Kitchen appliances and utensils
- plate,
- pan,
- spoon,
- metal sieve
- a bowl,
- hand blender
- jars with lids for preservation.
Ingredients
- Red currant (mashed potatoes) - 1 kg
- Sugar - 1 kg
Step cooking
- Wash cans with soda well and sterilize to preserve jam for the winter. We sort the berries of red currant and carefully wash it. Let the berries dry, pour into a bowl and chop in mashed potatoes using a hand blender. If there is no blender, you can grind it in a meat grinder.
- We filter the resulting berry mass through a metal sieve into the pan, helping with a spoon.
- Strained berry syrup set to cook in a saucepan on fire. Add granulated sugar and mix well with a spoon.
- Bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook for 5 minutes. At first the mass is liquid, but when the jam cools down, it becomes thick.
- We pour the currant jam into the jars, not adding 5 mm to the edge, and roll up the lids. No need to turn over and cover the jars with blanks.
- The cooled jars are removed in the cellar for storage.
Cooking options
There are also other options for making jam from red currant berries:
- You can cook jam a little longer.
- Some hostesses add water to the mass of berries and sugar.
- There are recipes for making jam without cooking. But then you need to store such a blank in the refrigerator.
- You can add raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, black currants.
- Some hostesses rub apples to the berries with a blender.
- There are recipes where oranges, lemons or tangerines are added to the berries.
- You can add citric acid or lemon juice.
- From spices, you can add cloves, ginger, vanillin, cinnamon.
- To make the jam very thick, you need to add a little gelatin.
- Some sugar recipes add less or more sugar.
- Sometimes jam is made from mashed berry, that is, the berry mass is not passed through a sieve, but simply crushed using a meat grinder or a blender.
- Such jam can also be made from frozen berries.
You can cook a delicious and fragrant jam of red currant berries, adding other berries, fruits and spices as you wish.
Video recipe
After viewing this video recipe, you can see for yourself that red currant jam is prepared easily and simply. The plot shows all the stages of preparing this delicious piece for the winter. You will also see how beautiful the finished dessert has in appearance.