How to cook a tender wild rose petal jam?

impossible to walk past a flowering abundantly covered with pink flowers of wild rose bush.Bright and at the same time delicate flavor flowering plant unobtrusively draws and makes involuntarily slow down, to enjoy this wonderful smell.But not everyone knows that a piece of this wonderful aroma can be stored for a long time in the form of delicious jam fragrant flowers.Aromatic tender wild rose petal jam can not cook each, and only a very patient man.Suitable for cooking just blooming wild rose petals.Imagine how much time should be spent, how much painstaking work to make to collect at least a pound of weightless petals?Three-liter jar of jam is not to prepare for the future.So this recipe is only for a very patient and hardworking.

How to build and prepare for the cooking of wild rose petals?

to jam from the hips turned fragrant and delicate, the petals just need a blossoming flower.How to collect them?All the petals of a flower to collect in a pinch, to break them, then a pair of scissors to cut off the white and pink of the petals, they were attached to the receptacle.It is advisable to collect and put them in the basket, without flattening.Keep assembled not be necessary immediately after the collection jam from petals of rose hips, because they do not allocate the juice for further processing.Raw materials weigh, pour into a wide enamel bowl, add the lemon juice (you can replace citric acid).Then grind the petals of rose hips.They greatly decrease the amount they allocate juice, turn red.Five hundred grams of raw materials you need to add the juice of one lemon or five grams of citric acid.

How to cook the jam from the petals of rose hips?

often when cooking jam poured sugar into the prepared raw material and give it brew for some time that he disappeared and were filled with juice.Indeed, in this case the raw material provides abundant juice, sugar dissolved in it, but the jam, cooked so it turns liquid.If you cook it long until thick, then the berries, but in this case - the petals of rose hips, they will be hard to have lost their unique flavor.It is strongly recommended to make jam from the petals of rose hips in the cooked sugar syrup, for this in an enamel pan pour the sugar and add water: for one kilogram of sugar is necessary to 0.5 liters of purified water.Give the syrup to a boil, stirring often to not burnt.In the boiling syrup prepared to fill the petals of rose hips, give weight to boil, remove from heat and leave to infuse for a day.Pan did not close the lid, and a gauze or towel.The present weight to put on a small fire to boil and pour into sterilized small jars, cover up their caps, pasteurized for ten minutes in hot water.Store in a dark place.

fragrant and delicate wild rose petal jam is ready.Enjoy the warm memories of summer in the long cold winter evenings.