Jam from wild strawberries - the best recipes of fragrant delicacy

Jam from wild strawberries is a delicious dish that takes us to a distant carefree childhood. Only one spoonful of this delicacy makes you close your eyes and remember how once together with friends went to the forest and collected small red berries in thick thickets of grass. And the more such berries were eaten, the better the organism was prepared for malovitaminnye seasons. And our grandmothers necessarily covered jam from them, which helped maintain the strength of the body during the cold winter months. Today we want to follow their example and prepare a jam from the forest strawberry. Let's look at a few recipes.

Strawberry jam is one of the most useful home-made billets

Recipes for cooking

Before brewing jam from forest strawberries, you should collect and prepare berries. The fruits of the same size will be most suitable without damage and traces of rot. The collected berries are picked, separated sepals and washed in a lot of running water. As a rule, wild strawberry is quite tender, so it is desirable to wash it in a colander, spreading in small portions;fingers are better not to help.

Next, the washed fruits are combined with sugar and left for 5 hours - during this time the strawberry should let the juice run. As for the ratio of berries and sugar, it should be approximately 1: 1.5.After, strawberries, along with the secreted juice is transferred into a container with a volume of 2 to 6 liters and cooked. And the method of preparation can be chosen from the options offered below.

Recipe-five-minute

Jam-five-minute out of forest strawberries is most useful, as it is known that the less time the berry undergoes heat treatment, the more valuable substances it retains.

Prepare ingredients:

• 1.5 kg strawberry;
• half a kilogram of sugar.

Let's start cooking.

1. Combine berries with sugar and after 4-5 hours, put on fire.
2. Bring the mixture to a boil.
3. Cook for about 5 minutes, then distribute the mixture to the banks and roll.
4. Allow to cool for several hours.

Jam-pyatiminutka turns not very thick and retains the aroma of fresh berries

Note! Such a treat can be stored in a refrigerator or in a kitchen cabinet.

Strawberry jam in the multivariate

Prepare the ingredients:

• half a kilo of strawberry;
• half a kilogram of sugar;
• half a cup of water.

Let's start cooking.

1. The berries are picked and folded into a container intended for cooking in a multivarquet.
2. Add sugar, water and turn the multivarker into "Quenching" or "Milk porridge" mode.
3. After 30 minutes, spread the mixture over the jars.
4. Turn over with the necks and allow to cool at room temperature.

Classic recipe

This recipe makes it possible to prepare the most common jam from the forest strawberries, which our grandmothers prepared for the winter.

Prepare ingredients:

• 2 kg strawberry;
• 3 kg of sugar;
• 3 g of citric acid, which can optionally replace 30 ml of lemon juice.

Let's get ready.

1. Berries pick, rinse, pour sugar and leave for a few hours.
2. When the juice is released, put everything in a brass basin and put it on the smallest fire.
3. Cook, stirring constantly - sugar should dissolve completely.
4. After, increase the fire, the contents of the pelvis bring to a boil.
5. Cook for 20 minutes.
6. Turn off the gas supply, and after half an hour again bring the mixture to a boil and leave on fire for another 20 minutes.
   

   Recommendation! If you have a small berry, then the second time you can not boil it.

7. After the process, add citric acid or juice.

Be sure to try a treat prepared on the grandmother's recipe

Jam for cold

The following recipe for strawberry jam is anti-cold. His taste and aroma will be appreciated by your children, and you will not have to worry about their health in winter and in the off-season.

Prepare ingredients:

• half a kilo of strawberry;
• 1 kg of sugar.

Attempts to prepare.

1. Fruit combine with sugar, rub.
2. Transfer the mass into a saucepan, put on fire.
3. Warm up - the sugar must completely dissolve.
   

   Important! Do not boil the mixture!

4. Jam pour over clean jars, roll up.

Keep this jam better in the refrigerator

Small tricks

1. Strawberries are able to pass a bit of bitterness. But from this you can get rid of one of the following ways: when cooking into a container add the cleared carrots, combine the strawberries with red currants in a proportion of 6: 1, pre-freeze the berries or cook the jam in one session.
2. Jam is ready when a drop of syrup does not spread over a cold saucer, and the berries become translucent.
3. If you put a little sugar, then the delicacy will quickly deteriorate - it will ferment and become moldy.
4. Citric acid is necessary in order that the jam is not candied;it is put in the amount of 1 teaspoon per 1 kg of sugar.
5. The finished product is best poured into glass jars with a capacity of half a liter, 1 or 2 liters.
6. Jam it is desirable to cook from freshly picked berries.

And do not forget that the main ingredient in any dish is a piece of your soul. Be healthy!