It is simple to prepare tasty plum jam with orange houses, the recipe differs in structure and cooking from classical preparation for the winter only a little. The dessert with a citrus note has gentle summer aroma, it turns out sweet, but with sourness, light, hardly notable on taste. It is possible to give it to tea, is with fritters, pancakes, to add as a stuffing to biscuits, home-made cakes and pies.
It is simple cook original plums and oranges jam according to the classical recipe, in advance having prepared necessary products, ware, having studied time of stage-by-stage cooking and the recommendation about cooking. Only in this case delicacy will turn out with the soft citrus taste which isn't hammering taste of plums will remain beautiful by sight and will be well stored.
Also the advantage of such interesting dessert containing many vitamins, useful substances, let and having rather high high-calorie value will become undoubted. Caloric content of 100 grams of ready jam depending on the recipe and amount of the sugar used when cooking is about 280-320 kcal of citruses and plums.
Secrets and cunnings when cooking
That in house conditions to make usual plum and orange jam for the winter, it is necessary to observe step by step recipe stages, to use hints and cunnings of more skilled hostesses. Here several checked secrets from culinary specialists on cooking of a successful sweet dessert.
- It is necessary mix fruit weight in a pan or a basin only a wooden scapula, a spoon with the long handle. Devices from metal scratch a ware bottom, change color of a ready-made product after cooling.
- That preparation at storage didn't become candied in the winter, it is possible to pour when boiling of a little citric acid (1 teaspoon on 1 kg of granulated sugar).
- It is necessary to cook sweet weight only on slow fire, without allowing swirling and breakage of bubbles on a surface, differently too much foam is formed.
- If to uvarivat weight in a basin too long, contents can burn or turn into dense jam.
Than fruits are more dark, especially on color jam will turn out violet - as is one photo lower. At addition not of blue, but yellow plums it is possible to receive lighter dessert of a red-orange shade.
Preparation of products
The simple recipe of tasty plum and orange delicacy consists of several ingredients:
- discharge of any grade;
- oranges;
- sugar;
Fruit should be taken in certain proportions, in advance having prepared them for cooking:
- wash out, cut plums in half, having removed stones, cut on 6-8 segments;
- to remove a dried peel from citruses, to remove white layers which can taste bitter, cut on pieces of any size.
It is better to put segments already in hot syrup that jam turned out more dense, uniform in consistence.
Recipe step by step
That who doesn't like to potter long in kitchen, to be pleasant the fast and clear recipe how to make plums, oranges and sugar jam for the winter. On its preparation only 45 minutes will leave, at the exit about 450-500 ml of a ready-made product will turn out. Plums and oranges need to be taken ordinary, any grade what are available on sale at the moment.
Necessary ingredients for cooking:
- plums - 0.4 kg;
- orange - one piece;
- sugar - 2 glasses (if fruits sour, quantity it is possible to increase by 0.5-1 glasses).
Preparation process
- Touch, wash plums with warm water, dry on a towel. Then to remove stones, to cut in half. Very large fruits can be cut on a quarter. It isn't recommended to add the whole plums at jam making, they will remain dense.
- Scald orange boiled water, rub off a towel or a dry sponge. Peel also partitions, to cut each segment with triangular pieces. It is obligatory to throw out stones.
- Shift plums in a pan or the enameled basin, here to pour citrus pieces. If desired proportions can be changed, increasing amount of any given fruit to the taste.
- Fill up products with granulated sugar, leave for 2 hours that gave juice.
- Put capacity on weak fire, wait that weight began to boil, and sugar was dissolved when stirring.
- Cook jam on slow fire, removing a skin and stirring slowly, 40 minutes.
- To wash up during this time with soda and to sterilize clean banks, to drench covers with hot boiled water.
- Spread out hot jam on glass jars, cork for the winter with screw covers or roll up. Cool, then remove on storage to the cool place.
Interesting variations of a dessert
To please members of household with unusual delicacy, it isn't necessary to stand in the afternoon at a plate or to prepare many fresh fruit for preservation. It is simpler to cook gradually, using different recipes with addition of additional ingredients to taste. Here several original variations of winter delicacy:
- use of not cut segments, and the whole plums with stones;
- addition of tangerine or lemon for strengthening of aroma of a citrus in a ready dessert;
- replacement of violet plums of an ugorka by prunes, blackthorn, fruits of yellow grades;
- inclusion in structure of jam of such additives as mint, honey, nuts, cinnamon, ginger.
It is also possible to diversify taste and aroma of plum and orange delicacy with a lemon, an anisetree, carnation buds, apples of any grades. Depending on the chosen compounding and proportions the unusual dessert for the winter which is well stored not only in the fridge, but also in the basement, the storeroom, the dark and cool place will turn out.
The same who prefers to study process of preparation according to video will like the simple and clear step-by-step video recipe with demonstration of all processes of preparation given below.