How to cook strawberry jam

Strawberries - juicy berries are so often jam it turns liquid. To avoid this, you need to learn how to cook this delicious treat.

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What Strawberry is suitable for cooking jam

Strawberry jam is better to take from your own garden. This is due to the fact that the owner collects a strawberry on a sunny day and the evening. That evening berries on the bushes will be very dry. If the strawberries have to buy on the market, you should choose one that does not start to flow.

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Prepare strawberries to jam cooking

Strawberries in front of the workpiece in the form of jam, it is desirable not to wash, just remove the sepals. If the water can not escape procedures, it should be washed in small portions and immediately spread on towels for drying,.

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Number of strawberry jam cooking

Good strawberry jam should be quite thick and dense with whole berries. If the pelvis immediately put a lot of berries, they are under their own weight may wrinkle. From this it follows that the strawberries in the basin should not be too much - depending on the cooking utensils for only 1 or 2 kg.

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Other secrets of cooking strawberry jam

To jam turned out delicious and beautiful, when it is cooking you need to follow the following rules:

• Strawberries in the pelvis to be decomposed even thin layer and pour evenly sugar, the amount of which indicated in a particular recipe.
• After let strawberry juice, pour it into a bowl and boil down to a state of liquid honey.
• In the thick strawberry syrup and cook to shift strawberries in four passes for 5 minutes. After each heat treatment to jam cool for at least 8 hours.
• Before you pour the strawberries with sugar, it can be slightly moisten the usual vodka. Alcohol will make the fruit more dense and after cooking, they will remind candied. Vodka 1 kg of raw material is taken 1 tablespoon.
• When cooking jam should not be interfered, but it is better to shake the pelvis. This will contribute to the integrity of the berries.
• With strawberry jams, you must remove the foam. For this, a wooden spoon is fit, to the bottom of which the foam is good.

In almost the finished strawberry jam, 2 minutes before the end of the cooking, can be put on the tip of a knife of citric acid. She will give the workpiece very bright color and will not give the jam to sugar.