Homeland dogwood are southern territories: the Crimea, Moldova and Central Asia. Unfortunately, few people know about the remarkable properties of the berry, although due to selection, dogwood is known not only in the south. It is, without exaggeration, a valuable medicinal plant. Many ailments and serious diseases are treated with decoctions and tinctures from parts of the cornel.
Did you know? The dogwood has very strong wood, the American toppers used it to make traps and traps. In ancient times, wood was used in the manufacture of agricultural implements.
The benefits of dogwood juice
Juice from fresh berries of a cornel is very useful at diabetes. Nutrients and elements in the cornel composition improve the work of the digestive tract, the intestines, enhance the enzymatic function of the pancreas, normalize metabolism in the body and eliminate toxic elements. All these actions reduce the glucose level in the blood of diabetic patients and remove excess sugar. You should take half a glass of juice half an hour before meals daily.
Regular use of juice also helps in violation of thyroid function. A large amount of ascorbic acid makes cornel juice indispensable in the fight against avitaminosis and chronic fatigue. Daily use of 30 ml of juice will increase the level of hemoglobin in the blood, will give strength and vitality.
The benefits of dogwood jam
Dogwood berries are saturated with vitamin C, so jam from dogwood berries is useful as a preventive measure against colds. Tea with jam significantly relieves the flu and other respiratory and viral infections, along with traditional medicines, jam relieves the symptoms of colds: weakness, body aches, fever and headache. A cornel berry stone contains a large amount of pectin, which is jam-filled during cooking. Pectin is capable of removing toxic substances from the body. Jam is recommended for use by people with problems with the gastrointestinal tract, suffering from constipation and pain in the stomach.
The properties of cornel jam have been known for a long time, it was used as a medicine for measles, since the use of jam facilitates the patient's condition. Children jam a couple of spoons per day were given to improve immunity.
Dogwood Jam Recipes
Dogwood jam is a poetry in cooking: a delicate aroma, stimulating the appetite, bright and juicy color; savory taste with a barely perceptible sourness and a slight hint of astringency.
Jam with stones
There are many recipes for jam made from cornel, let's look at a few of them.
Recipe for jam with bones.
Ingredients: cornel - 600 g, sugar - 700 g, water - 200 ml.
For jam pick ripe berries. They need to wash, sort, remove the stem. Prepare a saucepan with a thick bottom, pour sugar in there, cover with water and put on medium heat. The syrup should boil and boil for about five minutes. Put the dogwood berries in the syrup, turn off the heat, let the syrup cool with the berries. Ideal to withstand about twelve hours. The next day, boil the contents of the pan until the berries are soft over low heat. It will take thirty minutes. Do not forget to remove the foam. Pour the finished dogwood jam with stones under sterilized jars, cover with lids and wrap with a blanket or blanket until it cools.
Bone Jam
For jam, from cornel without stones, first of all you need to get rid of these bones. To do this, the berries are steamed in a water bath. Then the bones go well. 
Ingredients: berries and sugar - 1: 1, water is added if necessary.
Peeled berries are covered with sugar and left for twelve hours to highlight the juice. Then put the container with the berries on a slow fire; if you think there is little juice, add water. When cooking, remove the foam skimmer. A mixture of berries and sugar is first brought to a boil, then with stirring, boiled for 15-20 minutes. The jam should cool completely. After five hours, boil again for five to seven minutes. During these two procedures, the berries have time to soak in syrup. Now it is necessary to boil again so that the syrup is not too liquid. Cook for long, cooling the jam will be even thicker. The finished sweetness is placed in sterilized jars and closed with a lid.
Jam in a multivariate
Ingredients: cornel - 1 kg, water - 200 ml, sugar - 1 kg.
Dogwood berries sort out, rinse and cover with water, leave for two hours. This procedure will keep the berries whole during cooking. While berries are wet, boil syrup out of water and sugar. Put the dogwood in a slow cooker, cover with cooled syrup.
In the multicooker, select the mode "Jam" or "Quenching" and cook for about an hour in this mode. Later switch to "Preheat" and leave for thirty minutes. The final stage: put the device back into the "Quenching" mode, hold it for fifteen minutes and turn it off. Dogwood jam, placed in jars, when cooled thickens to a jelly state.
Jam in the bread maker
Prepare the berries: for jam in the bread maker, the bones should be removed. Berries and sugar in a ratio of 1: 1, put in the capacity of the stove. Stir the mixture with a silicone spatula, gently, so as not to damage the surface of the equipment. Close the lid of the bread machine and put on the "Jam" mode. After cooking, remove the lid, remove the foam, pour the jam hot on the banks. Keep it better in the refrigerator.
Interesting! In the Victorian era, gentlemen gave their ladies a dogwood flower, which was regarded by the latter as a sign of love and affection. If the lady returned the flower - it meant that this man is not suitable for her.
Dogwood jam with apples
Ingredients: cornel - 1.2 kg, apples - 1 kg, sugar - 2 kg, water - 1 liter. Free the cornel from the bones, peel the apples and cut them into small pieces. Boil the syrup and pour over the berries with the apples. Let stand in the syrup for about six hours. Boil three to four times for five to seven minutes. Watch the foam, it needs to be removed. Spread the pre-prepared jam in sterilized jars.
Dogwood jam with honey
Ingredients: 1 kg of dogwood; 200 g of honey; If desired, add 50 ml of alcohol. Step-by-step recipe cornel honey jam:
- Pick ripe berries of dogwood, wash and dry. Bones from the berries need to be removed.
- Mash half the berries into a mush, leave the other whole.
- Mix all ingredients except honey and bring to a boil over medium heat.
- When the mixture boils, set the fire to a minimum and, while stirring constantly, pour in the honey.
- When the mixture becomes more homogeneous, remove from heat and let cool.
- After five to six hours, boil a second time for five minutes, let cool.
- After the third boiling, let cool and put in jars.
Important! It is extremely undesirable to use cornel in women during pregnancy, if there is a threat of miscarriage or the uterus is elevated: cornel has a strong tonic and stimulating effect.
Dogwood Marmalade
Ingredients: cornel - 5 kg, sugar - 2.5 kg, water - 2 l. For marmalade suitable substandard dogwood. Wash berries, remove bones and cook until the berries sprawl. Water from the berries to drain, it can be used to make jelly.
Mash boiled mass into mush, add sugar and cook, stirring constantly, until thick. Marmalade spread on a dish moistened with cold water and left to dry, pre-cut into desired pieces. Store marmalade in glass containers or boxes with tight lids.
Dogwood Compote
Ingredients:
- Water - 1.5 L
- Dogwood - 300 g
- Freshly squeezed orange and grapefruit juice - 0.5 cups
- Peel of half lemon and half orange
- Liquid honey - 2 tbsp. l
- Estragon - 2-3 g
- Ginger - 20 g
Attention! Cornel is not recommended fresh and in the form of compote for people suffering from problems with the gastrointestinal tract.
Dogwood syrup
Dogwood can be harvested not only as jam: this recipe can also be used for storage for the winter. Ingredients: cornel - 3 kg, sugar - 2 kg, water - 200 ml.
Overripe berries are washed, removed bones and mashed into mush. The berries are boiled, not boiling. Then filter and squeeze. Sugar and water are added to the juice, boiled down to thickness. The syrup is ready when its drop does not spread over the surface of the saucer or plate. The finished syrup is filtered through sterile pure gauze (can be boiled) and poured into prepared containers. Banks are rolled up with a lid, and the bottles are closed with boiled cork and filled with hot paraffin.
Dogwood Sauce
Spicy and fragrant cornel sauce from Georgian cuisine is suitable for meat, poultry and fish dishes, hot and cold appetizers.
Ingredients:
- Cornel - 1 kg
- Water - 150 ml
- cilantro seeds - 1 tsp.
- garlic - 2-3 cloves
- hops-suneli - 1 tsp.
- pepper pod - to taste
- greens and salt to taste
Cornel is a useful and tasty berry, from it you can prepare a lot of medicinal and simply delicious dishes. Berry is used in meat and fish dishes, in baking and drinks. Preparations for the winter period are both medicine, and dessert, and a storehouse of vitamins.
