Faded strawberries with sugar for the winter

Strawberry is considered to be the queen of the summer garden.None more or less self-respecting gardener will not disregard this wonderful berry. The beneficial properties of strawberries make it virtually indispensable in the realities of our ecology. Folic acid contained in strawberries, promotes rapid elimination from the body of free radicals, salts of heavy metals. Eating strawberries is the prevention of cancer.

Preparation of grated berries is characterized by increased sterility. A large amount of acid can adversely affect the storage and taste of the prepared jam. It is very susceptible to fermentation.

The taste and aroma of strawberries, familiar to many from childhood, I would like to keep for a long, cold winter. There are an incredible number of ways to preserve and process strawberries for storage in winter. Beginner housewives will be useful to learn more about some of them.

To prepare this delicacy you need to take:

• strawberries - 2 kg;
• sugar - 4 kg.

Fruits get over, are washed from different sand grains, grains and other garden garbage. The spoiled, wrinkled and simply ugly berries are removed, tails and stalks come off. The strawberries thus treated are ground with sugar by means of a meat grinder or blender. And leave overnight to completely dissolve sugar. Then almost ready-made jam should be boiled over low heat for 30 minutes, avoiding boiling.

Cool at room temperature. And boil again, avoiding boiling and removing the foam.

This traditional method is good for long-term storage of strawberry jam. You can keep it warm and in plastic containers. Still, there is one drawback - during heat treatment, the taste and aroma of fresh strawberries are distorted.

Ingredients in this billet are traditional - strawberries and sugar. Proportions 1: 2. We take 1 kilogram of berries and 2 kilograms of granulated sugar. No cooking or other heat treatment. Only strawberries and sugar. The taste and aroma of this summer queen is fully preserved in its natural form.

So, sort the freshly picked strawberries, wash, sort out. Remove damaged berries, as well as illiquid and rotten. For this preparation, only a smooth and natural berry is not needed. We remove the stalk and sepals. Then we grind the prepared strawberries in a convenient way: with a blender, tolkushkoy, meat grinder or a simple fork. The main thing is to thoroughly mix, grind the berry into a homogeneous mass without lumps and pieces. Sugar is also better to grind into a powder blender or a coffee grinder.

Now you can mix the berry paste and icing sugar, and then leave for a few hours to dissolve the sugar. If sugar was used, not powder, then the dissolution time should be increased. When the sugar grains will no longer be felt, the jam is ready.

Jam must be packaged so that it lasts a long time. Use only glass containers that can be sterilized.

You can choose any method of sterilization - from the oven to the alcohol treatment. Do not forget to sterilize and cover. Now jam is placed in sterile jars and a sugar cork is placed on top. This is when sugar or powder is poured with a layer of 1-2 centimeters and then the lid is closed. Sugar stopper will be an additional cap. It is saturated with strawberry juice and can be quite used in tea or for making compote.

The proportions in this recipe are traditional.Per kilogram of strawberries take two kilograms of sugar, but the method of preparation is significantly complicated by grinding berries through a sieve. This is done in order to completely remove all small bones. Only pure strawberry pulp is needed. The sieve is not too small, depending on the berries that you have. After all, the size of the seed depends on the variety of strawberries.

Grind and mix with sugar. Give the sugar a little dissolve and set on a small fire. While stirring, boil for half an hour, avoiding boiling. Give cool. This cooking procedure must be repeated 3-4 times.

Then pack the cooled jam into sterilized jars all the way to the top and make a small sugar cork. Still, strawberry preserves are highly fermented. And the sweetness corked in such a way is stored for much longer. Jem is perfect for pancakes, cereals. It will be an excellent filling for pies, pies and other culinary masterpieces.

Well, if you still closer and dearer to the fresh summer taste and smell of strawberries, then you can choose another way to preserve your favorite berry for the whole winter. After all, tea with jam from fragrant strawberries can not replace anything. Probably, strawberry is one of the important reasons for our universal love for summer.

Such strawberries, retaining the shape and taste, will return you a piece of summer to the table. Yes, and in the preparation of desserts, it is indispensable.

The ripest, smoothest, most beautiful berries are selected and thoroughly washed. We must try not to damage them at all. At this time, leave the sepals and stalks. After bathing, the berries should be laid on a paper towel to dry. Berry should not be damp from moisture. And it will be generally excellent if you collect them during the day, without dew, rain and watering, so that the berry itself does not have excess moisture.

Then the dried berries are laid on a substrate of the freezer. But they do it carefully: individually, each berry, so that they do not touch. Now let the berry freeze for a few hours.

You need to pack already frozen strawberries, without allowing defrosting. Everything is done very quickly. Pack in batches for single use. Strawberries, re-frozen, lose not only healthy properties, but also their flavor, taste and color.

It is possible to freeze fruits not only entirely. Strawberry feels great in frozen mashed potatoes and in ground form. With or without sugar, but strawberries are always beautifully stored in the freezer. Rub the paste with powdered sugar and place them in containers and send them to the freezer.

The only thing that should not be forgotten - the portions must be for single use. Re-freezing the berry is not worth it, as it will lose color, taste and useful substances. It should be eaten immediately, used on compote or thrown out.

You can also freeze whole strawberries by sprinkling it with powdered sugar. Very beautiful dessert is obtained. All bought in the heat of the fruit ice. Here are strawberries in powdered sugar - a great alternative to the purchased delicacy. You can string each strawberry on a toothpick and freeze it, dipping it in icing sugar.

Another way is to freeze berries in ice cells. Strawberry ice will be a wonderful flavor addition to cocktails and smoothies. And along the way will perform a cooling role.

These recipes are good if you have a large fridge with a good freezer. And if you do not have such a technique or the volume of the freezer does not allow you to take all the cells with fruit blanks for a long time, then in this case there are options in the recipe for making strawberry semi-finished products.

Since this berry is planned to be stored without a refrigerator, it is necessary to increase the amount of sugar. If in the previous recipes the proportions were taken at the rate of 1 kg of strawberries 2 kg of sugar, then in this recipe you need to take more pounds of sugar.And it is better if it is icing sugar. It is much better dissolved and faster absorbed into the berry, not allowing microorganisms to penetrate, which provoke the fermentation process.

We clean the strawberries from the tails, wash them well, sort them, grind them with a blender or meat grinder. Mix with powdered sugar. Sugar powder can be added in portions during the grinding process in order to reduce the time of contact of the ground berries with air. Give time to dissolve sugar.

Prepare glass jars, wash, sterilize. Capron caps also need to boil for 15 minutes.

Then we shift the rubbed strawberries into prepared jars to the very top, leaving 1-1.5 cm to the neck. This space must be filled with powdered sugar, without stirring, so that a sugar cork is formed, which will preserve the berries. It is also better to store the received preparation in a cool and dark place. A sugar layer, soaked in strawberry juice, turns out dense, similar to caramel. She then can perfectly spice up the tea, or make an amazing juice with strawberry flavor. After all, icing sugar absorbs strawberry juice and fragrant seeds.

In this simplest recipe, nothing but berries and your time is needed. Strawberries are sorted, washed, sorted. Peduncles and sepals are removed.

A huge basin is taken. Desirable deep and wide. Such that the banks plunged into it at the very shoulders.

We will cook strawberries in our own juice. This method is called "water bath". The processed berries are laid in jars loosely. We put in the basin as many cans as fit. At the bottom of the pelvis, you need to put a lattice or towel so that the banks do not crack. And we begin to boil a basin of water, in which jars of strawberries are heated.

Gradually, the strawberry juice and settles. Berry gently dosyvayutsya in banks, not tightly tight. This process continues until the bank is filled with juice to the very neck. It is important that there is no air left between the berry and the lid.

Then hot jars of strawberries are rolled up with hot sterilized lids. It is important to observe in this case the temperature regime. Hot cans are rolled hot lids. The whole procedure is performed very quickly. We turn over and we tackle a container with strawberry in heat before full cooling. It is in the heat that the final processing of the berries takes place. When the banks are cool, they can be removed to any convenient place. Thus prepared strawberries do not matter where it will be stored.

The variety of ways of harvesting and storing strawberries allows absolutely everyone to stock up on this tasty and useful delicacy for the whole winter for the future. Everyone can choose a convenient way for themselves. The aroma and taste of summer will not leave you all the cold and dark season of winter and autumn.

The main advice in the preparation process, as has already become clear from the above, is to ensure the sterility of the instruments and the quality processing of the berries themselves. Then the taste and shelf life of blanks, nothing will have a detrimental role.

Strawberries never left anyone indifferent. The mere mention of this jam causes a smile and a desire to feel the taste of summer on the lips. If the jam is done correctly, taking into account all the recommendations, the strawberries in it will sparkle with a new flavor.

The recipe of mashed strawberries with sugar for the winter, see the following video.