Summer - hot time for housewives. You need to have time to prepare natural vitamins for the winter. How it is impossible to suit this homemade jam. You can cook it not only from the usual fruits and berries, but also from some vegetables and other exotic products. The main indicators of high-quality dessert are the transparency of the syrup, the wholeness of the fruit, the rich taste and smell, and sufficient delicate. Sometimes the program gives a failure, and the jam is rare. The situation can be corrected by the following ways.
How to choose the right tank for cooking jam
You can argue for a long time, in which opinion is better to cook jam: copper, aluminum or enameled. The main thing is that it is wide, and its walls are low. So the jam will warm evenly and the excess liquid is better evaporated.
Criteria for the selection of ingredients for jam
Collect berries and fruits in dry, sunny weather. They should be mature, intact pests or diseases. Delete bones. Fruits with a tight skin pinched toothpick. If the berries gave a lot of juice, they must be strain, and use excess juice for other purposes (compote, hots, etc.).
Sugar Use only white, cane in this case will not fit. Add it not all immediately, but in small parts after each welding.
How to make jam thick with lemon
Before spilling a ready-made dessert for banks, add a few lemon dollars to the pelvis. You can grind them with a blender. In addition, Lemon will retain the natural saturated color of the fruit. Lemon contains a large amount of fiber and pectin, a natural thickener.
What can be used to thicken the finished liquid jam
At the end of the dessert cooking, add 4-5 g of pectin by 1 kg. It is liquid and in powder. Pectin has not only gluing properties, but also improves intestinal peristalsis, purifies the body from harmful substances.
Similar effect has starch and flour. Watch out for their number, because after cooling the jam will become even more damping.
If the jam is intended for the filling of pies or cakes, then before use, add some breadcrumbs into it.
These small tricks will help cook delicious and thick jam without any difficult tasks.
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