The list of winter preparations must include jam made from peaches and nectarines. The fruits are rich in many vitamins, the jam has a rich taste without the feeling of sugar, the smell of fruit, which is preserved during prolonged heat treatment.
Some tips for making jam
There are some subtleties of preparing dessert from peaches and nectarines:
- To prevent the nectarine from falling apart, it is cut into small squares. The peel is not removed from the fruit; it is quite soft and thin compared to peach peel.
- A peach that is covered with fluff is peeled before cooking. To do this, place it in hot water. You can prevent the darkening of the peach by adding citric acid to the water - 10 grams per liter of water. acids.
How to select and prepare products?
Ripe, firm peaches are used to cook the delicacy. But when choosing nectarine for jam, to obtain the correct consistency of the dessert, take pieces of fruit that are not very hard or too soft. The choice is made on ripe or slightly unripe fruits.
If you use a hard peach for jam, then before cooking it needs to be blanched in boiling water for 4 minutes, and then cooled in cold water. Initially, whole fruits are pricked to prevent them from bursting.
Rules for preparing containers
Before filling a glass jar with jam, the container is soaked for 30 minutes in water, then using a brush or brush, washed with soap, soda and rinsed with clean water 2-3 times.
The washed container is laid out neck down on a towel and stored until it is laid out, but no more than 20 minutes.
Recipes for making jam
To cook a delicacy for the winter, there are different recipe options.
Classic way
According to the recipe, the dessert with peaches and nectarines is prepared without seeds.
List of products:
- Peach, nectarine – 1 kg.
- Sugar – 1.5 kg.
- Citric acid – 1 tsp.
- Water – 250 ml.
Step-by-step cooking process:
- Wash the fruits, remove the fluff from the peaches. Cut the fruit into slices.
- Prepare syrup. Water is poured into the cauldron, brought to a boil, and 500 grams are added. sugar, everything is mixed.After the sugar has dissolved, the remaining 1000 grams are gradually added to the fruit. while stirring. Absolute dissolution of sugar indicates the readiness of the syrup.
- The fruits are placed in a cauldron and filled with hot syrup. It takes about 1.5 hours for the fruits to become saturated with it.
- The mixture in the pan is brought to a boil.
Cooking time – 20-25 minutes. Afterwards you need to turn off the heat and remove the foam. The dessert sits for 2-3 hours and then returns to the heat for 20 minutes. After preparation, citric acid is added to the treat.
Option with cherries
To make assorted jam, you will need the following products:
- granulated sugar – 1 kg;
- nectarines – 500 gr.;
- peaches – 500 gr.;
- cherries – 500 gr.
The fruits are washed, dried, and cut into slices. The pit is removed from the cherries. The fruits are laid out in layers and sprinkled with granulated sugar. The fruits should brew and give juice.
You need to cook the dessert in 3 stages. First, the mass is brought to a boil and stirred. Then the gas is reduced and the jam is cooked for 5 minutes, the foam is removed during cooking. Afterwards the gas is turned off, and the dessert is infused for 4 hours.
At stages 2 and 3 the cooking process is similar. The hot, finished delicacy is placed in a container.
With fig peaches
List of products for dessert:
- Large peaches – 2 pcs.
- Large nectarines – 3 pcs.
- Fig peaches – 3 pcs.
- Granulated sugar – 400 gr. for 500 gr. fruit.
How to cook dessert:
- Wash the fruits and place in boiling water for 2 minutes.
- Cool in cold water, removing the peel.
- Cut the fruit into cubes, removing the seeds first.
- All components are placed in a saucepan and covered with granulated sugar. They need to be left for 5 hours until the juice forms.
- Wait for the jam to boil, reduce the gas. The mass is boiled for 5 minutes.
- The hot dessert is poured into jars and rolled up.The container is turned over with the lid down.
With plums
Necessary ingredients for dessert for the winter:
- Peaches – 1 kg.
- Nectarine – 1 kg.
- Honey plum – 500 gr.
- Sugar – 2 kg.
- Vanillin – 5 gr.
- Cinnamon – 2 sticks.
Peel peaches and nectarines, remove seeds from all fruits. Chop into large slices and add sugar. After 3 hours, the dessert is put on the stove and cinnamon is added.
Boiling the delicacy takes 25 minutes, add vanilla. The cinnamon is removed and the dessert is poured into containers.
With pink cherries
The recipe includes the following components:
- 400 gr. nectarines;
- 300 gr. pink cherry;
- 700 gr. granulated sugar.
The nectarine is cut into cubes, combined with pink cherries, granulated sugar and placed on the stove (the heat should be medium), stirred. When juice appears and sugar dissolves, the heat is increased and the delicacy is brought to a boil.
The cauldron is removed from the stove and left to cool. Then it goes back to the fire to let the dessert boil. Reduce the heat and cook the jam for 20 minutes.
The finished delicacy cools down and is placed into containers.
Further storage of treats
The finished dessert can be stored in the refrigerator, covered with a plastic lid, or in the cellar, hermetically sealed for long-term storage.
