Wonderful Emerald Gooseberry Jam 🥣

Kitchen appliances and utensils: deep metal basin, pan with a lid, 250 ml measuring cup, ladle, cans, seaming lids, seaming key, toothpick, dishes of different sizes, spatula, stove.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. We wash 2 large enough handfuls of cherry leaves, put them in a saucepan and pour 5 glasses of water of 250 ml each.
   
2. Bring the water to a boil, then cover the pan with a lid. Stir the leaves over low heat for about 15 minutes.
   
3. At this time, we wash 2 kg of gooseberries. We remove all twigs and ponytails, leaving only the berries. We pierce medium and large in different places with a toothpick so that they do not burst during cooking.
   
4. When the infusion is ready, take out the cherry leaves from it and add 2 kg of sugar. We send to the stove and bring to a boil, sometimes stirring so that the sugar is completely dispersed. Leave some leaves, discard the rest.
   
5. The peeled berries are transferred to a deep metal basin. When the syrup boils, remove it from the heat and gently pour it into the same basin. This is best done with a ladle so that the berries do not burst due to the temperature difference.
   
6. After that, leave the berries in syrup for 5-6 hours. It is convenient to start making jam in the evening so that they stand overnight. We put the basin on the fire and on a very slow fire we bring its contents to a boil. Gently stir the berries so that they do not burst, especially when they warm up. After boiling, cook the mixture for 2-3 minutes.
   
7. Turn off the fire and leave the jam again for 6 hours. After that, repeat the procedure: heat, boil for 1-2 minutes, let it brew for 6 hours. Put the deferred cherry leaves in the jam. Bring it to a boil again and cook for 3-4 minutes. In any convenient way, we sterilize jars and sealing lids. Use a ladle to pour the jam into the jars and close it with a seaming key or manually (depending on the type of lid).
   
8. Ready jam, if left, can be stored at room temperature, as it contains a lot of sugar. It can be served in the same form and for the same purposes as any other.
   

Did you know?If you take a fully ripe gooseberry or gooseberry of red varieties, the jam will be amber. If the gooseberry is green and slightly unripe - emerald.

Video recipe

You can also watch the whole process of creating gooseberry jam in the video. In it you will see this business from beginning to end, appreciate the appearance and texture of the finished jam.