Perhaps the most delicious jam that you can stock up for the winter is currant. Fragrant and thick, it is perfect for cooking fruit drinks and jelly, as well as for filling pies,
Vienna cookies, or just a great addition to tea. Read about
how to cook currant
jam in our article. We will offer you not only the classic way of cooking it, but also quick options, which will be very useful for a busy housewife - in 20 minutes you will be able to make this healthy winter dessert. But let's take it in order ...
How to cook currant jam: a recipe for our grandmothers
For 1 kilogram of berries you will need:
- one and a half kilograms of sugar or a little less if the currant is sweet enough;
- one and a half glasses of clean filtered water.
To prepare the berry jam, you need to thoroughly rinse, sort out, dry on a towel. From the specified amount of ingredients, prepare sugar syrup, bring it to a boil, and then strain through several layers of gauze. Put it on the fire again, then pour the berries into the boiling syrup. Bring to readiness in one go. How to check that jam is cooked? Take a teaspoon of a drop of liquid from the pan, pour it onto a saucer and look - if it spreads, then it’s not ready, if not, you can safely remove the dishes from the fire. Now you know how to cook currant jam according to the classic recipe. Be sure to make this preparation for the winter - the content of vitamin C in the berry is higher than in the lemon - it will support your immunity in the cold season and will not let you catch a cold.
Currant jam "minute"
Of course, for cooking you will need a little more time than one minute - but you can still make it much faster than preparing on the basis of the previous recipe. Take:
- 1 kilogram of black currant;
- 1-1.5 kilograms of granulated sugar.
Wash the berry and scald with boiling water. Cook the syrup from sugar (a glass of water on the indicated amount of sand), put currants in it and bring to a boil. That's all - the finished jam can be laid out in jars and sent for storage.
5-minute currant jam
The consistency of such a workpiece will be very similar to jelly, and for cooking you will need:
- a kilogram of berries;
- one and a half kilograms of granulated sugar;
- one and a half glasses of clean filtered water.
Wash ripe black currants , sort and blanch (boil) in boiling water for a couple of minutes. From syrup and water, prepare a syrup, bring it to a boil, and then dip the berries in a pan. Bring to a boil again and cook for 5 minutes. No more time needed. Given the preliminary preparation of currants (of course, if you do not make such jam from a bucket of berries), the whole process from start to finish will take you no more than 20 minutes. And now you have to decide how to cook currant jam, and cook it for the winter. By the way, if in the cold season you dilute a spoonful of fragrant stock in a glass of warm water, add honey and drink it, then you will not be afraid of any colds. Tasty fruit drinks will appeal to both adults and children.