Blackberry jam recipes with whole berries

Blackberries - a very useful berry, which is a relative of the more common raspberry.Blackberry fruits have a dark color and dense structure. In addition, these berries are very fragrant. They make excellent homework. From the article you will learn how to make blackberry jam with whole berries at home.

Before starting to cook a delicious dessert, you should pay attention to the selection and preparation of berries.

To make the jam you cooked was tasty, appetizing in appearance, and most importantly, high-quality and useful, you should pay attention to some nuances.

• Choose only ripe fruit. In the not yet reached berries, rather strong sourness prevails. In addition, the dessert will not have such a pronounced flavor.
• Overripe blackberries are also unsuitable. The berries lose their elasticity, and during heat treatment they crumple and burst. To preserve their integrity during cooking and mixing is simply impossible. Jam will be similar to gruel or mashed with bone.
• All berries should be carefully selected, remove the leaves and green tails from the fruit.
• Separate the rotted and damaged fruit.
• Pour blackberry into a colander and rinse under cool water. Then sprinkle on a towel and let dry.

Most of the jam is usually prepared for seaming for storage. Therefore, banks must be clean. It is advisable to sterilize them in advance. Wash the glass containers thoroughly under jam. For best results, use when washing soda. Rinse the jars, put them on a clean towel, neck down.

Hot glass can be used to sterilize glass containers. Boil the water in the kettle, reduce the heat and place the jars alternately on the kettle's spout. Hot steam treatment time 5–7 minutes.

For steaming, you can use special nozzles-rings for pans. The jar is also placed above the boiling water with the neck down and held in this position with the nozzle.

The second method allows you to sterilize several cans at the same time. To do this, preheat the oven to 180-200 degrees. Place all glass containers on the grate with the neck down. Heat treatment lasts about 10 minutes. Then the oven heating can be turned off.

Below are recipes for homemade blackberry dessert with whole fruits.

This recipe is considered the classic and most simple. Jam is prepared without additional ingredients. Blackberries and sugar need to take in the ratio of 1: 1. For example, one kilogram of fruit and sugar.

A blackberry is placed in an enameled container of sufficient volume, sprinkling it in layers of sugar. In this form, the fruit should be left for 4-5 hours. During this time, candied berries will give juice.

Blackberry container should be heated and boiled for about half an hour. In the process of boiling the mass in the pan should be periodically mixed with a wooden spatula or spoon.

After cooking, the berries are allowed to cool and then reheated. This time you need to boil on low heat until the volume of jam is reduced by about a third.

Additionally, you can conduct the following test of the readiness of the dessert: with a teaspoon, take a small amount of syrup and drip on a clean plate. When the drop has cooled, it should not spread. This will be a signal that the mass has boiled down to the desired consistency.

Hot pour the dessert in prepared glass jars, roll and wrap for several hours until it cools completely. After that, the dessert thickens noticeably.

If you do not have time to cook jam from freshly picked blackberries, but you have frozen stocks of berries, you can use them to cook a delicious treat.

As in the previous recipe, sugar and blackberry should be taken in equal quantities. Pour over the frozen fruits with sugar and leave overnight at room temperature. Having warmed up, candied berries will give juice.It needs to be drained into a separate container and boiled to about half boiling.

Then cooked syrup should pour berries, mix gently and put the pan on the fire.

After boiling boil for 30 minutes, removing the foam. Then pour into banks, cork and leave wrapped up for several hours. The taste of frozen blackberry jam is not inferior to the dessert of freshly picked fruit.

Increasing the density of the finished jam and preserving the integrity of the berries during cooking will help add zhelfix. This substance is used in cooking as a gelling component.

For 1 kg of blackberry and 1 kg of granulated sugar one sachet of this ingredient is required.

All components are combined in an enamel saucepan, mix, wait for the selection of juice. After that, bring the berry mass to a boil and cook for 5 minutes. Hot thick dessert spread out in jars.

Dessert can be given an unusual flavor notes, using additional ingredients. Blackberry goes well with cardamom, cinnamon, vanilla.

Preparing a dessert according to any recipe, 2 minutes before the end of boiling, just add your favorite spicy spices to taste.

Adding lemon juice suspends the process of sugaring jam and complements its taste with a light citrus note.

Necessary components: 1 kg of blackberry, 1 kg of granulated sugar, lemon.

Pour berries with sugar and leave for 4–5 hours to highlight the juice. After that, mix the mass and heat on the stove.

While the berries in the syrup are brought to a boil, peel the lemon, grate the zest on a fine grater, and squeeze the juice out of the fruit.

In boiled jam, add lemon zest, stir, cook for about half an hour, removing the foam. A couple of minutes before the end of cooking, pour the squeezed lemon juice into the mass. Whole blackberry jam with citrus is ready.

See the following video for the recipe for making blackberry jam with whole berries.