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This shrub pleases the eye in spring with abundant and long flowering. Orange, pink, and white flowers literally strew the bushes. This is Chaenomeles or Japanese quince. Many people plant it as an ornamental plant. The small, hard fruits that grow towards the end of autumn are simply ignored. It is simply impossible to eat them - they are too hard and sour. But making jam is not only possible, but also necessary, especially since Chaenomeles’s relative, large-fruited quince, cannot be grown in all regions.
The benefits from them are simply amazing.
Benefits of Chaenomeles
- This is a multivitamin plant. Compared to large-fruited quince, it contains 4 times more vitamin C.
- The fruits of Chaenomeles are a real storehouse of vitamins and minerals, including those very necessary for the body: iron, copper, zinc and silicon.
- It is a natural immunomodulator and at the same time an antiseptic, which makes it possible to use Japanese quince for 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 tissue.
- Fights edema of various origins and bile stagnation.
- Improves blood clotting and therefore fights bleeding. If you have increased blood clotting, and especially 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 cope with toxicosis during pregnancy. But remember that Japanese quince is a strong allergen, so you should not eat more than ¼ of the fruit at a time. Before taking, you should consult your doctor.
Quince seeds should also not be consumed, as they are toxic.
To preserve all the beneficial substances, it is better to consume this healing fruit raw, but pureed.
Raw Chaenomeles fruit jam
Ingredients:
- Chaenomeles fruits – 1 kg;
- sugar – 1 kg.
You can prepare it in two ways.
Method one
The washed fruits are cut into slices, removing the middle. Pour a little sugar into the bottom of dry sterile jars, lay out the slices, sprinkle them well with sugar. Cover with plastic lids and place in the refrigerator.
Method two
We use the technology used to prepare raw currant jam. We pass the peeled quince through a meat grinder and mix with sugar. Before putting raw jam into sterile and dry jars, wait until the sugar is completely dissolved. The juice should become clear.Store jars covered with plastic lids in the cold.
You can watch the technology for making raw jam in more detail in the video:
There are berries and fruits that seem to be created for collaboration in preparations. 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. This delicious medicine can be obtained by mixing raw Japanese quince jam with pureed black raspberries. This berry, despite its exotic color, retains all the healing properties of raspberries. Such a tandem will be an excellent cure for colds and flu, will help with vitamin deficiencies, and cope with many other problems in the body.
How to prepare this healing delicacy?
Raw black raspberry and chaenomeles fruit jam
As soon as the berries on the raspberry plantation begin to ripen, prepare raw black raspberry jam.
To do this you will need two parts sugar for one part raspberries. They are measured by volume.
We turn the berries into puree using a blender, adding sugar in parts. Add all the remaining sugar to the prepared puree and after it is completely dissolved, place it in dry sterile jars. Store dry jam only in the refrigerator.
As soon as the chaenomeles is ripe, take the jars out of the refrigerator and mix their contents with raw quince jam prepared according to the recipe above. Be sure to store the mixture in the refrigerator.If you are not sure that such a mixture will store well, you can prepare a traditional jam mix.
Black raspberry and Japanese quince jam
Proportions for it: 1 part pureed raspberries, 1 part prepared Chaenomeles fruits and 1 part sugar.
First, boil the pureed raspberries for 10 minutes, add sugar and prepared quince slices, cook for another 20 minutes. Pack the finished jam into sterile dry jars. Let them stand in the air, covered with a clean towel. When the jam cools, a film forms on top, which prevents it from spoiling. Cover it with plastic lids. It is better to store in a cool place.
You can make traditional Japanese quince jam. The cooking process is completely simple.
Quince jam from Chaenomeles fruits
To do this, for each kilogram of prepared quince, take the same or more sugar and 0.3 liters of water.
Wash the quince, remove the skin, cut 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. Let the jam sit until it cools completely. Place on the stove again, 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 made 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 chokeberries with a small amount of water and boil until pureed. Pour sugar into it and boil for about 10 minutes. During this time, the sugar should dissolve. Prepare the quince: wash, peel, cut into slices. We put it in chokeberry puree and cook it all together until tender.
Conclusion
The process of making jam from Chaenomeles fruits takes little time and is not difficult. And the benefits of this preparation will be very great, especially in winter when there is a lack of vitamins and a high risk of contracting the flu or a cold.
