Blackberry jam. Blackberry jam with citrus notes

There are many options - from classic jam to unusual mixes with other berries and fruits.

Selection and preparation of berries

Before making any blackberry jam, you need to stock up on knowledge about the selection and harvesting of berries. The blackberry harvesting season in the largest volumes falls on the second half of August. During this period, you can safely harvest your own harvest or buy berries at a not very high cost. There are several rules:

• when buying berries in the market, try to choose ripe, but still elastic fruits. Soft, mashed blackberries are only suitable if you decide to cook liquid jam or jam and grind the purchased sweet products;
• do not buy unripe berries, because blackberries do not ripen in an already plucked state. From such berries, jam will turn out sour and tart;
• if you collect blackberries on your own, then try to do everything quickly and immediately put the harvested crop into processing so that during subsequent washing the berries do not lose part of their precious juice;
• sort the fruits at home, remove adhering debris, leaves, etc. Then wash the berries. It is better to do this under the kitchen shower, because such a pressure of water is not able to damage the structure of the blackberry.

Advice! If possible, be sure to prepare forest blackberries - they are many times more useful than their cultural counterparts!

Cooking container

Ready-made jam is usually put in jars, and they must be sterilized. There are several ways to sterilize jars:

1. draw cold water into a large saucepan, immerse half-liter or liter jars there, put the container on the fire and let the contents boil for about half an hour. Then take out the jars, turn them upside down and dry;
2. fill a small saucepan with water, put a grate or a special device for sterilization on top and boil the water. Place the jars in turn on the wire rack (upside down) and hold them for 15 minutes;
3. personally, I use the least troublesome method of sterilization: I put the jars in a cold oven, warm them up at 180 degrees for about half an hour. You don't even have to dry them after that.

Recipes

It is impossible to describe all the abundance of options for a delicious blackberry delicacy. I will share only those tested by me personally and my favorite ones.

Easy blackberry jam recipe

For cooking blackberry jam according to the classic recipe, you only need sugar and berries. It turns out a very appetizing thick jam, which in terms of its useful and gustatory qualities is in no way inferior to the no less popular raspberry jam.

Recipe Information

• Cuisine:Russian
• Type of dish: jam
• Cooking method: boiling
• Servings: 0.8 l
• 5-6 h

Ingredients:

• fresh blackberries - 1 kg
• granulated sugar - 1 kg.

Cooking method:

Sort the blackberries, setting the rotten or crushed berries aside, and then transfer them to a colander and rinse thoroughly, but very carefully, under a weak stream of running water. If you still have berries with stalks, then during the washing process you need to remove them with gentle circular motions.


Let the washed berries dry, then sprinkle them with sugar, mix gently and leave for 5-6 hours at room temperature.


Transfer the blackberries that have let the juice into an enameled pan and put on a small fire. Boil for about 30 minutes after boiling, or longer, depending on how thick the jam you want to get. During the cooking process, periodically stir the jam with a wooden spatula so that it does not burn, and as it appears, remove the foam from its surface.


Pour the boiling jam into sterilized jars and seal tightly.

Note to the owner:

• Blackberries plucked from your own garden can not be washed before falling asleep with sugar, but simply remove the garbage.
• To get a thicker jam, you can boil it 2-3 times, waiting for it to cool completely between sets.
• If the berry sprinkled with sugar releases very little juice, then a little water can be added to the jam before boiling. Considering at the same time that the more water, the less saturated is the taste and aroma of the workpiece.
• For a more interesting taste, you can add lemon zest, ground cinnamon or chopped mint leaves to blackberry jam at the beginning of cooking.

Five-minute jam recipe

It is even easier and faster to prepare a five-minute jam. I like this option because the berries remain intact and a lot of rich syrup is obtained, which can be used in winter for making drinks, soaking biscuits. And how tasty it is to serve this delicacy with pancakes!

Ingredients:

• blackberry - 970 g
• sugar - 800g
• citric acid - 3 g.

Cooking:

1. Sort and wash the blackberries, remove the twigs.
2. Sprinkle it on a paper-lined surface to dry.
3. Place the berries in a wide bowl in layers, sprinkling with sugar.
4. Wait 5-5.5 hours for the fruits to release enough juice.
5. Boil slowly for about 5 minutes, carefully skimming off the foam.
6. A minute before the end of cooking, add citric acid and stir well the almost ready delicacy.
7. Place the jam in a sterilized glass container, cool slightly and cover with plastic lids.
8. Keep the finished product refrigerated.

Blackberry jam with raspberries

The combination of blackberries and raspberries is both tasty and healthy. Such a sweet delicacy is indispensable during the period of colds.

What you need:

• blackberry - 500 g
• raspberries - 500 g
• sugar - 900 g

How to cook:

1. Separately, sort through the raspberries and blackberries, rinse and tear off the stalks.
2. Place the raspberries in one bowl and the blackberries in the other.
3. Pour both types of berries with the same amount of sugar.
4. Stir gently, being careful not to damage the fruits, and put them in a cool place for about 10 hours. As the juice comes out, pour it into one wide saucepan.
5. After the set time has elapsed, put the released juice on the fire and heat, stirring, until the sugar dissolves.
6. Now you can add blackberries and raspberries.
7. Boil for 5-6 minutes over low heat, removing the foam.
8. Remove from heat and wait for the contents of the pan to cool completely.
9. Now put it back on the fire and boil for 5 minutes.
10. The jam is ready, it can be packaged in sterilized jars.

Blackberry jam with apples

It would seem - what is surprising in apple and blackberry jam? But if the recipe also includes cardamom, as well as liquor, then you get a real gourmet dessert!

Ingredients:

• blackberry - 1000 g
• sour apples - 900 g
• sugar - 1500 g
• lemon - 1 pc.
• butter - 1 tbsp
• cardamom - 3 g
• water - 1 tbsp.
• any berry liqueur (ideally blackberry) - 100 g.

Cooking process:

1. Wash the apples, peel and remove the core.
2. Cut them into small slices.
3. Prepare and wash the blackberries, remove the stalks.
4. In a large saucepan, combine apple slices with water.
5. Blanch them for 10 minutes until completely softened.
6. Squeeze the juice from the washed lemon into the apples.
7. Lay out the blackberries.
8. Boil everything for 10 minutes after boiling.
9. Add sugar and stir until dissolved.
10. Boil for another 10 minutes, stirring and removing the resulting foam.
11. Add cardamom and liqueur and cook for another 3 minutes.
12. Remove the pan from the heat, add the oil, stir and remove the foam.
13. Cool the jam and put it in prepared jars.
14. Cover each jar with parchment circles, and then cover with a plastic lid.

Blackcurrant jam without cooking

You can make your own natural multivitamin from blackberries and currants. In terms of useful qualities, this treat is ahead of any other! Nothing beats the taste in any way. Its only drawback is the shelf life, which cannot be more than 6 months.

Ingredients:

• currant - 1 kg
• blackberry - 1 kg
• sugar - 3 kg
• lemon - 1 pc.

How to do:

1. My berries and lemon, let the excess liquid drain.
2. We pass blackberries, currants and citrus sliced ​​\u200b\u200bwith zest through a meat grinder.
3. Combine in a deep saucepan with sugar. Leave for 5-6 hours, stirring occasionally - during this time the sugar is almost completely dissolved.

Pour the raw jam into sterile jars, tighten the lids. We store fresh jam only in the refrigerator!

Blackberry Jam with Plums, Raspberries and Elderberries

Fragrant blackberry jam will become even more delicious if you add other fruits and spices to it. I once found a very good recipe for delicious jam on the Internet.

Components:

• blackberry - 400 g
• plums - 400 g
• elderberry - 200 g
• raspberries - 200 g
• sugar - 1200 g
• cloves - 5-6 pcs.
• lemon juice - 0.5 tbsp.

Cooking:

1. Wash all the berries, except for the raspberries, remove the stalks and put them in a saucepan.
2. Add chopped plums, after removing the seeds from them, and cloves.
3. Fill everything with water so that it slightly covers the fruit.
4. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat.
5. Cook over low heat for about 10-15 minutes.
6. After that, soften all the ingredients in a saucepan with a crush or mash with a fork.
7. Put the resulting puree in cheesecloth, tie a knot and place it in a sieve.
8. Substitute a metal container under the sieve and leave to drain overnight. You can put oppression on top.
9. Measure the resulting juice and pour into a saucepan.
10. For 600 g of juice, take 450 grams of sugar.
11. Put the saucepan on the fire and cook until the sugar dissolves.
12. Then make the fire stronger and cook for another 15 minutes.
13. At the end of cooking, remove the foam.
14. Pour the jam into jars and store no more than six months.

If you are going to cook blackberry jam, then check out the very useful recommendations:

• For children, pitted jam is usually prepared. To do this, after washing and cleaning, you need to hold the blackberries in hot water for about 3 minutes, and then wipe them through a sieve.
• If you want the fruits in the jam to be whole, then you cannot wash them before cooking, and during cooking you need to stir very gently with a wooden spoon.
• It is desirable to cook jam in a wide container, so excess water evaporates faster and the structure of the berries is minimally destroyed.
• Jam will be more aromatic if you put orange or lemon zest in it at the beginning of cooking.
• In addition to citrus zest, sprigs of mint are put in blackberry jam. It has a wonderful refreshing scent. Cinnamon sticks and vanilla are also used as flavoring additives.
• In order for the jam to have an excellent smell and taste, it cannot be boiled for a long time. It is better to cook in several stages with alternate infusion and cooling.
• Those types of blackberry jam that require minimal heat treatment must be stored in the refrigerator. And dense jams that boil for a long time can be rolled up with lids and stored at room temperature.

blackberry benefits

Housewives prefer to cook blackberry jam not only because of its pleasant taste, but also because of the great benefits of this delicacy. Such a sweet dessert will help:

• strengthen the walls of blood vessels;
• cope with colds faster;
• increase immunity;
• improve the condition of pneumonia;
• "bring down" the temperature with acute respiratory infections;
• accelerate the treatment of cystitis and kidney disease.

Compared to the more popular varieties of raspberry and strawberry jam, blackberry jam is much less common, but it is absolutely not inferior to them in terms of usefulness. Prepare at least a couple of jars of this delicious dessert for the winter and you will be full of strength and health!

Here is a video recipe for a real summer in a jar. Next season I will definitely make this jam with blackberries:

Cooking time: 30 minutes + 2-3 hours for aging with sugar and breaks between boils

Yield -1.3 kg

Calorie content - 204 kcal

There are various ways to make blackberry jam. Blackberry jam is traditionally brewed with or without pits. There are also updated recipes. So, modern housewives cook,,. But if you are making jam for the winter and want it to turn out "berry to berry", it is preferable to choose the classic option - thick blackberry jam with whole berries. It is called thick because it is cooked without adding water and tends to gel when cooled.

Below is a recipe for thick blackberry jam with whole berries with a photo step by step. On cold winter days, the blackberry jam you prepared according to this recipe will remind everyone who tries it of summer.

How to make thick blackberry jam with whole berries at home

If you pay attention not only to taste, but also want to get the most useful product, it is preferable to use not garden, but forest berries, despite the fact that they are smaller and less juicy. When cooking blackberry berry jam with stones, it is important to maintain the integrity of the berries. At the same time, numerous seeds in blackberries do not spoil its taste. Jam from garden blackberries with stones is cooked in the same way as from wild berries. Pitted wild blackberry jam is more fragrant and thicker. The best jam is obtained from freshly picked berries.

If you buy berries, keep in mind: in order for the berries to remain intact and the jam to turn out tasty, the original product must consist of ripe and intact berries. Berries should look dry. If the berries are wet, it means that among them there are many damaged ones. Such blackberries sour very quickly and lose their nutritional value.

First of all, you need to sort through the berries in order to remove all unnecessary - accidentally fallen leaves, twigs, tails of berries, damaged berries. Then the blackberries must be washed and allowed to drain. You can make a delicious compote from crushed blackberries, or grind them with sugar.

For cooking blackberry jam, nickel-plated or enameled dishes without chips and damage are well suited - a basin or a wide saucepan.

Having shifted the prepared berries into a bowl in which the jam will be cooked, they must be covered with sugar and left for 1-2 hours so that the berries release juice.

When the granulated sugar takes on a pinkish-purple hue, the dishes with the future blackberry jam must be put on low heat until the sugar is completely dissolved. In this case, it is necessary to ensure that the granulated sugar at the bottom of the dish does not burn. To do this, periodically lightly shake the dishes with a mixture of blackberries and sugar. If you want the blackberry jam to be not very thick, then before putting the dishes with the mixture on the fire, you can add 50 g (a quarter cup) of water there. This whole process will take about 10 minutes.

After the granulated sugar is completely dissolved in the blackberry juice, the dishes are removed from the heat and allowed to cool. This may take no more than an hour. But if you are busy, you can start further cooking blackberry jam and a little later.

Next, the preparation of blackberry jam should be put on a strong fire for 15-20 minutes. This allows you to get blackberry jam with a bright, saturated color. But at the same time, it is important to ensure that it does not burn and the blackberries remain intact and do not fall apart. To do this, the jam must be periodically stirred lightly, so that the berries are evenly distributed in the bowl. Abundantly formed foam during the cooking process can not be removed. By the end of cooking, its amount will greatly decrease. By lightly shaking the dish with jam, the remaining foam will collect on the surface of the jam in the middle, then it can be easily removed with a slotted spoon.

You can determine the readiness of blackberry jam with whole berries in the following way: you need to drop the syrup on a plate and wait for the drop to cool. If the jam is ready, the drop on the plate does not spread.

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If the drop spreads when the plate is slightly tilted, then the jam is not yet ready.

How to sterilize blackberry jam jars

While the jam is being cooked, or in advance, it is necessary to prepare jars for its storage. The easiest way to sterilize jars can be done with a regular kitchen kettle. We carefully process the inside of well-washed cans with hot steam coming from the spout of a boiling kettle. Fill jar lids with boiling water and keep on fire for 10 minutes. After sterilization, the jars and lids are laid upside down on a dry towel.

The finished jam is poured into prepared, sterilized warm jars hot. Jars of jam are quickly and tightly closed with a lid.

As it cools, the jam should thicken. To enhance the tightness of the lid, which is important when storing jam until winter, the neck of the jar along the edge of the lid can be additionally wrapped with a tape of ordinary stationery tape. After cooling, blackberry jam is placed in a cool place.

Thick blackberry jam with whole berries is ready for storage for the winter, bon appetit!

What are the ways to make thick blackberry jam

Blackberry jam with whole berries with gelfix

Pour the prepared blackberries and sugar mixed with the contents of one pack of gelfix (1: 1) into the saucepan, cover with a lid and let stand until the berries release the juice. On high heat, the mixture is brought to a boil and boiled for 3-5 minutes, after which it is poured hot into jars.

Blackberry jam with whole berries and lemon

To prevent blackberry jam from being candied and having a light citrus aroma, at the final stage of its cooking, squeezed juice of half a lemon can be added to the jam.

Blackberry jam with whole berries and spices

If you like the taste and aroma of crushed cardamom, you can add it to blackberry jam with whole berries at the last stage of its preparation.

It is so nice to feast on preparations of delicious fruits and berries in winter! Preserve their beneficial properties, make an appetizing treat for the everyday table, a recipe for making jam will help. Adults and children like this delicacy, it is suitable as a dessert for a festive table. Especially tasty will be jam made using sweet and sour berries - blackberries. Completely blackberry jam or a product made with the addition of other ingredients will definitely please the household. Below you will learn how to make this delicacy in several ways.

How to make blackberry jam: recipes with photos

Blackberries are not only used as the main ingredient for jam, but also frozen. A tasty berry is extremely useful due to its composition, which includes many vitamins (C, B, PP, K, E), organic acids, mineral and pectin substances, tannins, fiber and other components. Therefore, blackberries become indispensable in winter, when the body lacks trace elements to fight diseases. The berry copes well with colds, lowers the temperature, eases the course of pneumonia, improves immunity, strengthens blood vessels.

The first step in making delicious jam will be the right choice of berries and its preparation. It depends on how the jam will turn out in the end. The season for blackberries to appear in large quantities is at the end of August, at which time you can buy a lot of berries at a not too high price. A few rules for the selection and preparation of the product for winter harvesting:

• When choosing berries, give preference to ripe, firm fruits. Softened, bruised blackberries are also good if you want to make a thin jam that involves crushing them.
• Take only ripe fruits. Unlike some other berries, blackberries are not able to ripen at home. Jam from prematurely harvested fruits will turn out sour.
• Before cooking, treat the berries well from adhering debris, leaves, dust. Then wash the product under a kitchen shower, such a spray of water cannot damage the structure of the blackberry. You need to remove the ponytails after cleansing with water. Do this in gentle, circular motions so as not to damage the surface of the blackberries.

A separate important step should be the sterilization of jars, thanks to which the jam will retain all the nutrients and not deteriorate. To do this, take glass containers of a suitable size, fill a saucepan with water, boil, put a grate on it. Place jars on top. Keep fifteen minutes while they are steam sterilized. The lids also need to be sterilized before twisting the jam. Below you will find some interesting recipes for preparing delicious treats for the home table.

From frozen berries

Frozen blackberries are a storehouse of nutrients and trace elements. If you did not have time to cook delicious jam from fresh berries in the summer, you can use a frozen product. Jam will turn out no less tasty and nutritious. You need to freeze whole blackberries, packaged in bags - this will allow you to quickly cook small portions of jam. To make the finished delicacy even more delicious, add strawberries there. What ingredients are needed to make jam:

• Half a kilo of frozen strawberries and blackberries.
• A kilogram of sugar.
• Two tablespoons of lemon juice.

How to cook:

1. Place frozen berries in a bowl. Sprinkle them with sugar and let stand for a few hours. The berries should melt, and the sugar should dissolve. Blackberries and strawberries will release a lot of juice, so scoop out about a third of the glass.
2. Add some lemon juice to the resulting mass. Thanks to him, the jam will acquire a pleasant sourness.
3. Put the pan on a small fire, wait until the berry mass boils. After boiling, make the fire stronger, cook for about five minutes.
4. Please note that the pan must be with high sides. This is due to the peculiarity of such jam during manufacture: during a five-minute boil over high heat, the mass rises high, reaching almost the very edges of the dishes. To prevent the jam from leaking out, it is better to use a deep saucepan.
5. Let the mass cool down. Transfer to selected container. If you eat it in the near future, you can not roll it up. Delicious product is ready!

Seedless

Seedless Blackberry Jam is everyone's favorite dish that will be a great addition to breakfast. Delicate, astringent jam you can smear on bread, serve with casseroles, pies, use as. The total cooking time for this product is three hours, and the result is worth it. Sweet pitted sour jam will please the household with its pleasant taste and texture. What ingredients are needed for a delicious treat:

• A kilogram of blackberries.
• A kilogram of sugar.
• 400 milliliters of water.

Jam Recipe:

1. Peel ripe, fresh berries. Remove dirt, remove ponytails and leaves, if any. Divide all fruits in half.
2. Heat water in a saucepan with high sides. When the liquid becomes hot, but not yet boiling, pour one part of the blackberry into it. Maintaining a hot temperature, keep the berries on fire for about three minutes.
3. Let the mass cool down. Take a sieve, push still warm berries through it. This is necessary in order to get rid of the bones that will make the jam crispy.
4. Take a large basin, pour the resulting pitted slurry there. Heat the container over low heat, let the blackberries simmer for about five minutes. After the time has elapsed, add the rest of the product along with sugar.
5. The time spent on further cooking is determined individually. Remove from heat and roll into jars when you are satisfied with the consistency of the resulting jam.

fresh blackberry jam recipe

Delicious jam can be prepared using both fresh and frozen blackberries. However, a berry recently taken from a bush is much more useful than a product from a freezer. Fruits are especially tasty in combination with other ingredients - apples, pears, currants, plums, oranges. Below you will find a recipe for currant jam, which has a pleasant sweet and sour taste and astringent texture. What ingredients will be needed:

• A kilogram of blackberries.
• A kilogram of sugar.
• Three hundred milliliters of thick juice of fresh currants (about half a kilogram of berries will be needed for cooking).
• A bud of cloves (optional).

Crafting Recipe:

1. Carefully sort out the currant, rinse it. Put in a blender, grind well. Pass through a sieve to get rid of the seeds. The result is a thick sour juice.
2. Pre-treat blackberries from dirt, transfer to a container, cover with sugar. Top with currant juice. Add cloves, let stand for about a day.
3. Heat the mass, keep on fire until the sugar is completely dissolved. Let cool and refrigerate overnight.
4. Bring the berries to a boil, hold for five minutes, then roll them into sterilized jars.

Five minutes with lemon

To make the jam acquire a pleasant sour taste, use citrus fruits - oranges, lemons - as additional ingredients. They go great with sweet berries. The finished delicacy is suitable for spreading sandwiches, making delicious teas, and filling for yeast baked goods. What components are needed:

• Kilogram of berries.
• One and a half kilograms of sugar.
• Lemon.

Recipe for five minutes:

1. Sprinkle the fruits with sugar in a one to one ratio. Let it brew for about ten hours (leave overnight).
2. Drain the juice that comes out after insisting into a saucepan. Bring it to a boil, add the rest of the sugar. Boil for no more than ten minutes, periodically removing the foam. Remove from the stove, cool to sixty degrees.
3. Pour in blackberries, squeeze the juice of one lemon. Bring to a boil, cook for about eight minutes.
4. Roll the finished product into sterilized jars.

With apples in a slow cooker

Apple-blackberry jam is a tasty and healthy product that will be a welcome addition to your daily menu. In winter, delicious fruits and berries will become an indispensable source of vitamins and microelements. This jam can be served for dessert or instead of an afternoon snack. What components are needed:

• 800 grams of apples.
• 300 grams of blackberries.
• 1.2 kilograms of sugar.
• Two multi-glasses of water.

Recipe:

1. Wash the apples thoroughly, remove the skin. Fold the peel into the multicooker bowl, fill with clean liquid. In the “Steaming” mode, cook it for twenty minutes, then strain and pour the broth into a separate container.
2. Cut the fruit into slices, remembering to remove the core with seeds. Transfer the apples to the empty bowl of the device.
3. Add sugar. Set the "Extinguishing" mode for one hour.
4. Pour the decoction into the prepared mass. Add blackberries. For sixty-five minutes, set the "Baking" mode, you need to cook with the lid open.
5. Pour the finished product into sterilized jars and roll up.

With plums and cloves

Appetizing blackberry jam will become tastier if you supplement it with other fruits and berries. Households will especially like the product using several components - plums, raspberries, blackberries, elderberries, lemons. To add a spicy flavor to the jam, you can use spices, such as cloves. Ingredients for delicious jam:

• 450 grams of small plums and blackberries.
• 230 grams of elderberry and raspberry.
• Juice with pits of two lemons.
• 1.3 kilos of sugar.
• Cloves (optional).

Recipe:

1. Wash the berries (except raspberries), put them in a saucepan. Add chopped and pitted plums there, pour in lemon juice and fold the pits. Add a couple of sprigs of cloves. Pour the water over the ingredients so that it slightly covers them.
2. Turn on medium heat, bring to a boil. Cook for about an hour over low heat. At the end of the cooking time, soften the ingredients in a saucepan.
3. Take a large metal bowl, put a sieve with cheesecloth over it. Put the resulting mass there and leave to drain overnight.
4. Measure the juice, pour into a saucepan. For 600 grams you will need about 450 grams of sugar. Put the container and cook until the sugar product dissolves.
5. Then increase the heat, cook for another quarter of an hour.
6. Collect the foam, remove from the stove.
7. Pour berry jam into pre-sterilized jars, store for up to six months.

How much to cook

Those who first encounter cooking blackberry jam wonder how long it will take to cook. It all depends on the method you choose to make the jam, as well as the presence of other ingredients. To make the jam thick, the cooking time can be an hour or two, and the product with whole berries is cooked for five to ten minutes. Choose the recipe you like best and follow the photo instructions to make the perfect jam.

Useful properties of blackberry jam

It is known that during heat treatment, fruits, berries and vegetables lose their beneficial qualities, which are so necessary for the body. Therefore, some prefer not to make jam, but to make jam using fresh ingredients. From the first video you will learn how to keep the maximum amount of vitamins in blackberries and other fruits used during cooking. Ready jam will turn out tasty, nutritious and healthy.

In the second video, the presenter shows how to make blackberry jam in a simple and quick way. This option is suitable for those who make jam for the first time and do not know how to handle this berry. Blackberry jam rolled into jars will be an excellent dish for dessert, and also a good helper for possible colds in winter, intestinal diseases.

Blackberry-raspberry without cooking

The easiest recipe

It is so nice to feast on preparations of delicious fruits and berries in winter! Preserve their beneficial properties, make an appetizing treat for the everyday table, a recipe for making jam will help. Adults and children like this delicacy, it is suitable as a dessert for a festive table. Especially tasty will be jam made using sweet and sour berries - blackberries. Completely blackberry jam or a product made with the addition of other ingredients will definitely please the household. Below you will learn how to make this delicacy in several ways.

How to make blackberry jam: recipes with photos

Blackberries are not only used as the main ingredient for jam, but also frozen. A tasty berry is extremely useful due to its composition, which includes many vitamins (C, B, PP, K, E), organic acids, mineral and pectin substances, tannins, fiber and other components. Therefore, blackberries become indispensable in winter, when the body lacks trace elements to fight diseases. The berry copes well with colds, lowers the temperature, eases the course of pneumonia, improves immunity, strengthens blood vessels.

The first step in making delicious jam will be the right choice of berries and its preparation. It depends on how the jam will turn out in the end. The season for blackberries to appear in large quantities is at the end of August, at which time you can buy a lot of berries at a not too high price. A few rules for the selection and preparation of the product for winter harvesting:

• When choosing berries, give preference to ripe, firm fruits. Softened, bruised blackberries are also good if you want to make a thin jam that involves crushing them.
• Take only ripe fruits. Unlike some other berries, blackberries are not able to ripen at home. Jam from prematurely harvested fruits will turn out sour.
• Before cooking, treat the berries well from adhering debris, leaves, dust. Then wash the product under a kitchen shower, such a spray of water cannot damage the structure of the blackberry. You need to remove the ponytails after cleansing with water. Do this in gentle, circular motions so as not to damage the surface of the blackberries.

A separate important step should be the sterilization of jars, thanks to which the jam will retain all the nutrients and not deteriorate. To do this, take glass containers of a suitable size, fill a saucepan with water, boil, put a grate on it. Place jars on top. Keep fifteen minutes while they are steam sterilized. The lids also need to be sterilized before twisting the jam. Below you will find some interesting recipes for preparing delicious treats for the home table.

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From frozen berries

Frozen blackberries are a storehouse of nutrients and trace elements. If you did not have time to cook delicious jam from fresh berries in the summer, you can use a frozen product. Jam will turn out no less tasty and nutritious. You need to freeze whole blackberries, packaged in bags - this will allow you to quickly cook small portions of jam. To make the finished delicacy even more delicious, add strawberries there. What ingredients are needed to make jam:

• Half a kilo of frozen strawberries and blackberries.
• A kilogram of sugar.
• Two tablespoons of lemon juice.

1. Place frozen berries in a bowl. Sprinkle them with sugar and let stand for a few hours. The berries should melt, and the sugar should dissolve. Blackberries and strawberries will release a lot of juice, so scoop out about a third of the glass.
2. Add some lemon juice to the resulting mass. Thanks to him, the jam will acquire a pleasant sourness.
3. Put the pan on a small fire, wait until the berry mass boils. After boiling, make the fire stronger, cook for about five minutes.
4. Please note that the pan must be with high sides. This is due to the peculiarity of such jam during manufacture: during a five-minute boil over high heat, the mass rises high, reaching almost the very edges of the dishes. To prevent the jam from leaking out, it is better to use a deep saucepan.
5. Let the mass cool down. Transfer to selected container. If you eat it in the near future, you can not roll it up. Delicious product is ready!

Seedless

Seedless Blackberry Jam is everyone's favorite dish that will be a great addition to breakfast. Delicate, astringent jam you can smear on bread, serve with casseroles, pies, use as a filling for pies. The total cooking time for this product is three hours, and the result is worth it. Sweet pitted sour jam will please the household with its pleasant taste and texture. What ingredients are needed for a delicious treat:

Jam Recipe:

1. Peel ripe, fresh berries. Remove dirt, remove ponytails and leaves, if any. Divide all fruits in half.
2. Heat water in a saucepan with high sides. When the liquid becomes hot, but not yet boiling, pour one part of the blackberry into it. Maintaining a hot temperature, keep the berries on fire for about three minutes.
3. Let the mass cool down. Take a sieve, push still warm berries through it. This is necessary in order to get rid of the bones that will make the jam crispy.
4. Take a large basin, pour the resulting pitted slurry there. Heat the container over low heat, let the blackberries simmer for about five minutes. After the time has elapsed, add the rest of the product along with sugar.
5. The time spent on further cooking is determined individually. Remove from heat and roll into jars when you are satisfied with the consistency of the resulting jam.

fresh blackberry jam recipe

Delicious jam can be prepared using both fresh and frozen blackberries. However, a berry recently taken from a bush is much more useful than a product from a freezer. Fruits are especially tasty in combination with other ingredients - apples, pears, currants, plums, oranges. Below you will find a recipe for currant jam, which has a pleasant sweet and sour taste and astringent texture. What ingredients will be needed:

• A kilogram of blackberries.
• A kilogram of sugar.
• Three hundred milliliters of thick juice of fresh currants (about half a kilogram of berries will be needed for cooking).
• A bud of cloves (optional).

Blackberry jam - recipes for the winter, the benefits of berries, photos

Blackberry jam: recipes for preparing frozen and fresh berries for the winter. Find out how much to cook dessert, what useful properties it has.

Frozen strawberry and blackberry jam in 5 minutes

If you didn’t have time to make jam for the winter, then it doesn’t matter, you can cook it as needed from frozen berries, and not only strawberries. In general, I got the idea that in the berry season it is not necessary to stand at the stove for days, cook jam, wash, sterilize jars (you also need to find them in large numbers).

You can buy a large freezer and just freeze all the berries in bags, then in the winter I took out a batch of berries, cooked jam, when it ends, boil more. I will most likely do this next season, but for now I’m making jam from purchased frozen strawberries with the addition of blackberries.

In general, this jam is cooked very quickly, according to this five-minute strawberry jam recipe. One caveat - a frozen berry gives a lot of juice when it thaws, so if you boil the jam for only 5 minutes, it will remain watery.

Options: 1 . you can eat and such liquidish, my husband loves this. 2. you can boil two or three times for five minutes (after each boiling, the jam cools). 3 . you can drain a little excess juice before cooking - I usually do this and then in 5 minutes of boiling the jam will thicken normally.

Ingredients for making frozen berry jam

For that, to make frozen strawberry and blackberry jam in 5 minutes I needed:

frozen blackberries - 0.5 kg.

sugar - 1 kg (or a little less)

lemon juice - 2 tbsp

Frozen Strawberry and Blackberry Jam Recipe

I put frozen berries (strawberries and blackberries) in a saucepan.

I covered the berry with sugar and left it for 2-3 hours for the berry to melt, the sugar to dissolve.

Here you can see that the berry has released a lot of juice, about a third of a glass can be scooped out.

I put the pan on a slow fire first and brought the mass to a boil. As soon as the strawberry jam boiled, I turned on the fire on a strong one and cooked for exactly 5 minutes.

Take a larger pot, as the jam rises a lot, almost to the edges of the pan. The trick is that it should boil for 5 minutes, but over high heat. I don't clean up the cake.

It is better to cool the finished jam, put it in a jar and put it in the refrigerator.

Here is one of the options for making jam from frozen strawberries or other berries. If you have any advice, I will be glad to learn something new.

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How to cook delicious jam from frozen strawberries and blackberries, see the recipe with step by step photos

Recipes for making blackberry jam for the winter

Preserving jam from various fruits and berries has always been and remains a favorite pastime of real hostesses. Blackberry jam is a very tasty and mouth-watering dessert that will not leave anyone indifferent due to its amazing aroma. In addition, they can be enjoyed not only in the fruiting period. To do this, it is worth making blackberry jam for the winter - there are a wide variety of recipes for this. About them and about the benefits of goodies in more detail.

About the benefits of jam

By itself, blackberries have a number of useful properties, due to the high content of vitamins, minerals and organic acids in their composition.

The benefits of jam are somewhat abstract, since they depend on the correctness of the cooking process. That is, the longer it is treated with high temperatures, the less useful substances become.

Properly prepared blackberry jam includes the following beneficial properties:

• anti-inflammatory effect due to the presence of phenolic compounds;
• strengthening the walls of blood vessels;
• protective effect due to the presence of malic acid, nitrogenous, tannic and mineral compounds.

It has long been known that such winter harvesting is able to cope with diseases such as SARS and pneumonia.

The easiest recipes for making blackberry jam

Preserving jam, as a rule, always takes a lot of time. But this is always compensated, because in winter it is nice to open a jar of delicious and fragrant dessert, reminiscent of summer.

Jam without cooking

This simple recipe calls for the following ingredients:

Cooking details:

1. For cooking, it is necessary to select only whole, not damaged berries.
2. Glass jars and lids for tight twisting must be sterilized beforehand.
3. Selected berries should be thoroughly washed in cold water, if necessary, it is also important to remove all tails.
4. Crush the berries in a mortar, turning them into a homogeneous porridge, then add sugar, mix thoroughly and set aside for 2 hours. During this period, it is necessary to periodically mix the composition.
5. After the specified time has elapsed, it is necessary to decompose the mass into prepared containers and sprinkle with sugar on top (at least 1 tablespoon).
6. Tightly close the jam containers with lids and place in the refrigerator.

Important! In order for the jam to be preserved until the winter period, it is necessary to carefully select the berries on which there must be no damage, otherwise even sugar is not able to preserve the jam.

Jam "5 minutes"

Five-minute jam will also not be too difficult in the process. For him, you must first prepare:

• ripened fresh blackberries - 1000 g;
• sugar - 1000 g.

How to make jam 5 minutes:

1. Prepared blackberries should be washed well and left for a while in a colander to drain water.
2. Put in a prepared container for cooking jam, cover with sugar and cover with a kitchen towel. Leave for 5 hours. During this period, good blackberry juice should form in large volume.
3. Carefully drain the resulting juice, put on the stove and bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes.
4. Put the berries in this syrup and again bring the composition on the stove to a boil, boil for 5 minutes.
5. After decomposing the resulting delicacy into pre-sterilized containers.
6. Close them tightly with special lids, cover the containers with a warm cloth and leave it like that until it cools completely.

frozen blackberries

For some reason, in the summer there may not be enough time to preserve the berries, so you can freeze them, and then make jam. Frozen blackberry jam is no less tasty and healthy.

It will require the following components:

• frozen blackberries - ½ kg;
• sugar - 1 kg;
• lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l.

How to prepare a delicious dessert:

1. Put the frozen berries in a prepared container and cover with sugar. Leave for 3 hours.
2. As a result, the berries will begin to melt, and a lot of juice will form. It is necessary to immediately select 1/3 cup of juice.
3. Lemon juice must be added to the mass.
4. Put a container with berries on the stove, make a fire of minimal intensity. Bring to a boil and increase the intensity of the fire. Boil for 5 minutes.
5. Remove from the stove, leave to cool, and then decompose into prepared containers and seal tightly.

Attention! In order to cook such a jam, it is necessary to use a container with high sides, since when boiling on a fire of high intensity, the mass will begin to rise.

Each, no matter how simple it may seem, the preparation of blackberry jam requires a lot of diligence and attention, so do not relax, but show all your skills, which will be rewarded with a tasty and healthy dessert.

Jam with citrus

Recipes with lemon allow you to get delicious blackberry jam with an amazing aroma and unforgettable sourness. To prepare one of these options you will need:

• sugar - 1000 g;
• whole fresh lemon - 1 pc.

Step-by-step recipe for preparing jam:

1. Put the prepared blackberries into a container for cooking jam and knead it well with a potato masher.
2. Remove the zest and juice from the lemon, and add these ingredients to the mashed berries.
3. Add the prepared amount of berries there and place the container with all the contents on the stove.
4. Heat the composition over a medium-intensity fire, while constantly stirring it until the added sugar is completely dissolved.
5. Then increase the intensity of the fire to the maximum. Boil the boiling composition for 10 minutes.
6. Pour immediately into pre-sterilized jars and seal tightly.
7. Pour water into a large container, place the jars there and sterilize the jam at the boiling temperature.

Note! In the event that the berries are too small and dry, it is worth grinding them with a fine sieve. Then return half of the separated seeds to the ground pitted berries, and discard the second part.

Blackberry and orange

Jam with orange also turns out to be very unusual and tasty. In order to prepare it you will need:

• fresh blackberries - 1000 g;
• oranges - 400 g;
• sugar - 1000 g;
• lemon - 1 pc.

How to cook and how much to cook jam:

1. Peel the skin off the prepared oranges. Squeeze out all the juice into a separate container. Do the same procedure with the prepared lemon.
2. Add sugar to the learned juice and heat the composition on the stove until it is completely dissolved. Leave to cool.
3. Grind all the blackberries with a fine sieve and add the resulting mass to the orange-lemon juice. Leave for 2 hours.
4. Then place on the stove and cook, constantly stirring the composition, for half an hour.
5. Remove from stove and leave to cool.
6. Arrange in pre-sterilized jars and seal tightly.

Recipe with raspberries

It is impossible not to note the amazing combination of blackberry and raspberry jam. The color of the resulting dessert turns out to be saturated purple, and the aroma will amaze no less than the taste. For dessert, you will need a set of the following products:

• fresh blackberries - 1000 g;
• fresh raspberries - 1000 g;
• sugar - 2000

How to make jam:

1. Put the raspberries in a container and cover with half of the prepared sugar. Stir very gently and leave overnight in a place with a cool temperature.
2. Do the same with blackberries. During this time, the berries will give juice.
3. Drain the resulting juice from the berries into a container and put on the stove to heat. Bring to a boil, sugar should be completely dissolved.
4. Then put the berries in the berry syrup and cook for five minutes on a fire of minimum intensity, constantly removing the newly formed foam.
5. Remove from stove and leave to cool completely.
6. Then again send the container with jam to the stove and cook for another 5 minutes.
7. Treat glass containers with boiling water and spread the jam in them and close it tightly with lids. Use refrigerator for storage.

Note! According to this recipe, jam with whole berries is obtained, which allows you to feel the aroma and taste of summer even in winter cold.

Recipe with apples

Blackberries also pair very well with apples. In order to make jam from apples and blackberries you will need:

• fresh blackberries - 400 g;
• fresh apples - 400 g;
• dried lavender - 1 tbsp. l.;
• sugar - 250 g.

How to cook a fragrant treat:

1. Berries should be thoroughly and carefully rinsed under running water. Place in a colander and leave to drain excess liquid.
2. During this time, you can sterilize jars and lids.
3. Apples also need to be washed, peeled off and cut out the cotyledons. Cut into small pieces.
4. In a joint bowl, mix blackberries and chopped apples, sprinkle with sugar. Send this container to the stove with a fire of maximum intensity. Once the mixture has reached boiling point, lower the heat to medium.
5. Boil for 3 minutes, add dried lavender and cook for another 5 minutes.
6. Immediately spread the jam in prepared containers and seal tightly with lids.

Important! The secret to storing cooked treats is that for this you need to use only a darkened cool room, but not more than for 1 year.

How to make jam

Blackberry jam prepared according to this recipe turns out to be a stunning pomegranate color and dense in composition. It will require:

• fresh blackberries - 1000 g;
• fresh apples - 200 g;
• purified water - 300 ml;
• sugar - 1000 g.

Dessert recipe:

1. Rinse and peel the berries, and then warm them in hot water for 3 minutes.
2. Then grind the berries with a fine sieve in order to remove all the seeds.
3. Wash and peel apples, remove seeds and cut into thin slices.
4. Pour blackberry puree into a saucepan and add apples with water. Put on the stove and boil for 5 minutes.
5. Add sugar and cook for 1 hour.
6. When hot, pour the jam into sterilized jars, leave to cool, and then tightly close the lids.

Interesting! Apples must be added to jam to obtain a well-gelled mass, which is very important for such a dessert.

Jam in a slow cooker

To simplify the task, it is worth preparing blackberry jam in a slow cooker. This process will take a little time, but the result is a delicious thick jam that can be consumed in its pure form, or can be used as a filling for pies. For preparation you will need:

Step by step about cooking goodies in a slow cooker:

1. Sort the blackberries, separating the spoiled specimens and ponytails, wash them in a container and put in a colander to remove the accumulated liquid.
2. Then put them in a multicooker bowl along with sugar. Cover the bowl with a kitchen towel and leave overnight.
3. In the morning, put the device into the "Extinguishing" mode and set the time - 60 minutes.
4. After the mixture reaches the boiling point, it will be necessary to remove the resulting foam.
5. Also, during the cooking process, it is necessary to mix the composition from time to time.
6. Turn off the multicooker and leave the mass there for 12 hours.
7. Then again, in the same mode, bring the composition to the boiling point.
8. Arrange the resulting hot jam in pre-sterilized containers and close hermetically with sterilized lids.

To store the cooked jam, you should use a dry, darkened room with a low temperature.

All the proposed recipes for making blackberry jam for the winter allow you to get a tasty, fragrant and healthy product that will appeal not only to adults, but also to children. Therefore, do not be lazy and be sure to pick up delicious berries in the summer.

Blackberry jam - the joy of taste, a lot of benefits and a great mood!

Blackberry is a very interesting ingredient that opens up the widest field for imagination in front of culinary specialists. It has a bright taste, which is dominated by sweet notes, but at the same time there is also a spicy light sourness, which balances the flavor bouquet. Therefore, it is not surprising that blackberry jam turns out to be very fragrant and you want to eat it again and again. Kids really like to spread it on a slice of fresh bread or just gobble it up on both cheeks, drinking hot tea.

About the benefits of the product

Before making blackberry jam, we suggest considering what its use will bring us:

• this berry contains a huge number of vitamins and each of them carries a certain load - vitamin A is responsible for excellent vision, vitamins C and E strengthen the immune system, vitamin PP normalizes the functioning of the heart muscle and regulates cholesterol levels, B vitamins improve the flow of metabolic processes ;
• minerals, and these are magnesium, potassium, manganese, iron, copper and phosphorus, help prevent the development of oncological diseases, as well as vascular diseases, they normalize the functioning of the nervous system and contribute to the speedy recovery from acute respiratory diseases;
• with blackberries, intestinal work will be established, as it contains valuable organic acids, including malic, citric, tartaric, salicylic. Thanks to these substances, juice secretion occurs in the gastrointestinal tract and the digestion process is significantly improved.

Important! However, it should be remembered that overripe berries will somewhat weaken the stool, while unripe ones, on the contrary, will fix it.

Subtleties of cooking

1. In order to cook blackberry jam for the winter without stones, the fruits must first be held in hot water (

90°C) for 3 minutes, then rub them through a fine sieve. As a result, all the bones will remain in the sieve.

• If you want to keep the fruits whole, then you should not wash them before cooking, but during cooking, stir very gently with a large wooden spoon. In this case, it is necessary to cook jam in a wide bowl.

Advice! To ensure that the blackberries remain intact, it is best not to interfere with the jam, but to shake the bowl with your hands in a circle.

So, let's move on to the main thing - recipes for blackberry blanks for the winter.

Seedless

1. Separate the berries from the stalks, wash and dry thoroughly.
2. Pour water into a container and heat it to 90°C.
3. Put blackberries in hot water and leave for 3 minutes.

Important! In this case, the gas supply must be minimal so that the mass does not boil!

Classic recipe

To prepare blackberry jam according to the classic recipe, you need to prepare only two ingredients: blackberries and sugar, which are taken in equal proportions.

1. The berries must be carefully sorted out, spoiled and wrinkled, washed and discarded in a colander.
2. After we shift the blackberries into a saucepan or a bowl for cooking and add sugar.
3. The berry-sugar mixture should stand for about half an hour - this is necessary in order for the blackberries to release the juice.
4. Next, place the container on the stove and slowly heat the contents, stirring it constantly.
5. Boil for 30 minutes, pour into sterilized jars and seal tightly.

Five-minute jam

Five-minute blackberry jam for the winter got its name due to the very fast cooking process.

• 900 g blackberries;
• 900 g of granulated sugar;
• 3 g citric acid.

1. Carefully sort the berries, rinse and drain with water.
2. In a wide bowl, lay the fruits in layers, sprinkling each with sugar, leave for 5-6 hours.
3. After the specified time, set the basin on the fire and bring the mass to a boil.
4. After 5 minutes, add citric acid, after another minute, turn off the gas supply.

With oranges

Blackberries can be prepared for the winter by combining them with citrus fruits, as in the following recipe.

1. Sort the berries, separate the pedicels, rinse and dry on a towel.
2. Wash the oranges thoroughly, cut off the zest and chop it as finely as possible.
3. Squeeze the juice from the oranges and pour it into a container in which the jam will be prepared.
4. Add sugar, zest and bring the mixture to a boil over low heat, stirring constantly.
5. Cool the syrup, put berries in it and leave for 2 hours.
6. After the specified time, set the pan on a small fire and cook the jam for 30 minutes.
7. 5 minutes before cooking, add lemon juice.

with apples

• 900 g of berries;
• 900 g of apples, preferably sour varieties;
• one and a half kg of sugar;
• lemon;
• a tablespoon of butter;
• cardamom;
• 300 ml of water;
• 100 g of liquor.

1. Rinse the apples well, divide into four parts, remove the core and chop into thin slices.
2. Place the apples in a saucepan, add water and blanch for about 10 minutes until they are soft.
3. Squeeze juice from lemon and add to apples.
4. Put the blackberries and cook the mixture for 10 minutes, stirring constantly and removing the foam.
5. Add liquor and 3 g of cardamom, boil for another 3 minutes.
6. Remove the pan from the stove, put the oil, mix the contents, remove the film, cool the jam.
7. Pour dessert into prepared jars, put a sheet of parchment on the neck of each and close with polyethylene lids.

with bananas

1. Berries should be washed and cleaned from the stalks.
2. Place fruit on paper towel to drain excess liquid.
3. Transfer the prepared blackberries to a saucepan or basin, sprinkle with sugar and leave overnight.
4. Peel bananas, cut into small cubes.
5. Bring the blackberry mass to a boil and boil for 30 minutes.
6. Add bananas and cook for about 5-6 more minutes.
7. Pour the finished dessert into sterilized jars and store in the cold.

Blackberry jam has a lot of advantages, which include impeccable taste, great benefits, attractive aroma and appearance of the delicacy itself. This dessert is prepared for a relatively short time, which allows you to save valuable substances in full. Compared to traditional raspberry and strawberry jams, blackberry jam is much less common, but in terms of its benefits, it is in no way inferior to them. Prepare a few jars of this fragrant dessert for the winter and be healthy!

Blackberry jam - from a classic recipe to incredible combinations

Blackberry jam is a very appetizing dessert with an amazing aroma and impeccable taste. Let's cook it together.

Blackberry, although it is a close relative of raspberries, has its own specifics. Therefore, before you cook blackberry jam according to the principles of classical methods, you should familiarize yourself with a number of rules that can significantly affect the quality of the final result. The right approach will allow not only to prepare a delicious dessert for the winter, but also endow it with useful, almost healing properties. It can be used not only as a filling for desserts or topping for sweet sandwiches. It will serve as the basis for medicinal infusions, compotes, restorative teas.

How to cook blackberry jam to keep its benefits?

Blackberry-based preparations for the winter can turn even an exquisite soufflé or a classic cheesecake into a healthy dessert. The component, unique in its chemical composition, has several positive properties at once:

• It strengthens the walls of blood vessels, prevents a decrease in their tone and an increase in tissue permeability.
• Increases the body's resistance, thereby preventing the development of colds. For this reason, blackberry jam is recommended to be consumed in winter and during the change of seasons.
• Reduces the severity of inflammatory processes, even if they develop against the background of pneumonia.
• It leads to a decrease in body temperature in acute respiratory infections and acute respiratory viral infections.
• If the product is cooked correctly, it will help fight cystitis and kidney ailments.

Before you start boiling blanks for the winter, you should familiarize yourself with a number of nuances:

1. Blackberries require very delicate handling, especially when the recipe calls for whole blackberries. Particular care must be taken when washing and stirring the product.
2. We must not forget that the seeds of these berries are denser than those of raspberries. If blackberry jam is intended for babies, it is best to rub the main component through a sieve beforehand.
3. Despite the fact that blackberries go well with other fruits, the best combination is to combine them with citrus fruits. In this case, not only sweet pulp or juice is used, but also zest, which gives the final product a soft bitterness.
4. Fans of desserts with a savory taste should pay attention to such spices as rosemary, cardamom and cloves. They are able to radically transform the aroma of the product.

To appreciate the excellent taste of a dessert, it is not necessary to heat it for a long time. This is another plus of the approach, which allows you to maximize the benefits of the product.

Traditional dessert recipes

If you want to prepare a clean product for the winter without the use of additional components, you should adopt the classic options for making blackberry jam. There are many of them and the end result in each case is different.

• Basic way. We take blackberries and granulated sugar in equal proportions. We sort, wash, get rid of the stalks, recline in a colander and let the liquid drain. Put the berries in a bowl, sprinkle with sugar and mix gently. We stand the workpiece for an hour so that it starts up the juice. Then we heat it over medium heat, cook for no more than half an hour, stirring regularly and close it for the winter.

Tip: In some recipes, to save time, it is recommended to use not regular sugar, but its cane counterpart. In fact, the approach to preparing dessert in this case is no different from the usual one, and it is undesirable to reduce the duration of processing berries.

• "Five Minute". For a kilogram of blackberries, we take three cups of sugar and half a teaspoon of citric acid. We wash the berries, clean them from the stalks and lay them out on paper towels to remove excess moisture. Then we spread the product in layers in a cooking container, while sprinkling with sugar. Leave for 5 hours to stand out the juice. Then bring the mass to a boil, constantly removing the foam and cook it for no more than 5 minutes. Before turning off the composition, add citric acid to it. This dessert is stored in glass jars under plastic lids.

• Jam in a slow cooker. We take blackberries and sugar in equal proportions. We sort the berries, wash and dry. We put it in a multicooker bowl, sprinkling with sugar. We leave the product for one hour, without heating, so that it gives juice. Then we set the "Extinguishing" mode and start the device for 20 minutes. Open the lid and let it cool for half an hour. To finally weld the workpiece, we keep it in the same mode for another 40 minutes. During this time, you need to stir the jam several times.

In addition, blackberry delicacy can be cooked without seeds. In this case, the berries should be slightly heated (in water or in a water bath) for 3 minutes. After that, the mass is ground through a sieve, sprinkled with the same amount of sugar and simmered until thick.

What is the best way to combine berries with other ingredients?

Fans of more complex flavors and rich aromas may like the following options for preparations for the winter:

• Blackberry and raspberry jam. We take blackberries and raspberries in equal proportions, and we need as much sugar as berries. The fruits are sorted, washed and laid out in separate bowls. In each, add half the volume of granulated sugar, mix and infuse for 10-12 hours. After that, we pour the juice with sugar residues into a separate container, mix the liquids and heat until the crystals are completely dissolved. We introduce the berries, stir and cook for no more than 6 minutes. We cool the mass naturally, then boil for another 5 minutes and put it in jars.

• Dessert with orange. For 1 kg of blackberries we take 1 kg of sugar, three large oranges, lemon. Remove the zest from the oranges and squeeze out the juice. We mix the resulting components with sugar and cook a thick syrup from the mass, which we leave to cool. We sort out the blackberries and wash them, put them in the cooled liquid and insist for 2 hours. Bring everything to a boil, stirring regularly, cook for 30 minutes. 10 minutes before the end of this period, pour lemon juice into the jam. We lay out the workpiece only after it has completely cooled down.

If the resulting products seem to lack acidity, you can add a little citric acid or citrus juice to them. Despite the fact that spices in blackberry preparations are not used too often, they can transform the usual taste of desserts. Particular attention should be paid to vanilla pods, cinnamon sticks and rosemary sprigs. They can simply be laid out on top of the workpiece already in the banks and removed after the containers are opened.