We prepare jam from gooseberry and sweet cherry. Outwardly it is almost impossible to distinguish jam from jam, although the technology of its preparation is somewhat different from the cooking of jam. For the preparation of jam, berries and fruits rich in pectin (a substance that promotes the formation of jelly-like consistency of the finished product) are used. Particularly valuable raw materials are fruits of black and red currants, cranberries, cowberries, hawthorn, dogrose, gooseberries, mountain ash, Kalina, as well as forest apples (sour cabbage). Very often jam is prepared from several kinds of fruits or berries, combining rich pectin fruits with the poor. For example, you can combine apples with pears, gooseberry with raspberries, cranberries with apples, if you take half of each kind of fruit. Raw materials should be of good quality, although you can use deformed and slightly crumpled fruit. Jam is cooked in one go.
Ingredients:- Gooseberries 500 g
- Cherry 300 g
- Sugar 700 g
- Step 1 To prepare the jam you need to take berries of red gooseberries, fruits of pink or red cherries and sugar.
- Step 2 The berries of gooseberries are washed and dried. Scissors cut sepals and stems.
- Step 3 Prepared berries gooseberries put in a pan, pour a little water, cover the pan with a lid and let the fruit until softened.
- Step 4 Pass the gooseberry through a meat grinder or wipe through a sieve.
- Step 5 Wash the cherry fruit, remove the stems and bones and collect the juice that was released during cutting.
- Step 6 Peel the sweet cherry with the juice in a saucepan, pour a little water and boil for 5 minutes.
- Step 7 Add 175 grams of sugar, gooseberry puree and cook until sweet cherries are added to the cherry.
- Step 8 To the mixture in small portions (so as not to stop boiling) add the remaining sugar and boil the jam with intense boiling. Form the resulting foam to collect only at the end of cooking. Ready to pack jam in sterilized jars. Cover the boil, close the banks, turn them upside down, wrap them in a blanket and leave them to cool.