Jam from strawberries "Pyatiminutka" for the winter

In the summer in the forest, in the meadow or at the dacha grows healthy strawberries. Most vitamins in wild strawberries.In the cold season, you want to feel the aroma of summer and treat yourself to a useful delicacy. To do this, you can make jam "Five minutes".

Wild strawberry is beneficial for the cardiovascular, endocrine, excretory systems, the gastrointestinal tract, and is used as a preventive measure to strengthen the immune system. Excellent results of application of wild berries in cosmetology are widely known. Wishing that the skin was smooth and tender, the ancient Roman and ancient Greek aristocrats dipped into baths filled with strawberry juice. Even the collection of small red berries in a basket is a healing procedure for the body and the fight against physical inactivity.

Wild strawberries become ripe in June-July. The best time to fill the basket is the morning when the dew is no longer on the grass, or evening. Berries should be cut off gently and gently, so as not to crumple and put in a basket dry. It is necessary to go to the forest in sunny weather, as the strawberries collected after the rain are watery and tasteless. Making a route for picking berries, it should be remembered that plants growing along roads and in ecologically unfavorable areas are toxic.

Bringing home the berries, they need to be processed immediately. Field, forest or garden strawberries need to sort out from:

• grass or tree leaves;
• conifer needles;
• insects;
• spoiled or rotten berries.

You can put the moved strawberries in a wide bowl with cool water and wash. And you can wash the berries under a thin stream of cold running water, so as not to damage the scarlet berries. After that, fold the fruit into a colander, the water from them will drain in about fifteen minutes. Next, the berries spread out on paper towels, pre-spread on the table, and let them dry. In washed and dried strawberries remove sepals.

Since the preparation time of jam according to the name is only five minutes, all the necessary items and products must be prepared in advance.

It will take:

• stainless steel pot or basin;
• wooden spoon;
• key for seaming;
• metal or plastic covers;
• ordinary cans with a capacity of 0.5 liters or decorative glass jars;
• granulated sugar;
• silver spoon or fork;
• carrot;
• household scales.

Jam "5-minute" you can quickly and easily cook, for example, in a slow cooker, given all our recommendations. Raspberries can be added to the jam.

To make a five-minute strawberry dessert for 1 kg of fresh berries, you need to take 1.5 kg of granulated sugar, although the hostesses change this ratio according to their taste and depending on the sweetness of the berry. In the dishes, where the jam will be prepared, they shift the prepared berries and cover them with sugar.

You can pour the fruit sugar layers. The container with the ingredients is left in a cold place for 1-2 hours. During this time, the fruit will produce strawberry juice, in which sugar will dissolve. The mass in the container or pelvis will be liquid.

There is a second way to prepare the berries for cooking. For him, take a pound of strawberries, 350 grams of sugar and a third cup of water. From syrup and water prepared syrup, which is poured berries. Syrup is cooked in the usual way. Water is brought to a boil, sand is poured into it, the mixture is boiled over low heat for three minutes.

After the sugar-filled berries have allocated the right amount of juice, or have been filled with sweet syrup, the container is placed on the fire. The foam that forms during cooking is carefully removed from the surface with a wooden spoon.From the first minute of boiling the contents of the pan it is necessary to reduce the heat, turn on the timer or detect the time on the clock. Cook jam for exactly five minutes.

Banks and lids should be sterilized and dried. Carefully, in order not to burn yourself, it is necessary to fill the jars with a delicious delicacy and roll them up with the key. Then try to remove the lid from the can. If the work with the key is carried out correctly, then it will not work.

Turning over the jar, you need to follow the jam in it. The syrup that has flowed out indicates that the jar has not been properly rolled up and that the product will not last long. Wrap the prepared jam in a blanket or blanket and wait for it to cool completely. With foam, removed from the surface of the jam, you can drink tea and take a break after the work done.

In order to get the maximum healing properties from the use of strawberries, “Five minutes” jam is prepared without boiling.

• To obtain 1.5 liters of product, you must take 0.5 kg of strawberries and 1.1 kg of sugar.
• Properly prepared strawberries are placed in a container, covered with sugar, shaken several times and put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
• After half of the sugar is dissolved in the strawberry juice, the container with the contents is taken from the refrigerator and put on the stove over a slow fire. Raw material is heated to complete dissolution of sugar. In order not to burn the jam, it must be constantly and carefully mixed with a wooden or silicone spatula. The main thing is not to bring the mixture to a boil.
• The finished product is laid out in pre-prepared jars, closed and is in the room until it cools completely. Dessert in its structure resembles jam and is stored only in the refrigerator. The bitterness inherent in strawberries is not felt in the product, since a large amount of sugar is used in its preparation.

At 1.25 liters of dessert you need to take:

• strawberries - 500 g;
• red currants - 200 g;
• sugar - 750 g;
• water - 150 ml.

Step-by-step recipe is as follows.

1. Put the prepared dugout in the pelvis, pour 0.5 kg of granulated sugar and set it aside.
2. After washing and washing currants, pour over water and boil for five minutes. Wash the gruel through a fine sieve to get currant juice. Mix it with the remaining sugar.
3. After the strawberries, covered with sugar, will stand for an hour, and the mass in the pelvis will become liquid, add currant juice to the container and gently mix everything.
4. Put the basin on the stove and bring to a boil over low heat. Increase the heat, make jam for five minutes, removing the foam from the surface.
5. The finished product is decomposed into cans and hermetically sealed.

Forest strawberries, especially those that grow in dense pine forests, are slightly bitter. In this case, the bitterness does not disappear even after the heat treatment of the berries. To save the product harvested for the winter from an unpleasant taste, it is recommended to put one of the ingredients into boiling jam:

• peeled large carrot;
• silver object (spoon or fork);
• garden or wild berries.

Adding berries will add other taste qualities to the jam. It is best to use berries that ripen with strawberries. From garden fruits fit red or black currants, from forest - lingonberries or blueberries.

Ready jam is stored in a dark cool place. This may be a cellar, basement or storeroom. Check the preservation in a week: if the lids are swollen, you have to digest the dessert.

An open can can stand in the refrigerator for no more than seven days. At the first signs of mold, the product is unfit for consumption. Strawberry dessert, in which nuts are added, is stored exclusively in the refrigerator.

Cooked flavored dish can be served with fresh pastries - buns, pancakes, pancakes, cheesecakes. It can be eaten with a spoon, washed down with tea.They can spice porridge or cottage cheese, just spread on a loaf or bread. Strawberry jam is used as a stuffing for strudel or pancake.

Strawberry jam is a healthy product that combines the qualities of a delicacy and a medicinal product. In the autumn-winter period, tea, which added a couple of spoons of boiled strawberry berries, becomes a preventive measure against influenza and seasonal colds. The wild strawberry is the richest in useful elements, almost one and a half times more in it than in meadow and garden relatives. However, it should be remembered that any sugar-containing product spoils the teeth, contributes to obesity, can cause allergic reactions, increase the acidity of the stomach.

Important: strawberry jam, prepared according to the “Five Minute” recipe, is prohibited for women to use during breastfeeding. A nursing mother can add to her menu a strawberry dessert prepared according to other recipes.

To learn how to make strawberry jam “Pyatiminutka” for the winter, see the video below.