Strawberry blanks: summer freshness all year round

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Strawberries are perhaps the most favorite summer gift that people are ready to wait for all other seasons or, on the contrary, half of the harvest, diligently making homemade preparations. And its delicious aroma and incomparable delicate taste is complemented by extreme usefulness. The fact is that it contains a lot of folic acid, which is necessary for building blood cells and strengthening memory, zinc, which has a strong tonic effect on sexual activity.

Also, strawberries help to expel bile, improve appetite and digestion, strengthen the body's antioxidant system and simply cheer up. And face masks based on it will make the skin soft and velvety. And therefore, in order to have the opportunity to please yourself with this delicacy all year round, you must definitely not be lazy and make strawberry preparations: jam, jams, mashed potatoes and marmalade. And if you add other equally he althy berries and fruits to them, experimenting with combinations, you can thereby increase the usefulness of the products.

Simple compote

Strawberry blanks, perhaps, have only one significant drawback: the required amount of berries, whichonly through patience and hard work. So, for an incomplete three-liter jar, you will need as much as 1 kg of fruit, and in order for the jam to be enough for the whole family during at least autumn, you will need far more than one jar.

Because a very economical option is such a variant of harvesting strawberries as compote. For those who are not too fond of sweets, it is better to make it without sugar. So the taste will be more natural and with a pleasant sour tint. And if, on the contrary, it is sweetened enough, then it will be possible to dilute such a concentrated compote, thereby obtaining large volumes. For the first, you need to select intact berries, peel them from the sepals and rinse thoroughly, then lay them out on a clean towel to dry, and then carefully place them in sterilized jars, pour boiling water and close the lids.

Other recipes

Strawberry preparations of more complex preparation are jam and jam. For the first, you need 1 kg of the main berry + 250 g of red currant for richness of taste + 1 lemon to increase the usefulness and approximately 700-800 g of sugar.

To do this, peeled and washed fruits (half of the first and a whole - the second) should be boiled over low heat until the juice is released, and then pour in the lemon juice, add sugar and bring to a boil. So boil for another 20 minutes, then pour into jars and cork. This blank can also be used in the preparation of other sweets, such as pies, cakes and muffins. Similarly, you can doother preparations for the winter, recipes can be supplemented with other fruits or even herbs. So, you will surely be pleased with strawberry and rhubarb or currant jam, jam with bananas, candied fruit, or even hard marmalade. To prepare the latter, per kilogram of berries you will need 800 g of sugar, a glass of apple juice and 0.5 tsp. citric acid. Strawberries need to be steamed and rubbed through a sieve, then mixed with sugar and boiled over low heat, stirring occasionally. And when the mass becomes thick enough, it remains only to add juice and continue heat treatment until a homogeneous dough mass is obtained. When hot, it will need to be packaged and sealed in jars.