Ways to cook peach jam with slices
Peach jam with its taste and aroma does not need any advertising - it is such a delicacy from which any gourmet will be delighted.You get a lot of taste and aesthetic pleasure from home-made preservation for the winter. Jam embodies a lot of amber colors, it reflects a reflection of sunlight in combination with translucent slices.
Special features
To make jam, it is necessary for the fruit to be quite firm and practically ripe; from the green fruit, the jam will be sour and tasteless. It is very simple to determine the ripeness of a peach, when it is compressed, there remain slightly recessed fingerprints, in addition, the ripe peach has a strong, pronounced aroma. Over-grown fruit can only be used for making jam.
Before making durum peach jam, pre-blanching is necessary. In order for the peel of the fruit not to burst, it must be pierced several times with a toothpick, after which the peaches are placed for five minutes in the pre-cooked boiling water, and then they are transferred to cold water for a quick cooling.
If it is necessary to make jam without skin, the fruit should be dipped in boiling water for a few minutes, and the skin will be removed very quickly and carefully.
The peach has a characteristic feature - its bone is strongly spliced with the pulp. To separate the bone, you need to use a special spoon with a pointed one edge and a sharp spout. Peach jam can also be cooked with bones.
Ripe peaches are very sweet, so you need to ensure that the weight of sugar was less than the weight of fruit.
And so that during storage the jam is not candied, when cooking it is necessary to add citric acid or freshly squeezed lemon juice.
Lemon has preservative properties and also prevents darkening of sliced fruit.
Cooking utensils should be enameled, and for stirring a spoon or wooden spatula.
Jam can be prepared only from some peaches, and you can add other fruits to them.
Easy cooking
Peach jam seedless is a very tasty and delicate delicacy that you will surely please your household and guests if you use this recipe.
Prepare the following ingredients:
- one kilogram of ripe fruit;
- 1.1 kilograms of granulated sugar;
- water in the amount of one cup;
- freshly squeezed juice of a small lemon (which can be replaced with 5 g of citric acid).
Step-by-step recipe includes a series of sequential steps.
- In order to prepare the fruit for cooking the jam, it is necessary to put them in hot water for a few minutes and then put them in cold water. Due to the sharp temperature difference peaches will be very easy to peel.
- Remove bones.
- Cut the fruits into neat slices and lay them in a prepared container, evenly filling them with sugar and pouring lemon juice.
- Pour the entire contents with hot boiled water, put on the stove and cook at low temperature until a foam is formed that needs to be removed.
- Turn off the fire, and put the jam in a cool place until cool. This procedure should be repeated two more times, that is, three times over low heat should be brought to a boil and cooled.
- The finished jam is poured into jars and covered with lids.
Normal way
They are not indifferent to peaches all over the world, everyone loves them, canned fruits are sold in almost every supermarket, but hand-made blanks are always much more fragrant and tastier.
For this kind of jam, it is best to take thick peaches that are not fully ripe.
For the preparation we need the following ingredients:
- one kilogram of peaches;
- 800 grams of granulated sugar;
- vanilla pod.
The cooking process is simple.
- First of all, separate the peaches from the bones, cut them into neat slices, cover them with sugar and leave for two hours to separate the juice.We put all the contents on a strong fire until boiling, then immediately reduce the fire to a minimum.
- Cook for half an hour, when foam appears, remove it with a wooden spoon. Put the vanilla pod near the end of cooking.
- Hot jam is laid out on prepared sterilized jars, which immediately tightly close the lids.
- Banks are set upside down and covered with a thick cloth or blanket for 10 hours until completely cool.
From whole peaches
If you cook the whole fruit jam correctly, then you will get a very beautiful amber sunny delicacy with its own inherent aroma, and each individual peach will bring you a sea of taste emotions.
The peculiarity of this jam is that the fruits in it remain whole, so the whole natural flavor remains inside. Peaches for such a jam should not be immature, because the jam will be very sour, and the fruits in it are very tough. For the preparation of such a royal dessert, small and practically ripe peaches are taken. To prepare you need:
- 1 kilogram of peaches;
- 1.2 kilograms of granulated sugar.
Excess sugar weight contributes to obtaining high-quality preservation.
Consider the cooking process.
- In order for the fruits to be whole in jam, they must first be soaked in a solution of baking soda for 30 minutes, the skin will become much denser. Soda does not affect the taste of the jam, if you carefully and thoroughly wash the fruit after soaking.
- In order to determine the required amount of water for preparing the syrup, put peaches in a single layer in a saucepan and cover them with water to the top level of the fruit.
- Carefully remove the peaches, pour sugar into the remaining water and, stirring constantly, bring to a boil over low heat.
- In a boiling syrup, one by one, we put all the peaches that were previously in several places punctured with a toothpick. It is necessary to do this, because the uncut, peeled in hot water immediately burst.
- We bring to a boil, make the minimum heat and cook for 7 minutes, constantly removing the formed foam.
- Fruits are laid out in sterilized jars, the syrup is boiled again and poured into jars.
- To cool the finished jam set in a cool place.
Try to evaluate the finished jam: the fruit should become translucent and significantly decrease in size, and the bone shines through the pulp and skin. The jam is ready, roll up the lids and set upside down under a thick cloth to cool.
"Five minutes" of peaches
“Five minutes” is very convenient for cooking, such jam is made from various fruits, but it is especially tasty from peaches.
To prepare the "five minutes" we need the following ingredients:
- One and a half kilograms of peaches, previously peeled;
- sugar is also 1.5 kilograms;
- one glass of water.
Step-by-step recipe:
- put the sugar in a pan with hot water and put it on the stove; with constant stirring, bring to a boil and dissolve the sugar;
- pour the peaches with the syrup;
- bring to a boil and pour the syrup;
- Cool and refill the fruit; bring it to a boil at a low temperature;
- the third time we repeat the procedure;
- quickly we pour into prepared banks that have been pre-treated with steam, corked and put into the cellar for storage.
Other recipes
Peaches go well with other fruits in desserts prepared for the winter.
With oranges
The union of these two fruits in jam gives a unique feeling.
For the preparation we need:
- 1.2 kg of ripe peaches;
- 1.2 kg of granulated sugar;
- two small oranges.
Cooking technology:
- we clean oranges, divide into slices, remove bones and membranes;
- peaches clean from the skin, remove the bones and cut into neat slices;
- orange peel, we also need - rub it on the grate;
- we put all prepared products in a saucepan and put them on a stove on a weak temperature, bring to a boil and cook for 30 minutes, constantly removing the foam;
- after the required time has elapsed, pour the prepared product over sterilized cans and roll up the lids;
- the cooling process is carried out under a dense cloth for 10-15 hours.
With apples
Very tender and tasty jam is obtained from a duet of apples with peaches, this option must be prepared. Fruits have different structure and color, so this combination in one jar looks like an unusual mosaic. In order for the jam to be tasty and beautiful, and the pieces of fruit in it were whole, you should buy ripe, but not very soft fruits.
To prepare you need:
- one kilogram of apples;
- 0.5 kilogram of peaches;
- one kilogram of sugar;
- 2/3 cup of water;
- one stick of cinnamon;
- four cloves.
Next, we give step-by-step instructions for cooking.
- Put sugar, water, cinnamon and cloves in a saucepan, put it on the fire, stirring constantly, bring to a boil and boil over low heat until sugar is completely dissolved.
- Peaches are well washed, then we pierce them in several places with a toothpick and put them in boiling water for three minutes. We shift in cold water and clean the skin.
- Cut the peaches in half and remove the bones.
- Apples for jam fit any (just do not take Antonovka), they need to be washed, peel, cut into small beautiful lobules.
- Prepared peaches and apples to lower in the prepared syrup and add the fire to the maximum.
- Boil no more than 20 minutes, when foam appears, it should be immediately removed.
- Sterilize the jars and lay them in hot ready-made jam.
- Keep in a cool place. It is best to try the finished dessert after a month, after the spices give all their flavor.
With gelatin
Jelly-like thick consistency of jam can be obtained if it is cooked for a very long time on low heat. But this dessert can be obtained in just five minutes of cooking, if you add gelatin.
To prepare you will need:
- one kilogram of peaches;
- one kilogram of sugar;
- 40 grams of gelatin.
Cooking technology includes a number of steps.
- Prepared chopped peaches are put in a pan and covered with sugar.
- Gelatin is added to them.
- The pot with the contents is left at room temperature for 10 hours in order for the fruit to give out the juice.
- After the required time has elapsed, the pan is placed on the stove. At low temperature conditions, all the contents are brought to a boil and cooked for 5 minutes. In the process of cooking remove the foam.
- The finished dessert is laid out on the banks, and twists the lids.
- After cooling, the banks are placed in the refrigerator.
With nuts
If you want to surprise your family with a delicious dessert, then make jam with ground walnuts. This jam is best harvested for the winter. The longer it costs, the better the fruit is soaked with nutty smell, and the nuts become tender and completely transparent.
Ingredients Required:
- a full glass of peeled and chopped nuts;
- 0.6 kilograms of peaches;
- 0,6 kilograms of granulated sugar.
Step-by-step recipe:
- peaches should be peeled and pitted, cut into small slices;
- pieces of fruit are placed in a saucepan, covered with sugar and left for an hour, so that they give juice;
- over high heat the contents of the pan are brought to a boil and cooked over low heat for 30 minutes;
- in the process of cooking the foam is removed;
- prepared nuts are poured, with which you should cook another 15 minutes;
- ready-made jam is laid out in cans and closed with lids;
- after cooling, they are moved to a cool place to store.
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