How to cook a delicious jam?

Jam is an ideal treat for tea drinking. You can make it from a variety of berries. For example, strawberries and cherries. How to cook a delicious jam from them, will be told further.

How to make strawberry jam

To make a fragrant treat from strawberries, you need these ingredients (based on 1 kg of berries):

sugar 750 g;
lemon - 1/2 part;
ginger - 5 g.

Preparing jam from strawberries as follows:

Go for berries, rinse thoroughly, poursugar and leave in the enameled container for 9 hours. Then squeeze the juice from half a lemon and add to the strawberries, and then carefully mix everything with a wooden spatula.
Place the container with the berries on the fire and bring toboiling. Then hold it for 5 more minutes, and then turn off the hotplate. When the jam has cooled, place it again on the fire and wait until the syrup. A few minutes before the readiness to add there grated ginger. Then you can pour the jam over the jars and spin them.

You can also cook this jam in the multivark. It takes less time. For more information, see How to Cook Jam. And if you want to make such a delicacy not from strawberries, but from currants, then use the recipe presented here: How to cook currant jam.

How to Make Cherry Jam

To prepare a delicious cherry jam you need to stock up with such ingredients:

granulated sugar - 12 tbsp. spoons;
cherry - 1 kg.

Having prepared everything you need, proceed as follows:

Pick berries, go through, wash, separate fromstems and bones. Transfer them to an enamel saucepan, pour sugar and cook for 10 minutes. Cool the jam and leave for a day.
Put it on the fire again and boil for 10 minutes. After that, cool, pour into jars and tighten.

You can also cook jam from apples. It turns out tasty and suitable for baking. Learn how to cook it, you can from the article How to cook apple jam. To make it from apricots you will benefit from the recipe presented here: How to brew jam from apricots.

Useful tips for cooking jam

When cooking jam, follow these guidelines:

use only mature berries and fruits;
so that the jam is not candied, add a little citric acid to it;
it is best to cook the jam over low heat;
use for cooking berries and fruits only dishes with a wide bottom;
be sure to stir the jam with a wooden spatula during cooking to avoid its burning to the bottom.