How to cook plum jam
Products for cooking jam
Plums - 1 kilogram
Water - 150 milliliters (half a cup)
Sugar - 800 grams
How to cook jam from plums
Wash the plums, remove the seeds. Pour water into a saucepan, put plums, put on fire, cook after boiling for 10 minutes. Then rub the plums through a sieve, remove the peel. Return the mashed potatoes to the pan, add sugar and cook until you get a jam of the consistency of liquid sour cream. Pour hot plum jam into hot sterilized jars, cool and store.
How to cook plum jam in a bread maker
1. Wash the plums, remove seeds and cut into pieces.
2. Put the plums in a deep bowl, add sugar, shake several times, leave for 4 hours to juice the plums.
3. Transfer the plum pieces with sugar to the bucket of the bread machine.
4. Set the "Jam" mode.
5. After the end of the mode, after about 1 hour and twenty minutes, the device turns off.
6. Take out a bucket of jam, to obtain a homogeneous consistency, grind its contents with an immersion blender.
7. Pour hot plum jam into jars, close with lids.
Amount of products for cooking plum jam in a bread machine with a 1 liter bucket: 500 grams of sweet plums and 300 grams of sugar.
How to cook plum jam in a slow cooker
1. Remove seeds from washed plums, cut fruits into pieces.
2. Put pieces of plums in a multicooker bowl, add sugar and 3 tablespoons of water, stir.
3. Set the "Extinguishing" mode, its duration is about 2 hours.
4. Before the end of cooking, in about 10 minutes, open the lid of the multicooker, and if too much juice is released during cooking, add pectin, gelatin or jam at the rate of 10 grams of gelling agent per 1 kilogram of plums.
5. Put the hot plum jam in jars, close the lids.
Fusofacts
- If after cooking the plum pieces retain their shape, and you want to get a product with a uniform consistency, you can grind the plums with an immersion blender. This can be done both at the beginning and at the end of cooking.- The plum jam contains vitamin P, which strengthens the walls of blood vessels and K, which improves blood clotting. A large amount of dietary fiber and pectin contained in plum jam help to cleanse the body of cholesterol and toxins, stimulate the gastrointestinal tract.
- The calorie content of plum jam depends on the amount of sugar used and averages 250 kcal / 100 grams.
- Sorts of plums for thick juicy jam - fruits with small seeds, for example, "Hungarian". It is important that the plum is easy to process: the skin is thin and the bone is easy to remove from the pulp.
- From 1 kilogram of plums you get 1 liter of jam.
- To add a creamy flavor to the jam, add 45 grams of butter at the end of cooking. To get a plum dessert, you can add dark chocolate to the jam (for 1 kilogram of plums - up to 50 grams of dark chocolate) and cocoa (for 1 kilogram of plums - up to 30 grams of cocoa).
- If a thick-skinned plum is taken for the jam, after boiling, you can additionally grind the skin with an immersion blender.