Prune jam is an excellent home preparation. And let her cooking takes a lot of time, but in the winter, after opening the jar, you can enjoy a delicious treat served for tea, or use it as a filling for open pies or rolls.
How to prepare a prune jam
You need 1 kg of fruit:
- 1300 g of granulated sugar;
- 375 ml of water (this is about one and a half cups).
Please note that for cooking you need to choose very ripe fruit, which can easily separate the stone. Wash the plums, pat dry with a towel and divide into 2 halves. Kostochku, as already mentioned above, you need to take out. This amount of sugar dissolved in hot water and bring to a boil, remove from the plate. After lay out the halves of the sink, stir and leave to stand for 4 hours. After this time, the jam from the prunes should be boiled for no more than 10 minutes, then removed from the plate and left to stand for 3 hours. Almost done. After the specified period of time, cook the dainty on the plate, it will take 5-7 minutes, do not forget to stir and remove the foam. After packaging the workpiece on sterilized jars, cool, roll up and store in a cool place.
Jam from prunes "five-minute"
Take the desired amount of sinks, wash, cleanse from the bones. After put in a saucepan and pour sugar at a rate of 1: 2 (try plums, if too acidic, then you can take more sugar). Leave to stand for a day, fruits will give juice, water is not necessary to add. After 24 hours, put the dishes on a slow fire and bring the jam from fresh prunes to a boil. After half an hour, remove the saucepan from the plate and cool. Now the workpiece can be poured into sterilized jars, rolled up with lids and sent to a dark place to wait for the winter cold.
Unusual and tasty jam from prunes with chocolate
This recipe can become a hit of your home billets, to the same taste jam reminds the same candy. For cooking, you will need:
- 3 kg ripe plums;
- 900 g of granulated sugar;
- 200 g of butter and 100 g of natural cocoa powder.
Rinse the plum well, remove the bones, and after the halves scroll through the meat grinder. Put the mass in a pan for cooking, pour the indicated amount of granulated sugar and mix. Put on medium heat and cook for half an hour. If foam will appear, remove it. Then add the butter and cocoa to the fruit mass, stir again and briefly boil - a quarter of an hour will be enough. Done. Now the jam can be poured into prepared sterilized jars, covered with lids and cooled. You can store it either in a dark place, or simply in the refrigerator.
Now you know how to cook jam from prunes, and you can replenish your home piggy bank with winter preparation recipes in three ways to prepare an excellent treat for cold winter evenings.