Five-minute strawberry jam with lemon juice

The wonderful taste of strawberry jam literally “drives” city dwellers to the meadows during the berry ripening season, not only to enjoy strawberries, but also to make aromatic sweet preparations for the winter. Strawberry jam is an excellent addition to winter tea drinking, when there is frost and snow around, and the house smells of summer.

For jam, it is still better to pick wild berries, although some gardeners say that garden strawberries are not much inferior to forest beauties. In order to collect a kilogram of strawberries in the forest, you will have to “walk” quite a bit through the clearings, “feed” horseflies and midges, but the strawberries themselves and the preparations from them are worth it.

For jam I will need:

• 500 g strawberries;
• 350 g sugar;
• 1/3 glass of water.

How to make strawberry jam for the winter

I prepare strawberries like five-minute jam, so the berries, having undergone minimal heat treatment, retain all their beneficial properties as much as possible.

We start making strawberry jam by preparing sugar syrup. We do this as usual: pour in water, bring to a boil over high heat and add sugar. Let the sugar syrup simmer for 3 minutes.

We carefully sort the berries, remove sepals, twigs and needles that may end up in the tuesk. Wash the strawberries under running cold water, but keep the stream low so as not to “break” the red berries.

Place the berries in the finished syrup, bring to a boil again, and reduce the heat.

During the cooking process, skim off the foam. The jam is cooked for 5 minutes, then it must be removed from the heat and cooled completely.

After cooling, put the jam back on the fire and take a little syrup with a spoon.

Add ½ teaspoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice. Bring the strawberry jam to a boil one more time, cook for another 5 minutes and remove from heat.

Pour hot strawberry jam into jars and close with ordinary plastic lids. To package and store such preparations, you can also use jars with metal screw-on lids.