We make homemade preparations. Jam from apples: how to cook to make it tasty?

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

Tea with apple jam is a classic culinary delight. It would seem how little a person needs to feel the taste of summer in a cold winter! A cup with a fragrant strong drink, from which steam rises, a couple of slices of fresh bread and it is an amber, appetizing, sweet jam … Imagine it? Then get down to business!

Dessert sandwich

It is not necessary to wait for the summer and the new harvest to make jam from apples for tea or pies. How to cook it, you ask. The answer is: take a dozen large ripe apples (buy in a supermarket or market), wash, cut into slices, cut out the seeds. Put them in a cast iron, boil for 10 minutes to soften. Then grind in puree through a frequent colander your workpiece under jam from apples. How to cook it further? Pour 250-300 g of sugar and over low heat, stirring, continue to simmer until thickened. The jam will be ready when a drop of it does not blur in a spoonful of water. Before taking it off the firepour 1-2 teaspoons of lemon juice into the jam or throw in a few crystals of citric acid. What for? To, firstly, improve the taste of the dessert. And secondly, with such a natural preservative, jam from apples will be more reliably preserved. How to cook it if there is no additional component? Also, only a little longer, a total of an hour. Spread the hot mass in sterile jars and roll up.

Apple jam with lemon zest

This recipe is similar to the previous one, with a few differences. It will require 2-2.5 kg of apples, preferably sweet varieties, as well as 3 medium lemons and 400 g of sugar. Squeeze juice from citrus fruits, and finely grate the zest (separately). Now - the very jam from apples. How to cook? Grind raw fruits into a puree mass on a grater or blender. Pour 100 g of sugar into lemon juice, mix. Add water and more sugar to a saucepan with juice in this proportion: half a glass of both for each glass of citrus drink. From all this, boil the syrup. Place a bowl of puree over medium heat and cook, pouring syrup into it, until the mass becomes thick. At the end of cooking, add lemon zest to apple jam (for winter or for quick consumption). You can also add some vanilla. The dessert will have an amazingly pleasant smell and the same wonderful taste.

Fruit platter

Do you like a mix of different summer fruits?

• If yes, now you will learn how to make jam from apples and plums. Forcooking, you will need a kilogram of those and other fruits, 1, 2-1, 4 kg of sugar, a glass of water. Remove pits from plums and seeds from apples. Cut the last ones into pieces. Put everything in a bowl for cooking, pour in water and cook until the ingredients are soft. Grind the mass while hot, add sugar and cook over low heat until fully cooked to make it thick (about an hour and a half). Arrange in jars, twist or close with nylon lids, parchment paper. In this case, store in a dry place.
• And here is a variant of apple-pear jam. You can make it in the same way as the previous one. Only sugar will be needed less, only half a kilo per 2 kg of fruit. And instead of water, you need a lemon. Pass apples with pears through a meat grinder (cut out the seeds!), put on fire and boil until medium thick. Then add sugar, grated lemon and continue to cook until the desired consistency. Put in jars, twist.

Enjoy the wonderful taste of sweet summer from a can!