A simple recipe for making blackberry jam with apples for the winter
There are several ways to prepare jam with an unusual taste from blackberry with apples, the proportions of the products used will allow you to regulate the taste. The astringency of mountain ash will not be so noticeable if you prepare jam with the addition of a sufficient amount of sugar and the use of some spices, in particular cinnamon. Apples will play an important role, depending on the variety, the jam will acquire its own special taste and aroma.
Preparation and cooking recommendations
Everyone is familiar with apple jam, but few have tried chokeberry jam. As a child, most of us feasted on grandmother's rolls from simple products that were in every garden. Some housewives have long grown and consumed blackberries in various forms, they are tart by themselves, but in combination with softer berries and fruits, they become softer in taste.
The ripened fruits of the chokeberry contain a lot of useful vitamins and minerals that have a beneficial effect on the whole body in general, but not everyone can eat them in their pure form. To improve the taste of tart fruits, they are often combined with other products, most often apples manage to smooth out the rich taste, pear, plum, and quince go well with the berries of a shrub. Basic cooking tips are as follows:
- The classic of the genre in seaming is rowan and apple jam, the products are taken in approximately the same proportion. The taste is regulated by the ratio of raw materials: the more blackberries there are, the sharper the taste of the jam will be.
- The sugar consumption will be standard and directly depends on the quality of apples and berries: the more acidic they are, the more you need to put it.
- Natural spices will help to improve the taste and give it special spicy notes. It is ideal to add a couple of cinnamon sticks to the brew, lemon zest will bring some exoticism to the dish, lemon balm will add freshness.
- It is advisable to cook the jam in an enamel bowl, and stir with a wooden spatula.
Advice! Jam can be made from apples and black chops, products are cooked, rubbed through a fine sieve and boiled with sugar until thick.
Sometimes a drop of vanilla extract or a half of a vanilla pod is added to the ready-made jam to improve the taste.
Preparation of ingredients
Everyone knows that in order for the jam to be tasty and healthy, the ingredients must be of excellent quality, and the preparation is carried out only at the highest level. Blackberry jam is no exception, in order to pamper yourself and loved ones with delicious food in winter, before cooking, you should properly prepare all the ingredients:
- Chokeberry berries are picked only in late autumn, so the fruits will have more sugars and less astringency.
- Apples are chosen of late-ripening varieties, hard, not broken.
The products are pre-washed and dried, then the apples are peeled and cut into medium cubes. Rowan berries are removed from the brushes, carefully sorted out and also washed.
For recipes with the addition of lemon, it is worthwhile to take a responsible attitude to the choice of citrus, it should be medium in size, the skin is completely yellow, without interspersed with extraneous color.
Advice! In order for the blackberry in the jam to be soft and tender, it is worth first pouring boiling water over the berries a couple of times.
How to make chokeberry apple jam
To prepare two liters of jam for next winter, you need to take the following amount of food:
- A kilogram of ripe apples.
- A pound of sugar.
- 300 g of black chokeberry berries.
- 1-2 sticks of cinnamon.
The work itself is carried out in the following order:
- Syrup is prepared from two glasses of water and sugar, the ingredients are placed in a saucepan and brought to a boil. Throw in the cinnamon.
- As soon as the water boils, peeled and chopped apples are thrown into it, boiled for 20-30 minutes.
- The signal for adding blackberries will be the softening of the apples and the darkening of the pieces. Only with such indicators can you add berries.
- Chokeberry with apples are boiled for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Then they are removed from the heat and laid out on previously prepared banks and rolled up.
Important! The finished jam will have a slightly pinkish tint, while the rowan berries should be soft.
A simple and affordable recipe for jam with lemon zest, it is put in a seaming in the last minutes, before being removed from heat. The rest of the steps are completely identical to the ones described above.
Jam storage
For safety, the finished seaming is left in the living room until it cools completely. Then they are taken to the cellar or basement, where the temperature in winter does not drop below +3, and in summer it does not rise to +20.
A roll of black, already ripe mountain ash can be stored in a refrigerator, but these are already extreme measures.
Making jam for the winter from black chokeberry berries with apples is simple, individual regulation of the ratio of ingredients will allow you to get a new seaming taste every time.
