Apples jam - tasty delicacy. And if it with transparent syrup and amber segments, then also beautiful. Make such jam won't make big work. The main thing, is correct to choose a grade of apples and to observe cooking time.
Choice of apples
Not all grades of apples will be suitable for transparent-amber jam. It is better to choose fruits of late maturation, such as Semerenko, Antonovka. They are dense, and therefore well transfer long heat treatment. During the correct work with such apples, the result will unambiguously please.
Transparent jam from apple segments
Having decided on a grade of apples, it is necessary to choose not overripe fruits, otherwise segments can boil soft and syrup will become hazy. Ingredients in such jam only two - apples and sugar. They go in equal proportions - on 1 kg of apples 1 kg of granulated sugar will be required.
Instruction of preparation
- To carefully wash out apples.
- Remove a core and sunflower seeds from fruits, to cut slices.
- Put apple segments in the capacity where jam will cook. Fill up fruits with granulated sugar. Leave for 10 hours, having covered a pan with a gauze.
- When apples give juice, and sugar will partially be dissolved, it is possible to start cooking process.
- Bring apples to the boil. Remove a skin. Cook on average fire of 7 minutes. Leave jam to cool down at the room temperature.
- It is necessary to put jam on a plate again and after boiling to cook 10 minutes. Leave before full cooling.
- For the third time it is necessary to cook delicacy about 10 minutes.
- Spread out hot jam in carefully sterilized banks. Roll up. Put cups upside down and cover with a plaid. As soon as apple jam cools down, he can be moved away to the cool place.
Jam is perfectly stored all winter not only in the cool room, but also at the average room temperature of air.
Fast apples jam
If there is no time to cook jam in 3 approaches, then it is possible to adopt the fast recipe. Preparation of such apple delicacy on 1 kg of fruits will require 250 ml of water, 1 kg of granulated sugar and 1 pinch of citric acid.
Instruction of preparation
- To carefully wash apples. Remove from them serdtsevinka and sunflower seeds. Cut segments. It isn't necessary to fill up them with sugar.
- Fill 600 g of granulated sugar in a pan, fill in it with water. Constantly stirring slowly, to bring to the boil.
- Ship apple segments in syrup, potomit on average fire of 7 minutes.
- Remove jam from a plate, fill up with the remained granulated sugar. Leave for 10 hours.
- To put the container with cold jam on a plate, to bring to the boil, to boil thoroughly 5 minutes. Apples have to become amber, transparent.
- Add 1 pinch of citric acid. Cook 1 minute.
- Spread out jam on sterile banks. Roll up. Put upside down, cover with something warm. In a day to remove fruit delicacy to the cool place.