Jam is a jelly-like mass containing whole fruits and berries cooked in sugar syrup, or their own, but cut into pieces. What is the difference between jam and jam? Unlike the latter, syrup in jams does not separate from the fruit, but forms a single thick mass with them. The fruits themselves are soft, boiled. A kind of jams - jams have a denser structure than jams.

In many countries (e.g. England) jams Is the only type of sugar-preserved fruit. In our country, jams are a fairly popular preparation for the winter. After all, jams are very convenient when preparing pies, sweet pies, since they are more heat stable than jam and usually do not spread during baking. For making jams use fruits with a high content of pectin, a substance that determines the jelly-like consistency of jams. Apples, quince, apricots, plums, currants, gooseberries are rich in pectin substances. Unripe fruits contain more pectin. But usually, when making jams, they proceed as follows - a small amount of unripe, sour fruits is added to ripe fruits. When using pectin-poor fruits, gelling additives are added - juices and fruits rich in pectin, gelatin, agar-agar. If you do everything right, then make jam from your favorite fruits or berries will be easy and simple.

There are two ways of making jams.

• The first way suitable for fruits and berries rich in pectin.

1. The fruits are pre-cooked for 10-15 minutes so that the pectin of the fruit or berries better show its gelling properties. Fruit broth or part of it is used to prepare sugar syrup. Sometimes the broth is pre-filtered. In some recipes, the fruits are additionally boiled in a small amount of water (for 1 kg of ripe fruits - 50 ml of water, unripe - 100 ml) so that they let the juice out.
2. Boiled fruits are covered with sugar (if soft, well-ripe fruits or berries are used) or poured with sugar syrup. When making blackcurrant (or gooseberry) jam, the berries are lightly crushed for better soaking with sugar syrup. Cook until cooked, poured hot into hot sterilized jars, rolled up, stored in the cold.

1. The fruits are preheated with sugar, and then poured with pectin extract or juice with high content pectin substances, or other gelling agents are added.
2. Cook with jam until tender. Poured into cans, rolled up.

Features of making jams:

• Cooking operations must be carried out quickly in order to prevent the destruction of pectin substances.
• They begin to cook jams over high heat - this is how enzymes that are destructive for pectin are destroyed. Therefore, it is best to cook jams in a bowl with a thick bottom and low walls, which imposes a limit on the number of fruits - no more than 1.5 kg per cooking.
• It is advisable to add sugar (in recipes that do not use syrup) in small portions so as not to interrupt the cooking process.
• Check the readiness of the jam by the way it flows from the spoon. The finished jam flows down from a spoon with a thin thread. If in drops, continue cooking. If the cooled jam falls off the spoon in pieces, then it is ready, you can remove it from the stove. The cooled drop of finished jam wrinkles (the surface is not smooth). When rubbed, the cooked jam does not stick to the fingers. If you have a technical thermometer, then the temperature of the finished jam should be 106.5-107 degrees, if it is not sterilized further, and 104-105, if it is necessary to pasteurize.

The unusual taste of lemon and watermelon jam, made in the right proportion, will allow you to feel the unique taste of sweet and sour joy that melts in your mouth instantly.

Required ingredients for our jam:

Watermelon pulp 1 kg; lemon 1 pc .; sugar 1 kg; water 60 ml.

From a ripe, tasty watermelon, you can make an equally wonderful jam. I will now share this recipe with you. For this we need:

Watermelon and red currant are a rather unusual combination. It is from these ingredients that I suggest you make jam. We will need:
- watermelon pulp 1 kg;
- red currants 1 kg;
- sugar 1.5 kg

Delicious juicy melon makes a wonderful jam. In order to prepare it, we need the following ingredients:
- 1 kg of peeled melon;
- 1.5 kg of sugar;
- lemon acid;
- vanillin

Today we will cook apricot-orange jam, for the preparation of which we will need such ingredients as:
- apricots 1 kg;
- orange 1 pc;
- sugar 0.5 kg;
- Zhelfix 2: 1 one sachet;
- water 200 ml

To make watermelon jam, we need:
watermelon peel - 1kg
sugar - 0.5kg
water - 0.25 cups
lemon - 0.25 pcs.
orange peel - 1 tbsp. spoon
Cooking method:

In order to make lingonberry and plum jam, we need the following ingredients:
- lingonberry 0.5 kg;
- pitted plums "Hungarian" 0.5 kg;
- sugar 0.75 kg

I share with you, dear hostesses, a recipe for plum jam with bananas and cinnamon. This recipe makes a very tasty and aromatic delicacy that will be appreciated by the whole family.
Ingredients:
- plum 1 kg;
- banana 1 pc;
- cinnamon 1/3 tsp;
- 1 tbsp of sugar;
- carnation 8 pcs

Today we are going to make a fragrant peach jam, which has an unsurpassed taste and "gobbled up on both cheeks."
Ingredients:
- 600 gr of peaches;
- 300 grams of sugar;
- juice of one lemon;
- 1 bunch of fresh rosemary;
- 10 grams of gelatin

You can not only eat juicy ripe strawberries, but also prepare various delicacies from this beautiful berry, for example, strawberry jam for the winter.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of strawberries;
- 1 kg of sugar

I present to you, my dear hostesses, a recipe for making "Economical" apple jam, for which we need the following ingredients:
- apples 2 kg;
- sugar 1 kg;
-water ½ cup

Today I will tell you how to make a delicious cherry jam. To make cherry jam, we need the following ingredients:
- 1 kg of cherries;
- zest of 1 lemon;
- juice of two lemons;
- 2 tbsp sugar

To make apple mint jam, we need the following ingredients:
- apples 1 kg;
- mint syrup 250 ml;
- sugar 200 gr;
- juice of half a lemon

I present to your attention, skilful hostesses, a recipe for making plum-nut jam with raisins.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of blue Hungarian plums;
- 4 glasses of sugar;
- 200 grams of walnuts or almonds;
- 100 grams of seedless raisins;
- cinnamon

Today we will make a delicious winter pear jam. To prepare it, we need the following ingredients:
- 1 kg of winter pears;
- 1 kg of sugar;
- 2 bags of vanilla sugar;
- 1 sachet of gelling agent for cooking

Apple - orange jam is great for a delicious tea party, and as a filling for pies.
Ingredients:
- oranges 1 kg;
- apples 1 kg;
- sugar 1.2 kg;
- water 2 tbsp

Apple jam is the most common jam. This is what we are going to prepare today.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of apples;
- 500-550 grams of sugar;
- 4-5 grams of citric acid

Red currant and strawberry jam is a great treat for the whole family. We need ingredients:
- 0.2 kg of red currants;
- 0.5 kg of strawberries;
- 500 grams of sugar

Let's make pear jam today according to the following recipe. We need ingredients:
- pears (peeled) 4 kg;
- sugar 2 kg;
- vanillin 3 gr;
- cinnamon 1 tsp;
- citric acid 1 tsp

Jam from wild strawberries, prepared according to the recipe described below, turns out to be very tasty, aromatic and beautiful.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of wild strawberries;
- 1.3 kg of sugar;
- 0.5 l of water;
- 1 - 2 tsp citric acid

In order to make wild strawberry jam, we need the following ingredients:
- 1 kg of forest strawberries;
- 1.5 kg of granulated sugar;
- 1.5 cups of water

I advise you, dear hostesses, to make plum jam according to the recipe below.
We need ingredients:
- ripe plums 1 kg;
- sugar 1 kg

I suggest you, dear hostesses, to make strawberry jam according to the following recipe. It turns out not only very tasty, but also quickly.
Ingredients:
- 400 gr of strawberries;
- 50 grams of sugar;
- 1 tbsp. lemon juice

To make Slovakian lingonberry jam, we need:

lingonberry 1kg

apple 1kg

pear 1kg

lemon 1pc.

sugar 1kg

Cooking method:

Lingonberry has long been valued for its healing properties... We advise you to prepare lingonberry jam for the winter according to the recipe below.
Ingredients:
- 4 cups lingonberries;
- 1.5 cups of sugar;
- 3 tbsp. water

I present to your attention an unusual recipe for plum jam, the taste of which turns out to be very rich.
Ingredients:
- plums 500 gr;
- Brown sugar 250 gr;
- chopped almonds (you can take any nuts) - 100 gr;
- cinnamon 4 sticks;
- dry white wine 130 ml;
- ground cinnamon 1 tsp

Dear hostesses, I would like to offer you a recipe for a very tasty, quick-to-prepare and unusually healthy grape and gooseberry jam. So, we need the following ingredients:
- 1.5 kg of grapes;

0.5 kg of gooseberries;
- 570 grams of sugar;
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice

Gooseberry jam is very healthy and tasty, so I recommend every housewife to cook it for the winter.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of gooseberry puree;
- 800 grams of sugar;
- optional - a few pieces of non-acidic apples

Strawberry jam perfectly preserves the taste and aroma of strawberries, and is ideal as a filling for pies and pies. Strawberry jam also goes well with tea.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of strawberries;
- 200 ml of sour juice;
- 1 kg of sugar

The jam is thicker than the jam. Jam is great for breakfast or a light snack in your spare time. It is so convenient to spread it on bread or cookies. How to make jam see and read on.

How to make jam? Delicious jam recipes

Cherry jam recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 kg pitted cherries
• 700 gr. Sahara

Cooking method:

1. Sort the cherries, wash and remove the seeds.
2. Cover the cherries with sugar, leave for 2-3 hours to let the juice come out.
3. Put the cherries on low heat and cook the jam until thickened.
4. Put hot jam in clean dry jars.
5. Sterilize the jam for 10 minutes, then roll up and wrap until it cools.

Pear Jam recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 kg yellow pears
• 1 kg sugar

Cooking method:

1. Wash the pears, peel and core.
2. Cut the pears into thin slices and cover with sugar.
3. Leave the pears in the sugar under a towel for a day in a cool place.
4. Then pour in apple juice and put the jam on low heat until cooked.
5. The finished jam will be thick and yellow.
6. Put the jam in prepared jars and sterilize for about 15 minutes.
7. Roll up with metal lids and wrap. Store jam in a cool place.

Fig Jam Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of ripe figs
• 1 kg sugar
• 1 tbsp. water
• citric acid on the tip of a knife

Cooking method:

1. Wash the figs, add water, so that it slightly covers it.
2. Cook the figs at a low boil for 10-15 minutes.
3. Mash ready-made figs with a spoon or wooden pestle. From 1 tbsp. water and sugar to boil the syrup.
4. Pour the syrup into the fig puree, add citric acid and stir.
5. Cook the fig jam for about 20 minutes.
6. Arrange the finished jam in sterile jars and roll up. Store in a cool place.

Blackberry jam recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 kg blackberries
• 1 kg sugar

Cooking method:

1. Sort out the blackberry, wash and dry.
2. Pour the blackberries into a jam pot and heat over medium heat for about 10 minutes to let the juice go.
3. Then add sugar and stir.
4. Cook the jam for another 20 minutes.
5. Arrange the finished blackberry jam in sterile dry jars and seal. Keep refrigerated.

Melon jam recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 kg ripe melon
• 1 tbsp. unclarified apple juice
• 1 kg sugar

Cooking method:

1. Wash ripe melon, peel skin and seeds.
2. Cut the melon pulp into small cubes.
3. Place the melon slices in a saucepan, pour over the apple juice and put on the fire.
4. After boiling, reduce the heat and simmer the melon in juice for about 10 minutes.
5. Then add sugar, stir and cook the jam at a low boil for about 20 minutes.
6. Put the ready-made jam into jars and serve.

Grape Jam Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of grapes
• 1 tbsp. Sahara
• 0.5 pcs. lemon

Cooking method:

1. Tear off the grapes from the brushes, wash and cut into halves. Remove seeds if possible.
2. Place the grapes in a saucepan and place over high heat.
3. The berries need to be constantly stirred so that they give more juice.
4. Finely chop half of the lemon or grate.
5. Pour sugar and lemon into the grapes.
6. Stir the jam and cook for 30 minutes.
7. Place the grape jam in small jars, close the lids and cool. Keep refrigerated.

Video recipe "Orange jam"

Cook with pleasure and be healthy!

Always yours Alena Tereshina.

In this article, we will figure out how to make jam correctly. Jam is a jelly-like mass with pieces of fruits or berries boiled in syrup. A good jam can be made from berries and fruits that have certain properties.

From the same berries, you can make jam, jelly, jam, marmalade or jam. A thick, well-gelling jam is obtained from sour fruits (acidity over 1%) containing a large amount of pectin. Pectin in the presence of sugar and organic acids forms a jelly-like consistency.

How to make jam for the winter.

Jam differs significantly from jam precisely in its gelling properties and density. Unlike jam, the syrup in jam does not separate from the fruit. Read about the difference between jam and jam in the article:

If the trial cooking showed that after cooling the jam is not dense enough and does not gel well, it looks more like jam, this means that there is not enough acid in the fruits. In such a situation, add the juice of one of the sour fruits. You can read about the acidity of the fruit in the article:.

Juice is added in an amount of 10-15% to the original weight of the raw material. Most of the pectin substances are found in unripe fruits. To make good quality jam, ripe fruits of excellent quality are taken, adding a small amount of unripe fruits to them.

The jam is cooked quickly to prevent the destruction of the pectin. Jam is cooked over high heat in a dish with a wide bottom and low walls. It is best to make jam from already proven berries or fruits that contain a lot of pectin and acid. An excellent jam is obtained from strawberries, raspberries, plums, apples, apricots, cranberries, currants, gooseberries.

Before boiling jam, fruits and berries must be prepared.

1. Apricots, plums, peaches should be pitted. Chop the fruits.
2. Berries such as currants, cranberries, gooseberries are pre-crushed (passed through a meat grinder or ground in a blender).
3. When boiling jam, a puree-like mass of uniform consistency is obtained, which has excellent gelling properties.
4. Apples, plums, cherries or figs are pre-boiled in a little water. The prepared fruits are placed in a saucepan and poured with hot water so that the water covers only the top layer and the fruits do not burn.

The water is brought to a boil and the fruits are boiled for a few minutes until softened. In this case, a lot of nutrients are transferred from the fruit to the water. If you cook jam in several steps, then in the same water you can boil the fruits several times. The syrup will be saturated with sugar and acid, which will improve the quality of the jam.

• For preliminary softening of the fruit for 1 kg of berries, take 100 ml (half a glass) of water, and only then add sugar.

All this is done so that the pectin contained in fruits and berries has a better gelling effect, and the berries are completely saturated with sugar.

For 1 kg of prepared raw materials for making jam, you need:

• Strawberries, plums, peaches, figs 1 kg of sugar
• Apricots, apples, quince 1.2 kg of sugar
• Cranberries, black currants 1.5 kg

Ready jam is packed in pre-prepared glass jars and sealed.

How to make jam from garden berries.

Excellent jam - confiture is made from a mixture of garden berries. This is a proven recipe that our family enjoys. All berries have sufficient acidity and gel well.

Blackcurrant, gooseberry and raspberry jam.

To make jam, we need:

• Black currant 2 cups
• Gooseberries 2 cups
• Raspberry 1 glass
• Sugar 5 cups

1. The berries must first be prepared. Sort out raspberries, sort out currants and wash.
2. Cut the stems and tails of the gooseberry with small scissors. Combine the berries and turn through a meat grinder.
3. You will get a homogeneous berry mass. Add sugar to this mass in a 1: 1 ratio - 5 glasses of sugar are added to 5 cups of berries.
4. Transfer the berry mass to a cooking bowl and let stand for 15-20 minutes.
5. Put on fire, bring to a boil and cook for only 5 minutes, constantly skimming off the foam.
6. Remove from heat, let stand for 15-20 minutes. It is not recommended to bring it to complete cooling.
   
7. Put on fire for the second time, bring only to a boil and immediately remove from heat.
8. Cool the ready jam and put it in sterilized jars.

This jam can also be made from frozen berries. If the berries ripen unevenly in the garden, then black currants or raspberries can be frozen in the right amount, and then used to make jam.