When we were in
our summer house, we picked more strawberries than we can eat each day from our
garden and we made jam with some of them.
In Turkey, the best strawberry type
for making the jam is this ones which we call Osmanlı (Ottoman), small, sweet
and with a powerful strawberry smell.
The recipe is
easy. Wash and clean 1 kg of strawberries...
Cover them with
1 kg of sugar and leave overnight (or at least 8 hours) in a flat pot to become
juicy...
Next day, cook
it in a pan in slow heat. During the cooking process, clean out the foams forming
in the surface of the jam with the help of a spoon.
After the first
20 minutes, take the strawberries out with the help of a skimmer for not
overcooking them and keep cooking the juice until it gets thick.
Add the
strawberries again, add the juice of 1,5 lemon, cook 5 minutes more and that’s
it. Enjoy your strawberry jam!
