How to make delicious jam

Required utensils

• Large saucepan or a food processor with a cooking function
• Wooden spoon
• Jars with twist-off lids and undamaged seals

Sterilize jars

The top priority when boiling cranberries is cleanliness. Therefore, sterilize the jars before filling them with jam. There are several ways to do this, all of which work equally well:

• Heat a saucepan with water, put the jars and lids in it and leave everything in the saucepan for ten minutes. Let the jars drain briefly and close the filled cranberry jam with the lid while it is still wet.
• Just put the glasses in the dishwasher and run them on the hottest setting using a hygienic washer. To ensure that the device is guaranteed to be sterile, a cleaning rinse is recommended before sterilization.
• Clean the jam jars with hot water and washing-up liquid. Then dry with a fresh tea towel and place in the preheated oven for 15 minutes at 120 degrees.

Reduce the cranberry jam

ingredients

• 1 kg of cranberries
• 250 ml of water
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 600 - 750 g preserving sugar 1: 2

preparation

1. Wash the cranberries thoroughly and sort out the fruits that are not entirely perfect.
2. Mix the still wet fruits with the sugar, the cinnamon stick and the liquid.
3. Let stand in a cool place overnight so that the berries can pull into juice.
4. The next day, heat in a large saucepan, stirring constantly, until the cranberries burst.
5. Simmer for about five minutes and carefully skim off the foam.
6. Do a gel test. If the jam is too runny, continue cooking. If it is too firm, add a little water.
7. Pour the hot jam into the sterilized jars, wipe the rim clean.
8. Close immediately and turn the vessels upside down.
9. Let cool, label, store in a cool and dark place.

If you like, you can replace the water with 125 ml of red and port wine or 250 ml of red wine. If you want to do without sugar, you can use birch sugar instead. Since xylitol is not as well preserved as preserving sugar, you should store the cooked cranberry jam in the refrigerator and consume it quickly.