Reception of the club's jar without berries

Oh, strawberry season is the best time of the year! Time for strawberry ice cream, yogurt with strawberries and, of course, harvesting berries for the winter. Cooking jam It is a whole art of preserving berries to eat them for a whole year with pancakes, toast, muffins and various pies. However, many of us, remaining in the soul as children, love to destroy strawberry jam with a spoon directly from the jar.



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Our family made strawberries the old-fashioned way. As a result, a dark brown, overly sweet mass came out, in which the berries, although whole, but little resemble fresh fruit. If cook Our grandmothers end up with boiled sugar with the smell of berries. Prolonged boiling changes the color of the berries to brown, killing all the taste and aroma. Accordingly, there is no benefit from such jam.

In this recipe, not berries are cooked, but syrup. Heat treatment in any case is necessary, otherwise the capricious strawberries can ferment, and you will eventually get berry pouring, not jam.

The ingredients
  • 2kg strawberries
  • 1 kg of sugar
  • 0.5 tables of water


For cooking jam, an enameled pelvis or stainless steel dishes is ideal. In this recipe, strawberries should remain whole.

Preparation
  1. Fresh strawberries removed the peduncles, carefully wash the delicate berries in the basin and leave to dry.



  2. Cook in a separate bowl of syrup: add water to the sugar, bring to a boil, reduce the fire and boil for 4 minutes, constantly stirring with a wooden spatula.



  3. Pour the berries with syrup, stir and leave until completely cooled.



  4. After the strawberries have cooled and let the juice go, drain the liquid into the pan through a sieve. Boil the syrup for 5 minutes.



  5. Put the syrup back in the pan and let it cool.



  6. Repeat the procedure with the syrup, but this time boil it for 10 minutes. If you want a thick syrup, add more sugar. Remember, berries don't boil!



  7. Sterilize the cans over the steam for about 10 minutes.



  8. While the syrup is boiling, cooled strawberries are placed in sterilized jars. Pour the boiling syrup and cover it. Put the jam in a warm place under the blanket.





That's it. jam It will be more liquid than normal. It looks more like strawberries in syrup. But the most important thing is that all vitamins and nutrients are preserved, strawberries remain fresh for a whole year! You will have to show remarkable willpower not to eat a whole jar of strawberry jam in one sitting. So you can harvest plum, raspberries, currants and cherries.



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Try to preserve at least a few berries according to this recipe this season. You'll love it, don't doubt it!

Do you make strawberry jam that way? Tell us in the comments, how to make jam They will be able to enjoy their taste and taste.

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