Vitamins and other useful substances of gooseberries are destroyed when cooking jam, so many housewives prefer to harvest this useful dessert raw for the winter, chopping the berry in any way. Ripe gooseberries are easy to grind on a sieve, and green ones need a meat grinder or blender. Lemon will not only give the jam a citrus aroma and sourness, but will also be a preservative. Due to natural pectin, the resulting jam will have the consistency of jam, only you need to store the workpiece in the refrigerator or simply freeze it, reducing the amount of sugar.