Jam is called the sweet dish having consistence of syrup. It is possible to prepare it from various fruit, berries and even vegetables. It is possible cook tangerines or oranges jam as in the traditional way — with water and sugar, and with various additives. It is possible to do without cooking of a citrus at all.
It is required to you
- For jam from the whole citrus (on 1 kg of fruit):
- Syrup for the first filling:
- — water
- 2 glasses;
- — sugar
- 800 g.
- Syrup for the second filling:
- — water
- ¾ glass;
- — sugar
- 400 g.
- For jam from pieces of fruit (on 1 kg):
- — water
- 2 glasses;
- — sugar
- 1 kg.
- For orange jam with a rhubarb:
- — the cut rhubarb stalks
- 2 glasses;
- — orange dried peel
- 2 pieces;
- — whole fruit
- 2 pieces;
- — sugar
- 2 kg.
- For orange jam with a gooseberry without cooking:
- — gooseberry
- 1 kg;
- — oranges
- 2 pieces;
- — sugar
- 1 kg.
Instruction
1. For preparation of jam from the whole citrus together with a peel blanch them at a temperature of 90 degrees within 15 minutes. Such temperature turns out when in the container with water on fire the first bubbles begin to appear. The pan needs to be removed from fire and to place near the burning ring that water didn't begin to boil.
2. Drain water, cool fruit and place in cold water for 10 hours. After cooling cut tangerines on halves, and oranges on four parts. Remove from stone fruit that jam didn't taste bitter. Prepare syrup for filling and sustain in it a citrus within 8 hours. Merge syrup, fill in with another, more dense and you cook in four receptions — bringing to the boil and cooling every time before the following cooking.
3. For preparation of jam from oranges and tangerines without peel wash and peel fruit. Sort on segments and remove stones. Shift segments of a citrus in syrup, bring to the boil and cool within an hour. Merge syrup in other capacity, boil thoroughly it 10 minutes and again fill in fruit. In an hour repeat operation and you cook jam within 10-15 minutes. Put for giving of saturated citrus aroma in hot jam 2 tablespoons of gratings of a citrus.
4. Unusual sourness orange jam with a rhubarb has. Crush stalks of this plant, grate an orange dried peel. Clean and cut oranges in cubes, remove stones. Fill in with syrup, bring to the boil and cool. Repeat operation one more time.
5. Orange jam without cooking can be made with a gooseberry. For this purpose miss citruses and berries via the meat grinder, fill up with sugar. Leave capacity at several o'clock to sugar remelting, periodically mix it is necessary to stir slowly. Spread out jam on the sterilized banks. It is necessary to store such jam in the fridge.