How to make currant jam: classic recipe and quick - five-minute

Perhaps, the most delicious jam, which you can stock for the winter - currant. Aromatic and dense, it is perfect for cooking morsels and jelly, as well as for filling pies, "Viennese" cookies or simply be a great addition to tea. On how to brew jam from the currant, read in our article. We will offer you not only a classic way of cooking it, but also quick options that will be very useful for the hostess - in 20 minutes you will be able to make this useful winter dessert. But let's start in order ...

How to cook currant jam: a recipe from our grandmothers

For 1 kilogram of berries you will need:

• A half kilogram of sugar or slightly less, if the currant is sweet enough;
• Half a glass of clean filtered water.

For the preparation of jam berries need to be thoroughly washed, peeled, dried on a towel. From the specified amount of ingredients, prepare the sugar syrup, bring it to a boil, and then strain through several layers of gauze. Put again on the fire, then in the boiling syrup pour in the berry. Bring it to readiness in one step. How to check that the jam cooked? Take a teaspoon of liquid from the pan, pour it on a saucer and see if it spreads, then it's not ready, but if not, you can safely remove the dishes from the fire. Now you know how to brew jam from a currant according to a classic recipe. Be sure to make this preparation for the winter - the content of vitamin C in the berry is greater than in lemon - it will support your immunity in the cold season and will not give a cold.

Jam from currants "minute"

Of course, for the preparation you will need a little more time than one minute - but you can still make it much faster than the workpiece based on the previous recipe. Take:

• 1 kilogram of black currant;
• 1-1.5 kg of granulated sugar.

Wash berries and scald with boiling water. From sugar cook a syrup (a glass of water for the specified amount of sand), put the currant in it and bring it to a boil. That's all - ready-made jam can be put in cans and sent for safekeeping.

Jam from a currant "5-minute"

The consistency of such a preparation will be very similar to jelly, and for cooking you will need:

• Kilos of berries;
• One and a half kilograms of granulated sugar;
• Half a glass of clean filtered water.

Ripe black currant wash, scrape and blanch (boil) in boiling water for a couple of minutes. From the water and sugar, prepare the syrup, bring it to a boil, and already then dip the berries into the pan. Bring to a boil again and cook for 5 minutes. More time is not needed. Taking into account the preliminary preparation of currants (of course, if you are not making such a jam from a bucket of berries), the whole process will take no more than 20 minutes from the beginning to the end. And now you have to decide how to cook the jam from the currant, and cook it for the winter. By the way, if in the cold season you will dissolve a spoonful of fragrant food in a glass of warm water, add honey and drink, then no catarrhal diseases will not be scary to you. Tasty mors will be to the liking of adults and children.