Almost all housewives prepare summer preparations of berries and vegetables. It is so nice to take a jar filled with vitamins and the summer sun from the shelf in the winter. Gooseberries are very tasty and healthy. You can make jam from it, as well as jam. Gooseberries are very suitable for this, the jam turns sour.
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You will need
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- gooseberry - 1kg;
- sugar - 1kg;
- water - 1 cup.
Instruction manual
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Jam is pieces of berries and fruits boiled in syrup to a jelly state. In jam, the berries should be intact, and the syrup transparent, but in jam the boiled berries and fruits are mixed with syrup, form a whole with it.
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In order to make jam, pectin is needed, it helps to achieve, in combination with fruit acids and sugar, a jelly consistency. These substances have different amounts in different fruits, but most of them are immature. Therefore, in preparation for cooking jam, you need to stock up with both ripe gooseberries and some ripe, green ones.
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Select only good, undamaged berries, set aside the rest, they are not suitable for harvesting. To make gooseberry jam, you need a kilogram of berries a kilogram of sugar and a glass of water.
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Rinse the berries well, then remove all the stalks and sepals. In a wide dish with low walls and a wide bottom, place two-thirds of the berries of gooseberries and boil in a small amount of water over high heat. Jam is always cooked on such a fire. This is necessary so that the substances that can destroy pectin, immediately destroyed. When the berries are boiled and soft, wipe them through a sieve and place them in a bowl and boil again, adding sugar.
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Part of the unripe gooseberry berries, pre-pierce and add to the boiled berry syrup. While stirring constantly, cook until it is ready. Learn about jam readiness is easy. To do this, scoop up a spoonful of jam. If it is ready, it will be pulled by a thread. If not yet, it will drip. You can also wait until it cools down on a spoon and see how it will drip. The finished jam will fall in pieces, the one that still needs to be boiled will drain.
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Gooseberry syrup is not very beautiful in color. To make the jam more appetizing in appearance, add a spoonful of berry juice - cherry or orange to the syrup. After the jam cools down a bit, put it in clean sterilized jars and roll it up. A delicious treat is ready!
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