Juicy gooseberries are distinguished by a special sweet taste with a slight acidity. They contain many useful substances and vitamins, with them you can cook delicious desserts. And you can make gooseberry jam for the winter. Emerald or golden, it even looks like an exquisite dessert. It is not surprising that one of the options for preparing such a treat is called "royal" or "royal".
Not sure how to make gooseberry jam? Use one of the suggested recipes.
Simple gooseberry jam
To prepare this dessert, you need a kilogram of berries, a kilogram and two hundred grams of sugar, two glasses of water. Before you cook gooseberry jam , the fruits should not only be sorted out, washed and peeled, but also chopped with a toothpick. So it will turn out tastier. If you want, you can also cut the berries and remove the seeds from them. If you decide to use them whole, lower the gooseberries in cool water and leave for ten hours. Cook sugar syrup from water and granulated sugar. Put the berries in a boiling liquid and immediately turn off the stove. Leave for six hours. Turn on the stove again and cook until cooked. Arrange the finished product in previously prepared clean and dry cans, tighten the lids tightly and put them away for storage.
Royal Gooseberry JamYou will need four hundred grams of berries, alcohol or vodka, eight hundred grams of granulated sugar, a glass of water, cherry leaves. Before cooking gooseberry jam, rinse and cleanse the fruits from seeds, pour alcohol for an hour. Throw the berries in a colander and rinse it with water, in which the cherry leaves were boiled. Rinse with cold water. Make a syrup from water and sugar, put the prepared gooseberry in it, bring it to a boil several times, each time immediately removing the boiled mass from the stove. Bring to the desired density on a minimum heat fire and pour into pre-sterilized glass jars with tight lids.
How to cook gooseberry jam with maximum vitamins
To preserve all the nutrients that are found in fresh berries, make a quick five-minute jam. You will need a kilogram of gooseberries and half a kilogram of granulated sugar. Rinse and dry the berries. Pour sugar into a saucepan and add a little gooseberry or apple juice to lightly moisten it.
Add the gooseberries, cover and bring to a temperature of eighty degrees. Not allowing to boil, hold in this state for about five minutes, then put it in dry cans and roll it up.
How to cook gooseberry jam that is not ripe
From immature berries, you can also make dessert for the winter. Take a kilogram of gooseberries, twenty cherry leaves, two glasses of water and a half kilogram of granulated sugar. Rinse the berries, cut off their tops and put in a saucepan along with washed cherry leaves. Pour boiling water over everything and let it brew for eight hours, then drain the water and boil the syrup with it. Take away the cherry leaves. Pour the berries in syrup and cook for a quarter of an hour. Cool the prepared jam in a basin with cold water and place in banks for storage.