Fragrant strawberry jam with whole berries are ready!
How to cook strawberry jam with whole berries - recipe with photos:
Before starting cooking jam, familiarize yourself with some important nuances. For jam, you need to choose not too soft, but not too dense strawberries. The best jam will be considered cooked from homemade strawberries - she has a more rich taste, and the fragrance is much more pleasant than that of the brown berries with greenhouses or the "neutral" overseas. Strawberry cooking for cooking - rinse under running water in a colander, without removing the green fruits. If you do not want an extra moisture in the syrup and jam, which can damage the safety of your workpiece - do not allow water to enter the berries. Recommended after washing to leave strawberries for final drying for one or two hours.
When strawberries are completely clean - only now you can remove everything too much.
Put the strawberry layers with sugar and leave for 8-12 hours for the prepared berry allocate its juice. During the selection of juice, you can shake the enameled pelvis, but do not mix with strawberries with spoals or blades so that the berries in the jam remained integer. The fact is that the strawberries are still very gentle, therefore it is at this stage and at the first stage of cooking it is most susceptible to damage. In the future, the berry is impregnated with syrup and becomes more dense.
A few hours later, juice formed in the basin of strawberry. At the bottom of the container there is not dissolved sugar - it must be melt on the very minimum fire of your burner. We put on the stove and dissolve the sugar crystals at the bottom, again without stirring with spoons and blades, but only slightly shaking the container itself.
When all the crystals disappear, you can increase the fire. We bring to a boil, remove the foam. Boil jam from strawberries 5-7 minutes, turn off and leave for 2 hours. With a cover, the workpiece is no longer covered so that the condensate does not fall into the strawberry. You can cover the bowl of a clean towel. To the strawberry jam, it turns out with whole berries, such approaches with short-term five-minute boiling and long-insisting of strawberries in syrup must be made at least 3.
If you see that warm syrup no longer spreads and the drop, set on a flat surface or a plate, retains its contours - the cooking process can be completed. The last time is boiling strawberry jam with lemon juice.
Give the jam to cool for about 15 minutes and then you can decompose it into pure glass jars for the winter.
Fragrant strawberry jam with whole berries are ready!
To the winter there is a couple of jams of such jam, you need to make it more. Torch - Strawberry season ends quickly!
