Forest strawberries differ from home strawberries in their smaller berry size and greater sweetness. It is larger and sweeter than strawberries. Strawberry jam can be made in a variety of ways and retains many vitamins and minerals. Delicious delicacy is good for the immune system, has a positive effect on metabolism and provides nutrition to the brain. Consider several recipes for making wild strawberry jam.
Preparation of raw materials. Before you start cooking the berries, they must be washed and slightly dried. The green sepals are best removed. It is very tiring and takes a lot of time, but the jam made from peeled berries is more tasty and tender. However, there are recipes in which ponytails can be left.
1. In this embodiment, a glass of sugar is taken for a glass of berries, mixed and allowed to brew for about 5 hours.
When the strawberries release juice, the container is placed on the stove and boiled for two minutes over low heat, then left to cool the jam completely.
After that, cook again for 2 minutes and again take a break for 2-3 hours. And for the third time they boil for 2 minutes. Now the jam is ready, it is poured into sterilized jars and rolled up.
2. For the next recipe, take one kilogram of strawberries (the stalks can not be removed) and sugar, you will also need 1 g of citric acid. The washed berries are mixed with granulated sugar and citric acid diluted in water. The mixture is left for the fruit to give juice, it usually takes about 4 hours.
Then the mass is boiled for 15 minutes on minimum heat and left to cool. After that, the mixture is cooked until tender, cooled and placed in jars.
3. For 1 kg of forest strawberries, you will need 300 ml of water and 800 g of granulated sugar. The berries are cleared of sepals.
Syrup is prepared from water and sugar, berries are immersed in it and boiled, not forgetting to stir and remove the foam. The jam is ready if you drop the syrup on the surface, and it does not spread.
The hot mass is laid out in sterilized jars and rolled up.
4. For this recipe, take 1 kg of strawberries.
2 tablespoons of water are poured into the dishes, the berries are laid out and 1-1.5 kg of sugar are poured. The mixture is put on medium heat. When the jam boils, they begin to remove the foam. Cook for 5 minutes on low heat, then pour into sterile jars and seal. Banks are wrapped in a warm blanket and left for about 2 days.
5. The next recipe is wild strawberry and red currant jam. The fruits of both plants can be taken in different proportions. For 3 cups of berries, you need to take 1 cup of sugar. Mix everything and leave for a while so that the fruits exude juice. Then bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat, reduce the power to a minimum and cook, removing the foam, for five minutes.
The finished jam is transferred to pre-sterilized jars, rolled up and cooled, putting it upside down.
6. Jam prepared in this way will preserve the greatest amount of vitamins and will be the most useful.
Mix and grind 1 kg of strawberries with two kilograms of sugar. The dishes are placed on a minimum heat and heated to dissolve the sugar. The mass should not boil. The jam is poured into jars, rolled up and cooled, putting it upside down.
7. It is very easy to make wild strawberry jam in a slow cooker. You will need half a kilogram of berries and sugar and water (100 ml).
Strawberries are placed in a multicooker bowl, covered with sugar and filled with water.
The jam is cooked in the "Stew" mode for 30 minutes, after which it is poured into sterile jars, rolled up and cooled, turning the lids down.
