Preservation of apricots for the winter: features, best recipes and recommendations

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Hostesses, even on warm summer days, do not have the right to completely relax, because it is at this time of the year that nature gives us fresh fruits, vegetables and berries that need to be processed and stocked for the winter.

Mistresses especially appreciate various preparations from apricots. Firstly, thanks to a huge selection of options: preservation of apricots in syrup, in their own juice, jams and compotes, jams and much more. Secondly, this is one of those fruits that, even when cooked, retain all their useful composition. Vitamins, as well as a unique aroma - all this remains even after heat treatment.

Preservation: apricot compote

One of the most popular recipes is the preparation of compotes. Fragrant and incredibly tasty drink will bring pleasant warm memories of the summer in the harsh blizzard winter evenings. There is nothing difficult in preparing this recipe. Even a novice housewife will be able to cope with the preservation of apricots and please her household with a vitamin drink in winter.

You will need the following ingredients:

• Ripe apricots.
• Sugar at the rate of 250 grams per 3 liter can.
• Water.

How to cook

For cooking, ripe, but still elastic fruits should be selected. Thoroughly washing them, it will be necessary to remove the bones. Of course, the process is quite laborious, especially if you need to process a large number of berries. You can close the compote with seeds, but then you still have to get rid of them. Therefore, it is better to do this in advance, spending a little of your precious time. The result, believe me, is worth it.

Spread the prepared fruits into three-liter jars. Don't overfill the jars. It is enough to put one third of the fruits of the total volume of the container. Pour boiling water into the jar and wait about ten minutes. This time is necessary for the banks to warm up properly. Now we drain the water from the cans into a pre-prepared saucepan. Add the required amount of sugar there and bring the syrup to a boil.

Pour boiling water into jars again and close them with lids. It is better if you use metal covers and a special seaming key. In this case, preserving apricots for the winter will not bring unpleasant surprises in the form of an exploded lid.

Apricot jam with oranges

Another recipe for preserving apricots, which we advise you to focus on, is jam. Of course, modern housewives are not as common asour grandmothers are making jam. But those who do will surely appreciate the delicious and amazingly flavorful recipe.

We note right away that according to the result you will get a surprisingly tender, not at all cloying and moderately thick jam. In addition, this recipe for preserving apricots has two more significant advantages: no sterilization and no many hours of cooking.

The following items will be required:

• Apricots - 1 kg.
• Small packet of gelatin - 10g
• Sugar - 500g
• Two large oranges.

Process

If for compotes we took strong dense fruits, then for jam, on the contrary, we choose the most ripe, even too soft apricots. We do not take small or unripe, with spots or dents. We wash the fruits and remove the seeds. With the help of a kitchen assistant - a blender - we chop the apricots and turn them into a homogeneous gruel. If there is no blender at hand, then you can use a regular meat grinder with a fine mesh.

We take two containers. In one we rub the zest from two oranges. Squeeze orange juice into the other. We mix gelatin with granulated sugar, calculating its amount according to the available volume of fruits. Add the dry mixture to the saucepan with the apricot puree. We mix. Turn on medium heat and wait until it boils.

It should be noted that such a recipe for preserving apricots takes a minimum of time, so you should not worry that you will “sag” with jam in the kitchen all day. As soon as the mass boils, we detect three minutes and add the zestwith orange juice. After a couple of minutes, you can turn on the fire. The jam is ready.

Preservation of apricot slices

Another interesting option for harvesting. This recipe for apricot jam, called "Suns", will take more time to prepare, but as a result you will get an amazingly beautiful and amazingly fragrant jam. It will retain a maximum of useful substances that are sometimes so necessary for our body on cold winter evenings. Sunshine jam can not only be served on the festive table, but also used to make pancakes, pies and pies, cheesecakes and other sweet pastries.

Required ingredients:

• Sugar.
• Apricots.

Add granulated sugar at the rate of 1 kg of fruit and 0.8 kg of sugar. Depending on the number of apricots, the amount of the sweet component will also change. Remember that the calculation of the weight of the fruit is carried out without taking into account the seeds.

Cooking

We start cooking with the already familiar procedure for washing the fruits and removing the hard core. We divide the fruits into three parts. We put the first part in the container, fill it with one third of the volume of sugar. So we do with the other two parts. It turns out a kind of multi-layered apricot-sugar "pie". Do not forget that there should also be a small layer of granulated sugar on top, so calculate the volume of the bulk product in advance.

Cover the dish with gauze and leave it in a cool dark place for ten to twelve hours. Yes, preserving apricots for the wintertakes some time, but as you can see, it requires almost no effort.

After that, put the dishes on a strong fire and wait for the foam to begin to form. We reduce the flame, remove the foam. Again, we make the fire on the stove a little stronger and wait for the second boil. As soon as the second batch of foam is removed, you can turn off the jam. Let's leave it to stand and soak up the syrup for another three or four hours. Puts a sweet delicacy into jars, close the lids, turn over and wait for them to cool.

Tips

• Preservation of apricots, like other berries and stone fruits, does not tolerate missteps. No fruit that is rotten or just about to do so.
• Wash fruits well. One particle of dust, earth, a piece of leaf - everything can affect the quality and shelf life of jam or compote.
• You can roll apricots into any jars and under any lids. The main thing is that they are well sterilized, washed with soda and scalded with boiling water before laying the finished product.
• As a rule, citric acid is not put in compotes from apricots. Such fruits perfectly tolerate the conservation process. However, tap water that is too hard can cause a "jar explosion", so half a teaspoon of citric acid in each three-liter jar will not be superfluous.
• By the way, apricots are fruits that perfectly tolerate freezing. Remove pits, wash and dry apricots. Arrange on a tray and place it in the freezer. After completely freezing, put the apricots in bags and removefor final freezer storage.