Cook raspberry jam for 25 minutes.
How to make raspberry jam
Products
Raspberries – 2 kilograms
Sugar – 2,5 kilograms
Citric acid – 20 grams (or juice of 2 lemons)
Gelatin – 7-8 grams
Water – half a glass
How to make raspberry jam
1. Sort raspberries, put in an enamel pan.
2. Pour water into the raspberries, put the pan on a low heat.
3. After boiling, cook the raspberries for 20 minutes, removing the resulting foam.
4. To get rid of the seeds: pass the raspberries through a sieve or squeeze through cheesecloth.
5. Return the raspberry mixture to the saucepan, stir with 2,5 kilograms of sugar and put on fire.
6. Pour gelatin with a little warm water and stir.
7. Add gelatin to boiling raspberries, add sugar, lemon and mix jam.
8. Cook the raspberry jam for another 3 minutes.
9. Arrange the finished jam in sterilized jars and tighten the lids.
Raspberry jam in a bread maker
1. Sort out raspberries, add to a bowl, cover with sugar and leave for 5 hours.
2. Put the jam into the container of the bread machine set to the “Jam” mode and press “Start”.
3. After the end of cooking, pour the jam into sterilized jars.
Delicious facts
– To cook pitted raspberry jam, after 10 minutes of cooking without sugar, after slightly cooling the jam, rub the raspberries through a fine sieve or cheesecloth. After that, put the berry puree in a saucepan, add sugar, and boil the jam until thickened. To check the density of the jam, you should drop it on a saucer and, after waiting for it to cool, tilt the saucer sharply. If the jam does not spread, then it has thickened.
– Since raspberries do not contain natural gelling agents, it is recommended to add thickeners, such as jellix, during cooking.
– When boiling raspberry jam, you can leave the seeds in the raspberries, but then the raspberry jam will be coarser in consistency.
– To cook raspberry jam without gelatin, you need to cook the jam without adding water: first cover the berries with sugar, leave for 5-6 hours (covered with a towel) at room temperature, and cook the jam in berry juice.
– It is recommended to store raspberry jam in small jars. for some time after opening a large jar, the jam may begin to dry out.
– Store raspberry jam in a cool place, with a temperature of at least -5 degrees.
– To maintain the stickiness of the jam, just stir the jam gently without shaking or whipping it while stirring.