Apples are tasty not only fresh, but also as a basis of house preparations. For example, from them it is possible to make jam which will be good in itself and also as a stuffing for pies.
It is required to you
- For the main recipe of jam:
- 1 kg of apples;
- 1 kg of sugar;
- 1 tsps of citric acid.
- For jam with raisin:
- 1 kg of apples;
- 300 g of raisin;
- 500 g of sugar;
- 1 lemon;
- 1 tsps of cinnamon;
- 1 tsps of a cracked ginger;
- 3 tablespoons of white wine.
Instruction
1. Try to make jam according to the simplest recipe. For this purpose peel apples, cut in half, remove a core and chop pulp into small pieces. In a pan pour in 1 glass of water, pour apples and citric acid. Bring water to the boil, then add sugar. You cook weight, constantly stirring slowly, within half an hour or forty minutes. Jam has to become rather uniform. Readiness can be checked on consistence. Drip jam on a plate - it shouldn't spread.
2. Meanwhile sterilize banks, keeping them in the boiling water together with covers not less than 10 minutes. Let's them dry and fill in in them jam. Close them by means of tin covers and the seamer. You store a ready dessert in the dark cool place, for example in a case, and after opening banks - in the fridge.
3. Make jam with additives. For this purpose as well as in the first case, crush apples. Put them together with raisin in a pan, it is desirable with non-stick coating. Fill in with three glasses of cold water. You cook mix, regularly stirring slowly, within half an hour. After that add a ground cinnamon and powder of ginger, mix, pour sugar. Lemon juice and a dried peel of the same fruit in a small amount can impact also additional relish. Prepare mix of 15-20 more minutes on weak fire. At the end of preparation add dry white wine. Pack a dessert into the sterilized banks. It is desirable to use it not right after preparation, and to allow to infuse several weeks.
4. If you want to achieve completely uniform consistence of jam, and the grade of apples chosen by you doesn't boil soft, before preparation grate fruit. Train him already in such look. But in this case cooking can be reduced by 10-15 minutes. The main thing that sugar managed to be dissolved completely, and water was partially evaporated for density of a dessert.