Kitchen appliances and utensils
- a cup;
- a bowl;
- submersible blender / juicer;
- capacious pan;
- spatula;
- hair sieve / colander;
- kitchen scales;
- hob;
- cans, plastic lids;
- big spoon.
Ingredients
- Red currant (wig) - 3 kg
- Sugar - 3.5 kg
Step cooking
We use a hand blender
- It is good to clear a kilogram of red currant from twigs, stems and dry inflorescences.
- Rinse the wig and dry on a paper towel. Pour the berries into a spacious pan so that their volume fills the container only half.
- Grind the wig with a dipping blender into a smoothie.
- Rub the berry puree through a hair sieve or colander with small holes.
Important! From two kilograms of selected berries, 1,500-1,600 kg of currant juice with pulp are obtained, and about 400 g of oilcake.
We work with a juicer
- Squeeze a kilogram of selected berries from the wigs with an electric juicer. Collect all the waste (they will have a slightly liquid consistency), and wipe the cake through a hair sieve, or squeeze it using the "old-fashioned" method through a double layer of gauze.
- From a kilogram of a wig squeezed on a juicer, 800 g of juice with pulp of currant and 200 g of absolutely dry cake are obtained.
Cook jelly
- Put the saucepan with juice and pulp of wigs (2.4 kg) on the stove, setting medium heating of the burner.
- As the pan warms up, the grated pulp rises above the juice. Once a fairly dense layer has formed on the surface, introduce small quantities of 3.5 kg of granulated sugar in small batches.
- Each batch of sugar poured into the juice must be thoroughly mixed until all crystals are completely dissolved. The foam generated during cooking currant jelly must be removed completely.
- Bring the contents of the pan to a boil. As soon as the jelly mass boils, remove the burner flame to a minimum and cook the jelly for no more than five minutes.
- After five minutes of boiling, turn off the burner, completely collect the remaining foam and pour jelly into sterile jars.
- Leave the currant jelly on the table in the jars, without covering, until the contents of the jars have completely cooled. As a rule, jelly cools completely in a day.
- After complete cooling, seal the cans with plastic (nylon) caps. Store products in a cool place (in the basement or cellar) at a temperature not exceeding 20-22 ° C.
Video recipe
We offer you a step-by-step video course on making jelly from currant berries. The video demonstrates two ways to obtain juice of a wig - by crushing berries with a hand blender, and squeezing juice using a juicer. Be sure to look at this plot to determine the degree of complexity of each method.