Summer and the beginning of autumn are the golden time for home preparations. Only and manage to roll up fruits and vegetables: compotes, jams, pickles, etc.
Sweetness of summer in cans: cherry jam
The dispute about what kind of jam is the most delicious, you can lead endlessly. Everything depends on personal tastes and preferences. And, of course, the ability to weld it. For example, cherry. It is prepared both with bones, and without. Ripe, very strong, without specks and defects of berries are selected. They are cleared of stones and are filled up in a basin with sugar that have started up juice. After that they should be left for a couple of hours in a cool place. Then add the juice, add water and sugar - one and a half kg for each kg of cherries. Syrup boil, pour into berries and put on fire. When deciding which jam is the most delicious, you may not choose bones. Then just fall asleep sugar in the same proportions and cook. Stir frequently, make a small fire. Remove the foam. If the jam is too thick, add water. Let the product slightly exhale, then turn off, leave for a while. After 5-7 hours you can again put on gas. Boil to the full readiness, then pour over specially prepared, sterilized banks and roll.
King of the berry - gooseberry
In competition, which jam is the most delicious, the gooseberry can participate fully. True, to make it qualitative, you need to know some tricks. Firstly, berries are suitable large, firm, but slightly greenish (immature). They need to be washed, cleaned of the pedicels, and then a bowl with berries to put in a cold place: a cellar, a refrigerator or even to the ice. Leave the clock at 6. Prepare the syrup: one and a half kilos of sugar for three quarters of a glass of water per 1 kg of berries. Cook better in a copper basin, then your workpiece will not burn. Syrup pour the cooled gooseberry and cook over low heat. Do not forget about foam!
Aiva is a "sunny apple"
For those who argue about which jam is the most delicious, you can offer the perfect solution: from quince. This amazingly fragrant fruit of amber-sunny color is remarkable both in compotes, and jams, jam. The options are as follows: grate the fruits, cover with sugar (1: 1.5), let the juice drain, and into the fire. Brew until ready. Or: wash the fruits, peel, cut into slices. Peel the boil separately (add water), this broth (strained), pour the prepared quince. Let the boil several times. Then reduce the heat and cook until the lobules become soft and transparent. Jam is so tender, pleasant that it is difficult to break away from it, believe me! And the view is beautiful, a real summer gift!
Oh, the strawberry!
For some, the most delicious is strawberry jam. Berries necessarily go through, clear of twigs, garbage, cups. If they are juicy, just pour the sugar (half the desired amount), put in a cool place for hours at 5. When the juice is enough, put it on the fire. Let the berries boil, then cook on a small fire in 1 or 2 prisest. Calculation of sugar and fruits - 1: 1. You can cook the most delicious jam and a little differently. For every kg of sugar (and therefore berries) is taken in half a cup of water. First a syrup is made, then strawberry is poured into it, and then everything is as described above.
By the way, about the same is cooked and jam from strawberries, very useful, with a wonderful summer smell and amazing taste. Enjoy the gifts of summer from the heart!