Swedish cloudberry preserve a real delicacy, the best imaginable. A delicious cloudberry preserve with lots of berries (70%) and organic unrefined raw cane sugar, which tastes super good. Homemade cloudberry preserve from hand-picked genuine Swedish berries from Norrbotten following a classic recipe with a high berry content.
Cloudberry preserve is used for waffles with whipped cream. Warm cloudberry preserve and cream ice cream is delicious and suitable as dessert. Warm Camembert or Brie cheese with cloudberry preserve is a real highlight.
The cloudberries, Rubus chamaemorus is also called "gold of the forest". The yellow-orange berries grow one by one on bogs and moist lands. The dogwood ripens in mid-July. The cloudberry has a wonderful taste and the cloudberry is often used to make good desserts. Cloudberries is considered one of the biggest Swedish delicacies.
The cloudberry is common on bogs and bogs from the mountains all the way down to Småland, it also occurs further south but is less common there. The first description of the find was published in 1638 in Franck's Speculum Botanicum (Nordstedt 1920).
Cloudberry are yellow-red berries with a wonderful, delicious aroma. The Cloudberry sits one by one on a small Cloudberry plant that is 10 - 15cm high. The leaves are lobed in varying shades of green. The cloudberry is called a berry but is actually a stone fruit. Cloudberry flowers usually sit alone and are white and large. A cloudberry flower does not cope with the frost very well. So if the frost comes when the cloudberry is blooming, there will be no cloudberries. Therefore, there is a big difference in the harvest between years. Availability can vary from location to location, and the price of cloudberry rises significantly when availability is low. Cloudberry change color as they ripen. At first they are red and tightly surrounded by the leaves next to the berry. Then the color changes to orange to become yellow and juicy, soft when ripe.
The fruits of the staghorn are mostly used for preserve or milta, but can also be used for liqueur. Cloudberreis were popular as early as the 18th century and Linné tells us that they sent "an immense amount of pickled cloudberry" from Västerbotten to Stockholm every year. They were also considered useful and Hoffberg (1792) writes that they "cool and purify the blood" and are "useful in fevers, scurvy and pneumonia".