Homemade jam from plum will be an excellent alternative to expensive shopping jams and configuras. The jam is better to cook without bones to use both in pies or knitting. Plum jam can be welded natural taste, and you can experiment with different interesting additives.
Spleens without bone plums traditional
Take 1 kg of drain, which are well separated bone. Remove the tails and cut the plum along two halves. Remove bones. Plums lay out in the pelvis and pour in advance prepared syrup. For syrup, you will need a half cup of water and a half kilogram of sugar. Hold plums in the syrup of 4 hours, and then boil them on slow heat for 15 minutes. Give the mixture to cool and bring to a boil again. It should last for another 15 minutes. Will cool the jam for the second time and again put on the stove. After the third fifteen-minute boil, run off the billet on the jars and block them with the lids.
Plum jam without bone with mint
For this jam, choose the plums of yellow and very sweet. In the fruit remove the bones and lay them out in the pelvis for cooking jam. Plums Spend sugar sand - take it half a kilogram for every kilogram of purified fruit. When plums are empty than juice, and it can take up to 8 hours, mix the mass with a wooden spoon and send dishes on the fire. After boiling the jam fire, reduce and cook a lot of 20 minutes. After the first cooking and the subsequent cooling of the jam, bring the workpiece to boil again and put several mint leaves into it. The second time boil the jam is also 20 minutes. Hot plum jam packing on jars together with mint leaves.
Chocolate Plum Jam
This jam is rather reminiscent of a thick chocolate paste, which is well smeared on hot toasts. For jam you will need:
- plums ripe dark colors - 2 kg;
- sugar sand - 1 kg;
- good quality cocoa powder - 5 tbsp.;
- cognac or alcohol balm on herbs - 2 tbsp.
Drains remove the bones and twist them on the meat grinder. Pull the plum mashed with sugar and let him break. Next, put the billet on the fire and cook on a very small fire for about an hour. When cooking, the mixture is constantly interfere with it to be burned. After the hour of cooking, put the cocoa powder in the jam and well stir the contents of the pelvis. Boil the jam for another 1 hour. At the very end, pour alcohol to the cream-coffee mass and let it boil a couple of minutes. Ready jam store in the refrigerator or in the basement. This jam can be done even more tastier, but then it is necessary to put 100 g of black chocolate instead of cocoa and add 100 g of high-quality cream oil. It is better not to preserve this workpiece for the winter - it needs to be used for a week.
Plum is well combined with any fruit. It can be mixed with cherries, peaches and apricots when cooking jam. But it is worth taking care of the beauty of the workpiece. For jam from plums with apricots or peaches of plums, you need to take light color, and with cherries - dark. Sugar will need from 0.5 to 1.2 kg, depending on the sweetness of fruits.