How to cook a strawberry jam?

Cooking strawberry jam will not require a lot of effort and knowledge, but the result of the process is guaranteed to delight all lovers of sweets.

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Cooking strawberry jama - traditional recipe

For sweetness, ingredients will be required:

• 0.8 kg Sugara sand.
• 1 kg of strawberry.
• Half of lemon.

Cooking steps Jem:

1. My yoke is carefully done, go through (even a slightly pitched strawberry need to be removed), save from the leaves.
2. Flip the berries on the colander so that the excess water can drag. Next, dry a strawberry on paper towels.
3. Shoot the berries in enamel container. This type of dishes is optimal for berries and fruits. Otherwise, the reaction of oxidation is possible between them and the walls of the dishes.
4. Fall asleep with sugar. Leave berries in this form for 2 hours.
5. When the strawberry lasted the juice, go to the next step - the grinding of the berries to a homogeneous state. You can grind berries with both a blender and by passing them through a meat grinder.
6. Enamel container send to the middle fire, bring to a boil.
7. Boil Jam about 10 minutes, while it is important to follow so that he "did not run." Do not forget to stir the composition.
8. Next, squeeze the juice of halves citrus. Adop it into the strawberry mass.
9. Continue to cook the composition of another 15 minutes, still stirring jam. From time to time, the foam must be removed. During the preparation of jams, make sure that plenty of strawberry slightly "bubbling", but do not boil vigorously.
10. The degree of jam is determined by its readiness texture (density). This parameter is adjustable to your preference.

If you are planning to open a jar of fragrant jam in the winter, the finished product is spill on prepared (sterile) banks and tightly rush the last covers. Banks store in the storeroom. For earlier use of delicacies, clean banks are suitable, which should be closed by kapron covers. In this case, the jam is stored in the refrigerator.

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Cooking strawberry jam - use of pectin

The inclusion of pectin allows you to get a sufficiently thick jam, without resorting to the use of a large amount of sugar and a long jam cooking procedure.

Prepare ingredients:

• 1 kg of strawberry.
• 0.5-0.6 kg of sugar.
• 2 packs of apple pectin ("configure").

Cooking steps Jem:

1. Prepared (washed and purified) The berry is crushed to a puree state.
2. Next, in the resulting mass, put pectin. Capacity with composition send on fire. It is very important to add pectin to the inclusion of sugar!
3. Bring the composition to boil. Reduce the flame and cook strawberry puree for another 5 minutes.
4. Add sugar. Stir the product to achieve complete sand dissolution.
5. Reagree the mass to boil. Cook the jam about 5-7 minutes.
6. Next, you can immediately pour a product according to sterile banks, and you can achieve its even greater thickening.
7. If you have chosen the second way, prepare dry, pre-paired with boiling water dish.
8. Put on it a layer of finished jam (thickness not more than 1-2 cm). When the mass of thickened - shifting it with a sterile spoon in the prepared (dry and sterilized) jar.

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Cooking Strawberry Jem - Using Agar-Agar

To get the jam, prepare:

• 0.7 kg of strawberries.
• 250 g of sugar.
• 0.5 h. L. Vanilla extract.
• 1 tbsp. l. Lemon juice.
• 1 tbsp. l. Agar-Agar.

Stages of cooking Jem:

• We wash the berry, clean and chop finely.
• Lay out strawberries in enameled container and fall asleep sugar.
• Dishes send on fire, bring to a boil. Stir the jam by removing the resulting foam. Boil strawberry mass no more than 10 minutes (from the moment of boiling).
• A couple of minutes before the end of cooking in the strawberry puree, add agar-agar, lemon juice and vanilla. Mix the components.

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Cooking Strawberry Jem - General Recommendations

• If you want to get not an ideally homogeneous mass, but with the inclusions of small pieces of strawberries, we divide the berries into 2 parts before grinding. Out one of them, the other is finely cut. After boiling a homogeneous mass, wait 3-5 minutes and add with pieces with pieces.
• If you want to get a thick jam, do not use crumpled and overwhelmed berries. They contain little natural pectin, so it will not be possible to achieve a pronounced jelly consistency. Fix the situation in this case can only powder pectin (do not exceed the dosage indicated on its packaging!).