From prunes it is possible to prepare not only compote or a tasty stuffing for pies, but also very fragrant jam. The general preparation time of such jam – no more than 120 minutes.
Prunes jam
You need one and a half kilograms of fresh prunes (wild plums), 400 grams of sugar, 10 tablespoons of water, at will it is possible to add cinnamon and vanillin – on a pinch.
Carefully wash up prunes and remove from it stones. Lay out in the enameled pan, add water and you cook before softening of fruits. Then add 100 grams of sugar and you cook on small fire about 10-15 more minutes, periodically stirring slowly.
Add 100 more grams of sugar and boil thoroughly as much again. Then pour out the remained sugar and you cook jam until ready. Having already switched off fire, add vanillin and cinnamon to jam. It was necessary only to pour this most tasty jam on the sterilized banks and to wrap up.
Ready jam in hermetically soldered banks should be stored in the cool place. The balcony, a cellar or the fridge will approach.
Some hostesses prefer to cook jam without water addition. In this case the fresh fruits which are washed up and exempted from stones fill up with sugar and leave for day. Plums within a day give a lot of juice. Further jam is cooked by the same way.
Dried prunes jam
Even if you passed a season of fresh fruit and didn't manage to prepare jam, all of you still can regale on excellent sweet. Sometimes it happens so that for any given dish – or just to tea - there is a wish for some jam or jam, and in the house there are only dried fruits. However jam can be made and from them - will help out idle time рецептик which can be prompted also to girlfriends. Take 300 grams of a dried pitted dried prune. Lay out it in a pan and fill in with water so that it only just covered berries. Cover a pan (it has to be slightly slightly opened) and a razvarivayta prunes on weak fire until water doesn't boil away. Still wipe hot prunes in the blender or miss via the meat grinder. Separately prepare a sugar syrup. For this purpose take a quarter of a glass of water, 100 grams of sugar and a pinch of citric acid (or lemon half juice). Boil syrup, add to it prunes. Let's jam boil on weak fire when stirring within 3-5 minutes.
The same tasty jam can be made also from dried apricots.
Such jam can be used as a light stuffing for pies or as an independent dessert. It is possible to enter into even hot jam the beaten egg whites carefully. Fruit and proteinaceous cream for a wafer rolls or choux pastry will turn out.