Pine cones jam: benefits and harm. The recipe for jam from young pine cones with honey, lemon, in a slow cooker, children

An article on how to cook pine cones jam, and how to use it.

We know that in the coniferous forest, even the air is therapeutic, saturated with phytoncides that prevent harmful bacteria from developing.

Pine is most common from coniferous trees. In pine, therapeutic are: resin, needles, young branches and young cones. Do you know what tasty and healthy jam can be made from young cones?

Useful properties and contraindications of jam from pine cones

Pine cones jam is undoubtedly useful for our body.

Here is him beneficial features:

• A lot of vitamin C.
• Even in a sugared form in cones contain phytoncides and essential oils treating a cold, influenza, dry cough.
• Strengthens immunity.
• It has a diaphoretic and diuretic effect.
• Useful for the stomach with gastritis and ulcer, as it treats the sick mucous membrane and eliminates stagnation of bile.
• Increases hemoglobin.
• Strengthens the heart and blood vessels.
• Antioxidant.
• Antitumor effect.

Contraindications, or who needs to eat jam from pine cones with caution:

• Those who have kidney diseases
• With acute hepatitis form
• Pregnant women
• Nursing mothers
• Children aged 3-7 years

It is not recommended to eat pine cones jam at all:

• People with the age of 60 and more years
• Children under the age of 3 years
• People who are allergic to pine

Rememberthat if you eat jam more than 2 tbsp. tablespoons, some people may have headaches, and pain in the stomach.

If you eat pine cones for the first time, you need to eat a half spoonful of jam, and if the allergy does not manifest in a day, then it can be consumed, but not more than due.

For children, a dose of jam from cones per day is up to 2 teaspoons, for adults-2-3 tbsp. tablespoons.

Time to collect pine cones for jam

Pine cones are cut off from April to June, depending on which region, you are.

If the cones have grown more than the length laid for jam, then you missed the season for collecting cones, since large and hard for jam are not suitable.

Important. The cones should be no more than 4 cm in length, soft (easily cut with a knife), green, not damaged, without plaque.

How much to cook pine cones jam?

In most recipes, pine cones jam need to be boiled for a long time in one or more tricks.

Pine cones that does not require cooking

Recipe:

1. Pine cones (1 kg), young and still green, we sort out, mine, cut into small pieces.
2. We collapse chopped cones in sugar (2 kg)And put in a jar, sprinkling with sugar and in a bank.
3. We also pour a thick layer of sugar on top of the bank. There should be free space in the bank on top.
4. We cover the jar with a clean cloth, put it in a warm place so that the sun's rays fall, and shake the jar for better melting sugar every day.
5. When all sugar melts (2-4 weeks), the jam is ready, put it in the refrigerator.

Recipe for making jam from green pine cones

Pine cones

Recipe, method 1:

1. 1 kg of young pine cones Wash under running water, let it drain.
2. We cut each bump into 4 parts and fold in an enameled pelvis or pan.
3. Pour the bumps with boiling syrup, and leave it covered for 4 hours.
4. After the prescribed time, the cones in the syrup are boiled, and immediately set aside, and leave to infuse for another 2 hours.
5. After the second time insisting, we cook the future jam over low heat for about 1 hour.
6. Jam is considered ready if the cones are soft, and the jam of amber.
7. Syrup Cook from 2 glasses of clean water and 1.5 kg of sugar.

Recipe, method 2:

1. Pour the washed cones with clean water so that the water level is 2 cm above the level of cones.
2. Put the dishes with cones on the stove and let it boil, and then pour sugar (1: 1), that is, on 1 l of water 1 kg of sugar.
3. We cook, maintaining low fire, about 2 hours, often interfering, and removing foam, in 1 reception.

Pine cones with honey, recipe

Ancient Siberian recipe for pine jam, spruce, cones with honey

Recipe:

1. Green cones Rinse, put in an enamel vessel, pour warm boiled water to click.
2. Boil the pan with cones, add honey to taste And set aside from the fire.
3. We pour the jam into jars, put it on the windowsill so that the sun falls on banks, for 1 week, and then clean it in a cold place.
4. Such jam treats a sore throat well.

Pine cones with lemon, recipe

If the pine cones jam are very concentrated for you, then you can cook it with the addition of lemon.

Pine cones with lemon

Recipe:

1. 1 kg of coniferous cones We sort out, wash, pour 3 l of pure water, And cook for about 4 hours, removing the foam.
2. Drill the decoction, throw the cones, pour 1.5 kg of sugarAnd cook until it starts to thicken.
3. At the end add juice from 1 large lemon, and cook a few more minutes, pour hot in jars.

Pine cones in a slow cooker, recipe

Pine cones You can cook and in a slow cooker.

Recipe:

1. We prepare 300 g of pine cones: Rinse them, sort them out and fold them in a slow cooker, pour cold water 2 cm above the level of cones ( water will need 2l).
2. Turn on the “cook” mode, and let it boil.
3. We transfer cones with water into a pan, insist on the day, covering with a lid.
4. The resin appeared on the surface of the infusion, we filter the infusion through gauze in several layers to remove the resin and separate the cones from the infusion.
5. Pour into the infusion 2 kg of sugar, pour into a slow cooker, and continue to cook jam in the "languor" mode, 4 hours.

Pine cones jam to children

It is not recommended to give children under 3 years of age, it is not recommended to give pine cones, after 3 years you can, but first need to check, letting a little try, is there any allergy to pine. And if there is no allergy, you can increase the dose of jam, but not more than 2 teaspoons per day.

It is advisable for children to give jam from cones, welded in this way when the cones are thrown out of the infusion, and only the infusion itself remains, which is then cooked with sugar to thickened.

How to take jam from pine cones with colds and coughing?

Pine cones contains phytoncides, and this means that they kill even invisible harmful bacteria and mushrooms. A few spoons of jam per day will help do a short time with a cold and cough.

Also, pine cones have jam diaphoretic action.

Several tea tablespoons of pine cones per week help even with tuberculosis.

Pine cones jam treats various diseases, and especially colds, if you know how to take it.

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