The recipe for jam from red currant for the winter, as well as video recipes of different ways of preparing these berries
Red currant jam has a beautiful appearance and a lot of useful properties. For medicinal purposes it was used in the 16th century.
In folk medicine, red currant is still valued for its vitamin complex and medicinal properties. Due to the large content of pectin, the red currant is used to remove toxins from the body. Therefore, red currants are harvested for the winter in the form of jam, jams, jellies and compotes.
Such jam is a stock of vitamins and nutrients for keeping the body in winter. When preparing red currants, it is important to keep as many vitamins as possible in it. Therefore, many housewives are interested in the recipe for such jam. And today we will tell you a recipe of red currant jam for the winter, which our grandmothers used.
Ingredients
You will need: 1 kilogram of redcurrant berries, 1.5 kilograms of sugar, 1 glass of water, 1 teaspoon of vanillin.
Babushkin recipe
For the beginning of the red currant berries, cut, detach from twigs and rinse with cold water.
For syrup, take all the sugar, add a glass of water to it and cook over a small fire. Do not forget to stir the syrup so that the sugar dissolves evenly and does not burn.
The berries are poured into the basin, in which we will make jam, and pour the syrup. Cook on low heat for 25-30 minutes. Gently stir the berries with a wooden spoon, so that they do not stick to the bottom and the jam is not burnt.
A few minutes before the readiness, we add 1 teaspoon without top of vanillin to the jam and mix well. Vanillin adds a pleasant flavor to the jam. Jam we cool and lay out on the banks.
We recommend storing jam in a cool place.
As you can see, this recipe is quite simple. To save vitamins in the red currant, many housewives simply grind it with sugar or freeze in the freezer. Very beautiful is obtained from red currant jelly.
Video recipes
How to prepare jam:
Jam without cooking:
Red currant jelly:
Redcurrant jam: