Learning how to make strawberry jam

The fragrant and delicious strawberries have only one drawback - they are torn off, they are not stored for a long time in fresh form. Maximum - a couple of days in a cool place. And then only a few hours in the heat. Therefore, in order to be able and after the "strawberry" season to enjoy this gift of nature, many ways have been devised. Fresh berries freeze, canned, even dried or make them delicious tinctures.

Everyone familiar from childhood and many favorite delicacy is jam. Not everyone knows how to cook strawberry jam properly. Often you can find that this delicate product turns out that it is too thick, it is liquid, and even worse, if the berries break up and turn into unaesthetic rags. To avoid such problems, in many families, good recipes for sweet preservation are inherited from grandmothers and mothers. But now there are many tips on how to make strawberry jam, you can find it on the Internet.

Preparing this sweetness, we need to find out the main points:

- how much sugar to use;

- how much to cook jam;

- How many make approaches-zakipyachivany.

To begin with, it is necessary to choose sensibly berries. They should be mature and fragrant, but not over-ripe, too soft or crumpled. All the strawberries must be sorted, cleaned up damaged, removed all stems and sepals, thoroughly washed from sand and soiled. Sepals, by the way, not all mistresses delete - there is an opinion that they are also useful, since they contain additional microelements and vitamins.

Here are a few fairly successful recipes, like cooking strawberry jam. In each case, the final product will vary, but it will be delicious.

Jam from "like fresh" strawberries

For each kilogram of strawberry is taken 0.4 kg of sugar.

Prepare the berries, as indicated above, put in a pot with high sides and fill with sugar. Place in the refrigerator for about 6 hours. Put on a small fire. Boil and boil for 5 minutes. The jam will turn out to be sparse, but fragrant and not overcooked. Spread on pre-washed, dried, sterilized jars , cover with prepared tin lids. Cork, turn over the banks, wrap up and let them cool down.

Recipe for a small, non-strawberry strawberry

Prepare berries before cooking strawberry jam, set aside. Cook on medium heat syrup, stirring all the time with a wooden noise (1 cup of water take 1.5 kg of sugar). After boiling boil for about 5 minutes and set aside. If you notice the impurities, it is better to strain. While the syrup is hot, a strawberry is poured into it and so the clock is left at 6-8. Then the jam boils twice and cools. Boil for the third time, leave boiling for 5 minutes. The product is considered ready if a drop of syrup thickens so as not to spread out on the plate. Further - expand into sterilized jars and roll up with tin lids.

Strawberry jam in the microwave oven

There is also an option, how to cook strawberry jam lovers to cook in the microwave.

This is for small volumes of conservation. For 0.5 kg of berries, measure 0.45-0.5 kg of sugar. Strawberries in a special container under the lid are placed in a microwave oven at a power of 800 for 4 minutes to allow the juice to flow. Get it, add sugar and stir. And again in the microwave for 13 minutes. Place, but without the lid. It is necessary to periodically take out the dishes and mix the jam, make sure not to escape and not burnt. Get and hot spread on sterilized jars, roll up.

And in winter open the jar and enjoy the taste of hot summer.