Apple jam tea is a classic of culinary delight. It would seem how little a person needs to feel the taste of summer in the icy winter! A cup with a fragrant strong drink, from which a park rises, a couple of slices of fresh bread and it is amber, mouth-watering, sweet jam ... Have you imagined? Then to the point!
Sandwich dessert
It is not necessary to wait for the summer and a new crop to make apple jam for tea or for pies . How to cook it, you ask. The answer is: take a dozen large ripe apples (buy at a supermarket or in the market), wash, cut into slices, cut the seeds. Put them in a cast iron, boil for 10 minutes to soften. Then grind in a puree through a frequent colander your workpiece for jam from apples. How to cook it further? Pour 250-300 g of sugar and over low heat, stirring, continue to simmer until thickened. Jam will be ready when a drop of it does not blur in a spoon of water. Before removing from heat, pour 1-2 teaspoons of lemon juice into the jam or toss a few crystals of citric acid. What for? To, firstly, improve the taste of dessert. And secondly, with such a natural preservative jam from apples will be safer. How to cook it if there is no additional component? Also, only a little longer, in total - an hour. Arrange the hot mass in sterile jars and roll up.
Apple jam with lemon zest
This recipe is similar to the previous one, with the exception of some 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 the juice from citrus fruits and grate finely (separately). Now - the jam itself from apples. How to cook? Grind raw fruits into a puree mass on a grater or a blender. Pour 100 g of sugar into lemon juice and mix. Add water and sugar in a saucepan with juice in the following proportion: half a glass of both for each glass of citrus drink. From all this, boil the syrup. Place a bowl of mashed potatoes on a 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 use). You can add a little vanillin. The dessert will have an amazingly pleasant smell and the same wonderful taste.
Assorted fruit
Do you like a mix of different summer fruits?
- If so, now you will learn how to make jam from apples and plums. For cooking, you will need a kilogram of those and other fruits, 1.2-1.4 kg of sugar, a glass of water. Remove seeds from plums, seeds from apples. Cut the last into pieces. Put everything in a cooking bowl, pour in water and cook until the components are soft. Grind the mass in hot form, add sugar and boil over low heat until cooked to get thick (about one and a half hours). Arrange on banks, twist or close with nylon covers, parchment paper. In this case, store in a dry place.
- And here is a variant of apple and pear jam. You can do it in the same way as the previous one. Only sugar will need less, only half a kilo per 2 kg of fruit. Instead of water, you need a lemon. Pass apples with pears through a meat grinder (cut seeds!), Put on fire and boil until medium density. Then add sugar, grated lemon and continue cooking until the desired consistency. Put in jars, tighten.
Enjoy the wonderful taste of sweet summer from a can!