Cooking jam from Victoria

 Cooking jam from Victoria

Many housewives prepare for themselves and their families sweet jams from various berries and fruits. As ingredients for such desserts, you can take a variety of fruits. This article describes how to make a delicious delicacy from Victoria.

    Recipes

    Today there are a considerable number of recipes for making strawberry jam for the winter:

    • classic strawberry jam in a slow cooker;
    • gelatin jam;
    • thick confiture;
    • strawberry jam with agar-agar in a slow cooker;
    • strawberry jam "five minutes";
    • strawberry jam with whole fruits.

    In the multicooker

    To make such a classic dessert, you need to thoroughly wash the garden strawberries. After that, it is placed in a blender and crushed. The resulting berry mass is poured into a slow cooker. Sugar is added to the multicooker to the strawberry mixture (700 grams). Then turn on the device option "quenching" and leave it for 30 minutes. After this, the mass is taken out and served to the table.

    With gelatin

    To make this jam, carefully washed fresh berries are crushed to a state of mashed potatoes. Then the mixture was poured into a separate container. It is necessary to cook a lot of it. In the process of cooking sugar and 1 bag of gelatin are added to the dishes. Mass with all the ingredients mixed thoroughly. All liquid is brought to a boil. Boil the berry sweet mixture should be no more than 3 minutes. After that, the jam should thicken considerably. Wait until it cools down a bit, it will make it even thicker. The resulting dessert is poured into sterilized jars and rolled tightly.

    Thick confiture

    • Ripe strawberries are washed and cleaned of tails. Then the prepared berry spread in a blender and make a homogeneous mash out of it. The resulting sweet mass is poured into a separate container.
    • Then add a special pectin additive to it. The liquid is thoroughly mixed and put on the fire to boil. Throughout this process, the mixture should be periodically stirred.
    • After the liquid with the strawberries has boiled, add sugar to it. Then cook still for 10 minutes. Do not forget to prepare jars for the future of jam.
    • Still hot strawberry jam is poured into sterilized containers.

    They should also be rolled up tightly with pre-treated lids.

    With agar-agar in a slow cooker

    • The strawberries are cleaned of tails, after which it is washed. Prepared fresh berries are poured into a separate dish and boiled. In the process of cooking it is necessary to add sugar to such a sweet mass (1 kilogram of sugar for 1.5 kilograms of strawberries).
    • Be sure to add agar-agar (3 tsp.). In this case, this ingredient acts as a jam thickener. Then you need to pour a little warm water (50 milliliters) into the pan.
    • After boiling in the liquid, it is recommended to add a little butter (20-30 grams). This is necessary in order to reduce the formation of foam during cooking. The finished strawberry jam is poured into pre-sterilized containers and rolled tightly.

    Jam "five minutes"

    To prepare such a jam, it is necessary to thoroughly wash the berry and dry it on a paper towel. Prepared ripe berries are placed in a deep pan. In it, the fruits are kneaded with a spoon to a state of uniform mashed potatoes. At the same time, pour water (0.5 cups) into a separate container and add gelatin to it. Leave this for 20 minutes. During this time, the ingredient should swell.

    The finished solution with gelatin is poured into a pan with a strawberry mass. All this mix well and put on fire. Wait for the liquid to boil. Then reduce the heat to the minimum value. Gradually add granulated sugar to the sweet mixture. In this case, periodically mix the mass. Pour in some citric acid (0.5 tsp). After boiling, leave the jam on the stove for another 10 minutes. Distribute the boiled syrup in sterilized jars and close them with lids. Containers with dessert gently turn it over.

    They are stored in places with low temperature for storage.

    With whole fruits

    Wash the ripe berries and spare them from the tails. Divide all fruits into 2 separate parts. Sprinkle the first with sugar (150 grams of granulated sugar per 250 grams of berry. As such, strawberries are left to infuse for 2 hours.At the same time, take the second part and grind it in a blender. Combine the resulting puree in one bowl with whole berries in sugar.

    Mass needs to get rid of excess fluid. For this, it is simply passed through a colander. Then pour it into a container and send to the fire to prepare. In the process of cooking, gradually transfer there the prepared whole strawberry fruits. At the same time, you should process the dishes for the future strawberry jam. On clean containers neatly laid out the whole ready-made fruit. Then there is gradually poured strawberry juice boiling. All this is rolled up and stored in a cool place.

    Benefit

    Strawberry sweet jams have a lot of useful characteristics for the human body. Indeed, in the composition of such a product in large quantities there is beta-carotene, pectins and various vitamins necessary for normal human development (B, C, H).

    Jam from strawberries "Victoria" is also rich in various minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, sodium, phosphorus, iodine). In addition, these products are effective prophylactic agents for gout. They boast anti-inflammatory properties. Often they are used to lower eye pressure.

    Strawberry jams are capable of removing many harmful substances from the human body. So, they contribute to the removal of saline plaque from bone tissue.

    Many argue that this product also has anti-cancer properties, since it significantly slows down the growth and development of cancer cells in the human body.

    Harm

    But strawberry jam can do some harm to a person. So, this dessert should not be eaten by those people who are prone to allergies. After all, strawberries can easily cause them.

    It is also not recommended in large quantities to eat such a berry for small children. After all, this category of people is most susceptible to allergic reactions to this product.

    You will learn more about how to make strawberry jam from the following video.

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