Jam, jams and raspberry, bilberry and strawberry compotes are, perhaps, the most tasty and useful delicacies which are cooked by many hostesses during a season of maturing of these fruits. That viands weren't too luscious, and plus to everything could be stored long and at the same time not spoil, it is necessary to observe proportions of sugar and berries strictly. It is possible to learn the approximate weight of fruits and without scales.
To cook tasty jam, jam or compote, observance of a compounding is necessary. Accurate keeping of ingredients and duration of cooking will positively affect taste of a ready-made product, and the storage period (at obligatory sterilization of cans) will increase many times. Not each hostess in kitchen has scales by means of which it would be possible to measure the weight of products, however it doesn't prevent them to please the relatives with tasty dishes, and in particular the above desserts. The thing is that in each house is available bank of one liter who is the irreplaceable assistant in measurement of ""the weight of berries"".
For example, the liter of the bilberry picked in dry weather weighs, on average, 750-800 grams. If bilberry small, then weight can reach 850 grams, large berries weigh no more than 700 grams. As for strawberry, its weight directly depends on the sizes of berries. If berry small and their size is slightly more than cherry, then one one-liter jar can weigh 600-650 grams, the liter of larger berries weighs, on average, no more than 550 grams. The weight of liter of raspberry can fluctuate depending on ripeness of berries, ripe berries more juicy and soft, at hit in bank they are more rumpled, as a result in bank more fruits are located. As for exact figures, the liter of raspberry weighs from 550 to 650 grams.
It should be noted if you want to cook a little bilberry, strawberry or raspberry jam, at the same time you have only a liter of berries, then for preparation of strawberry jam take from 500 to 600 grams of sugar (2/3 one-liter jars), bilberry - from 600 to 1200 grams, depending on your flavoring preferences (from 1/2 to the whole can), crimson - 500-700 grams (it is slightly more than a half of a one-liter jar).