How to prepare strawberries with sugar for the winter without cooking?

On winter evenings, when a blizzard is sweeping outside, when you so unbearably want warmth, time comes for drinking tea.And then strawberry jam will help to get back a piece of summer. Its rich aroma will take you to the sunny forest with its cool and rustling dark foliage, the smell of fresh grass and a mushroom hiding under a leaf of birch. All these sensations will give you a delicacy of their strawberries.

Each housewife has her own recipes and tricks in order to preserve this storehouse of vitamins and minerals for a long, frosty winter. We consider only some of them, for example, without cooking, in which the sugar content will be negligible or completely absent. But also the berry can be sugared.

It will be correct to first show the way how to preserve the forest berry without heat treatment, so to speak, in its original form (except for freezing). First, the harvest should be sorted, remove the damaged berries. Too small strawberries will not be useful to us either.

Strawberries need to be especially thoroughly washed, to remove small blades of grass, stalks. By the way, this dessert is traditionally called jam, since there will be no cooking. Sugar is better to grind into powdered sugar, so it dissolves faster. The proportions are taken at the rate of 1 kilogram of berries 2 kilograms of sugar. Then we grind the berry or grind it with a meat grinder until a homogeneous mass and fall asleep icing sugar. Thoroughly mix everything and leave in the refrigerator for 2-3 days, mix it regularly until the sugar powder is completely resorbed.

Ware for storing such a billet must also be processed. Sterilize the jars in a convenient way for you or wipe with ethyl alcohol. Covers are also processed. When the sugar is completely dissolved, the jam is poured into the prepared container. From above we make a sugar stopper, sprinkling jam on top with a continuous layer of sugar to a height of 1 centimeter without mixing. Our fragrant delicacy is ready. It is necessary to keep such jam in the cold, it does not tolerate heat. Can ferment.

Also, grated berries with sugar have good reviews.

And here is another completely unhilling way to stock up on forest delicacy for the whole long and inhospitable winter. In this recipe are quite suitable and mixed berries.

In this recipe, excess water can ruin all the work and products. Therefore, we wash the washed berries on paper napkins, changing them many times as they get wet. We also sterilize and dry containers in which you plan to store strawberries. In this case, the method of sterilization in the oven or microwave oven is perfect. In them, the sterilization process goes dry, like roasting.

So, the berries have been prepared, the banks have passed the sterilization process, we proceed to harvesting. Now directly calculate the proportions of our workpiece. For 1 kg of strawberries need to take 1.5 kg of sugar. And grind the sugar in the powder. So the workpiece will be successful. Now we pour a layer of powdered sugar on the bottom of the can with a thickness of 1-1.5 cm. With the next layer we pour strawberries, gently shake and again fill up the sugar. So repeat layer by layer to the top.

Let's leave our jar until the morning warm, so that the berry starts making juice. Then shake again. If the shrinkage of the berries in the jar is large, then you can fill the berries and sugar to the top in the same sequence. The main thing is to finish the top layer of sugar cork. Keep these strawberries also need in the cold. Refrigerator or cellar will fit perfectly.

Strawberries harmonize perfectly with other berries that complement and emphasize its aroma and taste. Such an example is blueberries. The combination of these two berries gives a completely new taste of this jam.

For cooking, take half a kilogram of blueberries and strawberries and two kilograms of sugar.We sort, wash and sort the berries, remove small and substandard (rotten, damaged), remove blades of grass and other stuck garbage. Carefully wash and dry on the towel the entire harvest. Weigh, we measure sugar. Now, in a narrow deep dish, interrupt the berries with sugar in a blender. Pour sugar in small portions gradually: if you fill the entire amount of sugar at once, then the berry puree may not be of sufficient quality. Too large pieces will remain.

Then this jam is allowed to settle, so that the foam, which is characteristic of the blender, is dispersed. To speed up the process, jam is periodically mixed. After the foam is set, the jam is poured into prepared jars, sterilized and cooled. Make sugar cork 1-2 cm high.

This delicacy will not only decorate and diversify your table, but also really improve the immune system. And also bring great benefits to your vision. It is well known that blueberries have the property to strengthen the retina of the eyes. And harvesting berries in a non-thermal way, as described in our recipes, fully preserves all the beneficial properties of any berries.

Another interesting way to prepare strawberries is applicable if you have a large freezer. For this recipe, the amount of sugar can be significantly reduced. And then the berry is perfect for people whose sugar is strictly prohibited in the menu.

Whole, processed strawberry berries are simply poured over with slightly powdered sugar and placed in freezer containers. It is more convenient to do this in portions, so as not to defrost the entire volume of harvested berries. After all, secondary freezing is no longer possible without the loss of the original appearance and quality of the berries. In principle, the method of preparation of this method is not much different from previous methods. Berry is also sorted, sorted, washed. The only difference is that it is not dried. On the contrary, moist berry is quickly rolled in icing sugar and placed in a container, preventing it from giving juice. Each berry remains powdered with sweet powder.

The strawberries, processed and washed, are ground by a tolkushka without excess foam very accurately. Then fit into a half-liter plastic cups and freeze. This strawberry is perfect for cooking compotes and jelly, fillings and layers for cakes and desserts.

And also perfectly used for complementary foods for children from 6 months, if they do not have any allergic reactions.

This method of preserving strawberries is good because the lack of space in the fridge will not affect the quality of the jam. Strawberries are processed as in the above cases. The only condition, the berries should be slightly unripe. Arrange the strawberries in jars with a capacity of 0.5 liters and place them in a basin so that the jars can be “covered by the hangers” with water. To heat the water in the pelvis at the same time that the jars with blanks do not burst.

Continue the process until the strawberries do not let the juice in, and it does not fill the jar entirely. But do not allow boiling. As the shrinkage goes, the berries are filled up, the jars are shaken vigorously so that unnecessary air is released.

Metal lids must also be pre-boiled for 15 minutes.

Strawberries canned in this way can be stored for a very long time and used both in jam with added sugar, and for fruit drinks, compotes, fillings for pies, cakes, cheesecakes and other pastries. The perfect base for desserts. You can make jelly, mousse. The degree of sweetness you adjust yourself as needed.

Another great find can be a recipe using sugar syrup.

The calculation of the proportion in the preparation of strawberries is most often used is always the same.Per kilogram of berries is taken two kilograms of sugar. In this recipe from sugar you need to cook sugar syrup. It is not so difficult. Half of the amount of granulated sugar is poured into the enamelware, a small amount of water is added and cooked over low heat, gradually melting the sugar. The only condition you have to spend a lot of time. In order not to burn the syrup, it must be stirred all the time. Otherwise, the sugar burned to the bottom of the dish will irrevocably spoil the taste and aroma of jam.

So, the syrup is boiled; as it dissolves, the sugar is filled and melted. Strawberries are prepared as described above. That is, we wash, sort, sort and free from impurities. Sterilize jars, metal caps boil. Then berries and boiling syrup alternately lowered into hot cans. Pour a layer of berries with thick syrup, shake, then another layer of berries. We repeat this procedure until the bank is filled to the top. Then you need to sterilize our strawberries in a water bath for 15-20 minutes. After that, roll up the metal hot lids.

A set of vitamins, which is part of this forest miracle, helps with violations of the cardiovascular system. Normalizes the gastrointestinal tract and excretory system. A lot of laudatory epithets and dithyrambs can be devoted to this miracle of nature. But nothing can replace the warmth and comfort when you sit at a laid table on a frosty evening and take out a jar of fragrant jam from wild strawberries.

The recipe for strawberries with sugar without cooking, see the next video.