Lingonberries are not so popular berries, like the fruits of raspberries or other dacha crops, but at the same time it has just a lot of useful properties, thanks to which jam from it has become so popular today. Let's look at some of the most interesting and at the same time simple recipes for the conservation of lingonberry fruits.
About the benefits of lingonberries
For a long time lingonberry grew on our territory as a wild plant, but after learning about its beneficial properties, people began to cultivate it as a culture. 
So, the positive consequences of the use of this berry should include:
- strengthening the protective functions of the body;
- prevention of heart disease and prostatitis;
- positive effects on the organs of the urogenital system;
- acceleration of the rehabilitation period after the birth of the child;
- normalization of the gastrointestinal tract;
- successful treatment of rheumatism and gout;
- recovery of the whole body (in particular, strengthening nails, hair and eliminating dermatological ailments);
- rapid wound healing;
- successful fight with worms.
Find out what the benefits and harm of lingonberries.In addition, the constant use of berries and syrup of them can improve vision, and occasional brewing of tea not only quenches thirst, but also lowers body temperature in viral diseases.
Did you know? Despite the fact that for the first time the cultivation of lingonberries in Russia was attempted in the 18th century, real success in this matter came only in the second half of the last century.
Pre-preparation of berries
In order to fully enjoy the taste and benefits of lingonberry berries, they will have to get to start. This can be done in two ways: buy it on the market or assemble it personally, but in this and in the other case the further process of preliminary preparation of raw materials for jam will be the same:
- all berries need to pour a thin layer on a tray and carefully examine;
- leaves, twigs or just spoiled fruit (they will be soft) must be removed;
- Selected good specimens are poured into a bowl of water and washed thoroughly;
- Place the lingonberries on a sieve and allow the water to drain.
Now you have the main ingredient in your hands for the further creation of jam according to one of the following recipes.The classic version of jam
Today you can find a lot of different recipes for lingonberry jam, each of them will be good in its own way. We will begin our review of possible options from the classic way of creating a tasty, and most importantly, useful preparation of these berries.
Ingredients
- Lingonberry - 970 g.
- Sugar - 1280
- Water - 210 ml.
Recipe
- Choosing from the total number only whole, not spoiled and healthy-looking lingonberries, they need to be washed as described above.
- As soon as the fruits dry out, they are transferred to a deep bowl and filled with hot boiled water (the liquid must completely cover the berries).
- After a few minutes, the water is drained, and the lingonberry itself is set aside for the moment: it's time to get ready to prepare the syrup.
- To do this, take the pan in which you plan to make jam, pour the measured amount of water in it (210 ml per 970 g of lingonberries) and bring to a boil.
- Then, in a practically boiling liquid, you need to pour sugar and boil a little until the sweet product is completely dissolved. As soon as this happens - sleep lingonberries.
- The berries are boiled on low heat for a few minutes after boiling, and then insist 7-10 hours.
- After the specified time, cooking of the jam is resumed, placing the mixture for another 20 minutes on the fire. The finished jam can be poured into the cans and closed with capron lids, to be placed in the refrigerator in the future, or it can be rolled up in the usual way and sent to storage in the pantry.
No cooking
Despite the fact that the bulk of the recipes for making jam involves cooking berries, there are options to avoid this stage. For example, you can simply grind the fruits with sugar, soak them or freeze them, but whatever you choose, the result is still a tasty and healthy product. Consider one of the possible recipes for cooking lingonberry jam without cooking.
Ingredients
- Lingonberry - 2 kg.
- Sugar - 0.5-2 kg (depending on whether you like very sweet or sour preparations).
Recipe
To begin with, cranberries need to be picked and rinsed well, allowing water to drain (you can dry the fruit on a cloth or napkin that absorbs liquid well). 
Then clean and high-quality raw materials need to be passed through a meat grinder and add a measured amount of sugar, mixing until a homogeneous mass is formed and the crystals completely dissolve.
Important! The optimal ratio of berry puree and sugar is 1: 1 ratio, but depending on personal preferences, its amount may vary.As long as the future jam is infused, and the sugar dissolves in it, you can start preparing jars and tight plastic covers for them (for sterilization, the glass containers are boiled or calcined in the oven). The finished jam (in fact it’s just ground lingonberries with sugar) is poured into jars and sent to the fridge, although you can put the mixture into special plastic containers and freeze.
Make delicious jam from quince, Manchurian walnut, black currant, strawberry, white cherry, gooseberry, red currant and wild strawberry.
"Five minutes"
This option of making jam for the winter has always been considered the fastest, and it doesn’t matter at all what you are preparing the billet for. At this time, consider the process of cooking just lingonberry varieties.
Ingredients
- Lingonberry - 1650
- Sugar - 1050 g.
Recipe
Enumerated, cleaned of debris and washed with lingonberries boiling water, leaving in this state for a few minutes. Then the berries are transferred to an enameled bowl with a thick bottom, mixed with sugar in layers. About an hour later, the fruit will start up the juice, and they can be placed on a slow fire for subsequent cooking for 5 minutes. The finished jam is poured into cans and closed in the usual way.
Cook wine from jam.
Lingonberry and apple jam
The combination of lingonberries and sugar is nice, but there are many other equally tasty options for making jam, for example, together with apples.
Ingredients
- Lingonberry - 1100
- Apples - 1100
- Sugar - 1100
- Water - 160 ml.
Recipe
After going through, washed and well dried lingonberries we set aside and proceed to the preparation of apples. Like berries, we wash them first, and then we clean the stalks, remove the skin, remove the core and the mode into small pieces. 
Once the fruits are prepared properly, it's time to move on to the preparation of the syrup, for which you need to pour a measured amount of water into the enameled vessel and add sugar to it. The syrup must be constantly stirred, in no case allowing it to caramelize (if this amount of water is not enough, you can pour a little more). 
In the next stage, pieces of apples, along with the fruits of lingonberries, should be moved to the prepared syrup and boiled for one minute over low heat. The finished mixture should cool completely (3 hours will be enough), and then it is heated again almost to the boil, again allowed to infuse for another 2.5 hours. 
After the second idle time, the lingonberry-apple jam has to be boiled until it reaches a thick state, constantly removing the rising foam and stirring. The finished product should be viscous and a little painful, after which it can be moved into sterile jars and rolled up.
Important! The most useful will be apples, eaten with the skin, because immediately under it contain all the important substances for us. For example, you will be able to enrich your body with a large amount of fiber that is beneficial to it, thereby improving digestive processes.
Lingonberry-pear
A good alternative to lingonberry-apple jam will be its lingonberry-pear analogue, distinguished by its characteristic taste and not less supply of useful substances.
Ingredients
- Lingonberry - 520 g.
- Pears - 690 g
- Sugar - 510 g.
- Lemon - 65 g.
- Water - 310 ml.
- Lemon juice - 1 tbsp. l
Recipe
In this case, the process of making jam does not begin with lingonberries, but with pears, which, after washing, need to be peeled and, as a whole, filled with water. Then rub lemon rind, squeeze the juice. Lingonberry berries should be washed under running water and, together with the remaining pear skin and lemon zest, be placed in an enamel pan, pour 310 ml of water. 
We boil the prepared mixture on low heat for 12 minutes, then wipe it through a sieve in a container for boiling jam. Pears, which have already managed to soak well, should be cut into thin plates and added to the ready-made mashed lingonberries (the core must be removed). Pour sugar in the same dish, so that after mixing, you can boil it all for 40 minutes and pour it into sterilized jars. Ready jam roll up the standard way.
Lingonberry Pumpkin
If the combination of fruits and berries during preservation is a more familiar phenomenon for us, then the use of pumpkin together with lingonberries often causes bewilderment. If you make the jam according to the following recipe, then by your own experience make sure that it is not only tasty, but also incredibly useful. 
Ingredients
- Lingonberry - 1 kg.
- Pumpkin - 0.5 kg.
- Sugar - 250 g
- Carnation - 2 years
- Cinnamon - 5 g.
Recipe
Lingonberry must first be sorted, rinsed and dried a little, allowing water to drain. Then the berries should be identified in the pot for boiling and sent to a small fire for half an hour, constantly stirring the future jam. While the lingonberries are boiled together with sugar, peel the pumpkin, cut it into small pieces and add to the lingonberries along with the cinnamon and cloves. A mixture of these ingredients should be cooked until the pumpkin is soft, which determines the readiness of the jam, which in the end is simply poured into the cans and rolled up.
Lingonberry citrus
Very original version, which is appreciated for the refined citrus notes in the usual sweet jam. As a supplement to lingonberries, you can use lemon, orange, or even tangerine, but based on the reviews, the best option would be lingonberry-orange jam, the recipe of which is presented below. 
Ingredients
- Lingonberry - 2 glasses.
- Oranges - 2-4 (depending on size).
- Sugar - 1.5 cups.
Recipe
The process of making lingonberry-orange jam begins with the usual procedure of sorting and cleaning the berries, after which good and clean specimens should be set aside in a separate container and prepare for citrus fruits. Oranges are peeled and cut into small pieces, then adding them to the cranberries. The pot with the specified ingredients should be sent to the stove and bring to a boil, after which you can add sugar (after about 10 minutes of boiling).
Important! True gourmets can additionally add cinnamon, for a specified number of products it is possible to take no more than 3 spoons.After carefully mixing all the ingredients, they are left to languish over low heat for another 10 minutes, periodically kneading the lingonberries with a large spoon. After the specified time, it remains only to remove the jam, and after cooling to room temperature, pour into banks.
Lingonberry jam with spices
Lingonberry combines well with popular spices, and to get tasty and healthy jam, you don’t even have to look for more exotic additives to it. Consider one of these recipes for its preparation.
Ingredients
- Cowberry berries - 1 kg.
- Sugar - 0.5 kg.
- Carnation - 3 pieces.
- Cinnamon - 1 stick.
- Water - 100 ml.
Recipe
Having prepared the lingonberries (sifted, washed and dried), it needs to be filled with boiling water for a few seconds and poured into a colander, waiting for the water to completely drain. After that, the berries are transferred to the pan and the measured amount of water and sugar is added to them, so that after thorough mixing they are sent to the fire. 
While stirring the mixture, wait until it boils, add all the above spices. In this state, lingonberries need to boil over low heat, stirring the future jam for five minutes. After the specified time, you can turn off the stove, and while the jam is still hot, pour it into sterilized jars.
What to do to cowberries not bitter
If you have already come across cowberry berries, then you know about the bitterness present in them, which may well spoil the final taste of your billet. That is why, in order to improve the taste quality of lingonberry jam, enumerated and peeled berries are blanched in boiling water for a few minutes, or simply scalded.
Read also how to grow lingonberries at the dacha, and how to prepare it for the winter.
What else can you combine
Lingonberry itself can serve as an excellent basis for making jam without any additions, but if you want to experiment a little, you can add not only citrus fruits to the berries (they will add piquancy and mild sourness), but also some other not quite ordinary ingredients:
- Green pine cones (pre-poured with water and soaked for 1.5 days, and after a 10-minute boil with the sugar and water add to them and cranberries). This jam will have an unusual appearance and the same flavor.
- Rhubarb. Like citrus fruits, this product is characterized by a pleasant sourness, and when you consider that the lingonberries themselves are not without this characteristic, then for an optimal level of sweetness you will have to add more sugar. Rhubarb has long been successfully used in making jam, because it is able to keep its shape well and gives the finished dish a more festive look.
- Cranberries and blueberries - the best friends of the described berries, which in combination with it create an incredible vitamin mix. Even 1 teaspoon of such a jam will have a positive effect on the state of the body during the period of seasonal viral infections, helping not only to prevent their development, but also to cope with the cause of the disease.
What to put on the table
Most often lingonberry jam is served with tea, but at the same time it goes well with a variety of pastries or even ordinary fried pancakes. If desired, you can make a roll or pie stuffing out of it, as well as incorporate it into vitamin cocktails. One of the most unusual ways to use the treat is to serve it with fried herring or meat dishes, although for this, the jam should be sweet and sour.
Learn about the intricacies of harvesting gooseberry, yoshta, blueberry, cranberry, black chokeberry, cornel, and viburnum for the winter.No matter how you decide to eat lingonberry jam, in any case, you will remain only in the win, because along with a delicious delicacy, your body will receive a whole set of useful vitamins. It is only necessary to properly prepare such a useful piece.
