Jam is one of the traditional and, perhaps, the mostfavorite canned desserts. For its preparation most often use berries, fruits, less often vegetables, which are cooked with sugar. In winter, cherished jars are not a shame to get to the arrival of guests or sweeten their contents home tea. In addition, it produces wonderful fillings for home bagels, pies and other baked goods. However, if you love this sweetness and prepare it for future use, it's no surprise that standard recipes are boring, seem boring and trivial. In this case it's time to experiment, combining ordinary fruits with something exotic, for example, to make jam from plum with oranges. So, how to cook it?
Recipe basic without cooking
Drain (preferably use grades withdark, intense color and a lot of pulp) we take 1 kg. Thoroughly, let me remove the bones. Now they need to be scrolled through a meat grinder, chopped in a food processor or in a blender. Should get a gruel. Next, take a couple of juicy oranges. They, too, mine, we cut into pieces with the peel and remove the stone, crush. Now you need to mix plums, oranges and add to them 1-1.5 kg of sugar. To sugar grains not crunched on the teeth, it is best to whip the mixture until they are completely dissolved. Such jam from plum with oranges preserves all vitamins and natural taste of fruits throughout the whole winter. You need to store it in pre-roasted cans under capron or paper covers. The workpiece should be kept in a refrigerator or other cool place.
Recipe: boiled "pyatiminutka"
Plums are mine, glossy, but not crushed.They should be added to each kilogram of fruit for 300 grams. sugar, 0.5 liters of water and two oranges. Citruses can be chopped or cut into small pieces, as you like, do not peel. Ingredients put in a basin or a pan and heat on a small fire, gradually leading to a state where the liquid is about to boil. At the same time jam from plum with oranges requires constant monitoring, it should be gently stirred and not allowed to zaburlit. In such a border state, it must be kept for 5 minutes and removed from the fire. Now the brew should be spread over the prepared banks and rolled up. The ready-made packaging should be wiped, turned upside down and covered with a blanket. In this condition, the banks better keep the night, until the complete cooling.
Despite the fact that such a combination at firstThe view may seem strange, jam from plum with oranges is very delicious. Also worth noting is its fresh and mouth-watering scent, and if you add a spoonful of such home-made sweetness to a glass of milk, you will get a gentle and pleasant cocktail. Also, to the standard ingredients, you can add nuts or raisins, while getting new tints of taste. Or instead of (or together) oranges try to put tangerines, their aroma will nourish the whole dessert. The mashed jam from plums and oranges is a real storehouse of vitamins and an excellent remedy for the treatment and prevention of winter colds. Just remember that it can not be cooked either in aluminum or copper containers, as this leads to the oxidation of products and completely destroys ascorbic acid. Well complemented with citrus and jam from the red plum, but when cooking such a treat you may need a little more sugar. However, this is a matter of taste, sweet and sour preparations like many sweet tooth.
