Summer is not only holidays and the sea, but also a hot time for housewives who make preparations for the winter to pamper their loved ones with tasty and healthy jam.
We suggest you make jam from apples and plums, the recipes of which you will find in our article.
Apple and plum jam recipes - basic principles of preparation
Apple-plum jam is a delicious delicacy that can be served on cold winter evenings for tea, or use it for baking.
First, prepare the fruit. Wash the plums, break them in half and take out the bone. They can be left in whole halves, or cut into slices. Washed apples are crushed with quarters and seeds are removed. Then the fruit is cut into large enough pieces.
Prepare a treat in a copper or enamel bowl. You can also cook it in a slow cooker.
Apples are placed in a container in which they will prepare jam, and are filled with half sugar. Shake everything well so that the sugar is evenly distributed over the fruit. Then plums are laid on top and sprinkled with the remaining sugar. Shake again and leave the fruit mixture for several hours so that the plums and apples give away the juice.
Capacity sent to the fire. Periodically remove the foam. As soon as the contents boil, remove from the stove. The jam is completely cooled and boiled again.
Ready hot treat spread in prepared jars and tightly rolled up.
Recipe 1. Apple and plum jam recipe in the multivark "Delight of summer"
Ingredients
700 g of apples;
800 g of plums;
kilogram of cane sugar.
Cooking method
1. Wash the plums thoroughly. Tear the ponytails. Take out the bones, breaking each fruit in half
2. Cut the washed apples into slices and remove the seed boxes.
3. Put the apples in a deep bowl and sprinkle with half the granulated sugar. Shake the dishes lightly to mix the fruit with sugar.
4. Put plums on top and add remaining sugar. Shake again and leave for three hours to let the fruit mix into the juice.
5. Wipe the multicooker bowl dry and place the fruit in it. Pour in the allocated juice.
6. Run the quenching program for an hour and a half and close the lid. If your appliance has jam or jam mode, turn it on.
Recipe 2. Apple and plum jam recipe with cinnamon
Ingredients
100 ml of warm drinking water;
1 kg of plum;
5 g ground cinnamon;
800 g of sugar;
apples - a kilogram.
Cooking method
1. Break the washed plums in half and take out the seeds. Chopper pulp
2. Pour warm water on the bottom of the pelvis and put the prepared fruits in it, add sugar and mix.
3. Place a basin with plums on the stove. Bring the contents to a boil. Remove the foam with a slotted spoon.
4. Wash the apples, cut into quarters and remove the stalks and seed boxes. Grind the pulp of the fruit into slices. Put the apples in a bowl with boiling plum mass and cook until the jam acquires a beautiful ruby color. Remove from heat and leave jam overnight.
5. The next day, repeat the procedure. Add cinnamon and cook for another five minutes. Pour the hot treat over prepared jars and seal hermetically with tin lids.
Recipe 4. Jam from apples and plums recipe in a slow cooker "Transparent slices"
Ingredients
half a kilogram of plums;
kilogram of sugar;
apples - 500 g.
Cooking method
1. Wash fruits under the tap and dry. Remove the seeds from the drain, breaking them in half. Cut the apples into four parts and cut out the middle and the stalk. Grind the pulp in large enough pieces.
2. Place the fruit in a bowl and sprinkle with sugar. Leave for four hours to let the juice flow.
3. Put the pelvis on the fire and warm, stirring occasionally. As soon as the fruit mass begins to boil, remove the bowl from the heat and cool completely. Thus, the fruits do not boil, are well soaked in syrup and become elastic and harsh, like candied fruits.
4. Pour the fruit mass into the multicooker bowl. Start the quenching mode for half an hour and close the lid. Then take a quarter hour break and repeat the process again.
5. Arrange the boiling jam in dry jars and roll it tightly.
Recipe 5. Apple and plum jam recipe in a slow cooker with oranges
Ingredients
two sweet and sour apples;
cinnamon - stick;
400 g of white sugar;
orange.
Cooking method
1. Wash the plums, break them in half and separate the bones from the pulp. Put the halves of the drain in the capacity of the multicooker and cover with half the sugar.
2. Rinse the orange and pour over boiling water. Cut it together with peel into small slices. Remove the bones. Add to the plum bowl.
3. Cool the washed apples, peel them and cut out the center with the stalks. Send the fruit to the plums and pour in the remaining sugar. Leave the fruit mixture for three hours.
4. Close the appliance lid and start the quenching program. Cook the jam for an hour.
5. Cool the fruit mass completely and repeat the procedure. Arrange the jam on prepared sterile dry jars, and tightly seal the tin lids.
Recipe 6. Cookies with apple and plum jam "Sticks"
Ingredients
120 g of soft butter;
vanilla sugar;
a glass of white sugar;
25 g of baking powder;
egg;
a glass of apple-plum jam;
two glasses of flour;
25 g of lemon peel.
Cooking method
1. Combine the soft butter with sugar and beat until the mass turns white. Then add the vanilla sugar and egg. We continue to beat for a couple of minutes.
2. In a separate bowl, mix the flour with baking powder. We spread the butter and egg mass in the dry mixture and add the lemon zest. Knead the soft dough.
3. Divide the dough in half. We crush the table with flour. Roll each part into a rectangle. One rectangle is plentifully greased with jam. Cover the layer of jam with a second layer of dough, trying to carefully align the edges. We send future cookies for an hour to the freezer.
4. Then cut the uneven edges and cut a rectangular layer of narrow sticks. We shift to a baking sheet covered with parchment and send it to the oven for 20 minutes. Bake at 180 C. Chopsticks should be lightly browned.
Recipe 7. Cottage Cheese Pie with Apple Jam and Plums
Ingredients
chocolate bar;
130 g butter;
a bag of vanillin;
three eggs;
jam;
third of tsp baking soda;
400 g of cottage cheese;
5 g of cocoa;
225 g of white sugar;
200 g of premium flour.
Cooking method
1. Beat the egg in a bowl, add 125 g of sugar to it and beat with a whisk until foam appears. Add one hundred grams of soft butter to the egg mixture and beat for a few more minutes.
2. Combine flour with baking soda and cocoa. Shuffle. Add the dry mixture gradually to the egg-oil mixture and knead a uniform soft dough. Separate a small portion of the dough, wrap it in cling film. Send the dough to the freezer. Wrap most of the dough in a bag and refrigerate.
3. Drive two eggs into the cottage cheese and add the remaining sugar, butter and flour. Beat the curd into a pasty blender.
4. Roll out most of the dough and put it into a round refractory form, greasing it with oil and sprinkling with semolina. Form the sides, three centimeters high. Put apple and plum jam on the bottom. Put the curd layer on top and smooth with a spatula.
5. Remove the dough from the freezer and rub it. Distribute the resulting crumbs over the entire surface of the cake. Bake the cake at 180 ° C for 45 minutes.
6. Break a bar of chocolate, put in a bowl and melt in a water bath. Remove the cake from the oven, cool it and pour over melted chocolate.
Recipe 8. Apple and plum jam recipe in a slow cooker with mint
Ingredients
600 g ripe plums;
50 g of potato starch;
350 g of white sugar;
ground cinnamon;
300 g of apples;
third of tsp dried mint.
Cooking method
1. My plums under the tap. We remove seeds from each fruit, and cut the flesh into large pieces.
2. I also wash the apples, cut them in quarters and cut out seed boxes and stalks. Grind the pulp in the same slices as the plums.
3. We shift the fruit into the pan of the multicooker. Pour sugar over everything and add cinnamon and dried mint.
4. Start the "quenching" mode, close the lid and cook for 20 minutes. Then add potato or corn starch to the jam. Stir intensively so that it does not take lumps, and cook, without changing the mode, for another ten minutes. We leave the jam in the multicooker for another ten minutes and put it in dry sterile jars and tightly cork with tin lids.
Apple and Plum Jam Recipe - Tips and Tricks
So that apples in jam do not turn into porridge, prepare jam in several steps, only bringing the mass to a boil.
Put as much sugar as recommended in the recipe. A lack of sugar can make the jam ferment, and an excess will make it cloying.
If apple slices float to the surface, then the jam is not ready.
Instead of sugar, you can use honey in apple jam and plums.
To preserve the jam, add a little lemon juice to it.
