Jam from plum

Jam from plums is no less popular than jam from apricots or apples. Plum jam is less sweet and is perfect for decorating desserts. Also, plum jam is often used as a filling for confectionery. You can cook jam from plums in several ways, and after reading these recipes, you will finally learn how to make jam from a plum.

Traditional recipe of jam from plum

Jam can be cooked from ordinary, as well as from yellow and white plum. To prepare the jam you will need: 1 kilogram of ripe or slightly unripe plums, 1.5 cups of sugar, 2.5 cups of boiled water.

Plums need to be washed, remove the bones from them and divide into halves. If the plums are unripe or the bones do not separate, the fruit should be blanched in hot water for 5 minutes.

Further, plum jam can be cooked in one of three ways:

1. Pour the plums with cold water and leave for 12 hours. Meanwhile, from the sugar and water, boil the syrup, pour in the plums and put them on a slow fire. Plums in the syrup should be cooked until ready - until the foam ceases to stand out. Hot jam from plums pour over cooked dry jars and roll.
2. Prepared, hot syrup pour the plums and leave them infused for 8 hours. After this, the pan with plums and syrup should be put on the fire and cook for 5-10 minutes. In this case, you need to ensure that the drain does not crack the skin. After that, remove the jam from the heat and cool for another 8 hours. The heating and cooling procedure should be repeated at least 3 times. After the jam from the sink boils for the last time, it can be rolled for the winter.
3. Peeled plums to dip into hot water for 10 minutes, cool and pour hot, just boiled syrup from water and sugar. Plums leave to be infused in syrup for a day. After this, put the plums on a fire, bring to a boil and cool for 12 hours. After 12 hours, the syrup should be drained and boiled. After that, fill them with plums, bring them to a boil and pour over the cans for the sunset.

Recipe for plum jam with bones

Jam from plums with stone is not suitable for filling and decorating confectionery. Nevertheless, such jam is not less tasty. For the preparation of jam will need: 1 kilogram of sinks, 6 glasses of sugar, 4 glasses of water.

Before cooking plum jam, each fruit must be pierced. After this, put the plums in a pan with hot but not boiling water for 5 minutes. When the plums cool, they should be poured with hot syrup prepared from water and sugar. Bring the jam to a boil, remove from heat and leave to soak for 10 hours. Then again bring to a boil and cool again. The procedure is done three times, pour the jam over the jars and spin.

The secrets of making jam from plums:

• Plum is perfectly combined with many fruits, so it is added to other jams. The most popular is jam from apples and plums. These fruits need about the same time to cook and become ready. Apple-plum jam turns out to the best of sweet, fragrant and unusually tasty;
• jam from plums can be cooked with nuts. For its preparation, the plum must be carefully cut, remove the stone and place in it a peeled walnut or almonds. Next, cook the jam in the usual way. Plum jam with nuts is more dense and is considered a real delicacy;
• there is a recipe for jam "Pyatiminutka" from the plum. This recipe is characterized by a relative speed of cooking. Plums must be cut into small pieces, covered with sugar and left for 6 hours. After the plum leaves the juice, put on a fire and bring to a boil. Hot jam pour into cans and roll;
• Plum jam can be cooked with cocoa - this recipe is called "Plum in chocolate". To do this, add 10 spoons of cocoa (based on 1 kilogram of sugar) to the syrup and cook the plum in this chocolate syrup.