We collected fruits - berries and decided to cook for the winter delicious jam? Simple and proven by many housewives recipes for such sweet preparations, with photographs and step by step instructions will help you prepare. Using detailed recipes from the photo - sweet treats from berries, fruits and even vegetables at home can be prepared quickly and easily, and the jam will come out thick and uniform.

Delicious homemade jams are a healthy treat for tea, a ready-made filling for pies or an ingredient for gourmet desserts. This section contains best recipes with which experienced housewives and beginners will cope.

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Cherry plum belongs to the plum family, and outwardly it is very similar to them. The color of the fruit can be very diverse: yellow, burgundy, red and even green. Inside the cherry plum there is a large drupe, which in most varieties is very poorly separated from the pulp. The taste of the fruits is rather sour, but this does not prevent them from preparing amazing dessert dishes. One of them is jam. Today we will try to understand all the intricacies of the process of preparing this delicacy at home.

In the article we will figure out how to cook jam correctly. Jam is a jelly-like mass with pieces of fruit or berries boiled in syrup. good jam can be prepared from berries and fruits with certain properties.

From the same berries you can make jam, jelly, jam, marmalade or jam. Thick, well-gelled jam will be obtained from sour fruits (acidity more than 1%) containing a large number of pectin. pectin in the presence of sugar and organic acids forms a jelly-like consistency.

How to make jam for the winter

Jam differs significantly from jam precisely in its gelling properties and density. Unlike jam, the syrup in jam does not separate from the fruit. Read about the difference between jam and jam in the article:

If the test cooking showed that after cooling the jam is not dense enough and does not gel well, it looks more like jam, this means that there is not enough acid in the fruits. In such a situation, add the juice of one of the sour fruits. You can read about the acidity of fruits in the article:.

Juice is added in an amount of 10-15% to the initial weight of raw materials. Most pectin is found in unripe fruits. To make good quality jam, ripe fruits of excellent quality are taken, adding a small amount of unripe fruits to them.

Cooking jam is done quickly to prevent the destruction of pectin. Jam is brewed on strong fire in dishes with a wide bottom and low walls. It is best to make jam from already tested berries or fruits that contain a lot of pectin and acid. Excellent jam is obtained from strawberries, raspberries, plums, apples, apricots, cranberries, currants, gooseberries.

Before you cook jam, fruits and berries must be prepared

1. Apricots, plums, peaches should be pitted. Chop the fruits.
2. Berries such as currants, cranberries, gooseberries are pre-crushed (passed through a meat grinder or ground in a blender).
3. When cooking jam, a puree-like mass of uniform consistency is obtained, which has excellent gelling properties.
4. Apples, plums, cherries or figs are pre-boiled in a small amount of water. Prepared fruits are placed in a saucepan and poured hot water so that the water covers only the top layer and the fruits do not burn.

Water is brought to a boil, and the fruits are boiled for several minutes until softened. In this case, a lot useful substances passes from fruit to water. If you cook jam in several stages, then in the same water you can boil the fruits several times. The syrup will be saturated with sugar and acid, which will improve the quality of the jam.

• To preliminarily soften the fruits, 100 ml (half a glass) of water is taken per 1 kg of berries, and only then sugar is added.

All this is done so that the pectin contained in fruits and berries has a better gelling effect, and the berries are completely saturated with sugar.

For 1 kg of prepared raw materials for jam cooking,

• Strawberries, plums, peaches, figs 1 kg of sugar
• Apricots, apples, quince 1.2 kg of sugar
• Cranberry, black currant 1.5 kg

Ready jam is packaged in pre-prepared glass jars and seal.

How to make garden berry jam

Excellent jam - confiture is obtained from a mixture of garden berries. This is a proven recipe that is a hit with our family. All berries have sufficient acidity and are well gelled.

Blackcurrant, gooseberry and raspberry jam

To make jam we need:

• Blackcurrant 2 cups
• Gooseberries 2 cups
• Raspberries 1 cup
• Sugar 5 cups

1. Berries must first be prepared. Sort the raspberries, sort and wash the currants.
2. At the gooseberry, cut the stalks and ponytails with small scissors. Combine the berries together and crank through a meat grinder.
3. Get a homogeneous berry mass. Add sugar to this mass in a ratio of 1: 1 - 5 glasses of sugar are added to 5 glasses of berries.
4. Transfer the berry mass to a bowl for cooking and let stand for 15-20 minutes.
5. Put on fire, bring to a boil and cook for only 5 minutes, constantly removing the foam.
6. Remove from heat, let stand for 15-20 minutes. It is not recommended to bring to complete cooling.
   
7. The second time put on fire, bring only to a boil and immediately remove from heat.
8. Ready jam to cool and arrange in sterilized jars.

This jam can also be made from frozen berries. If the berries ripen unevenly in the garden, then blackcurrants or raspberries can be frozen in the right amount, and then used to make jam.

The article contains two proven recipes raspberry jam with and without syrup. How to cook delicious raspberry jam.

Raspberry, this is the source culinary inspiration and preparations for the winter. Raspberry jam It's more of a gourmet dessert.

Today we will tell you in our material how to cook delicious, thick and divinely fragrant strawberry jam at home and offer options for cooking blanks on a stove with gelatin, and also tell you how to make a delicacy using a slow cooker and a bread machine.

How to make thick strawberry jam with gelatin - a recipe for the winter

Ingredients:

• - 1.5 kg;
• sugar sand - 360 g;
• gelatin - 40 g.

Cooking

In this case, the density of jam is achieved not by long, tedious cooking of jam and an impressive portion of granulated sugar. We will achieve the necessary thick texture here in a completely different way by adding gelatin to the jam.

To implement this idea, we first prepare, as it should, the berries. To do this, we wash them, sort them out, free them from the stalks and put them in an enameled container. Sprinkle the layers with sugar and leave for a while to separate the juice. After that, if desired, we break through the berries with a blender or simply knead with our hands, add gelatin to the mass, mix and let stand for some more time.

Now place the bowl with the workpiece over moderate heat and heat, stirring often, until boiling. We reduce the fire to a minimum, let the jam on the fire for another two minutes, after which we pour it into pre-sterilized containers, roll it up with sterile lids and place it under a warm blanket until it cools completely.

How to cook delicious strawberry jam at home in a slow cooker?

Ingredients:

• ripe chopped strawberries - 480 g;
• sugar sand - 400-480 g;
• citric acid - one pinch.

Cooking

The preparation of strawberry jam, as in the previous case, we begin with the preliminary preparation of berries. We wash the strawberries, dry them, free them from the stalks and grind in any convenient way. You can crush the berries with a crush or knead with your hands, and for greater uniformity of the workpiece, it is better to punch the berries with a blender or grind in a meat grinder.

We transfer the prepared strawberry mass to the container of the multi-device, fill it with sugar and mix. We turn on the device in the "Heating" mode and keep the strawberries with sugar, stirring from time to time, until all sugar crystals are dissolved.

After that, we transfer the device to any mode while maintaining the temperature at the level of one hundred degrees. This may be, depending on the model of the device, the program "Soup", "Cooking" or "Baking" with the ability to select the temperature.

We prepare the jam without closing the lid and, periodically stirring it to the desired density, which we test from time to time on a cooled drop on a plate.

When ready, pour the jam into sterile dry glass jars, seal tightly with lids and let cool, putting it under a blanket for self-sterilization.

How to make strawberry jam at home in a bread machine?

Ingredients:

• ripe strawberries - 720 g;
• granulated sugar - 220-250 g;
• or lemon juice - one pinch or 1 tbsp. spoon, respectively.

Cooking

Making strawberry jam in a bread machine is absolutely not troublesome. It is enough just to put the required amount of pre-prepared washed and dried strawberries without tails into the bucket, cover the berries with sugar and add lemon juice or crystals citric acid. After that, tightly close the lid of the device, install the program "Jam" or "Jam" and we can go about our business. The miracle device itself will set the cooking time and cook a delicious strawberry preparation.

Now it remains only to pour the jam into sterile jars, cork them and put them under the covers to cool.

I propose to make strawberry jam - a recipe for the winter, which is prepared in a little more than half an hour. And you will definitely like the taste and aroma. The density can be adjusted using the cooking time or simply by replacing regular sugar with gelling sugar, which includes pectin.

Strawberry jam, the recipe of which is in front of you, will be a great addition to pancakes, pancakes, or as a filling for pies and bagels. Or you can just spread a crust of fresh bread with butter and add a little jam on top, a very good combination for tea. Try and cook it!

Ingredients:

Strawberries - 350 g

Sugar - 350 g

Lemon juice - 1 tsp

216 kcal per 100 g

How to make strawberry jam

Before you make strawberry jam, you must first prepare the berries. To do this, I transfer them to a colander and rinse under running water. It is important to do this quickly and carefully so as not to damage the berries. Next, I tear off the leaves and transfer the strawberries to a paper towel to remove the remaining water.

Transfer the strawberries to a blender bowl and grind into a smooth puree. After pour it into a saucepan, add sugar, lemon juice to it and mix.

It is important to understand how to cook strawberry jam correctly. To do this, put the saucepan on a small fire, and when the mass begins to boil, cook for another 30 minutes. Don't forget to stir occasionally so that the jam doesn't burn. He must boil small fire, but the mass will boil. You also need to remove the resulting foam. The longer it cooks, the thicker it becomes.

While the jam is still cooking, I prepare a jar or jars, depending on how much you take. They can be sterilized by various methods, the popular ones are in the microwave and over boiling water. For me, the second method is more familiar. I pour water into an empty pan, put a grate on top. When the water boils, I put the jar and the lid upside down on the grate to sterilize the sides with which the jam will come into contact. It is enough that they stand over the steam for a couple of minutes, and I take them off.

I pour hot jam into jars and roll up the lids or just twist it tightly if you have this type of lid. Immediately after that, I turn them upside down, cover with a towel and leave it to cool. After that, I take them to the balcony or to the cellar, so that in winter I can feast on it. This is how strawberry jam turned out, the recipe is simple, and in my opinion quite easy.

Almost 2 jars of jam came out of these products, one of them was a little incomplete, so I decided not to roll it up, but to eat it right away. I can say that this strawberry jam: the recipe for the winter was a success, and the rest was eaten with pleasure and very quickly. I have a 280 ml jar.

My advice to you, cook without a doubt, it turns out very tasty. Bon Appetit!

From strawberries you can cook a variety of desserts for the winter. One of the most beloved by many jam combines fragrant and healthy delicacy and a simple recipe. Therefore, every housewife wants to see him on her table on cold winter days. Moreover, strawberry jam can be prepared in any way, depending on the recipe, for example, in a bread machine, slow cooker, in a classic way, with the addition of gelatin, and so on.

Excellent strawberry jam cake

In any pastry, be it pies, buns, rolls, be sure to add strawberry jam as a filling. The recipe is delicious. thick jam allows you to do this, as opposed to liquid jam which will flow out.

You can also use it as an ingredient for kneading dough. Due to its viscous consistency, it can be used in many recipes.

Delicious strawberry jam will bring pleasant memories of a warm summer in winter, when the gentle sun is so lacking. It is very convenient that when preparing it, you do not need to carefully select the berries, since they still need to be crushed and boiled for a long time.

How to make strawberry jam for the winter?

To make the dessert useful, you should choose the right container for cooking. Do not use pans made of aluminum and copper, as the fruit acid contained in strawberries will react with the metal. You don't want to have their impurities in the jam.

Choose from stainless steel or enameled dishes, however, everything often sticks to the bottom of the latter, but if you stir often, you can avoid burning. It is also better not to use metal spoons, the most environmentally friendly material is wood.

Banks need to be prepared in advance they need to be sterilized and dried. Along with the usual ones, eurobanks are suitable, but to avoid contact of the jam with metal, and to seal the lids, use parchment. It needs to be placed under them.

Strawberries are sorted before use, removing spoiled or green ones, cut off the stalk and washed several times. You can do this under running water or in a basin. Grind the fruits in advance, for this use a blender or meat grinder, a sieve is also suitable.

Strawberry jam classic winter recipe

This recipe is the easiest and even a novice hostess can do it.

A little time and patience - delicious dessert ready!

The recipe requires a minimum of ingredients:

• Two kilograms of berries and sugar.

Cooking:

Five-minute recipe

This will require patience, as you will have to tinker. However, the result is excellent. Jam retains more vitamins as heat treatment takes less time, plus fragrance and beautiful appearance. Would need:

• Per kilogram of berries and sugar.
• At the tip of the knife is citric acid.

Cooking:

1. We wipe the berry or simply chop it with a knife and put it in a small container. Combine and mix with sugar.
2. Banks should already be sterile and at hand, as they will be needed soon. It is better to take a volume of 200 grams, so that a portion just fits.
3. Pour mashed potatoes with sugar into the prepared pan and bring to a boil. After that, cook for 5 minutes.
4. Put a lemon in a clean and dry jar and pour the boiled jam, roll it up immediately.
5. All other portions are prepared in the same way.
6. After a few days, the delicious strawberry jam will have a thick consistency and can be refrigerated until winter.

Recipe with gelatin

Strawberry jam for the winter is prepared quickly and there is a guarantee that it will thicken well. You should not think that gelatin will spoil the dessert, not at all, it will only give the desired density.

You need to take:

• A kilogram of strawberries
• glass of sugar,
• A bag (20 grams) of gelatin.

How to cook:

1. You may have noticed that this recipe requires less sugar. This is not a mistake, gelatin plays the main role of a thickener. The principle of preparation is similar to the above recipes. So.
2. Wash and process the berries, removing the stalks. Then grind or grind.
3. We put all the ingredients in a cooking container at once and turn on the temperature, wait for it to boil. Stir occasionally so that the strawberry jam does not burn.
4. As soon as the mixture begins to boil, reduce the heat and, stirring, cook for 2 minutes.
5. We check the density of strawberry jam, the drop should not spread. If it holds its shape, then the jam is ready and can be rolled up. It is worth remembering that gelatin tends to thicken when cooled.

Recipe in the bread machine

This option is convenient because it is suitable for housewives who do not like to stand near the stove, but prefer to do more interesting things while something is being cooked. Need to stock up:

• A kilogram of berries.
• Sugar in the amount of 1.5 kg.
• Juice from half a lemon.

How to prepare strawberries for the bread maker:

1. Wash the berries and remove the stem. This recipe allows you to do without a sieve and other utensils, you just need to cut it into several pieces.
2. Fill the bowl with berries and sugar, add lemon juice. It is necessary to give the jam a beautiful color. We close the bread machine and set the arrow to the “Jam” or “Jam” mode.
3. Everything, now nothing depends on you, then you need to trust smart technology. She'll be done in about an hour. Do not be upset if the jam turns out to be watery, over time it will acquire the desired consistency.

Recipe with pectin

This method of making strawberry jam for the winter will not take much time. Thanks to pectin, the jam will quickly acquire the desired density, which means it will retain more vitamins, because of which we, in fact, started all this.

What is required for this:

• A kilogram of strawberries.
• Sugar - half a kilogram.
• Pectin - pack.
• A teaspoon of lemon juice.

Cooking:

1. Berries are washed and processed. We grind in any way, at our discretion.
2. Fill the container with strawberry mass and add pectin. Mix thoroughly.
3. Turn on the stove medium fire and wait for it to boil.
4. Reduce the temperature to a minimum and add sugar.
5. We constantly interfere.
6. Cooking lasts 5 minutes, at the end lemon juice is added. You can not add the latter if there is no desire.
7. We put the jam in jars immediately after removing from the fire and roll up the lids.

Strawberry jam can be prepared not only for the winter, but also used as summer dessert. For maximum benefit, do not leave it on fire for more than 10 minutes. Allow time to cool completely and transfer to jars. You can store wonderful sweet strawberries in the refrigerator. The dessert is not thick enough, but if you put it in a cool place, it will acquire the necessary consistency.

So, strawberry jam, unlike jam, has a good viscous structure, which allows it to be applied to a bun or toast without any problems. Plus, it tastes great and smells amazing!