Blueberry Dreams

the yearly batch of my father's blueberry jam

Picking blueberries requires patience, to actually fill a bucket takes time. It's not for everyone, but if you learn to like it, you will never stop. Being in the woods, listening to the sounds, smelling nature and picking blueberries is therapy and meditation (probably better).

Blueberry Jam

1.5 liters of blueberries
0.6 liter of sugar
1 ml of sodium benzoate (E211 food preservative)

1. Clean the freshly picked wild berries and mix with sugar in a pot. Leave
for a couple of hours so the mix gets juicy.
2. Heat slowly and simmer for 20 minutes. Shake (do not stir) the pot now
and then.
3. Turn off the heat, shake the pot carefully and skim off the foam.
4. Dissolve the natrium benzoate in a few spoonfuls of the hot jam and mix
with the rest of the jam.
5. Pour into warm and very well cleaned jars (rinse with some natrium
benzoate dissolved in water and dry in low heat in the oven), seal and keep
cool.

Tip: Make Swedish pancakes (= thin pancakes) and on top put whipped cream and homemade blueberry jam. Do I need to say more?   

you might meet one of these while picking blueberries