Lingonberry Preserves
Lingonberry jam is a staple food in Scandinavian cuisine.
Because lingonberries are plentiful in the forested areas of the inland, the jam is easy to prepare, and it preserves well, it has always been very popular with traditional dishes such as kroppkakor, pitepalt, potato cake, kåldolmar, mustamakkara and black pudding. Today, it is served as jam, for instance with oven-made thick pancakes, as well as a relish with meat courses such as meatballs, beef stew or liver dishes; regionally even with fried herring. It is also often used on mashed potato and the traditional oatmeal porridge, sometimes together with cinnamon, and, perhaps, a little sugar or syrup.
Fine lingonberry jam is prepared only with berries, sugar and, optionally, a small amount of water. Cheaper varieties are diluted with apples and/or pectin. The finest lingonberry "jam" is prepared fresh by just mixing berries and sugar, without boiling; this is called
(raw-stirred lingonberries). Before the use of refined sugar became
common in Sweden, lingonberry jam was prepared with lingonberries as the
only ingredient. Because of the benzoic acid, which is found in high amounts in lingonberries, the berries keep well without any sugar or other preservatives.
Lingonberry Preserves
Lingonberry Preserves
Lingonberry Preserves
Lingonberry Preserves
Lingonberry Preserves
Lingonberry Preserves
Lingonberry Preserves
Lingonberry Preserves
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