The human body constantly needs vitamin C. And if it is easy enough to get it in the summer together with fresh fruits, then in winter it becomes more difficult. It is easiest to use citrus fruits, in particular lemons, for replenishing this useful substance. You can put them in tea, add to pastries, or you can cook jam from them.
Read our recipes, and you will learn how to brew lemon jam of several kinds.
Ginger-and-Lemon jam
Ingredients:
- lemon - 3 pieces;
- fresh ginger - 50 g;
- sugar - 270 g.
Preparation
We peel the lemon peel and squeeze the juice. It should be about 100-120 ml of juice. Pour it into a saucepan. There we send cleaned and chopped ginger, zest, 3 tbsp. spoons of sugar and boil for 1 minute. Pour out all the sugar and cook for 5-7 minutes. We remove from the fire, we cool and regale. Jam has a tart, slightly burning taste.
A simple recipe for lemon jam
Ingredients:
- water 250 ml;
- lemon - 3 pieces;
- sugar - 480-500 g;
- vanilla.
Preparation
Lemons are washed and dipped in water. We cook not for long, enough for just 2-3 minutes. We take the lemons and crush it together with the skin to the cubes. If there are stones, then we remove them. Pour 250 ml of water, pour sugar, improve the taste with vanilla and cook until the droplet of jam on the plate begins to solidify. Usually it takes about 50 minutes.
Orange and lemon jam
Ingredients:
- oranges - 6 pieces;
- lemons - 6 pieces;
- sugar - 1200 g;
- water 180 ml.
Preparation
We put the fruit in a pan, fill it with boiling water, blanch it, and then transfer it to a bowl with cold (or even ice) water and leave it for 2 hours. Without purifying, cut the fruit in circles. We remove the bones in the pulp.
Prepare in a saucepan syrup, fill the sugar with water and heat this mixture. We put the cut fruits into a saucepan and leave for another 3 hours. Then cook for 10 minutes and cool. We repeat it twice. Ready jam is used immediately or closed in jars.
Lemon jam preserves
Ingredients:
- lemon peel - 220 g;
- lemon juice - 25 ml;
- sugar - 220 g.
Preparation
Fill the lemon peel with water and cook. After 15 minutes of boiling, drain the water and pour in a new portion. After repeating this procedure three times, crush the lemon peel in the meat grinder. You can also use a food processor for this. Fill the crust with juice, sweeten and cook for 25 minutes. The prepared jam is thick, bright and very fragrant.