How to make Lemon pear jam?

Lemon is a variety of pears that many years ago Ukrainian breeders bred. Due to their high endurance, such trees easily tolerate harsh winters and after a maximum of 8 years begin to regularly produce abundant crops in the form of small fruits with fairly dense pulp. They can be either consumed raw or used to prepare other foods. It turns out to be very tasty Lemon pear jam. And you can cook it in different ways.

Multiple cooking

Any housewife knows that pear jam is usually quite sweet. To make the taste not so sugary, many cook it together with other fruits or use various additional ingredients. So, Lemon pear jam will be really delicious if you take the following products for work: per kilogram of fresh fruit - half a liter of water, one and a half kilograms of sugar and a pinch of citric acid.

The cooking process in this case will be quite long:

1. First you need to wash the pears well, cut each into four parts and carefully remove the seeds from them.
2. Boil water in a basin, dip the prepared fruits into it and cook for 5 minutes.
3. Then the products must be thrown into a colander and wait until the excess liquid drains.
4. At this time, on the water in which the pears were cooked, it is necessary to prepare a syrup. To do this, sugar should be poured into it and the mixture should be cooked until it is completely dissolved.
5. Pour the fruits with hot syrup and leave for 4 hours.
6. Boil the mixture for 6 minutes and leave again, but for 12 hours.
7. Repeat this procedure 3 more times. As a result, the pulp of the fruit should become transparent.
8. Citric acid is added at the very end of cooking.

The finished product can be used immediately or, rolled up in jars, put for long-term storage.

Quick and easy

You can make jam from Lemon pear much faster. For this, you also need a basin, a wooden spatula and the following components: 2 kilograms of pears, 2 cups of water and 2.5 kilograms of sugar.

This jam is prepared in three stages:

1. Clean pears first need to be reviewed by removing rotten places, and then cut into thin slices. It will take a long time, but the result is worth it.
2. Fold the products in a bowl, cover with sugar and leave for a couple of hours until they are covered with juice. True, Lemons have a fairly hard and slightly dry flesh. Therefore, it is not always possible to achieve the desired result. If there is little fluid, you can add a little water.
3. Put the basin on the stove and bring its contents to a boil, and then cook for an hour on low heat. Then you can do anything with the finished product.

If you want the pieces to remain intact at the end, then it is best to do this in three steps. Every 20 minutes, the mixture must be removed from the heat and allowed to cool slightly.

Jelly jam

For the gourmet sweet tooth, you can offer not quite the usual Limonka pear jam. The fruits acquire an original taste if cooked in apple jelly. To do this, you need to take: for 0.5 kilograms of pears - 1 kilogram of apples, 0.7 kilograms of ordinary and a pinch of vanilla sugar.

In principle, everything is not so complicated:

1. First of all, you need to make syrup. To do this, 400 grams of sugar should be poured into a glass of water, boiled, and then boiled with constant stirring until a clear solution is obtained.
2. Wash the pears, and then, freeing them from the seeds, cut arbitrarily into pieces.
3. Pour the products with prepared syrup and leave in this position for 10-12 hours.
4. Rinse the apples, remove seeds from them and carefully cut the peel. After that, they must be poured into three quarters of water and cook for 20 minutes.
5. Pass the products through a sieve, and then pour the remaining sugar (regular and vanilla) into the resulting puree and boil the same amount.
6. Put the pears in the cooked jelly and boil them over low heat for 30 minutes.

If you do not allow strong boiling during cooking, then this jam will turn out to be almost transparent and will have a pleasant amber color.

Jam with lemon

If the fruit crop turned out to be glorious, then you can try different options for making a popular dessert. To make an interesting jam from Lemon pear, the recipe should be supplemented with citrus. This will require: per kilogram of juicy pears - 1 large lemon, a glass of water and a kilogram of sugar.

The cooking method partially resembles the previous version:

1. Washed lemon must first be doused with boiling water to get rid of bitterness.
2. Cut it into rings, each of which is then divided into 4 parts.
3. Extract all seeds.
4. Fold the products in a pan, pour a glass of water and cook for 3 minutes.
5. Get the slices of lemon with a slotted spoon, and prepare syrup on the broth.
6. Clean the pears, freeing them from the skin and seeds.
7. Cut the pulp into slices and put them into a deep pan. Cover the food on top with slices of boiled lemon, pour everything in syrup and let stand for 60 minutes.
8. After that, they need to be boiled for an hour on low heat, not forgetting to constantly stir and remove the resulting foam.
9. After a thirty-minute break, cook the food for another 1 hour.

A cooled sweet mass will be a great addition to pastries, hot tea or ice cream.

Fragrant Slices

Everyone has their own idea of ​​dessert. Many, for example, prefer to make jam from Lemon pear slices. As a result, they retain not only their shape, but also their natural aroma. For such a recipe, you need to take: a glass of water, as well as 4 kilograms of sugar and slices of pears.

Repeating this method is easy:

1. First, you need to make a thick syrup from sugar and water. The flame should be relatively small to eliminate the possibility of burning.
2. Add pre-prepared fruit slices to the syrup and cook them for an hour on low heat after boiling. The pear pulp must not be allowed to fall apart. Otherwise, it’s not jam, but jam.
3. Remove the pan from the stove and let the food cool until the next day.
4. The next day, repeat the cooking process for 40 minutes.

After this, the jam should stand for a bit, so that the taste is more balanced. Then it can be used either as a dessert or as a filling for open or closed pies.

Whole fruits

Dessert looks very impressive when preparing whole lemon pear jam. True, eating them will not be so simple. Nevertheless, this option is worthy of attention. For work, you will need the following ingredients: one and a half kilograms of sugar - 2.5 kilograms of pears, half a teaspoon of citric acid and 650 milliliters of water.

The recipe seems complicated only at first glance:

1. First, the fruits must be thoroughly washed, and then each of them in several places pricked with a needle.
2. Put the prepared fruits in a saucepan.
3. Prepare syrup from sugar and water with constant stirring.
4. Pour them pears and put the pan aside for 5 hours.
5. After this, cook the mixture for 15 minutes, and then leave it alone at the same time.
6. Repeat these steps three times.
7. The last step is to add citric acid.

Ready dessert should cool well before you can start trying it. Such a "creation" can be stored in a cellar or refrigerator.

Technique to help

What else is the Limonka pear combined with? Jam for the winter will be tastier if you add oranges to the recipe. The aroma of these citruses will pleasantly transform the dessert. Moreover, a minimum set of products will be required: 0.5 kilograms of pears and oranges and 1 kilogram of sugar.

To simplify your work, you can use a slow cooker for cooking:

1. First of all, you need to chop the products: cut the pears into slices, and the oranges in half circles.
2. Put them in the multicooker bowl, set the “Extinguishing” mode and set the timer for 90 minutes. In this case, the steam valve is better to remove.

The beauty of this method is that the hostess has practically nothing to do. The cooking process takes over the apparatus. In this case, you can absolutely not be afraid of burning foods. The multicooker bowl guarantees that this will never happen. Ready jam can immediately be laid out on the banks and roll up. Previously, the container must be sterilized.

Original combination

Those who like to experiment can be advised to try making another interesting jam from Limonka pear. A simple recipe allows you to get a very unusual result. Only four components are needed: for 800 grams of pears - 150 grams of honey, 400 grams of sugar and 2 drops of vanilla essence.

The process takes place in several stages:

1. First, the fruits must be washed, and then, removing the ponytails, seeds and core, cut the flesh in large enough squares.
2. Put them in a saucepan, sprinkle with sugar and leave for two hours. There will be enough time for the juice to stand out. In this case, the sugar should completely melt.
3. Add honey and cook 4 times for 15 minutes, allowing the mixture to cool completely in between.
4. Vanilla is added at the very end.

If the product is planned for long-term storage, then it should be laid out in jars and rolled up. Cool the jam should gradually. To do this, it is better to cover it with a blanket. It will take at least 4 hours.

Option for small pears

How else can I make lemon jam pear? Whole usually use small and unripe fruits. After heat treatment, they completely retain their shape. Alternatively, a method is suitable for which the following ratio of products is required: for every 400 grams of pears, a glass of water, 5 clove inflorescences and 2 glasses of sugar.

The essence of the method is quite simple:

1. The first step is to wash the pears well.
2. After that, they should be folded into a basin and cook until they become soft. Have to boil several times. Only then can the peel be removed.
3. Drain the broth, and then measure the right amount, mix it with sugar and, adding cloves, prepare aromatic syrup. The solution should not be too thick, otherwise the fruits will turn out to be hard and wrinkle very much.
4. Combine the pears with syrup and cook until they become transparent.
5. Allow the food to stand for several days and then repeat the heating.

As a result, the syrup should thicken well. Soft and transparent pears will look very beautiful in it.

Minimum control

Experienced housewives argue that it is easiest to make lemon jam pears. There is one unique way to do this. The biggest problem here is to prepare the fruits. The rest of the process goes by itself. The set of ingredients is minimal: products (pears and sugar) must be taken in a ratio of 1: 1.

Work begins with fruit preparation:

1. Washed pears should be cut so that the slices are almost transparent.
2. Transfer them to a deep pan. It is better if it is aluminum. This will avoid possible burning.
3. Sprinkle food with sugar, constantly shaking the container.
4. Put the pot on the stove and make a small fire. First you need a spoon to mix the fruits properly. She will no longer be needed later.
5. Cook food under the lid for 3.5 to 5 hours without bothering with constant stirring.

This method is very convenient if making jam is not the only thing the hostess is currently doing.

For every taste

Everyone chooses for himself how to cook jam from Limonka pear . Someone may doubt, but a very delicious dessert is obtained if you take as initial ingredients: 3 kilograms of sugar, half a liter of table vinegar, a little cinnamon, 4 bay leaves and 10 peas in a bucket of fruit.

This jam is prepared according to the following technology:

1. First rinse and dry the pears, and then prick them using a standard fork or needle.
2. Cook sugar and vinegar syrup.
3. Fold the fruits in a basin and add the remaining ingredients.
4. Pour all the syrup and allow to cool well.
5. Cook three times for 30 minutes, constantly making a twelve-hour break.

The process must be continued until the syrup reaches the desired consistency. The taste of such pears is simply amazing. And all this is due to the use of not quite familiar ingredients in the recipe. Such a product is sure to be appreciated by someone who loves zest and personality in desserts.