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This shrub pleases the eye in spring with abundant and long flowering. Orange, pink, white flowers literally cover the bushes. This is henomeles or Japanese quince. Many plant it as an ornamental plant. Small, tough fruits that grow by the end of autumn are simply not paid attention to. It is simply impossible to eat them - they are too hard and sour. But it is not only possible to cook jam, but also necessary, especially since the relative of chaenomeles, the large-fruited quince, can not be grown in all regions.
The benefits of them are simply amazing.
Benefits of chaenomeles
- It is a multivitamin plant. Compared with large-fruited quince, it contains 4 times more vitamin C.
- Chaenomeles fruits are a real storehouse of vitamins and minerals, among which are very necessary for the body: iron, copper, zinc and silicon.
- It is a natural immunomodulator and antiseptic at the same time, which allows the use of Japanese quince in many diseases.
- The plant allows you to effectively fight atherosclerosis, dissolving cholesterol plaques and strengthening the walls of blood vessels.
- Fights anemia.
- Helps in the treatment of liver diseases, removing toxic substances from it and regenerating tissues.
- Fights edema of various origins and bile congestion.
- Improves blood clotting, therefore, combats bleeding. With increased blood clotting, and even more so in the presence of blood clots, quince should not be consumed.
- Due to the content of a considerable amount of serotonin, chaenomeles fruits are an excellent remedy for depression.
- The fruits of this plant help to cope with toxicosis during pregnancy. But remember that Japanese quince is a strong allergen, so you cannot eat more than ¼ of the fruit at a time. Consult your doctor before taking.
Seeds from quince should not be consumed either, as they are toxic.
To preserve all the nutrients, it is better to use this healing fruit raw, but pureed.
Raw chaenomeles jam
Ingredients:
- chaenomeles fruits - 1 kg;
- sugar - 1 kg.
There are two ways to cook it.
Method one
The washed fruits are cut into slices, removing the middle. Put some sugar on the bottom in dry sterile jars, lay out the slices, sprinkling well with sugar. Close with plastic lids and refrigerate.
Method two
We use the technology by which raw currant jam is prepared. Pass the peeled quince through a meat grinder and mix with sugar. Before putting the raw jam into sterile and dry jars, we wait for the sugar to completely dissolve. The juice should become clear. Store the jars closed with plastic lids in the cold.
In more detail, you can watch the technology for making raw jam on the video:
There are berries and fruits, as if created for the commonwealth in the blanks.Their beneficial properties complement each other, creating a healing and tasty mixture that can not only delight gourmets with a sweet tooth, but also help in the treatment of many diseases. Such a delicious medicine can be obtained by mixing raw Japanese quince jam with mashed black raspberries. This berry, despite its exotic color, retains all the healing properties of raspberries. Such a tandem will be an excellent medicine for colds and flu, will help with vitamin deficiencies, and will cope with many other problems in the body.
How to prepare this healing treat?
Raw black raspberry and chaenomeles jam
As soon as the berries begin to ripen on the raspberry plantation, prepare raw black raspberry jam.
This will require one part of raspberries - two parts of sugar. Measure them by volume.
We turn the berries into puree using a blender, adding sugar in parts. Add all the remaining sugar to the cooked puree and after it is completely dissolved, put it in dry sterile jars. Store dry jam only in the refrigerator.
As soon as the chaenomeles ripens, take the jars out of the refrigerator and mix their contents with the raw quince jam prepared according to the recipe above. We always store the mixture in the refrigerator. If you are not sure that such a mixture will store well, you can make a traditional mix jam.
Black raspberry and Japanese quince jam
Proportions for him: 1 part pureed raspberries, 1 part prepared chaenomeles fruits and 1 part sugar.
First, boil the grated raspberries for 10 minutes, add sugar and prepared quince slices, cook for another 20 minutes. We pack the finished jam in sterile dry jars. Let them stand in the air, covered with a clean towel. When the jam cools down, a film forms on top, which prevents it from spoiling. We close it with plastic lids. Better to store in a cool place.
You can make traditional Japanese quince jam. The cooking process is not complicated at all.
Chaenomeles quince jam
To do this, for each kilogram of prepared quince take the same or more sugar and 0.3 liters of water.
Wash the quince, free it from the skin, cut it into small pieces, fill them with water and cook from the moment of boiling for about 10 minutes. Pour in the sugar, let it dissolve and cook for about 20 minutes more. Let the jam brew until it cools completely. Put it back on the stove, bring to a boil and cook for another 5 minutes. Place in dry jars and close with lids.
Quince jam with chokeberry
A very tasty and healthy jam is obtained from chokeberry or chokeberry and chaenomeles fruits.
Ingredients:
- chokeberry - 1kg;
- chaenomeles fruits - 0.4 kg;
- sugar - from 1 to 1.5 kg;
- water - 1 glass.
Pour the washed chokeberry berries with a small amount of water and boil until puree. Pour sugar into it and boil for about 10 minutes. During this time, the sugar should dissolve. Cooking quince: wash, clean, cut into slices. We spread it in chokeberry puree and cook everything together until tender.
Conclusion
The process of making chaenomeles jam takes a little time and is not difficult. And the benefits of this preparation will be very great, especially in winter with a lack of vitamins and a high risk of getting the flu or colds.
