Raspberries cannot be stored for a long time. A good way to preserve the red, black and yellow fruits is to boil them down. Make your own delicious compote or sweet jams from raspberries.
How can you preserve raspberries?
To preserve raspberries, sprinkle them with sugar, let them steep for a few hours and fill them up to a maximum of two thirds into clean jars. Pour sugar water or wine over the raspberries and cook the tightly closed jars in the preserver or oven at 75 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes.
Preserving raspberries
If the raspberry harvest is too plentiful, you will be faced with the problem of processing the raspberries as quickly as possible. You should not store the fruit for longer than a day.
The different ways to process raspberries
- Freezing
- Boil into jars
- Prepare jam or jelly
Each variation has its own advantages and disadvantages. If you like to use fresh raspberries to decorate cakes and fruit cakes, freezing is the best solution.
In winter, enjoy hot raspberries on ice, cook compote. If you love sweet spreads, use the raspberries to make jam or jelly.
Preparing the raspberries
To preserve, choose raspberries that are not yet overripe. Pick the fruits carefully. Moldy or maggot raspberries are sorted out. You should not wash the fruit.
Preserving raspberries
Sprinkle the prepared raspberries with sugar and let them steep for a few hours.
Fill clean preserving jars or jars with screw caps to a maximum of two-thirds full with fruit. Pour sugar water over the raspberries. Wine can also be used well for this.
Cook the tightly closed jars according to the instructions of your preserving device or in the oven at a temperature of around 75 degrees for half an hour.
Cooking jam or jelly
Clean the jam jars and lids carefully. Mix one kilogram of raspberries with 500 grams of preserving sugar. For jelly you need about a liter of raspberry juice with a little citric acid.
Boil the mixture for a minute. Then fill the jam into the jars while it is still hot and screw them tightly. Let them cool upside down.
Storage
Store the jars of compote or jam in a dark, dry, not too warm place.
Tips & Tricks
If you want to make jam, you should plant seedless raspberries in the garden. Raspberry varieties with seeds are better processed into jelly. The cooked mass is passed through a sieve so that the seeds are removed.
