Tea rose petals, in addition to the wonderful aroma and medicinal properties, can also become an excellent raw material for delicate and tasty jam. In this article we will look at how to properly prepare it, and read the basic recipes.
Useful properties of rose jam
Rose jam contains many healthy substances. All of them make up the unique composition of the delicacy: aromatic properties, flavor components, therapeutic abilities.
The composition of the finished jam includes such useful substances:
- monosaccharides - glucose and fructose;
- disaccharides - sucrose;
- essential oil, which helps in the fight against inflammatory processes;
- tannins, the knitting properties of which are widely known in chemistry;
- organic acids that support the body's metabolism and acid-base balance.
Selection of suitable roses
Sweet product is better to cook from the petals of tea roses grown on their own - in this case there will be no extraneous inclusions from fertilizers to accelerate growth and flowering. The flowering period of the plant falls on the beginning of summer and lasts about three weeks. At this time, you can collect the petals of the blooming buds every day, preferring the blossomed, whole, with no signs of damage.
Important! It is necessary to harvest raw materials in the early morning - at such a time, the content of esters and oils in it is greatest, which will contribute to a better taste and smell of future jam.
Collected petals need to sort and discard damaged, as well as petals with white tips, because they can give bitterness to the future delicacy. If the raw material is purchased, before buying it is necessary to look closely at it, because at the same time the garden peony is blooming, the pink variety of which is very similar in color and smell to the tea rose variety of similar color. Unscrupulous sellers can sometimes give out peony petals for pink. You can notice a fake, considering the size of the petals, which the peony has different shapes - they have a different size and oblong shape on the same plant.You can also make aromatic wine from rose petals.
How to cook
Jam from the petals of tea rose is difficult to spoil mistakes in cooking, as this wonderful raw material combined with sugar is always tasty, sweet, fragrant and healthy.
Recipe number 1
This is the most common recipe for making pink treats.
Ingredients
- petals - about 300 g;
- water - 1 tbsp .;
- sugar - 500-600 g;
- citric acid - 1 tsp.
We recommend to get acquainted with the methods of sterilization of cans at home.
Cooking
- Petals gently agitate on the table or in a suitable container for release from stamens.
- In a sieve or colander, the raw material is washed with running cold water, then scalded with hot water.
- Petals are stacked in layers, each of which is plentifully poured with sugar.
- At this stage, citric acid is added and the whole mass is gently mixed with a spoon.
- The container is covered with a lid and the mixture is set aside for 6 hours to inject juice.
- With constant stirring, the jam is welded for about 5 minutes and again set aside for 6 hours.
- The mixture is boiled again 5 minutes after simmering over low heat.
- The resulting jam is decomposed into small sterilized jars and rolled.
- Banks are wrapped to cool and placed on the shelves of the pantry.
Did you know? According to an ancient Greek legend, the rose appeared when bathing the goddess of beauty Aphrodite from sea foam, for which the gods gave these flowers their wonderful fragrance.
Recipe number 2
Another interesting recipe for making rose jam.
Ingredients
- petals - 200 g;
- sugar - 400 g;
- citric acid - 1 tsp.
We advise you to find out how the rose is useful for human health.
Cooking
- The raw material is placed in a pan sufficient for further manipulations.
- From above, sugar is poured in a circular motion.
- Before mixing, citric acid is added to reduce cloying.
- The mass is mixed with light kneading.
- The mixture, which started up the juice, after 2-3 hours is laid out in a glass and whipped with a blender until almost homogeneous.
- The resulting paste is placed in a sterilized jar of the appropriate volume (for a specified number of ingredients there will be enough 500 ml capacity).
- A thin layer of sugar is poured on the surface of this jam, after which the can is closed with a sterile cap.
Recipe number 3
To make this jam, you need a divider for a gas stove.
Ingredients
- petals - 200 g;
- sugar - 600 g;
- water - 1-2 tbsp. (it is possible and more - depending on the desired consistency of jam);
- citric acid - 1/2 tsp.
Did you know? Medieval alchemists used red and white roses with various chemical elements in their attempts to produce gold.
Cooking
- Raw materials are placed in a basin of water and cooked on a divider for 15 minutes from the moment of boiling. Mixture is necessary to mix and sometimes mix.
- With the skimmer, the boiled petals are shifted into a separate container.
- Sugar is added to the hot broth and stirred until dissolved. All this time, the tank is on low heat.
- Following the sugar, citric acid is added to the solution, everything is stirred.
- Before the syrup boils, the previously set aside petals are returned to it.
- When stirring, the raw materials are boiled down to a transparent state (it is recommended to cook no more than 15 minutes from the moment of boiling).
- Jam is laid out on clean banks and rolls.
- Banks are wrapped to cool.
We recommend to learn how to make jam from quince, white sweet cherry, grapes, lingonberry, sweet cherry, tangerines, strawberries, pumpkins, gooseberries, wild strawberries, raspberries.
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Serving options
Of course, you can put a jar of jam on the table and eat from there with large spoons, but, given the sophistication of the dish, it is better to arrange a whole ritual for its use. You can put a piece in a bowl and gently, gradually take a treat from there with teaspoons, or you can use small personal outlets with miniature spoons. Like any other, this jam goes well with white bread and butter.
Important! Many housewives use ordinary varieties of roses for making jam, but the most delicious, fragrant and beautiful, it is obtained only from tea roses.Tea rose petal jam with its indescribable aroma and taste will perfectly complement the tea ceremony in the family circle. And during the reception it will emphasize the culinary abilities of the housewife. This wonderful dish will remind you of warm summer days in the long winter evenings!
