How to make jam from roses

How nice to receive as a gift an armful of chic red roses, enjoy the intoxicating smell, touch the velvet petals and put in a prominent place to make the eye happy. The saddest thing is that a week from the luxurious buds will be only memories and flowers will inevitably fall into the garbage can.

You can get much more pleasure and health benefits from roses if you make jam from them.





Rose jam is not just a beautiful flower, it has vitamins: B, C, PP, carotene. Also, rose petals contain iodine, magnesium, potassium, iron, selenium, calcium. Rose oil fights skin aging, kills bacteria and has anti-inflammatory effects.

During heat treatment, some of the nutrients evaporate, but jam from this beautiful flower pleases with a delicate taste and excellent aroma. Editorial "Site" He will tell you how to cook. rose-petal jam in an hour.





The ingredients

• 500g tea rose petals
• 3 liters of water
• 3kg of sugar
• 1 lemon
• 1 tsp citric acid

Preparation

1. Wash the tea rose buds and dry them.
2. Cut the bottom of the bud and cut the petals in half.
   
   
   
   
3. Put the petals in a deep bowl and pour filtered water, bring to a boil and continue cooking for another 5 minutes.
   
   
   
   
4. Get the petal out with noise. Don't throw the petals away.
5. Add sugar to a broth of roses and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved.
   
   
   
   
6. Squeeze the juice out of the lemon and pour it into the jam.
7. Pour citric acid into jam and rose petals, mix it well.
   
   
   
   
8. Bring the jam to a boil, then cook for another 20 minutes on a slow heat, do not forget to stir.
9. Pour the finished jam through sterilized banks.
   
   
   
   

Tea rose jam effective even with angina, but if you want to strengthen the immune system, prepare medicinal jam from cones. This tool will not allow colds one step. Have time to prepare jam from dandelions, so that in the cold season sweetly remember summer.

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