One of ways of preservation of a harvest of strawberry is jam making. It one of the most widespread and popular. As pleasantly to open a jar of the most fragrant, most tasty jam in the winter, to drink to tea and to remember hot summer.
It is required to you
- 3 kg of strawberry;
- 3 kg of sugar.
Instruction
1. Carefully touch strawberry, reject the rotten, soft and moldy berries, tear off sepals. Wash out strawberry from sand and dust in a colander under flowing water. Let's it flow down completely.
2. Pour out berries in a pan, pouring each layer of strawberry sugar (on 1 kg of berries - 500 g of sugar). Put in the fridge at several o'clock. Occasionally stir up a pan with berries.
3. Merge from a pan with berries the formed juice in a basin for jam making. Vysypite in him the remained sugar. Put a basin on small fire, stir slowly contents with a wooden spoon that sugar completely dispersed, and the turned-out syrup began to boil. Fill up in a berry basin. Mix and bring to the boil. Collect by a spoon the formed foam and switch off cooking. Let's it half of hour stand and will cool down. Again mix and put on fire. When jam begins to boil, remove foam and leave it to cook on small fire. Through half of hour a spoon take a little syrup and you will drip on a dry plate. If the drop spreads, jam needs to be cooked still if the drop remains dense, keeps a form, jam is ready.
4. Carefully wash up banks for jam with soda under flowing water and sterilize them on couple within 10-15 min. twice. Boil covers within 15 - 20 min. Pour hot jam in dry sterile banks, close covers and put to be cooled. When it completely cools down, remove jam on storage to the cool place.