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Making raspberry jam with whole berries at home is actually not easy, because during the preparation process the fruits become very wrinkled. Not everyone knows the secret of a transparent, delicious dessert, where each berry floats separately in sweet syrup. To simplify the process, many people sprinkle raspberries with granulated sugar, and then cook for a long time until a thick berry mass is obtained. If you want to get tasty and beautiful jam, you need to arm yourself with certain knowledge.
Features of preparing raspberry jam with whole berries
In order for the raspberries themselves to remain whole and beautiful, the dessert must be cooked quickly. Raspberries for jam should be picked a day after rain, as the berries must be dry.
If the fruits are not purchased, but from your own garden, then you don’t have to wash them, so as not to damage their integrity. Often, for safety reasons, the washing process cannot be skipped. Therefore, the berries are placed in a bowl, filled with water, and after the debris floats up, the raspberries are carefully removed and placed in another container.If you add salt to the bowl, then all the insects, of which there are many in the fruits, will rise to the surface of the water.
The more sugar you need for a dish, the thicker the jam will be. The thickness of the dish can be fixed using gelatin, pectin, and it also depends on the cooking time. If you add a little lemon juice or zest at the end, the finished dish will be aromatic and ruby in color.
There is one method to determine the readiness of a dish. You need to drip some jam onto the saucer. If the drop does not spread, but slowly spreads to the sides, then the dish is ready.
Recipes for raspberry jam with whole berries
There are several ways to make this jam. This is a five-minute recipe, thick raspberry jam with whole berries, and a recipe where the cooking process consists of three stages. Often lemon, cinnamon, cloves and other spices are added to the ingredients.
A simple recipe for raspberry jam with whole berries
You will need:
- raspberries – 2 kg;
- sugar – 2 kg.
This is a simple, easy recipe, the main requirement of which is that the fruits are large, whole, and sweet. It is also not recommended to cook a lot of jam at once. It is advisable to do this in batches so that the berries come into less contact with each other.
Cooking process:
- Place the main ingredients one after another into a saucepan for making jam and leave until the first juice appears.
- Then the resulting juice is poured into another container, placed on the stove and waited until it boils. After 10 minutes, turn off the fire.
- The fruits are sent to the juice and boiled together for another 20 minutes over low heat.
- Boil glass jars and lids.
- The hot prepared dish is poured into jars, tightly closed with lids.
- Wrap yourself in a warm blanket. This is necessary to obtain an unusual, rich natural color of the finished dish.
As a result, little time is spent on the sweet dish, but it turns out tasty, beautiful and aromatic.
Thick raspberry jam with whole berries
A beautiful, thick raspberry dessert can be made using the following products:
- raspberries – 1kg;
- sugar – 1 kg;
- water – 600 g;
- citric acid – 1/3 tsp.
Cooking process:
- We need to sort out the raspberries. Only whole, dense and ripe berries will be used.
- Rinse them carefully in a bowl of water and dry.
- Add sugar to water and cook syrup. Wait until the sugar crystals are completely dissolved and add citric acid.
- Carefully add raspberries to the syrup and mix carefully so as not to injure the berries. After boiling, cook for another 5 minutes.
- Skim off any foam that forms, cook for another minute and pour into sterile jars.
- Wrap it up and let it cool.
- Store in a cool place.
Thick raspberry dessert with whole berries is ready.
Five-minute raspberry jam with whole berries
Required:
- raspberries – 1 kg;
- sugar – 1 kg.
Cooking process:
- Prepare the berries: choose the best ones, rinse, dry.
- Place all the berries in a bowl and cover with half of the prepared granulated sugar.
- Turn on the lowest heat, bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Take a break for two to three hours.
- Put it back on the fire and cook again for 5 minutes after boiling. Turn off the stove and leave it like this overnight.
- In the morning, add the remaining sugar, turn on the burner, put the pan on the fire and cook until the sugar dissolves.
- Prepare jars using any convenient sterilization method.
- Pour the finished jam into jars and close with lids, possibly nylon ones.
Lemon raspberry jam with whole berries
This recipe for delicious raspberry jam with whole berries involves cooking in three stages. The method 100% guarantees the safety of the sweet dessert throughout the winter.
Required Products:
- raspberries – 1 kg;
- sugar – 1 kg;
- lemon - half.
Preparation steps:
- Prepare food. To do this, the berries are washed, dried, placed in a pan and covered with sugar. They also give you half a lemon there.
- Leave for two to three hours so that the berries brew and give juice.
- Place on low heat, but do not bring to a boil. At the same time, remove the foam and cool the products.
- Place it on the stove again, heat it, but do not allow it to boil. Skim off any foam that forms, turn off the heat and cool.
- The third time they put it on the stove, heat it and bring it to a boil. Cook for another 5 minutes after boiling.
- Pour into sterile jars, roll up with a machine and wrap in a warm towel.
- Store in a cool place.
This method helps keep the berries intact and the jam will be thick.
Terms and conditions of storage
To ensure that the finished jam does not spoil and is stored for a long time, it is important to know how to store it, in what conditions and at what temperature. Often, the shelf life of the finished product directly depends on the chosen container and lids.
Half-liter glass jars with varnished metal lids are suitable for preserving jams. Containers must be sterilized either in boiling water or in an electric oven. Before pouring dessert into jars, they need to be dried.
If the jam does not need to be stored for a long time, you can use nylon lids.
If the dessert turns out to be sweet and thick, add a little citric acid to it so that it does not “explode” during storage. The thicker the jam, the less it spoils.
Store it in a cool place, protected from direct sunlight. Then the finished product will last for three years. At above-zero temperatures, the shelf life of canned sweet products lasts about a year. If the lid “swells,” it means that the dessert contains metal particles, or it is burnt and stuck to the walls of the container.
Conclusion
Raspberry jam with whole berries is a storehouse of vitamins and nutrients. Raspberries contain salicylic, citric, malic and tartaric acids. The dessert is a prevention against colds, reduces high fever and relieves inflammation, and the vitamins A, B, C, and E contained in raspberries make it unique at all times. Indeed, it is always nice on a cold, slushy day to sit comfortably in the living room and treat people dear to your heart to hot tea with raspberry jam.