Forest strawberries taste much different from the garden, and it is much more useful. If you managed to collect this berry a lot, it makes sense to make a sweet billet out of it for the winter. Boil it is not recommended for a long time: it will lose its unique taste and aroma. The ideal option is the strawberry jam “Pyatiminutka”. Under this name is known a group of recipes that allow you to cook a dessert, minimizing the heat treatment of berries and fruits. For strawberries it does not exceed five minutes. This makes it possible to preserve not only the taste and aroma of this wild berry, but also its beneficial properties.
Cooking Features
To get tasty and healthy strawberry jam “Five minutes” you need to know a few features of its preparation.
- Picking strawberries is not recommended after rain: at this time it is watery and tasteless.
- Forest berries cannot be harvested along roads and in ecologically unfavorable areas, as the berry growing in these places may be toxic.
- Forest strawberries do not have to be washed, but it doesn’t hurt to do this if the berry is very dusty. To do this, rinse it in clean water. The time spent in strawberry water should be minimized. After washing it should be dried immediately, scattered on a towel that absorbs moisture well.
- Before cooking jam, strawberries must be removed from strawberries. This should be done after the berry is washed and dried, so that the water does not get into the berries.
- Strawberry jam is usually cooked in an enameled basin. Any other wide capacity will do. It is important that the dishes were not aluminum. This material interacts with the acids contained in the berries, forming harmful substances.
- Strawberry jam “Five minutes” is often boiled without adding water. So that the berry does not stick, it is filled with sugar and left for a few hours in a cool place. Strawberry juice is released in which sugar dissolves. The berry mass acquires a sufficiently liquid consistency in order not to stick to the bottom and walls of the pelvis during a short cooking.
- When cooking strawberry jam, foam appears on the surface. It must be removed so that the jam is not soured.
- Strawberries have a bitter aftertaste that not everyone likes. To get rid of it helps adding to the jam currants, blackberries, blueberries and other berries. You can even enter an orange rolled through a meat grinder.
- Strawberry jam can only be spread on sterilized jars. Cover them with metal lids, ensuring tightness. They should also be sterilized by boiling.
Storage conditions for strawberry jam depend on the recipe according to which it was prepared. After opening the can dessert can be stored no more than a week and only in the refrigerator.
The classic recipe for wild strawberry jam “Five minutes”
Composition (1 l):
- wild strawberry - 0.5 kg;
- sugar - 0, 75 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Pick the strawberries, rinse and dry if necessary. Remove the sepals.
- Fold the berry into the bowl, add sugar. Shake the pelvis so that the berries and sugar are mixed. If you stir a strawberry with a spoon, it will be damaged, the jam from it will turn out unappetizing.
- Leave the container with the strawberries for an hour at room temperature, cover with a gauze to protect against insects, or store for 2 hours in the refrigerator.
- Wash and sterilize the jars and lids that fit them beforehand. Strawberry jam is prepared quickly, and during its cooking you will not have time to sterilize the container.
- Place a bowl of strawberries on a slow fire, bring the berry mass to a boil.
- Increase the intensity of the flame. Boil 5 minutes, removing the foam. Throw it away is not worth it, it is better to serve this delicacy for tea.
- Spread hot jam over prepared cans, roll them up.
- Cover with a blanket and leave for 2 hours.
After that, the blanket can be removed, banks can be moved to the pantry. The strawberry dessert made according to this recipe is well worth it at room temperature.
“Five minutes” from wild strawberries without boiling
The composition (1, 5 l):
- strawberries - 0.5 kg;
- sugar - 1, 1 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Prepare strawberries.
- Pour sugar into the berry, shake it several times. Store for several hours in the refrigerator.
- When the sugar is about half in the strawberry juice, put the bowl with the berry mass on a slow fire.
- Heat, stirring gently with a spatula, but not allowing to boil until sugar is completely dissolved.
- Spread the jam in pre-prepared banks, cork them tightly.
When banks are cooled to room temperature, they need to be rearranged in the refrigerator. The dessert was not boiled, so it will quickly deteriorate at room temperature. Due to the large amount of sugar, the jam made according to this recipe resembles jam by its consistency. Sugar also helps to neutralize the characteristic bitterness of the forest strawberry.
Jam from strawberries and red currants “Five minutes”
Composition (for 1, 25 l):
- strawberries - 0.5 kg;
- red currant - 0, 2 kg;
- sugar - 0, 75 kg;
- water - 150 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Sort through, wash the strawberries and currants.
- Pour currants with water, boil for 5 minutes, wipe through a sieve.
- Pour strawberries with sugar in the amount of 0.5 kg. Leave for an hour.
- Mix the blackcurrant juice with the remaining sugar.
- After a specified time, combine the ingredients, put on fire.
- Bring to a low heat until boiling.
- Increase the heat, cook for 5 minutes, removing the foam.
- Spread the dessert over sterilized jars, seal them tightly.
Jam has a pleasant harmonious taste, it is well worth it even at room temperature, but it is usually stored in a cool room (basement, unheated storeroom).
“Five minute” forest strawberry jam is an exquisite dessert that almost everyone likes. It differs from strawberry jam in taste and aroma, contains more useful elements.
