There is a lot of recipes of jam from squash, each hostess has small secrets and cunnings. Jam turns out very tasty, and those who taste it for the first time, as a rule, can't guess what it is made of.
Option first
According to nutritionists, a squash – one of the most digestible vegetables. Besides, it is also very useful: it contains vitamins of group B, PP and C and also calcium, copper, iron, potassium and manganese.
For preparation of jam you need 1.3 kilograms of medium-sized, not overripe squash with a yellow peel, kilogram of sugar and one lemon. Cut each squash in length on strips (8-10 pieces). If sunflower seeds rather rigid and large, a core with them it is better to cut out. Now cut each strip across on thin, almost transparent slices. Well mix them with sugar and leave to let juice – to it about 10 hours will leave.
After squash give plentiful juice, put ware with them on a plate and bring to the boil. Now I came it is time to prepare a lemon. Knife its sharp on thin slices together with a dried peel. Remove kernels. Add the cut lemon to the boiling marrow jam. Let's weight begin to boil again, then reduce fire to minimum and you cook about an hour, periodically stirring slowly.
Pour hot marrow jam on the sterilized banks and hermetically a zakuporta.
If desired it is possible to experiment with spices for jam. For example, to try to add to jam cinnamon or vanillin – on a pinch.
Option second
For this recipe it is necessary to take 1.5 kilograms of young squash, 1-1.5 kilograms of sugar (depending on whether you want to make jam sweet or sweet-sour), 1 lemon and 4 average oranges. Wash up squash, a lemon and oranges. Scrape vegetables and fruit seeds and a peel. Grate squash or crush in the blender. Also crush segments of a lemon and orange in the blender or miss via the meat grinder. In a big pan mix the crushed squash, oranges and a lemon and also sugar. Put ware on the electric or gas stove and bring mix to the boil. After that reduce fire to minimum and continue to cook, periodically stirring slowly, about an hour.
Jam leaves similar to jam or jam. From it the fine stuffing for buns or sweet pies turns out. However, it can and be smeared on sandwiches, and just to give to tea in beautiful glass vases.
Switch off fire and let's jam cool down. Then boil thoroughly once again within an hour. Pour ready jam in the prepared sterilized banks and hermetically close.