Strawberry jam with icing sugar or white sugar
Do strawberry jam with icing sugar or white sugar can be, but icing sugar will be better.
White sugar is brown sugar made by washing, centrifugation, separation of honey, deglazing and several other processes; icing sugar is white sugar under certain conditions, through recrystallization after the formation. Both are extracted from sugar cane and sugar beet, all belong to the category of sucrose, the chemical composition is sucrose.
And when making strawberry sauce, both icing sugar and white sugar can be put, because both icing sugar and white sugar have good sweetness as well as viscosity, which can be well integrated with strawberries. However, since icing sugar can melt as the strawberries are cooked and has a higher viscosity than white sugar, most people prefer to use icing sugar when making strawberry sauce.
Can you make strawberry jam without sugar
Yes, but it will keep better with sugar.
The purpose of putting sugar in strawberry jam is not only because sugar can increase the texture of the jam and make it taste sweeter. Another reason is that sugar can play a preservative role, simmering strawberry jam is to put sugar can increase the osmotic pressure in the strawberry jam, so that the jam can be boiled out of the water, which can play a certain role in inhibiting the growth of bacteria. So adding sugar to strawberry jam can prolong its preservation time.
Strawberry jam practice
1, we first need to do is to be ready to wash the strawberries, and then dry the water, first cut with a knife, if the strawberries are relatively small, we can cut it into two halves, if it is relatively large to cut into four petals.
2, then in our cut strawberries add some fine sugar.
3, after the sugar added we have to use chopsticks to stir evenly, so that the sugar are evenly adhered to the strawberries, and then cover the plastic wrap, the first strawberries into the refrigerator, about three hours or more, after the refrigerated strawberries will seep out of the water, so that we can continue to the next step.
4, the next step is that we have to put the strawberries together with the water oozing out into the pot, put it in, we have to open the fire stir fry, stir fry until the strawberries become soft, and then turn into a fire slowly simmering dry, wait until the three bridges to the state of thick, we can turn off the fire.
5, this time we can add some lemon juice in it, and then once again after stirring evenly, we will be these ready to put the country into a clean container, sealed into the refrigerator to save.
Strawberry jam how to save longer
Method 1: loaded with clean
put in sealed in boiling water cooked in a glass jar, and then put in the refrigerator freshness, preservation time is longer, can be saved for a month or two. Use a clean spoon without water or oil every time you take it, which will help to prolong the preservation time.
Method 2: Increase the sweetness
The sweeter the jam, the longer the preservation time. Under normal circumstances about a month no problem. But if it is kept at room temperature and not sealed, it can usually be kept for a week.