Black currant with sugar without cooking

The best sweet preparation for winter, which preserves the taste, color, aroma, and most importantly – all the vitamins – is black currant with sugar without cooking. It seems like a simple recipe, but it hides some pitfalls, and not knowing them, the preserve may not last until the next harvest due to berry fermentation.

So, some features:

1. This preparation must be stored in the refrigerator. It can be kept in either glass or plastic food containers – the main thing is that they are well processed with boiling water or steam.
2. Before pureeing, the berries must be thoroughly dried (you can even use a hairdryer for this).
3. After adding sugar, the mixture is not immediately distributed into jars, but left for about 8 hours in a cool place so that all the sugar dissolves completely and the currants gel slightly.

Yield: 2 containers (with a total volume of 1.8 liters).

Preparation time: 10 hours.

Caloric content: 243 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.

Ingredients

• black currant – 1 kg,
• white sugar – 1.2 kg.

Preparation

1. Gather the ingredients. Measure the sugar after sorting the currants. And also – it’s better to start working in the evening, as the sugar sprinkled on the berries must dissolve completely (this takes about 8 hours). And in the summer night, it’s not as hot in the room as during the day, and the preparation can safely be left on the balcony or veranda.

2. Place the berries in small batches into a colander and rinse under running water, removing spoiled specimens and twigs. Then spread them out on a towel.

3. When the entire batch is washed and laid out to dry, you can speed up the process by drying the fruits with a hairdryer, as only dry berries are suitable for preservation.

4. Next, the currants need to be ground with a blender, chopper, or regular potato masher.

5. Transfer the resulting pulp to a bowl with a large volume.

6. Pour all the sugar into this container.

7. Mix everything. Cover the mixture with a lid or towel and move it to a cooler place (for example, on the balcony), but not in the refrigerator.

8. In the morning, it will be noticeable that the preparation has gelled slightly and there are no sugar granules left.

9. Fill the prepared dry container with the sweet jam. It can be closed with plastic or screw-on lids, after which the preparations should be placed on a shelf in the refrigerator. They can last until the next harvest and even longer.

In winter, black currant with sugar without cooking will be a great help for the hostess. It can be used to layer cakes, fill pies, enhance pancakes, and simply spread on bread for tea. With such a preparation, various drinks are excellent – it’s enough to dilute the jam in water or complement it with a fruit mix in compote.