If an apple tree grows in your garden, or even a few, you can provide your family with delicious harvesting. Fragrant amber-colored apple jam , preserves, compotes and jam. The list goes on for a very long time. But today we will tell you how to make a delicious apple jam, which will be a great treat for tea or can be used as a filling for pies.
There are a lot of options for such a blank. Its taste, color and consistency will depend on the main components and various additives.
Small fruit apple jam.
For ten cans of the finished product (with a capacity of one liter) we need five kilograms of granulated sugar, about two hundred grams of water and six or seven kilograms of apples. First you need to thoroughly wash and peel the fruit from the stalks, damaged places, rot and core. Grind the resulting raw materials using a meat grinder or blender, turning it into gruel.
The resulting mass is mixed with sugar and water. Leave to insist for half an hour. We spread the sweet mashed potatoes in an enameled basin and put on a slow fire. Cook our jam for at least one hour. If you want to get a thicker product, you need to increase the cooking time to one and a half hours, during which you need to slowly stir the mixture to distribute it evenly and warm it up.
Ready jam has an even consistency and amber color. To give a gentle flavoring note ten minutes before the end of cooking, you need to add a little ground cinnamon and mix well. We pack the finished product in advance prepared sterilized jars, roll up metal lids and put under the covers.
How to make apple jam with oranges
Oranges, peaches, apricots or pears give a special taste to a product such as jam. We take additional fruits in the same amount as the main product. We will need to prepare one kilogram of ripe apples, one kilogram of oranges, one and a half kilograms of granulated sugar and two glasses of water.
First of all, we clean apples from stalks and damaged places. Grind them on a grater, fill with water and set to cook. At this time, peel the oranges. Finely rub the zest. The slices are thoroughly cleaned of white peel and veins, leaving only the middle.
Knead the boiled apples to a puree consistency. Add the grated zest, sugar, orange pulp to the pan and mix well. Cook for about thirty minutes, until we get apple jam of a beautiful orange color with a pleasant smell of citrus. We pack up the finished product according to prepared cans, which we roll up with lids.
How to make apple jam in a bread maker
This method is the easiest. Even a novice hostess can cope with the preparation of delicious jam. The container capacities of different bread machine models are very different. Therefore, the number of maximum loaded products will need to be found in the attached instructions. For a small amount of jam, take five hundred grams of apples and sugar and twenty grams of citric acid or squeezed juice from fresh lemon.
Peel and cut the fruits into small pieces. After that we load all the components into the container. Close the lid tightly and set the jam mode, adjusting the cooking time if necessary. We are waiting for the conditional signal and lay out the fragrant jam in the vase. Apple dessert for the evening tea party is ready.
Any jam laid out in jars should be cooled by placing the container upside down and covering it with a towel or blanket to evenly distribute heat. After the cans with blanks have completely cooled down, keep them in the room for several days. During this time, you need to watch them. With the correct implementation of the cooking technology, canned food will not change its appearance. In case of swelling of the lids, these cans must be rejected. The rest of the jam can be carried underground for winter storage.