Homemade blanks are always tastier than store counterparts. Especially when you are the one who makes them, you can be sure that your homemade people eat only natural products without any synthetic additives or preservatives. Today we will tell you how to make yellow plum jam - bright and tasty, it is perfect for tea or it will be a filling for open pies, rolls or cookies like "Vienna". Use one of the recipes below.
Yellow plum jam
For 1 kilogram of fruit you will need:
- 1.5 kg of granulated sugar;
- 2.5 glasses of water.
Rinse the fruit thoroughly, halve it and remove the stone. Put the fruit in a pan and pour sugar syrup prepared from the indicated amount of water and granulated sugar. Leave to stand for 1 day. After 24 hours, drain the resulting juice, boil it for 5 minutes and fill it with plums. Let stand one more day. And after that, put the pan with the fruit halves on the stove, let it boil for 10 minutes, that's it - the yellow plum jam is ready. It can be laid out in sterilized jars, cooled and rolled up with lids. It is best to store sweet canned food in a dark, damp place.
Pitted plum jam
As they say, there are no friends for the taste and color, therefore, someone prefers pitted jam, and someone, on the contrary, with them. For the latter, we picked up this recipe. You will need:
- 1 kilogram of yellow plums and sugar;
- 1 cup plain water.
Rinse the plums thoroughly, remove the tails and leaves. Cook sugar syrup - for this, dissolve a kilogram of sugar in a glass of water, let the liquid boil a little, and then lay the plums out. Stir, over medium heat, prepare jam from yellow plum for a quarter of an hour, periodically removing foam from the surface. Cool the contents of the pan, and then boil it several more times for 15 minutes. Done - the jam can be spread out in sterilized jars, rolled up and sent for long storage.
Boneless plum jam in a bread machine
This unusual way can be used by those who do not want to bother themselves with excessive chores in the kitchen. And if in winter you find a bag of frozen yellow plums, then cooking jam in a bread machine is an opportunity to prepare a fragrant treat for a sweet table without any effort. You will need:
- a pound of yellow plum, fresh or frozen, pitted;
- 300 g of granulated sugar;
- a tablespoon of plain water;
- a little lemon juice or a couple of crystals of citric acid.
Put the fruit in a bucket of a bread machine, add sugar, add a spoonful of water and pour lemon juice on it. After that, select a mode such as "Jam", "Jam" or "Jam", which is present in most models. Expose it, and in due time you will have fragrant plum jam. At first, being hot, it is liquid, and after cooling, it thickens. So simple. Now you know three simple ways to make fragrant homemade plum jam - please yourself and your family with sweet preparations that are so nice to have a bite with tea on cold winter evenings.