How To Make Jam - A Guide For Beginners

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The sweet is a small part of the winter food that grandma and mom put in every year. It brings us back to pleasant memories, precisely because it has been prepared for centuries.

Jam is essentially made mainly from fruit and sugar. Among the fruits are cherries, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, rose hips, white cherries, berries and many other types of fruit that you can find in your yard.

Ideal for breakfast spread on a slice or pancake. It is also suitable for guests when they come unexpectedly for coffee or tea, and you have nothing sweet to offer them.

Aromatic jam is one of the things that every housewife can and should prepare, first of all, because it is delicious, because it is homemade, and we are not sure enough how and with what the kupeshki jam is made.

In this article we will look how to cook jam, in this case strawberry jam. Keep in mind that instead of strawberries you can choose any other fruit without the recipe undergoing special changes.

Necessary products:

1. Berries - 2 kg

2. Sugar - 1 kg (at your choice can be crystalline or gelling)

3. Vanilla - 2 pcs.

4. Citric acid - 1 tsp.

Method of preparation:

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1. Wash the strawberries well and remove the top. To be able to remove everything and leave the strawberries whole, you can use a straw. Place the straw at the bottom of the strawberry, trying to keep it in the center, and push up. This removes everything unnecessary. Strawberries should be well ripened, not green or ripe, but halved. Another important thing is to be larger if you want larger pieces to remain in the jam.

2. In a large saucepan pour the sugar and add half a teaspoon of water and vanilla. Put on the stove.

3. After the syrup boils, add the peeled strawberries. The foam that will form during cooking must be removed.

4. Strawberry jam it should be ready in about an hour, but cook it until you get the desired density. This means that you can remove it from the hob sooner or later. Once it has thickened to the desired consistency, add citric acid to it and leave it on the stove. Let it boil for at least another 4-5 minutes.

5. The hot jam is distributed in jars that you have prepared in advance. After pouring it into the jars, close them tightly and leave them with the caps down until they cool.

If you wish to make jam of another kind, you can simply change the fruit without changing the other ingredients.