Kitayka – a grade of small apples of yellow color with a red flush or completely red. They are called still "paradise apples" for a sweet taste and the small size. From fruits original jams, compotes and jam turn out.
The recipe of jam from a kitayka
To make jam from a kitayka, the following ingredients will be required: - 1 kilogram of fruits of a kitayka,
- 1 kilogram of granulated sugar, - 1.5 glasses of drinking water.
Take fresh and strong fruits of the Chinese slivolistny apple-tree, with a diameter about 2 cm, well wash out. Cut off tails and remove all greens. Pierce "paradise apples" any small, sharp object, the toothpick or a match will approach. Without cutting, put fruit in a bowl and fill in them with boiled water, leave to stand 10 minutes. After this procedure surely drain water, and cool fruits, having filled in with their cold drinking water or having left for half an hour on a kitchen table.
Prepare syrup. For this purpose in a pan fill kilogram of sugar and pour one and a half glasses water. Put capacity on a plate. Constantly stir slowly water with sugar until mix begins to boil and will become dense. When sugar is dissolved – switch off fire. In the prepared hot syrup fill up the cooled-down kitayka, establish slow fire and you cook, constantly stirring slowly and when syrup becomes absolutely transparent – switch off a plate. Filter the received syrup, having separated apples, in a separate pan and put on slow fire. You cook it to density, and after contents pour back to fruits and mix everything a wooden scapula. But do it very carefully that apples didn't get out of the shape. Leave jam in the dark and cool place at least for 8-9 hours, don't forget to close only a pan with contents a cover.
As it is correct to store jam from a kitayka
Jam can be eaten at once, and it is possible to twirl a part for the winter to regale on it all year. If to you to liking the second option, then for a start it is necessary to prepare banks for turning. Wash each chosen capacity under hot water with use of baking soda. Pour about 2 cm of water and sterilize in the microwave oven, an oven, the multicooker or the double boiler. Hot pour ready jam on clean banks and twirl them tin covers, using the special device for turning. Deliver to capacity a neck down and inwrap them in a warm blanket until jam completely cools down, there is usually enough day. It is necessary in order that banks didn't burst, and jam kept freshness and didn't grow mouldy. In 4 days you can put preparations in the fridge or lower in a cellar.