Jam from cones helps the human body with flu, sore throat, acute respiratory viral infections, lung diseases and low hemoglobin, and also improves immunity. Jam has an expectorant and diaphoretic effect. You can prepare natural healthy jam from both pine and spruce cones.
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In the treatment of colds, flu, vitamin deficiencies, diseases of the throat and gums, asthma, jam from pine cones helps a lot. Pine is one of the healing phytoncid trees. The benefit of volatile production is that the biologically active substances formed by them are capable of killing dangerous bacteria.
For jam, select young green pine cones, it is best to collect cones in the spring. The optimal length of cones for jam is 1-5 cm.
You will need:
- 1 kg of pine cones;
- 1 kg of sugar;
- 10 tbsp. water.
Go through the cones, remove dirt, twigs and needles, then rinse. Place the cones in a pan and fill with water so that it covers them completely. Boil for 15-20 minutes in a saucepan covered with a lid. After that, leave the bumps for a day. The green infusion, which is formed by the cones, must be drained, and the cones themselves discarded.
Next, combine the infusion of cones and sugar and cook for about 1.5-2 hours. For cooking, be sure to use enameled cookware. As a result, you get raspberry jam with a pleasant tarry taste that even children like. Pour jam into jars and cover with lids. You can store jam made from pine cones in this way at room temperature.
To make jam from fir cones you will need:
- 1 kg of fir cones;
- 1 kg of sugar;
- 10 tbsp. water.
Collect spruce cones for jam in early July, because at this time, the fir cones will only begin to blossom and will be green. Sort the cones, freeing them from needles and various twigs, then dip them into boiled water so that they get wet. Pour sugar into the dishes that you use to cook the jam and add water, bring to a boil over low heat so that the sugar can completely dissolve.
Put spruce cones in sugar syrup and cook, stirring the jam periodically. Cooking is necessary until the spruce cones are fully bloomed. Keep in mind that the limescale formed when cooking jam does not need to be removed. Arrange the prepared jam in sterilized jars, cover with lids and refrigerate. Keep such healthy jam in the refrigerator.
There is such a jam, you need at least 1 spoon a day, it will increase the body's immunity and relieve fatigue, and will also help with colds and respiratory diseases (tonsillitis, tonsillitis, pulmonary diseases, bronchitis, etc.). It is best to consume jam with green tea. Fir cone jam has a resinous and delicate forest aroma.