Mulberry or mulberry - fleshy, juicy berry with a beautiful sweet taste and a pronounced flavor. It, like all summer berries, is rich in vitamins and trace elements, necessary for our body not only in the summer, during its ripening, but also all year round.
Jam from mulberry berries is an excellent variant of vitamin billet for the winter, and if you add lemon or orange to it, you get a wonderful piquant taste and doubled use, because we have long been aware of the useful properties of citrus fruits.
In addition, the use of lemon in the preparation of jam from mulberry replaces the necessary in the classical version of the recipe for citric acid.
Marmalade with mint with lemon - recipe
Ingredients:
- mulberry - 1 kg;
- granulated sugar - 700 g;
- lemon - 1/2 pcs.
Preparation
Rinsed in cold water, mulberry berries are allowed to drain, and we place them in enameled dishes, fall asleep with sugar and leave for two or three hours to isolate the juice. Then add the sliced peeled peeled half of lemon and put it on the stove. Preheat to a boil, boil, stirring occasionally, fifteen minutes, and let it cool. Then again bring to a boil, cook another twenty minutes, cool a bit, pour over previously prepared sterile jars and cap the boiled lids. We put it in a cool, dark place.
White mulberry jam with lemon and orange
Ingredients:
- mulberry - 4 kg;
- granulated sugar - 1,5 kg;
- lemon - 200 g;
- orange - 200 g.
Preparation
Washed and dried mulberry is placed in a suitable container. Oranges and lemons, cut into small pieces, extracting in the presence of bones, and add to the mulberry berries. We fall asleep with sugar and leave it to juice until about three hours. Then bring the mass to a boil on high heat, and cook, reducing the fire to a minimum, stirring occasionally, one hour. If necessary, we remove the formed foam during cooking. Ready
Delicious jam from white mulberry with lemon and orange is stored in a dark and preferably cool place.
You can also prepare jam with lemon and orange from dark mulberry varieties, but the amount of sugar in this case should be slightly increased. After all, a white mulberry is usually sweeter than a black mulberry. But sometimes it's the other way round, so you should always approach individually to determine the amount of sugar needed to make any jam.