The season of jam preserves for the winter is, of course, summer and the first half of autumn. It is at this time that berries and fruits ripen. It’s good if you stocked up with sunsets for the future, but what if you really want jam, and for some reason he wasn’t at home? Cook it. I suggest you make orange jam. It turns out very, very tasty.
How to make orange jam: recipe 1
Just want to note that with the preparation of delicious orange jam you have to tinker. That is why stock up on free time, and also prepare all the necessary products in advance.
Ingredients: a kilogram of oranges (already peeled), a kilo of two hundred sugar, two glasses of boiled water.
Preparation: put oranges in hot water for 15 minutes, then soak ten minutes in water too, but only in cold. Then oranges need to be taken out of water and cut into slices or mugs. Put everything in an enameled pan. Separately, pour nine hundred grams of sugar into a saucepan, dilute it with water and bring to a boil. After that, simmer the sugar for about ten minutes. Pour oranges with ready-made syrup, leave for insisting (for eight hours). After this, the syrup needs to be drained, pour the remaining sugar and boil again. Again, pour oranges with syrup, insist for eight hours. Drain the syrup for the third time, boil, pour back into oranges. Boil the jam and arrange in jars.
How to make oranges and lemon jam
Ingredients: half a kilogram of oranges, the same amount of lemons, a kilogram of sugar and a half liter of water.
Preparation: Wash the oranges and lemons thoroughly, without peeling the peel. Cut them into circles, remove the seeds, put them in an enameled pan. Pour in water and cook for such a amount of time that the citrus fruits become soft. Then add sugar to them and simmer for thirty to fifty minutes. Pour jam into jars and sterilize.
By the way, you can add citrus fruits such as orange and lemon to any jam. In this case, it will acquire a completely new taste.
How to make jam from oranges and apples
Ingredients: four hundred grams of oranges (already peeled), four hundred grams of apples (peeled and seeds), three hundred grams of sugar, a tablespoon of lemon juice.
Preparation: Cut apples and oranges into slices. Fold everything in an enameled pan, add part of the sugar. Put on fire, boil a little, and then pour in the rest of the sugar. After boiling, pour in the lemon juice. Then cook the jam over low heat for another ten minutes.
How to Make Orange Peel Jam
If you wish, then try making orange peel jam. To do this, take a kilogram of orange peel, a kilogram of sugar and a little citric acid.
Preparation: Pour orange peels with water, put on a fire, bring to a boil and let it boil for about fifteen minutes. Then drain the water, pour a new one, boil again, do the same three more times. This is necessary so that bitterness leaves the crust. After the last time you pour water, let the crusts cool, then weigh them. Twist the whole mass through a meat grinder (through the smallest nozzle). Take as much sugar as orange peels. Add sugar to the jam and cook for forty minutes. A few minutes before the end of cooking, add citric acid to your taste.
In these ways, you can make delicious orange jam. After cooking, nothing more is needed than to sit at the table with the whole family and enjoy the incredible aroma and amazing taste of exotic jam.