Jam is a very useful food product obtained by boiling fruit or berry puree, sometimes - with the addition of a small amount of sugar, spices (cloves, cinnamon, etc.). It is a thick, puree-like mass with a practically homogeneous texture without firm inclusions of sweet and sour taste.
In case the initial fruit puree has a low acidity, it is permissible to add lemon juice or food citric acid in jam. Preparation of jam is one of the best ways of processing and harvesting fruit products, favorably differs from jam in that it is prepared with much less sugar or without this ingredient. Ready jam usually contains more than 34% moisture, approximate calorie dessert about 250-260 kcal per 100 g. Most often jam is made from apples, pears, apricots, cherries, cranberries and plums. Plum jam is especially tasty and healthy.
Tell you how to cook jam from a sink without sugar. Of course, you can cook jam from a plum with sugar, but without sugar it will be more useful, because plum fruits contain natural polysaccharides, such a product is more necessary for nutrition of children, which should not be "podsazhivat" on dessert, for adults, however, it is also very useful , polysaccharides are suitable even for diabetics. In addition, jam without sugar is more delicious - it is not cloying.
For the preparation of jam any cultural varieties of plums are suitable, but, of course, the best are the large fruits, in which the stone is easily separated. Cooking jam is most convenient in a low basin (well-polished copper, aluminum or enameled without chips), you can use low large pots, saucepans and cauldrons.
Jam from plums for the winter
Ingredients:
- plum ripe and ripe (you can have different varieties);
- butter natural high fat, can be ghee.
Preparation
Let's look at the fruits. If fruits with flaws come across, we remove the spoiled portion with a knife. Thoroughly wash the fruit in cold water, divide each fruit into two parts. Of course, jam from the sinks will cook without seeds, so we remove them. Platter halves in a container, cover it with a lid and put it on the smallest fire. Periodically mix with a wooden spatula or spoon. When the juice appears, remove the lid and boil the jam, stirring, for 30-40 minutes, after which we remove the dishes from the fire, cover with a lid and leave for 5-8 hours.
The cycle "boiling with stirring - cooling" is repeated several times. Readiness of the jam is determined as follows: a drop placed on a saucer does not spread, the jam is easily separated from the walls of the working container. When the readiness of jam is reached, we transfer it to sterilized glass jars. We put it under the throat, pour it over melted butter - so we will protect the jam from possible molding. Now we can either roll up the jam with sterilized tin lids - in this version, do not turn the jars. Or we seal the hole with pure parchment paper (over the paper you can tie a jar around the throat with a piece of twine, put on an elastic band or a plastic lid).
Keep the jam cooked in jam is best at low, but plus temperature (glazed non-cold veranda, loggia, cellar, dry pantry). If after several months, after opening the jar, you find signs or even mold cake on the jar in the neck of the jar, do not get upset, carefully remove the upper (and one more) layer with a spoon, the rest can be safely eat.
Approximately the same way, you can prepare mixed jam from plums and apples.
Plums of plums and apples
Preparation
In this case, pick and prepare the plums separately (see above). Remove the core of apples and cut them into small slices - now they can be boiled together with plums. It is even better to pre-prune apples with a combine harvester, blender or a modern powerful electric meat grinder. You can and slightly in another way: boil the slices of apples a couple to softness, and then mash.
Add the apple puree to the already drained plums once and cook the jam until ready (see above).
If there is a capacious multivark in the household, you can cook jam from the plum in it. In a sense, it's even more convenient, since you can specify a more accurate mode and temperature. Read the instructions carefully to a specific device, and you will succeed.
In the cold season, a delicious plum jam is wonderful to serve for tea. For breakfast, it can be plastered on a piece of white bread (or even bread and butter) - an excellent useful sandwich.