Many housewives make white plum jam, and each has its own recipe for creating it. This blank is very popular, almost everyone loves it. In the summer period, plum is actively ripening, and, accordingly, everyone tries not only to get enough vitamins at the current moment, but also to make preparations for the winter.
Benefit
Especially popular is a white plum jam with a stone. Thanks to its excellent taste, useful properties, it is deservedly considered one of the best among other types of jam. After all, with the help of this wonderful delicacy, the cardiovascular system is strengthened, digestion improves, pressure normalizes, and excess salts are excreted. A large number of vitamins will always help maintain hemoglobin at the proper level so that anemia does not occur. Of course, it is desirable that the plum be collected on its own site in order to avoid the ingestion of various nitrates.
Plum jam
So, how to make white plum jam? There is more than one recipe for cooking; there are many. Let's, for example, consider one of the common ways to make delicious jam.
Essential Ingredients:
- white plum - 2 kg;
- sugar - 1.5 kg;
- water - 1 cup.
Initially, you need to prepare a plum. To do this, it must be thoroughly washed. Then cut into half and remove the seeds. The next step is to place the plum in a cup and fill it with sugar. Leave for a while, approximately 3-5 hours, in order for the juice to form. After time, add boiled water. This moment needs to be considered individually. If you want to get thick jam, then you can not add water. If with syrup, then, accordingly, it is necessary. Also note how juicy the plum is. It turns out that the final result will depend on the option chosen at this stage.
White plum jam is prepared in several stages for the winter. Next, having determined how much fluid you need, set the pan on fire. The jam should be brought to a boil, boil for 5-7 minutes and, removing from the stove, allow to insist and cool. After 3 hours, repeat the entire cooking process. The foam that appears during the boil must be removed so that the jam does not turn sour in the future. Thus, you need to cook from 3 to 5 times, that is, boil, boil, cool and repeat the procedure again. While the jam is being prepared, it is necessary to prepare the jars, sterilize them well and wait for them to dry.
Ready jam is still hot laid out on prepared containers and closed with tight lids. That, in fact, is all. Jam with great taste and wonderful aroma is ready to eat! When the jars have cooled, you need to remove them for storage in a cool room.
Alternatives
Plum jam is very often used for fillings in confectionery, as well as in the design of delicious treats. Due to its excellent taste, it is very popular among sweet tooth. There is another, rather simple recipe for white plum jam.
Necessary ingredients for cooking:
- sugar - 2 glasses;
- white plum - 1.5 kg;
- 3.5-4 cups of boiled water.
To begin with, the plums are thoroughly washed, freed from the seeds. This must be done carefully so that you get even halves.
How to make pitted white plum jam? There are several ways to do this.
First option
In this case, the plums are poured with cold water for 12 hours. And then you need to prepare the syrup. To do this, mix sugar with water, and the resulting liquid must be carefully boiled. When the plums are soaked, pour them with the prepared syrup and cook over low heat until cooked. It is necessary to focus on the moment when the foam ceases to appear. This will mean that the jam is ready. During cooking, do not forget to remove the foam protruding to the surface.
Still hot, it is necessary to pour the jam into pre-prepared sterilized jars. Then cover with processed lids and roll up. Set upside down, wrap with something warm and leave them that way until they cool completely. After that, clean in a cool room.
Second option
Plum jam from white plums can be prepared in another interesting way. For this, the necessary syrup from sugar and water is prepared in advance, plums are poured with it, and this mass must be left at room temperature for about 8-10 hours. When the plum in the syrup is infused, it is necessary to put the pan on the stove, boil and boil for about 6-8 minutes. Be sure to watch the plum so that the skin on it does not crack. Then the jam cools for about 5-8 hours. This cooking procedure must be repeated at least 3 times.
When the last time the white plum jam is boiled, it is necessary to pour it into sterilized jars and roll it in the usual way. The treat prepared in this way will delight you with its pleasant taste and beautiful view in the winter cold, with a cup of tea.
Third option
White plum jam, prepared in this way, turns out to be so delicious that it is impossible to break away from it later.
To do this, prepared plums must be placed for 15 minutes in hot water. Then cool them, then you can start pouring boiled syrup. In this form, plums should remain for a day in order to insist. At the end of this time, we place the mass on the stove, boil and remove the jam for cooling for 12 hours to cool.
Next, you need to drain the plum syrup, bring it to a boil and pour the plums on it again. The resulting jam is boiled for the last time well and developed into cans processed in advance. Next comes the time for rolling this wonderful treat. That's ready jam from white plums for the winter. Its taste is excellent, and the aroma is unsurpassed. The following actions are performed according to the standard. Upside down, rolled up jars should be installed, covered with a warm blanket and kept in this way until completely cooled. And of course, in the future to clean in a cold place.
With nuts
You can make jam from white plums with nuts. This option will be more dense and nutritious. To do this, carefully remove the seeds from the plums, so as not to especially damage the skin. Nuts are placed inside, you can use walnuts or almonds. Further actions are performed according to the selected recipe. The plum delicacy is very tasty. Try to cook!
Chocolate
Also, original jam can be prepared if cocoa is added to the syrup. It is calculated as follows: for every 1 kg of granulated sugar - 10 tbsp. l cocoa. It turns out a delicious plum-chocolate treat.
With orange
You can make jam from white plums with orange. This billet has an exquisite taste, but at the same time it does not take a lot of time to cook.
Ingredients:
- plums - 1 kg;
- sugar - 300 g;
- water - 0.5 l;
- oranges - 2 pcs.
Plums and oranges need to be washed. Bones should be removed from the first ingredient. We combine all the products, oranges must be either finely chopped or scrolled in a meat grinder along with the peel. Next, you need to install the resulting mass on a small fire. With constant stirring, bring to a boil. Boil for 5 minutes, not allowing the mass to boil. After that, you need to pour into banks and roll up in the usual way.
In a slow cooker
You can make jam from white plums in a slow cooker.
This will require:
- 2 kg drain;
- 2 kg of granulated sugar.
Plums are washed, seeds are removed. Then they need to be filled with sugar. Leave for about an hour to form a juice, then mix thoroughly. Next, the mass is laid out in a multicooker cup. Using the "Frying" mode, you need to wait until all the pieces dissolve and syrup forms. After approximately 8-10 minutes, switch to the “Keep warm” mode and cook for another 10 minutes. Then close the lid, boil well, pour over the processed jars. Roll up and, as necessary, use this beautiful jam with an exquisite taste!