Useful properties of black currant - an excellent motivation to harvest from this berries for the winter tasty jam. And if you consider that it is absolutely easy and not particularly troublesome, this idea becomes even more attractive.
How to cook jelly-like jam from black currant - recipe
Ingredients:
- black currant - 5,5 glasses;
- granulated sugar - 6,5 glasses;
- filtered water - 2/3 cup.
Preparation
Before the preparation of jam, the black currant should be touched, thoroughly rinsed and let drain off. Now we fall asleep berries in the enameled container or other, suitable for jam making a vessel, we pour filtered water and put a vessel on a burner on a plate. Preheat the contents to a boil and let it boil for ten minutes with barely perceptible languor. After that, turn off the fire, introduce the necessary amount of sugar to the berries and stir the jam until all the crystals are completely dissolved. Leave the workpiece until it cools down completely, and then spread it over the dry sterile jars , cover them with lids and store them in a cool place.
If it is supposed to store the jam at room temperature, we pour the billet along the tanks still hot, seal it tightly and let the banks cool down with lids.
And one more variation of the recipe for the preparation of jelly-like jam from black currant.
Jelly jam from black currant and raspberry - recipe
Ingredients:
- black currant - 5 glasses;
- raspberry - 1 glass;
- granulated sugar - 8 glasses;
- water - 2.5 cups.
Preparation
In this case, we add a black currant glass of raspberries and slightly change the proportions of sugar and water. Berries are washed with cool water, let it drain, put into a pan or another jam container, pour sugar and pour it over the water. We put the vessel with the workpiece on the stove and from the moment of appearance of the first signs of boiling, cook for seven minutes. Immediately pour hot jam on sterile dry containers, cork with boiled dry lids and leave the banks bottom up to cool under a warm blanket.
Delicious raw black currant jam without cooking
Ingredients:
- currant black - 695 g;
- granulated sugar - 1.4 kg.
Preparation
The billet made according to this recipe is difficult to call jam, since it is not subjected to any heat treatment at all. In the people it is called vitamins from black currant and is characterized as an excellent tool to help cope with the common cold, as well as being the source of the lion's share of vitamin C.
If the black currant is collected on its site, and you are sure that the berries are clean, then it is better not to wash them, but only to thoroughly sort out and remove from the admixture of leaves and tails. If the currant is purchased, then rinse it under running water, let it drain and spread on the towel to dry.
After the completion of the preparatory work, we pass the currant through a meat grinder or we blend it with a blender. Now the berry mass is covered with sugar, mix and spread the resulting vitamin billet on sterile glass containers. We cover the banks with lids and determine for storage in the refrigerator compartment.
Jam made of black and red currant
Ingredients:
- currant black - 295 g;
- red currant - 295 g;
- granulated sugar -580 g;
- water - 490 ml.
Preparation
Initially, we wash the berries of black currant, and the red currant is also eliminated from the tails. In the jam cooking container, pour sugar and pour in water, place the container on the fire and let the contents boil, stirring. Now in the syrup we throw first the black currant and as soon as the peel begins to burst on the berries, add the red currant and cook the preform to the desired degree of thickening.
Ready hot jam is poured over sterile containers, corked and let the banks cool in an inverted position.