Pear and apple jam
Products
2.5 liters
Apples - 7 pieces (1 kilogram)
Pears - 7 pieces (1 kilogram)
Sugar - 1.5 kilograms
Food preparation
1. Wash the apples and pears, put the fruits on a towel and let the water drain.
2. Cut 7 apples into slices (each into 8 pieces), core with seeds and put in a saucepan, sprinkle with sugar evenly.
3. Cut 7 pears into slices (each fruit into 8 pieces), remove the pith with seeds and tough fibers from the tail to the seed box. Add to the saucepan to the apples, sprinkling with sugar evenly.
Cooking in a saucepan using the five-minute method
1. Put a saucepan with sugar, pears and apples on a small fire, warm up to about 80 degrees (no boiling, but with steam), cover and let stand for 10 hours (or overnight).
2. Put a saucepan with jam on low heat and heat, stirring occasionally, until boiling. During this stage, the sugar should completely dissolve in the juice released from the apple and pear slices.
3. Leave the jam to infuse for 10 hours.
4. Bring the jam to a boil two more times and let it brew.
5. Bring the apple and pear jam to a boil for the last time and put it hot in prepared dry jars and seal with lids.
Turn the jars upside down, cover with a towel and let cool.
Cooking in a slow cooker or saucepan is a quick method
1. Fold the apple and pear slices into the multicooker cooking container and add sugar.
2. Leave apples and pears in a slow cooker, let stand for 2 hours.
3. Cook on the "Soup" or "Stew" mode for 1.5 hours. Stir the jam 4 times during cooking.
Cooking in a bread maker
1. Place apple and pear slices in a bucket of a bread machine, add sugar.
2. Turn on the "Jam" mode, cook apple and pear jam for 1.5 hours.
Fusofacts
- Recommended for jam take away ripe, juicy, soft apples and pears.- Initial heating to 80 degrees is necessary for the fruit they gave juice faster.
- Classic apple and pear jam is cooked in three steps. During heating, the pieces of fruit soften, and during infusion they are soaked in syrup. With this method of cooking, the slices of apples and pears become transparent, soft and retain their shape.
- When cooking, be sure to stir the jam with a wooden spoon.
- Apple and pear jam contains a lot of pectin, thanks to which it will not leak when used as a pie filling.
- When cooking pear and apple jam in a multicooker or bread maker, reduce the food loading rate in accordance with the recommendations for the maximum loading of the cooking containers indicated by the device manufacturers.
