Jam made from whole pears is a real delicacy. In taste it is slightly inferior to raspberry. It has a pleasant honey aroma, beautiful amber color and appetizing viscosity. Each housewife can prepare it herself for the winter. And then, on long winter evenings, enjoy its taste while drinking tea, prepare delicious desserts and pastries with it, and serve it with ice cream as a real delicacy.
Secrets of making whole pear jam for the winter
Traditionally, pear jam is prepared by first cutting them into slices. But by preparing them whole, we will be able to get the exquisite look and taste of pear jam. To make it really beautiful, you need to familiarize yourself with some secrets of its preparation.
When choosing pears for jam, you need to give preference to hard varieties. Moreover, both cultivated and wild varieties are ideal.
Jam made from small wild pears is more aromatic and has a unique honey taste.
To surprise guests with your thriftiness, you can take whole fruits with tails. They are perfect for serving at a holiday table, and can serve as a kind of “cherry on the cake” for a birthday or New Year’s cake.
It is from unripe pears that delicious jam is obtained. The recipe for its preparation should be taken into account by those who have a pear growing in their garden. Sometimes, due to bad weather or for some other reason, still green pears begin to fall off the tree. These are the ones that are suitable for preparing delicacies for the winter.
Recipe Ingredients
You don't need any special ingredients to make pear jam. As a rule, these are sugar, water and whole fruits. If you want to diversify the taste, you can add a little lemon or orange. Some housewives add cinnamon, banana or pineapple.
To approach the process correctly, you need to know how to make jam from whole pears and how to prepare the fruits for jam.
Features of product selection
If you have the opportunity to pick fruit yourself in your own garden, it is recommended to do this on a warm and sunny day. Such fruits generously impart their aroma to the dish.
You need to make jam from whole fruits of the same degree of ripeness.This way, the fruit in the jam will be of the same softness. This rule also applies to small pears.
How to prepare the container?
The container for making jam must be properly prepared. To do this, you need to stock up on a standard set of kitchen utensils:
- pot;
- banks;
- covers.
Before you begin sterilization, the container must be washed thoroughly with a soda solution and rinsed under running water. Pour water into a saucepan, place on the stove and bring to a boil. Sterilize jars and lids over steam. This is an old but reliable method that our grandmothers used. Modern housewives prefer microwaves, ovens and ovens.
How to make pear jam?
We offer a recipe for pear jam made from whole pears, where the fruit looks more like caramels.
Ingredients:
- pear – 1 kg;
- sugar – 1 kg;
- water – 1 glass.
Progress:
- Select fruits of the same degree of ripeness and wash in cold water.
- Prepare syrup. Pour a glass of water into a saucepan, add 0.5 kg of sugar and bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to low and simmer until foam appears.
- Pierce the washed pears with a toothpick in several places.
- Dip the prepared fruits into the syrup and cook for 10-15 minutes, depending on the size of the fruit.
- Remove from heat, let cool.
- Place it on the stove again and add another 0.5 kg of sugar to the syrup. Cook for another 20-25 minutes.
- For the third time, put it on the stove and cook over low heat for 1 hour.
- Immediately pour into jars and roll up the lids.
Terms and conditions of storage
Pear jam should be stored in a cool place. Shelf life – 1 year.
