Strawberry – most true "queen" among all berries known today. It is very tasty, sweet, fragrant. And what of it jam turns out? Very refined and delicious. Especially, if it is prepared on the recipe invented by the Russian people – with vodka.
Before cooking tasty strawberry jam, it is necessary to pick berry. It is necessary to do it in a dry sunny weather that strawberry didn't manage to become wet and soften. Otherwise ready jam will be too watery. You shouldn't store berries too long as they can turn sour.
Strawberry jam with vodka – how to prepare?
First of all it is necessary to collect all necessary ingredients in one place, namely:
- strawberry – 1 kg; - sugar – 600 g; - a juniper – 10 berries; - vodka – 4 tablespoons (some culinary specialists recommend to take 3.5 spoons); - balsam vinegar – 6 tablespoons; - fresh rosemary – 1-2 branches; - a black sprinkling pepper – a pinch.
Then it is possible to pass to preparation. Strawberry should be washed out in several waters, to eliminate the spoiled fruits, to fill up good berry with sugar, to set aside before emergence of juice. Then to mix fruits with juniper berries and rosemary, to shift them from a cup in a pan and to put on fire for 2 minutes. After time the pan needs to be removed from fire, to pour berry into any cool ware and to leave for the whole night. For protection of jam against hit of insects, for example, of midges, capacity should be covered with a gauze. It is necessary to continue preparation of jam - to pour in it in balsam vinegar and vodka in the morning, to put largely ground pepper, to put on very weak fire. When strawberry begins to boil, it is worth removing a skin from it. Continue to prepare almost before full evaporation of juice. Then the container with jam should be removed from gas. A touch-up – dredging from strawberry of rosemary and a juniper, pouring of ready jam on the warm sterilized banks, roll-in of glass tanks the varnished tin covers. If you for closing used usual covers from kapron, then jars of jam need to be removed for storage in a cold spot.
Small recommendations
Weigh berries for jam after their preparation and drying. Only this way you learn their exact weight, without garbage and excess moisture. If you had to set aside for a while preparation of jam, wash out berries and dry a little, or fill up them with that amount of sugar which is specified in the recipe. After it isn't necessary to add it any more. It is possible to sterilize the jars already with the jam poured in it. Time for it exactly 10 minutes leave. For this purpose it is necessary to put a wooden circle in a pan, to pour in it water and to warm up. Then it is necessary to put in it cups covered with boiled covers. Roll up in the usual way.