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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:
- 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.
- Before pureeing, the berries must be thoroughly dried (you can even use a hairdryer for this).
- 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.
Preparation time: 10 hours.
Caloric content: 243 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.
Ingredients
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- black currant – 1 kg,
- white sugar – 1.2 kg.
Preparation
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Next, the currants need to be ground with a blender, chopper, or regular potato masher.
- Transfer the resulting pulp to a bowl with a large volume.
- Pour all the sugar into this container.
- 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.
- In the morning, it will be noticeable that the preparation has gelled slightly and there are no sugar granules left.
- 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.
