it is better to take a large sieve. Of course, we grinded on medium, but I’m already experienced and know how to do it faster. We use a whisk for grinding.

From experience I will say this, I tried it with a spoon, and with my hand, and even with a mixer. I stopped my choice on the whisk.

When I had 1 kilogram of dogwood puree in the pan, I added the same amount of sugar. We use proportions one to one.

If you don’t have scales or you make in small proportions, then from one kilogram of dogwood you get about 800 grams of puree. I can’t say for sure, since dogwood varieties are different, and the size of the berries and seeds are also different. For example, this year we got about 250 grams of waste per kilogram of berries.

We put the puree on the fire and cook, stirring occasionally.

Be careful while boiling. Foam rises and if you take the container more than 2/3 full, you will smear the stove. We collect foam.

We simmer our jam for about 20 minutes and pour it into sterile jars and roll it up.

If you added water, increase the evaporation time to 40 minutes, or even more. But I will say this, dogwood is rich in pectin, the jam turns out thick anyway. You can see an example of our 20-minute boiling in the first photo, the jam is like marmalade.

And here is our final photo. As you can see in the photo, from one kilogram of dogwood puree, you get three 0.5 liter jars. We still had enough dogwood jam to put in the salad bowl for the photo and to show its thick consistency.

The jam tasted more sweet than sour. But it has a tart taste. The jam itself is like grains. This dogwood jam is good to use for, or fingers, or just spread on bread.

Secrets of grinding dogwood

We always make dogwood in large portions, and grind 6 kilograms of dogwood, this is quite a feat. Every time I grind dogwood, I remember that I need to buy a large sieve. But as soon as I finish, I immediately forget. And this is not the first year.

So I learned how to grind through a sieve with a medium mesh.

First of all, I grind only hot berries; then they don’t clog the cells as much.

I always use two-step grinding, or even three. Last year there were three, this year I completed it in two steps.

First of all, I take the berries with a slotted spoon, then the juice remains in the pan. We will still need it.

First, I mash the berries well and grind them to a thick mushy mass. Do not immediately try to grind until the bone is clean. It's very tedious and time-consuming.

Then I put this mush on a plate and take the next portion. And so on until I turn all the dogwood into mush.

At this stage, you can grind about half of it. Then I take all the pulp and put it in the remaining juice and put it on the fire. I boil for about 10 minutes, then grind again. It's much easier to grind now.

If you don’t have any juice, or you immediately poured out the berries along with the juice, you can add a glass of water to the pulp. Then you will evaporate the moisture a little longer.

You can repeat this again, but only with water. After stirring a second time, all the juice will be absorbed into the porridge, and there will be none left at all.

I ground 6 kilograms of dogwood in 1.5 hours. This is of course a long time, but others grind one kilogram in an hour. So I consider it good result. And we love dogwood not only in jam, but also in sauce. One kilogram went to dogwood jam for the winter, the rest of the dogwood went to the sauce. We don’t eat meat at all without it in winter. Very tasty and healthy sauce.

Do you use dogwood in your diet? If yes, then share in the comments how you prepare it.

Dogwood makes excellent jam: dark red, thick and tender. Dogwood jam turns out to be very concentrated; very little water is used, which is necessary for boiling the berries. The jam is conveniently packaged in small jars so that you can take it with you to work, on a trip, or on a picnic. Bread is spread butter, put dogwood jam on top, the resulting dessert is tastier than any cake!

A thin layer of dogwood jam can set very well. If you spread it on the surface of the pie, after half an hour it will become dense berry glaze. You can also lubricate pieces of baked meat with dogwood jam when a sweet and sour taste is appropriate in the dish.

Ingredients to make dogwood jam for the winter:

• dogwood – 1 kg
• water – 300 ml
• sugar – 400 g

Recipe seedless dogwood jam:

Dark soft dogwood becomes sweet, this is the right time to make jam. It is necessary to sort the berries: for harvesting for the winter, do not use limp dogwood and fruits with incipient rot. High-quality raw materials are necessary for tasty jam; berries with defects will definitely show their presence, adding a bitter taste.

Dogwood is washed in cold water.

Pour water into the pan and add berries. Boil the dogwood over low heat for 10 minutes. The pan should be covered with a lid.

Then the berries are rubbed through a metal sieve with small mesh, and the remaining liquid in the pan is filtered. The fine mesh of the sieve allows you to get seedless dogwood jam with very delicate structure. If you like a grainy consistency, you can use a sieve with larger holes.

Add all the sugar to the pureed mass. Since the dogwood puree is still warm, the sugar will easily dissolve with vigorous stirring. Do not put the pan on the fire when the sugar has not yet dissolved, this may cause the jam to burn.

Dogwood jam for the winter is boiled over low heat for 25 minutes. The result is a thick, aromatic mass. The hot jam is poured into a sterilized jar and the sterile lid is screwed on. A kilogram of dogwood produces 350-400 ml of jam.

Dogwood jam is stored in a cool, dark room. The opened jar should be placed in the refrigerator.

Fragrant and tasty dogwood jam is ready!

Bon appetit!

I suggest you make wonderful dogwood jam. This jam, like jelly, can be served with pancakes and pancakes, and I like to spread butter on bread in the morning and put jam like this on top. To make jam, you must choose ripe, undamaged berries.

So, prepare the dogwood berries, rinse well with water.

At the initial stage, jam is prepared in the same way as jelly. Place the berries in a saucepan and add water.

Place the saucepan on the fire, cover with a lid and cook the berries for 7 minutes, they should become soft and cracked.

Pour the resulting juice into the pan. Place the berries in a sieve and puree, adding the pureed mass to the juice.

After this, put the mixture on the fire and simmer, stirring, for 10 minutes. Next, pour sugar into the pan and wait for it to dissolve.

Cook dogwood jam for 15 minutes, always stirring. Prepare sterile jars in advance. Pour hot jam into jars, twist and turn over directly on the table on a towel.

Cooled jars of dogwood jam can be stored in the pantry. If you didn’t make it for the winter, but just eat it now, you don’t have to seal it and store it in the refrigerator.

How to make seedless dogwood jam?

Simple dogwood jam

Select only good berries and wash them under running water. It must be cold. Pour prepared water into the pan and pour in clean dogwood. To put on slow fire and cook for 10 minutes with the lid closed. During this time, the berries will soften and release juice. They should be transferred to a metal sieve and ground. We only need the pulp, and the seeds can be discarded.

Combine the still warm pureed mass with sugar and wait until it is completely dissolved. Transfer the sweetened puree into a saucepan and place over low heat. Cook for 25 minutes, stirring the jam constantly. Pour dogwood jam into clean and sterilized jars, close metal lid. This amount of ingredients should yield approximately 400 ml of tasty and fragrant jam. It should be stored in a dark place, and already open jar must be refrigerated.

Unusual dogwood jam

For jam you need to prepare the following ingredients:

Wash the dogwood and place it in a saucepan. Add water to the berries so that it completely covers them. Place over low heat and wait until the skins of the berries begin to burst. This takes approximately 10–15 minutes. The main thing is to ensure that the dogwood does not completely disintegrate, turning into mush. Place the berries in a metal colander and mash with your hands or a spoon. Combine the resulting puree with 1 kg of sugar, pour into a saucepan and place on low heat. Cook for 35-40 minutes and leave overnight to harden. The next day, put the pan back on the fire and boil the jam again for 25-30 minutes. Add a sachet vanilla sugar and 1 tsp. cinnamon, mix. Let the jam simmer for 5-7 minutes and pour into jars.

Dogwood jam, the recipe for which you can choose to suit your taste, will become a great addition for pancakes or pancakes. Pies with such jam turn out not only tasty, but also beautiful. After all, the color of the jam is bright and rich. When the pie cools, the filling will turn into a solid mass that will not spread anywhere, but will look like jelly.

Pitted dogwood jam: 2 recipes

Dogwood jam without seeds

Dogwood jam without seeds

Pitted dogwood jam is a wonderful delicacy that has wide range use. For example, this jam can be served with pancakes or pancakes, or simply spread on bread and butter. They can also layer a cake, add it to pastries, but those with a sweet tooth can simply eat it with spoons. Dogwood contains many vitamins, such as A and P, and is also one of the leaders in the content of vitamin C. About 300 grams of delicious jam will be obtained from this amount of products.

Ingredients

Cooking steps

For jam, we select ripe, but not crushed fruits. We wash them with water.

Place the dogwood in a saucepan and add water.

We put the saucepan on the fire, bring the contents to a boil and cook for 7 minutes over low heat, covered with a lid. The berries should become soft.

After this, put the berries on a sieve and wipe. The activity is not very pleasant, since dogwood berries contain a large seed.

We put the mashed potatoes on the fire and boil a little over low heat, no more than 10 minutes. Then add sugar.

Cook dogwood jam for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Pour the hot jam into a dry sterile jar, twist it with a boiled lid, turn it over and put it away for storage after cooling. No need to cover. Wonderful delicious jam dogwood is ready! You can store it in a city apartment.

I couldn’t fit some of the jam into the jar, so I poured it into the bowl. In the morning, the dogwood jam became thick, as you see in the photo.

Pitted dogwood jam - recipe with photo

Dogwood jam without seeds

Hello dear readers. Continuing the theme of sweet preparations for the winter, today we will touch on dogwood preparations. And we will prepare seedless dogwood jam, unusual for us, but useful in all respects. Dogwood has become popular lately, and for good reason. This berry contains so many vitamins and nutrients that it would be inhumane, in relation to our body, to leave such a berry without attention. Moreover, it improves metabolism.

We have long paid attention to the miracle berry, I even wrote an article about beneficial features dogwood. This year we also planned to make dogwood blanks, but it was thought that this would be in the fall. But walking through the market, we saw dogwood trees. They came closer, looked, and asked the price. In general, we liked the dogwood both for its price and its appearance. Without thinking, we bought a bucket of dogwood.

At first I thought about taking less, but when I saw the berry itself, I already planned that this year I would make more dogwood preparations.

Dogwood jam recipe

We will prepare regular berry jam, without adding any extraneous ingredients. For this we need dogwood and sugar, that's all.

Dogwood for jam is best taken ripe, you can even overripe. I will be doing several pieces at once. Along with the jam, I will also make dogwood sauce. In both recipes, you need to grind the berries on a sieve. But do not worry, I will describe all the ingredients and actions in detail.

Let's start cooking by washing and sorting the dogwood. As I said, we bought a bucket of dogwood. I’ll select unripe berries for compote; it’s also a very healthy and tasty drink, but I’ll tell you about it in one of the following articles.

It’s just that unripe berries are more difficult to grind and they are not as fragrant, but we will make the compote another day, and they will have time to ripen.

The photo on the right shows that all our berries are ripe and there are even overripe ones. Now you need to put the berries on the fire to soften and evaporate the juice.

I just washed it and put it on the fire, we have a large volume, and the water that drained from the berries covered the bottom. If you have a small volume and will make jam, for example from one kilogram, then pour a little water into the container. There should be approximately one centimeter of water at the bottom. You can do more, but then it will take longer to evaporate the water.

Place on low heat and simmer the dogwood berries for about an hour. During this time, the berries will release juice and will be completely in their juice, becoming soft, ready for grinding.

Now we take the dogwood and grind it on a sieve. I will say right away that for grinding it is better to take a large sieve. Of course, we grinded on medium, but I’m already experienced and know how to do it faster. We use a whisk for grinding.

From experience I will say this, I tried it with a spoon, and with my hand, and even with a mixer. I stopped my choice on the whisk.

When I had 1 kilogram of dogwood puree in the pan, I added the same amount of sugar. We use proportions one to one.

If you don’t have scales or you make in small proportions, then from one kilogram of dogwood you get about 800 grams of puree. I can’t say for sure, since dogwood varieties are different, and the size of the berries and seeds are also different. For example, this year we got about 250 grams of waste per kilogram of berries.

We put the puree on the fire and cook, stirring occasionally.

Be careful while boiling. Foam rises and if you take the container more than 2/3 full, you will smear the stove. We collect foam.

We simmer our jam for about 20 minutes and pour it into sterile jars and roll it up.

If you added water, increase the evaporation time to 40 minutes, or even more. But I will say this, dogwood is rich in pectin, the jam turns out thick anyway. You can see an example of our 20-minute boiling in the first photo, the jam is like marmalade.

And here is our final photo. As you can see in the photo, from one kilogram of dogwood puree, you get three 0.5 liter jars. We still had enough dogwood jam to put in the salad bowl for the photo and to show its thick consistency.

The jam tasted more sweet than sour. But it has a tart taste. The jam itself is like grains. This dogwood jam is good to use for bagels, or fingers, or just spread on bread.

Secrets of grinding dogwood

We always make dogwood in large portions, and grinding 6 kilograms of dogwood is quite a feat. Every time I grind dogwood, I remember that I need to buy a large sieve. But as soon as I finish, I immediately forget. And this is not the first year.

So I learned how to grind through a sieve with a medium mesh.

First of all, I grind only hot berries; then they don’t clog the cells as much.

I always use two-step grinding, or even three. Last year there were three, this year I completed it in two steps.

First of all, I take the berries with a slotted spoon, then the juice remains in the pan. We will still need it.

First, I mash the berries well and grind them to a thick mushy mass. Do not immediately try to grind until the bone is clean. It's very tedious and time-consuming.

Then I put this mush on a plate and take the next portion. And so on until I turn all the dogwood into mush.

At this stage, you can grind about half of it. Then I take all the pulp and put it in the remaining juice and put it on the fire. I boil for about 10 minutes, then grind again. It's much easier to grind now.

If you don’t have any juice, or you immediately poured out the berries along with the juice, you can add a glass of water to the pulp. Then you will evaporate the moisture a little longer.

You can repeat this again, but only with water. After stirring a second time, all the juice will be absorbed into the porridge, and there will be none left at all.

I ground 6 kilograms of dogwood in 1.5 hours. This is of course a long time, but others grind one kilogram in an hour. So I think this is a good result. And we love dogwood not only in jam, but also in sauce. One kilogram went to make dogwood jam for the winter, the rest of the dogwood went to sauce. We don’t eat meat at all without it in winter. Very tasty and healthy sauce.

Do you use dogwood in your diet? If yes, then share in the comments how you prepare it.

Dogwood jam