Jam-five minutes of gooseberry - delicious, fragrant, stringy, as useful as possible. What's the secret? In a short three-time cooking. Choose slightly unripe fruits with elastic skin, so that the berries do not boil during cooking.
Ingredients
- Gooseberry - 800 g
- Sugar - 800 g
- Water - 6 tbsp.l .
Step-by-step cooking recipe
Sort the gooseberries, remove the tails, rinse the berries under running water, throw them into a colander.
Put the berries in a cooking bowl, cover with half the sugar, shake so that the sugar is evenly distributed, leave to infuse for 2-3 hours.
Then add the remaining sugar, pour in water and heat over low heat until the sugar dissolves. Then increase the heat and bring to a boil, removing the resulting foam. Gently stirring, boil the jam for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat, cover the bowl and leave to infuse for several hours.
Put the workpiece on the fire again, and gradually increasing the heat, boil for 5 minutes after boiling. Do not forget to remove the foam! Cover the bowl with jam and leave at room temperature overnight.
Repeat cooking again with minimal heat for 5 minutes after boiling.
Pour the hot jam into pre-sterilized jars, seal tightly, wrap and leave to cool. Then move the jam to a cool dark place.