6 recipes for making plum jam-five minutes for the winter
Five-minute plum jam is easy to make. The jam has a peculiar taste. It owes its special notes to the bones. The taste of the dessert depends on the variety of plums and additives. Seedless jam tastes more delicate. It can be used as a filling for pies, it is ideal for this purpose. So, we are preparing a quick plum jam for the winter.
Features of the preparation of plum jam "Pyatiminutka" for the winter
The five-minute plum jam has its own characteristics. It takes 12 hours for the plums to be saturated with sugar. It is better to start cooking in the evening. If you need to make jam with whole plums, then choose elastic, slightly unripe fruits. To get a thick jam, take fully ripe or slightly overripe plums.
Selection and preparation of products
Plums need to be sorted out, damaged fruits removed, and the stalks removed. Rinse the berries with boiled water. Allow moisture to drain. If you intend to prepare a pitted dessert, then each berry is cut in a circle and a hard core is taken out. Then it is put into a basin, covered with sugar and left for 8-12 hours.
During this time, the bookmark must be stirred so that all halves are evenly immersed in the syrup.
If you intend to cook a treat with seeds, then after the berries have been washed, they are blanched. To do this, put the cream in a colander and dipped in hot, but not boiling water. The water temperature should not exceed 80 degrees Celsius.
Attention! If you blanch plums for longer or in hotter water, the skins will crack and the fruits will fall apart.
After processing, each cream is pierced with a fork. You can make cuts with a knife. This will help the sugar soak in the fruit and prevent the berries from cracking during cooking.
How to prepare containers
The jam is boiled in an enamel or aluminum dish. For cooking, you need to prepare a basin or a wide saucepan. The finished dessert is placed in glass jars. They are pre-sterilized by holding them in hot steam. The duration of sterilization depends on the container:
- half-liter cans are kept for a couple of 5 minutes;
- liter jars for the same procedure need 10 minutes.
Banks are closed with metal lids. They should be free of signs of rust or other damage. If the shape of the cover is changed, then it cannot be used. Pay attention to the gaskets. They must have a uniform color and texture. Sometimes the jam is covered with plastic lids.You can store workpieces sealed with plastic lids only in the refrigerator.
How to cook 5-minute jam from plums?
There are many recipes for five-minute plum jam. Each recipe is good in its own way. Personal preferences will help you choose the best for yourself.
The classic pitted recipe
For cooking, you need a kilogram of plums and one and a half kilograms of sugar. Wash the berries, dry, remove the stalks. Cut the cream in half and remove the seeds. If the berries are large, then cut them into 4 parts. Then put in a bowl or saucepan and cover with sugar.
Let it brew for 12 hours. After the specified time has elapsed, put the basin on gas and heat to a boil, stirring constantly and removing the foam. When the treat boils, boil it for 5 minutes, remove from heat and leave to cool.
The cooled dessert is sent back to the fire and waited until it boils. But you don't need to boil it this time. It is necessary to immediately remove from heat and put to cool. The cooled delicacy is again sent to the burner, but this time it is brought to a boil and boiled for 5 minutes, after which it is laid out in jars.
With bones
Plum jam for the winter with seeds is prepared in a slightly different way. Plums of late varieties are suitable for this delicacy:
- Mirabel.
- Cherry plum.
- Hungarian.
One and a half kilograms of berries and the same amount of granulated sugar are taken. Dense, undamaged fruits are selected. The plums are washed, blanched and left to dry. At this time, 400 ml of water is poured over sugar and the syrup is boiled.
The water is brought to a boil and, stirring, wait until the sugar dissolves. Dried berries are placed in the finished syrup and left to cool.
The cooled workpiece is put on gas and heated to boiling point. In the process, stir and remove the foams. The boiled delicacy is left to cool. The process is repeated twice more. After that, the dessert is packed in jars.
With nuts
Not everyone knows how to make five-minute plum jam with nuts. 2 kg of plums are washed. The seeds are removed from the berries. The cream is cut into 4 pieces. 200 grams of any nuts are peeled and soaked. You can grind them. The berries are stacked in a saucepan.
100 g of water is also added there. This is necessary so that the fruits do not burn. The berry mass is heated to a boil. As soon as it boils, 1.8 kg of sugar is added. Everything is mixed and boiled for 40 minutes. Then the soaked nuts are added. The jam is cooked for another 15 minutes. Then it's ready.
In a multicooker
Five-minute plum jam can be cooked in a slow cooker. A kilogram of plums should be washed, dried and pitted. They are put in a multicooker bowl and covered with half a kilogram of sugar.
Let stand for 15 minutes. Then turn on the "Extinguishing" mode for 40 minutes. In the middle of the process, the lid is opened and the jam is mixed. After 40 minutes, the jam is ready.
With lemon
To make five-minute plum jam for the winter, you need one large lemon. It should be washed and chopped in a blender along with the peel. Rinse a kilogram of plums and free from stones.
Fold the plums into a basin, sprinkling evenly with lemon shavings.
Add one and a half kilograms of sugar. Leave the mixture for 3 hours. After 3 hours, the basin will fill with plum juice. Put it on gas, bring to a boil and boil for 5 minutes. Such jam does not require long-term cooking - lemon has preservative qualities.
From yellow plums
The color and taste of the jam made from yellow plums is an extraordinary pleasure. For this delicacy, 2 kg of yellow berries are taken. They are washed. The bones are separated. The plums are cut into wedges and placed in a saucepan. 1200 g of sugar is poured there.
Everyone is left overnight. The jam is cooked in two steps. The first time it is put on slow gas and boiled for 20 minutes. During cooking, the plum skin becomes completely invisible. The jam is allowed to cool and boiled again. Let it boil and boil for 5 minutes.Then they are removed and laid out in banks.
Storage conditions and periods
The ideal place to store any jam is in the cellar. In city apartments, it is well stored on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Properly cooked and packaged plum jam can last up to 3 years. But this applies to the pitted dessert.
Five-minute plum jam with seeds should not be preserved for more than a year. From the moment of preparation, the bones emit carcinogenic substances. The longer the dessert costs, the more there are. A long-stored treat with bones can lead to poisoning.
