Many housewives use an original combination of ingredients to make jam. This allows you to create desserts with amazing taste and aroma. By making jam from serviceberry and black currant, you will be able to preserve a lot of vitamins for the winter. The recipe will be simple even for young housewives. We have prepared two recipes for you with irga, red and black currants.
Features of preparing jam from serviceberry and currants for the winter
There are many recipes for creating desserts for the winter. Whichever one is chosen, it is important to observe the proportions and cooking time. The result depends on this.
The dessert is stirred during cooking. To ensure that the product is preserved for a long time and does not deteriorate, suitable containers and fruits must be selected.
Selection and preparation of berries
Various types of jam are prepared from serviceberry and black currant. These berries make a richly colored dessert. In order for the prepared products to turn out to be of high quality, it is necessary to correctly select and prepare the berries:
- Raw materials must be sorted. It is necessary to eliminate damaged, wrinkled, dry berries.
- Remove debris, branches, leaves.
- For jam you need ripe or slightly greenish berries.
- The stalks are also removed. If the rules are broken, the dessert will have dense tails.
Prepared berries must be washed in a colander under cool water. If the preparation is made from very dense, slightly unripe fruits, then they are blanched before being poured into a basin. So the raw material will be softer.
How to prepare the container?
For dessert you need to choose suitable containers. The most suitable jars are 0.5 and 1 liter, as well as 0.7.
It is important to check that the container does not contain defects - chips, cracks and other signs of deformation.
We only need high-quality jars, because only then can we preserve the products.
Selected containers should be washed with baking soda, which perfectly removes odors. Then they are thoroughly rinsed. All that remains is to sterilize the jars. The easiest way to do this is using a microwave. Containers 2 cm deep are filled with water and placed in the oven. Treatment for 2 minutes is sufficient to complete sterilization.
How to make jam from serviceberry and currants at home?
Housewives use many types of recipes.Depending on this, different components and their quantities may be required. Classic options for preparing desserts are presented below.
With black currant
To prepare you need to prepare:
- irgu – 1 kg;
- black currants – 500 g;
- sugar – 1.5-2 kg.
The berries need to be sorted and washed. Then half the sugar is added and left for 6-8 hours to release the juice. Then you can cook dessert. When the sugar has dissolved, add the rest until it boils. After cooling for 30 minutes, the jam is put back on the fire. After 5 minutes you can remove from the stove. This completes the cooking procedure.
With red currants
The combination of such berries is very useful. Irga is rich in vitamins C and P, and red currants help remove excess fluid from the body. To make jam you need to prepare:
- irgu – 1 kg;
- red currants – 500 g;
- sugar – 1200 g;
- water – 250 ml.
The tails and leaves of the berries are removed. Place a container of water on the fire and add granulated sugar.
Boil the syrup for 5-10 minutes. When it is ready, you need to pour berries into it.
The dessert is boiling. Periodically you need to remove the foam. The jam takes 20 minutes to prepare. Then it should cool down. After this, the products can be preserved.
How to properly store the finished treat?
In apartment conditions, it is better to leave the workpieces in the pantry. It is important that the temperature is no more than +20 degrees. But you should not send conservation to the balcony or basement.
If the conditions are met, the jam can be stored for 2 years. But it is advisable to use it within a year, since at this time the product retains more vitamins.
