Flower Preserves Cooking – Homemade rose preserves recipe

Homemade rose preserves recipe ingredients:

• 250 grams rose petals
• 2 kg sugar
• 2,5 cups water
• 1 lemon

Flower preserves cooking instruction:

Gently wash the rose petals and pour them in boiling water for 2-3 minutes.

Take petals out from water and combine them with a juice from one squeezed lemon.

Separately, in low heat melt sugar in the water, that you cooked petals in, to become thick sugar syrup and pour it over the petals. Cook all together in low temperature for about 20 minutes, stir it periodically and eliminate foam that will create on surface, while preserves boil, with a spoon.

Pour your gourmet preserves in warm sterilized jars and seal them.

Cover the preserves jars with a blanket, so they could slowly cool off (or they could break).

Gourmet Preserves Recipe – Violet Flower Preserves Recipe

Violet flower preserves recipe ingredients:

• 250 grams violet petals (buy them in the store for edible flowers)
• 750 grams sugar
• 2,1 cups water
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice

Homemade gourmet preserves recipe instruction:

Chop up violet petals with a sharp knife.

Pour sugar into water to boil. Add violet petals in boiling sugar and lemon juice, to keep beautiful violet color. Stir it all the time and cook it for about 20 minutes on the low heat or cook until thick.

Pour your violet preserves in warm, clean and sterilize jars and seal them.

The Difference Between Jams and Jellies, Marmalade, Preserves, Compote and Syrup Recipes

The difference between them comes in the form that fruit takes.

How to make jam?

Jams are made by boiling fruit and sugar to a thick consistency and does have fruit bits.

How to make jelly?

Jellies are made by boiling sugar, the juice of fruit and with gelatin or pectin, and does not have fruit bits.

How to make marmalade?

Marmalade is a clear sweetened jelly, sometimes with fruit rind and without fruit bits.

How to make preserves?

Fruit Preserves – fruit made into jams or jellies and cooked whole or in large pieces, so as to keep its shape.

How to make syrup?

Fruit Syrup is a thick sticky solution of sugar and concentrated juice of a fruit.

What is compote?

Fruit Compote is a dessert of fruit cooked in syrup.

Sour Cherry Preserves Recipe

Sour cherry preserves recipe ingredients:

• 1 kilogram cherries
• 1 kilogram sugar
• 2 tablespoons water

Click here for metric conversion table if you need it!

Cherry preserves cooking instruction:

Wash the fruits and remove the pits from the cherries. Put alternately cherries and sugar in the pot, in several layers and water on the end.

Put the pot on the low heat, till sugar melts and then continue to cook cherry preserves in moderate temperature, till it become thick (when preserves fall in thick drops from the spoon).

Remove the pot from the heat, cover it and let it stand about 10 minutes (cherries to release some juice).

Return the pot on the heat, cook it for 15 minutes more and remove it from heat.

When it is done, remove foam, which gathered on the surface of the preserves, with the spoon. Cover the pot with a clean gauze and let it over night.

Pour your fruit preserves in clean jars.