Among the sweet blanks that make our mothers and grandmothers for the winter, the most popular, without a doubt, is jam. And of all the varieties of this delicacy, apple cakes are most often prepared - of various types and with a variety of additional ingredients. We will introduce you to several successful and interesting recipes. Surely you will like them and will occupy a worthy place in your culinary treasury.
Instant jam
First, let's make apple jam with cinnamon. Moreover, it will require quite a bit of your time and attention. Food consumption: 1 kg of apples and sugar and 1 stick of cinnamon. Just! Only fruits choose sweet and sour, then apple jam with cinnamon will turn out tastier. Or you can add some citric acid. Cut the apples into small slices, removing the seeds. Fold them in a basin in which you will cook, pouring part of the sugar specified in the recipe, and cover. Let the fruit fit well with the juice. After about half a day they can be put on gas. Add the remaining sugar in the preparing apple jam with cinnamon, put the cinnamon itself and let it boil over high heat. Then make it smaller, boil for about an hour and roll up. During cooking, gently stir the fruit with a wooden spatula so that the slices do not lose their shape. Jars where you will apply apple jam with cinnamon should be sterilized in advance. Roll it hot, turn the cans upside down, wrap and leave to cool. And in winter, enjoy a great dessert!
Apple Cherry Delight
Apple jam with cinnamon, the recipe of which you will now learn, can really be called a pleasure of taste and a caressing look. After all, it is prepared not only from fruits, but also from berries. And the smell of cinnamon gives it a unique charm and aroma! For every kilogram of apples, a pound of cherries (well-ripened, sweet), 600-650 gr. Sahara. If the fruit is acidic, take sugar in a ratio of 1 to 1. And also 200 g. water and sticks of the same cinnamon. Make cherry puree first. Rinse the berries, remove the seeds, dip them in boiling water for a couple of minutes for blanching and rub through a sieve. Do not pour water, but dissolve sugar for syrup in it. Remove foam from it, cool the syrup itself. Now prepare the main ingredient in apple jam with cinnamon. The recipe recommends cutting the fruits into medium sized slices, do not cut the peel. Blanch the apples for 5 minutes. Now combine all the components, add cinnamon and cook the jam on low heat for at least 40 minutes, gently mixing. Then pack in jars and close. True, it looks beautiful? And the taste is simply divine!
Apple and Citrus Dainty
Experienced housewives can make their apple jam very appetizing and attractive in appearance. Transparent slices in amber sweetness and ask in the mouth. Especially if you add citrus zest and a little vanilla and cinnamon or one of the components. Ingredients: for every kilogram of apples you need to take 1 kg 200 g. sugar, a glass of water, mashed lemon or orange zest. This magnificence is prepared as follows: apples are peeled of seeds and cut into slices (no thicker than 2 cm). They are blanched for 7-8 minutes to give softness, then immediately cool. Boil water and add sugar, prepare syrup. Pour them into slices, put a bowl of jam on a small fire. Cook until fully cooked, shortly before finishing put zest, vanilla and / or cinnamon. In a hot form lay in banks, allow to cool, close with nylon covers and store in the refrigerator.
Slices in applesauce
Surely, you haven’t tried this before: prepare apple jam with cinnamon slices in applesauce. Sounds intriguing, right? Then let's get started! You will need: a few kg of apples, 400 g of sugar for each and to the taste of ground cinnamon. Part of the apples cut into small slices, pour a little water, cook them until completely softened and grind through a sieve with a decoction in mashed potatoes. Put it in a bowl, pour the appropriate amount of sugar and cinnamon and over low heat, stirring occasionally, cook until it slightly decreases in volume and acquires the corresponding density. Cut the second part of the apples into slices, cover with sugar, let it brew for 10 hours to isolate the juice. After adding a little water, cook the jam until half ready. Then combine with mashed potatoes (only carefully, so that the slices do not lose their shape), let them boil, hold over medium heat for 15 minutes and roll them up in sterile jars. Your whole family will like this preparation, do not hesitate!
Rowan with apples
And finally, another luxurious recipe for apples and chokeberry jam . In addition to great taste, it is extremely useful for hypertension, colds, anemia, weakened immunity. Here is such an excellent treat! Main products: a little cinnamon, 3 kg of sugar, 2 - apples, 1 - rowan berries. And about a liter of water. Separately, prepare the syrup by dissolving and boiling sugar in the specified amount of water. Remove the foam. Peel the peel from the apples, remove the seeds, cut into fruits into slices. Put them in a basin, mix with peeled and sorted rowan berries. Pour the fruit with hot syrup, let it boil and cook over medium heat for 20 minutes, stirring. Then leave the pelvis, let the jam rest for 4 hours, cook again, now it is ready. Put the delicacy in jars right from the stove - and close.