Raspberries cannot be stored for long. A good way to preserve the red, black, and yellow fruits is to preserve them. Make delicious compotes or sweet jams from raspberries yourself.

preserve raspberries

If the raspberry harvest is too plentiful, you face the problem of processing the raspberries as quickly as possible. You should not store the fruit for more than a day.

The different ways to process raspberries

  • Freeze
  • Boil in jars
  • Prepare jam or jelly

Each variation has its own pros and cons. If you like using fresh raspberries to decorate cakes and tarts, freezing is the best solution.

Enjoy hot raspberries on ice in winter, cook compote. As a lover of sweet spreads, you process the raspberries into jam or jelly.

Prepare the raspberries

To preserve, choose raspberries that are not yet overripe. Sort the fruit carefully. Moldy or maggot raspberries are sorted out. You should not wash the fruit.

Boiling raspberries

Sprinkle the prepared raspberries with sugar and leave for a couple of hours.

Fill clean mason jars or screw-top jars no more than two-thirds full with fruit. Pour sugar water over the raspberries. Wine can also be used for this.

Cook the tightly closed jars according to the instructions of your preserving appliance or in the oven at a temperature of around 75 degrees for half an hour.

Cook 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 while still hot in the jars and screw them tight. Leave them upside down to cool.

storage

Keep the jars with compote or jam in a dark, dry, not too warm place.

tips and tricks

If you want to make jam, you should plant seedless raspberries in the garden. It is better to process raspberry varieties with seeds into jelly. The cooked mass is passed through a sieve so that the seeds are released.

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