Simple recipes for making pear jam for the winter
Pears are used to prepare many seams for the winter; jam is popular. When properly prepared, it is used as a separate dish and as a filling for pies and pancakes. There are many recipes for cooking seaming, each hostess in her arsenal has several at once, which will differ in taste, and will be identical in density.
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The specifics of cooking jam
It is not difficult to prepare a dish, for a decent result the main thing is:
- choose the right ingredients;
- qualitatively carry out preparatory work;
- grind the components thoroughly;
- it is enough to boil the jam.
The amount of sugar will be important, the result should not be sugary, but sweet enough.
Advice! Light sourness and some spices will add a spicy touch to the finished dish.
In addition to the main ingredient, fruits and berries are added, adding thickness to the finished dish, changing the taste. Most often, apples, lingonberries, and lemon are used as an additive. Less often, raspberry puree is added to an already semi-finished brew.
Of the spices, vanilla is used to improve the taste, bergamot extract, orange or lemon zest will add their own nuances.
The main ingredient is used not only from the garden, cultivated varieties have their own taste, but from the wild will differ radically.
Preparation of the main ingredient
For cooking, it's not enough just to choose pears, they need to be prepared. Before preparing the main ingredient, the following processing is carried out:
- the fruits are thoroughly washed, dried;
- only ripe pears are selected, without rot;
- all fruits are removed from the skin, the core is also removed;
- peeled pears are finely chopped.
Further, the process may be different, some housewives pass the prepared pears through a meat grinder, and some like to lightly boil the pieces, and then chop them in mashed potatoes with a blender. Both of these grinding methods are correct, it cannot be said that either of them is not suitable.
Ways to make pear jam at home
A sweet dish for the winter is prepared in different ways, each housewife has her own favorite recipe, which she has been using for many years. For the younger generation, several standard options for this delicacy are offered, which have been tested by more than one generation.
A simple recipe for the winter
The best way to preserve pears for the winter is to make jam from them.This type of rolling is still familiar to our grandmothers, these fruits at that time were either dried or boiled with sugar. The simplicity of the recipe lies in the minimum application of physical strength. Pre-prepared pears are finely chopped, covered with granulated sugar and left for 8-10 hours to extract juice. Then put on fire and bring to a boil. Boil for a short time, no more than 7 minutes.
Such welds are done several times, so the result will be thick and with whole pieces of fruit.
In order to achieve the correct consistency, no more than 700 g of sugar is taken for each kilogram of chopped fruits. It is better not to add water at all, but if the fruits are dry, it is possible to add about 150 g.
Pear jam through a meat grinder: a step by step recipe
In order to prepare a thicker and more homogeneous dish, the peeled pears are crushed. To do this, use a mechanical meat grinder or an electrical appliance with a fine mesh. Step by step it is like this:
- Prepared fruits are cut randomly into not very large pieces.
- The pears are passed through a meat grinder, if there is no fine grate, then the procedure is repeated.
- The mass is transferred to a large container, covered with sugar, water is added.
- All ingredients are well mixed until smooth, let stand to completely melt the sugar.
- After the container is transferred to the fire, brought to a boil.
- Remove the foam from time to time and stir, avoiding burning.
- The jam is boiled over low heat for about 40 minutes; for a thicker state, the cooking time is increased.
- The finished delicacy is laid out in banks, rolled up.
It is not necessary to use a meat grinder to grind pears in puree, you can use a food processor or blender.
In a multicooker
You can make a preparation for the winter using modern devices. In a slow cooker, cooking is quite simple. The process will require two welds, the latter will help to achieve the desired density.
One and a half kilos of ripe pears are washed, peeled, cut, placed in the bowl of the device, covered with sugar. Set the heating mode and wait for the sugar to dissolve.
Then water is added, the multicooker is switched to extinguishing mode. For 30-40 minutes cook under a closed lid, then the softened pears are interrupted with a blender or rubbed through a sieve.
The final stage will be boiling the resulting mass in the quenching mode for 20-30 minutes. Then the mashed potatoes are laid out in prepared jars.
With apples
To cook jam according to this recipe, you will need to take apples and pears in equal parts. For every kilogram of fruit, take a pound of sugar. Add vanilla or a couple of drops of bergamot extract if desired.
With lingonberry
Cooking jam with lingonberries is necessary from sweet varieties of pears. Only 300 g of ripe berries are added per kilo of fruit, and about 700 g of sugar will be needed. The prepared ingredients are placed in a container. Cover with sugar and boil for 15 minutes, stirring and removing the foam.
With lemon
A thick and tasty jam is obtained from pears with the addition of lemon. Pears are pre-prepared, as for a recipe through a meat grinder, only boiling is carried out with the addition of grated lemon zest and chopped citrus pulp. For a kilogram of pears, you will need no more than a couple of medium-sized lemons, they take 200 g more sugar, but you can not add water at all.
In the oven
Ready-made pear jam, cooked in pieces, can be dried in the oven. If done correctly, the result is a semi-crumbly dish of amber ingredients. To do this, a heat-resistant container with a ready-made delicacy is placed in a preheated oven and left there for 30-40 minutes to dry. Then, while still hot, they are laid out in banks, corked.
How to store such a jam
Cooked pear jam can be stored under proper conditions for 2-3 years.Longer storage of the product is not recommended.
In order for the product to retain its characteristics in rolled up jars, it is placed in a cellar or basement, where the temperature is kept at 2-8 degrees.
