There are many recipes for jams, one of the ingredients of which are apples. These fruits are perfectly combined with other fruits and make any jam more fragrant. Apple jam itself is exceptionally delicious. Inexpensive and uncomplicated in cooking - this jam can be found in winter almost in any home. Jam from apples is considered an excellent filling for many pies and perfectly complements various desserts. In this article you will find recipes from which you will learn how to cook apple jam.
Recipe for jam from sweet apples slices
For the preparation of apple jam, the following ingredients are needed: 2 kilograms of apples (the most sweet jam is obtained from paradise apples), 1 kilogram of sugar, 1.5 cups of water.
Before you cook jam from apples, the fruit must be prepared. Ripe apples need to be washed, completely peeled, remove the entire core and cut into small slices. After that, the apples must be lowered into boiling water for 5 minutes. This procedure protects apple lobules from blackening. After that, apples should be cooled with cold water. Too soft apple slices should be separated from the total mass.
The water in which apples were cooked should be used for the preparation of syrup. Half a sugar (500 grams) should be filled with 1.5 cups of water from under the apples, put on medium heat, bring to a boil and boil for 15 minutes, stirring constantly. After that, apples should be filled with syrup and leave to infuse for 3 hours. After 3 hours, apples with syrup should be boiled for 5 minutes and allowed to stand still for 3 hours. Thus, apples should be cooked 4 times. From the remaining sugar, you need to make a syrup and add it to the jam before the last brew. These procedures make elastic lobules in apple jam, even if soft varieties of apples were used. Especially repeated cooking is necessary for jam from apples of a grade "white loading".
A recipe for apple jam with orange
For the preparation of jam, the following ingredients are needed: 1 kilogram of apples, 1 kilogram of oranges, 2 kilograms of sugar, 1 glass of water. Apples should be carefully prepared, in the same way as described in the previous recipe. Oranges must be peeled and cut into small pieces. Sugar and water should be cooked syrup - add sugar to a saucepan with water, put on slow fire, bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes, stirring with a spoon, so that the mixture does not stick to the bottom. After this, add apples with oranges to the saucepan with syrup, bring it to a boil three times and cool. Now jam can be poured according to prepared banks and rolled up.
Thus, you can cook apple jam with lemon, jam from apples and pears or jam from cowberry with apples.
A recipe for jam from apples with cinnamon
Cinnamon is a wonderful addition to apple jam. To prepare the jam you need: 2 kilograms of apples, 700 grams of sugar, 1 glass of water, 1 tablespoon of cinnamon. Apples should be cleaned, cut, covered with sugar and left for 6 hours, so they let the juice. After this, the pan with apples should be put on fire, add water, bring to a boil and add cinnamon. Boil for another 5 minutes. After that, apple jam with cinnamon can be poured over cans.
It is most convenient to cook jam from apples, cut into small pieces or slices. Half of apples are faster to boil, become soft and repeated cooking can not always make large pieces elastic. And apple jam slices can be used for cooking various desserts and baked goods.