How to cook raspberry jam

Raspberry jam is extremely tasty. You can eat it just like that, or you can eat it with tea. It is served with pancakes, it is used to make fillings for pies, pies and other desserts. It is clear that one standard recipe for raspberry jam does not exist, as each housewife has her own tricks and secret ingredients that help make raspberry jam even tastier. But still the main components in this delicacy are raspberries and sugar.

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You will need

- 1 kg raspberries
- 1.5 kg of sugar
- Cookware for jam
- jars for ready-made jam.

Instruction manual

According to one of the recipes for making raspberry jam per 1 kg of washed and sorted berries, take 1.5 kg of sugar. Put raspberries in a bowl, in which you will then cook the jam. Sprinkle the berries on top with sugar. In this state, leave the berries to brew for 8-10 hours in a cool, dark place. After that, put the jam on the fire, bring to a boil and cook for 20 minutes.

Of course, the most useful is the jam, which was the least subjected to heat treatment, since it stores more vitamins and other beneficial substances. In another way, this jam is also called five minutes. To prepare it, take 1 kg of raspberries. Rinse it carefully, taking care not to damage the berries. Sprinkle raspberries with sugar for 5 hours, and then drain the resulting syrup. Boil it for 10 minutes over high heat. Then reduce the heat and add raspberries to the syrup, bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes. After 8-10 hours, bring the jam to a boil again and boil for another 5 minutes. Pour the jam into the jars.

The third way to prepare raspberry jam is that after the raspberries are covered with sugar, after 3-4 hours it will be necessary to drain the formed liquid. Boil the resulting syrup for 5 minutes, and pour raspberries on it. Boil the berries over low heat until cooked.

Useful advice

In addition to its taste, raspberry jam has healing properties. Raspberries and raspberry jam contain acids that prevent the formation of cancer cells, as well as substances similar in their effects to aspirin. Therefore, with colds, tea with raspberry jam helps lower the temperature. In addition, these same substances thin the blood, this is especially true for people who have problems with blood coagulation.

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