STRAWBERRY PRESERVES RUSSIAN STYLE
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By
Ellen Bales
@Starwriter
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In Russia the jam is prepared so that the fruit remains whole because Russians seldom spread their jam on bread or toast but prefer to eat it from a dish with a teaspoon at evening tea. They think of the berries and very sweet syrup as more of a fruit confection than something to make the bread taste good.
Recipe: The Best of Russian Cooking
Photo: bitebymichelle.com
Recipe: The Best of Russian Cooking
Photo: bitebymichelle.com
Ingredients
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1 lbfresh strawberries
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1/2 cgrain alcohol or gin
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4 csugar
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1 cwater
How to Make STRAWBERRY PRESERVES RUSSIAN STYLE
- Snip the leaves off the top of the strawberry without taking out the attached stem. Spread the berries out on a flat pan or dish. Sprinkle with the alcohol or gin, then with 1 cup of the sugar. Let the dish stand in the refrigerator overnight.
- Make a syrup the next day of the remaining sugar and the water and bring to a boil several times. Skim and cook until the syrup runs smoothly off the back of a spoon.
- Drop the berries into the syrup. Quickly boil up three times, taking the the pan off the heat after each boiling. Then cook slowly over a gentle heat until a skin begins to form on the syrup. Cool. Put in jars and seal.
