At the end of the first month of the summer, the baton of cherries and garden strawberries takes a currant. Black, red, white, she pleases the generous harvest of children and adults. Excellent supplies for the winter are obtained from it: juices, compotes, jellies, jams, five-minute, even wine and liquor. The most useful currant billets are those that do not require cooking.
Recipes from blackcurrant for the winter without cooking
In order to please the family with summer flavors and flavors, sate with vitamins to counter colds, take care of currant stocks. This berry is dried, frozen, mashed with sugar and without it, juices are made. You can freeze not only the whole currant, but also ground with a blender. Such a preparation is a source of vitamins for winter cocktails and desserts. Dry black currant is better than bunches, without removing berries from the stem. Before drying the berries should not be washed.
All the favorite traditional raw jam preserves useful trace elements, vitamins and excellent taste of ripe berries. It is stored in the refrigerator or at room temperature, it depends on the amount of sugar in the recipe. Red currant and white currant can also be stored in sugar without heat treatment. To improve the taste in a jam, you can add a blender crushed or mashed orange, lemon. An easily executed recipe for black currant, wiped with sugar, makes the lacquer billet popular.
Black currant, wiped with sugar for the winter in the proportion of 1: 2
Many generations of housewives tried every year to store for the winter a curative "vitamin from the currant."This dish was not only an exquisite dessert, it was famous for its curative and preventive properties. In the difficult post-war years, the lucky ones, who managed to acquire a can of "currant vitamin", protected it for children and ill, measuring out the precious product with a teaspoonful. Correctly prepared currant jam without cooking can be stored on a shelf or in a closet until a new crop.
What should be prepared for the preparation of classic raw currant jam? You will need:
- kitchen scale;
- container of stainless steel or enameled;
- large spoon, wooden spatula;
- sterile jars and caps to them.
To cook three kilograms of a delicious jam that does not require cooking, take 1 kg of ripe black currant and 2 kg of sugar-sand. Berry puree will be stored for a long time if you observe simple technology:
- Rinse currant berries under running water.
- Put them in a thin layer on a paper towel, let them drain and dry.
- Grind the mushrooms in puree. Use a blender or a meat grinder for this.
- In a deep container( saucepan, bowl), sandwich portions of puree and sugar.
- Leave the container closed for several hours: the sugar must be dissolved.
- Mix the jam from time to time with a clean spoon or spatula.
- When the sugar crystals dissolve completely, the "vitamin" can be considered ready.
- Place the preform in sterile jars, cap with lids.
This recipe has one significant drawback: too sweet. Useful properties of currants do not abolish the negative influence of excessive sugar on human health. If you limit carbohydrates in your diet, you are unlikely to like the ratio of berries and granulated sugar 1: 2.To make the jam not so cloying and high-calorie, you can reduce the amount of sweet carbohydrates by half.
Vitamin jam from blackcurrant without cooking
Prepare such a blank as easily as described above. For each kilogram of currant, take one kilogram of sugar. The berries must be crushed thoroughly, mixed gradually with sugar, mixed until the crystals dissolve completely. This method has its own drawback: this jam is worse kept. Even in sterile jars it will not stand long at room temperature. It is recommended to store it in a refrigerator or a reliable cool cellar( cellar).
Red currant, grated with sugar without seeds
An incredibly delicious treat can be made from red currant without cooking. If you picked berries from your own bush in good weather, you can not wash it. Harvest, harvested after the rain, and especially purchased in the market, should be washed under running water and thoroughly dried on a paper towel. To get a delicious cold jam pitted, do this:
- Pick berries, removing stems, leaves and other debris.
- Load them into the blender bowl. Thoroughly grind.
- The obtained mass should be carefully wiped through a fine sieve.
- Add sugar. For each glass of berry puree you need to take a half cup of sugar.
- Stir the berry-sugar mass, leave for 2-3 hours. Periodically mix.
- While the sugar is dissolved, put the jars sterilized. This can be done in the oven or over the steam.
- Lay out the ready berry puree on sterilized dry jars, cover with hermetic covers.
- For guaranteed safety, put jars of jam in a cool cellar.
White currant jam with sugar without cooking
A wonderful taste has a cold jam of white currant. It can be cooked in the same way as a red berry. If you are not confused by small currant bones in the finished product - simplify your work, do not wipe the ground with a blender mass. Such jam will be much more useful. If the two main ingredients( berry and granulated sugar) add crushed orange or lemon, you will get unvaried vitamin product of the original taste. Try it! Such jam without cooking can become your favorite summer preparation.
Recipe for currant jam assorted
Summer is a time of experiments. Do you want to please home tasty, bright, unusual cooking - try making an assortment of currant without cooking. To do this, take the black currant, red, white in equal parts. If you have a raspberry that sings simultaneously with the currant, it is appropriate to add it. Puree is better to make from each berry separately, then mix. In the crushed and wiped berry mass you need to pour sugar. The ratio by volume is 1: 1.5( for a cup of puree 1.5 cups of sugar-sand).To store the jam you need a sterile jar, a cool place.