How to make quince jam
Products
for 1 liter can
Quince - 1.5 kilograms
Sugar - 1 kilogram
Water - half a glass
Food preparation
1. Wash 1.5 kilograms of quince, cut out the darkened areas. Cut each quince in half, cut the seed nest, remove the stalks and grate on a coarse grater.
How to make quince jam in a saucepan
2. Put the grated quince in a saucepan, pour in water, stir and put the saucepan with quince over medium heat.
3. Bring the quince to a boil, reduce heat and cook for half an hour.
4. Add sugar, gently stir it in the jam and cook for another 10 minutes.
How to make quince jam in a slow cooker
1. Put the quince in a slow cooker, pour in water, set the "Baking" mode and cook after boiling for 30 minutes, stirring regularly.
2. Add sugar, mix and cook for another half hour.
Quince jam
1. Sterilize the jars, put hot jam in them and roll up the lids soaked in boiling water.
2. Cover the jars with quince jam with a blanket and cool in this state.
3. Put the cooled cans for storage.
Fusofacts
- Ready quince jam has a red-pink color, the taste combines apple and pear flavors.- When cooking, you do not have to grate the quince, but just cut it into slices. Then cook the jam for 50 minutes and grind the jam with an immersion blender or a sieve 10 minutes before the end of cooking.
- To taste, when cooking quince jam, you can add 2 grams of citric acid - it must be added a couple of minutes before the end of cooking.
- To make the taste of quince jam more spicy, you can add to the jam the zest of 1 lemon and / or orange, peeled from seeds, and a little ginger root grated on a fine grater (for 1.5 kilograms of quince - 10 grams of ginger).
- Jam from quince turns out to be very thick, therefore it is necessary to add more water for dense varieties of quince, or, pouring sugar over the chopped quince, wait 3-4 hours for the juice to release.
- To taste, quince can be peeled.
- The finished quince jam contains copper, which is very useful in the treatment and prevention of anemia.