Plum jam is a very popular product. Almost every housewife knows several recipes for its preparation. This delicious and healthy fruit grows almost everywhere, so in any house there will certainly be at least a few cans of this canned goodies. The ripening season is in the middle of summer, and if during this period you prepare jam from plums with slices, then for the whole winter you will be provided with a vitamin dessert.
What is so useful plum jam
One of the reasons for its popularity is that it is very beneficial for human health. Especially when it is made from fruits collected in your garden. Sliced plum jam will help you:
- strengthen blood vessels;
- improve digestion;
- adjust the functioning of your intestinal tract;
- defeat a stressful condition;
- tidy up blood pressure;
- deal with anemia;
- remove excess salts from the body;
- restore the condition of the skin.
Plums are rich in vitamins A, B, C, fructose, glucose, phosphorus, fiber, antioxidants, tannins, pectin, acids, and iron.
General Goodies
Plum jam is tasty and healthy not only thanks to the standard recipe (plum and sugar). Fruits blend wonderfully with a wide variety of ingredients, such as wine, berries, chocolate or nuts.
Each method of preparing this type of preservation has its own advantages. As a result of cooking, even the most ordinary plum jam can be turned into a real culinary masterpiece. The delicacy has an attractive aroma and unsurpassed taste characteristics. In order to get a quality product, it is advisable to use aronia plum varieties "Vengerka". In this case, the fruit retains its integrity well and is easily separated from the stone, sweet in taste, has a pleasant aroma. If it is not possible to find this variety, then you can cook from any other, having passed two requirements:
- The bone must necessarily be easily separated from the fetus.
- In no case should the plum be overripe, otherwise the fruits will be whole and the jam will turn opaque.
The simplest recipe: how to make plum jam with slices
In this recipe there is only one condition that must be observed in order to get aromatic jam with a beautiful color and the desired density - infusion and boiling will have to be done several times. We will need the following products:
- one kilogram of fresh seedless fruit;
- 1.3 kg of white sugar;
- 0.35 kg of purified water;
- one pack of vanilla sugar (but this ingredient is at your discretion).
And now the recipe itself:
- Well wash the fruit, break them, remove the seeds and cut into the desired number of slices.
- Pre-cook the syrup. To do this, dilute granulated sugar in water, bring to a boil and simmer for three minutes over low heat.
- Slices of plums are placed in hot sugar syrup and infuse for 5-6 hours.
- Bring the future plum jam to a boil and cook over low heat for about 12 minutes. Remove from heat and again insist 5-6 hours.
- We repeat the process, we only leave to insist for three hours. We observe how, during cooking, the jam becomes saturated with a beautiful ruby color and thickens, starting to publish an unforgettable aroma.
- At the final stage, boil it for another five minutes, removing the foam. In pre-sterilized jars with a capacity of 500-600 g, pour boiling jam and close with sterile lids. We set them to cool for 12 hours, turning the lids down and wrapping them with a cloth. After cooling completely, we send the jam from the plums to the cellar for storage.
The resulting product is ideal for various desserts, cooking compotes. It can be spread on bread or added to pastries. In the cold season, preservation will delight you with its taste and aroma.
Cook from yellow plum
We will need:
- yellow plums - 1.1 kg;
- sugar - 1.65 kg;
- water - 640 ml.
Here is a recipe for how to make yellow plum jam with slices:
- We select ripe fruits suitable for canning, and well them
we wash. Let the water drain. - Break plums, remove seeds from them and cut into slices.
- Put in an enameled pan.
- Cooking syrup. Dissolve sugar in water, boil and pour boiling syrup to plums.
- Day insist. After the liquid is decanted and boiled. Pour into the plums again for the same period.
- Stirring, warm the contents of the container. Removing the foam, boil until thick and pour into a sterile container.
Another recipe has been mastered, how to make plum jam slices. They, as already mentioned, are many. If you adhere to the recommendations, then even a beginner can easily cope with the task.
Plum jam
Sometimes there is a desire to please guests with something new, unusual, prepared with their own hands. Here, recipes for plum jam are quite useful . Jam made in the simplest way is just right for this.
Follow the instructions and amaze your friends and relatives:
- Rinse the fruits and extract seeds from them. Put the plums in a pan and fill with water.
- We put on the stove and bring the contents to a boil. Cook for about 15-20 minutes.
- Then we fill in a glass of sugar and mix well. After its complete dissolution, add a glass of sugar again and so on until the whole kilogram is gone.
- After that, cook our jam on medium heat for 40-45 minutes, stirring occasionally. About five minutes before being ready, add citric acid.
- When ready, pour the jam into clean jars. No need to sterilize. Close the lids. After cooling, the jam from the plums is ready to eat.
A couple of tips in the end
At the end of the article are some more tips that are useful when cooking plum jam. If you are worried about the integrity of the fruit, place it after washing for five minutes in a soda solution, and then wash thoroughly again.
In the case of a very dense peel of the fruit, blanch them for two minutes - and then under cold water. Now the drain will not burst during cooking, and the integrity of the slices will not be violated.