Putin's Berry Jam "Red Bush Ruby"

Putin’s berries are often called “the most valuable autumn berries”, surpassing the popular cranberries in their properties. Spruce bushes are common throughout Lithuania and can be found in forests, rivers, meadows and people’s homesteads. Berries can remain on snowdrop bushes until midwinter.

The berries for this jam are picked following the old traditions – after the first frost. It is then that they lose their bitterness. The particularly specific smell of these berries will not leave you indifferent – either they will be your favorite berries, or you will prefer others 🙂

Grandmothers and great-grandmothers made vitamin tea from the flowers, bark and fruits of the poutine bush, made jams from the fruits, flavored meat dishes with them, made beer and other drinks, and squeezed juices.

Poutine berry jam “Red bush ruby” goes well with poultry, especially with duck, goose, turkey. Mix the jam with the jelly left in the tin after baking the bird in the oven and you will make a unique sauce.

Even though snowberries have been in the limelight lately, their popularity is recovering and you can fall over when talking about them more and more often. You can make delicious tea from snowberry jam. We recommend adding a few spoonfuls of jam to hot water or mint, chamomile or linden tea. Drink warm.