If you want to cook the most original and delicious dessert from currants, the Black-Eye jam is for you. It is hard to say – it is fried, or cooked. The result is a jelly-like jam with terrific berry aroma.
Currant Jam. Recipe
Only a fantasy gives us a new gastronomic impression. This recipe is many years old. So our great-grandmothers also cooked currants. Perhaps a method was invented to save sugar. One thing is clear – a small berry of great benefit turns into an original currant jam. And sugar for this dessert, really, required at times less!
The maximum from bead berries, no matter what kind of currant, can be obtained not only in the summer when they ripen. Scientists recognized that the berry almost does not lose its beneficial properties, as with freezing, and when canning.
To make Black-Eye jam you will need
- Currants (dessert can be cooked from black, red, yellow berries) – 9 glasses.
Of course, if you use red or yellow berries, You can’t call jam the “Black-eyed” jam. But the method used is that same.
- Sugar – the calculation is approximately this: for 3 cups of currant 1 cup of sugar is required.
Due to its valuable properties, it is recommended to add currants in the diet to strengthen immunity. Red variety is especially useful those with stomach upsets who have low levels hemoglobin. White currant is considered a joy for allergy sufferers. AT berries do not have red pigments, so they do not cause allergic reactions.
You can make currant jam So:
You have to cook a delicious dessert in a pan. Therefore, this jam is also called “fried”.
Rinse the berries. Heat a frying pan (preferably cast iron) to such a degrees so that a drop of water evaporates. Sprinkle currants in pan and stir.
Ripe berries will burst and release juice. In the process heat treatment unripe berries will remain intact. They need to remove.
As soon as all the currants share the juice, add sugar.
Stir the jam until the sugar melts.
Put the dessert in twisting jars. Jam, cooked in this way is perfectly stored even when room temperature.
Tasty ideas
A delicious jelly-like dessert can be used in baking, as a flavoring supplement to pancakes. No less An original recipe for goodies – fig jam, sweet cherry, and even from rose petals. Try to cook. It’s not only tasty, but also healthy!
