Today, housewives have learned to make jam from anything, even grapes. Properly cooked jam has an original taste and a delicate aroma. We advise you to prepare this unusual piece to remember the hot summer days in winter evenings.
Selection and pre-preparation of ingredients
For the preparation of jam, whole clusters with ripe berries are chosen. Unripe or damaged grapes will not convey the entire palette of taste.
Stages of preparation of the ingredients:
- Rinse the bunches of grapes under running water. To dry them.
- Gently remove the berries from the bunch.
- Extract the seeds by cutting the berries in half (if you want to cook the pitted jam).
Important! To make it easier to separate the berries from the bunch, use blunt scissors. This will significantly speed up the process and preserve the integrity of the berries.
White grape jam recipe
Jam can be prepared from almost any variety of white grapes. You can also use recipes with apples, oranges and nuts.
Kishmish Jam
1.5 L 1 hour
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Prepare the ingredients. Sort and wash the grapes.
- To boil water. Add sugar.
- Cook, stirring the sugar thoroughly until completely dissolved.
- Pour the grapes into the syrup. Cook for 2 minutes.
- Remove pan from contents from heat. Cover the pan and let stand for about 8 hours.
- Strain the berries. Bring the syrup to a boil and boil for 10 minutes. Then add grapes to the boiling syrup.
- Remove the pan from the heat again and stand for 8 hours.
- Bring the dessert to a boil and cook until the berries sink to the bottom and become transparent.
- Add vanillin. Mix.
- Pour into cans and preserve.
Important! Grapes are contraindicated in patients with diabetes mellitus, gastric and duodenal ulcers, liver cirrhosis, acute tuberculosis.
Grape jam with stones and pitted
1.5 L30–40 min.
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Wash the sorted grapes, let the water drain.
- Blanch the berries in boiling water.
- Chill immediately in cool water.
- Add blanched berries to 50% sugar syrup and let it stand for 6 hours.
- Boil grapes with syrup in 3 doses. The first and second cooking time lasts 10 minutes.
- After each cooking, cool the jam and let stand for 8 hours.
- At the end of the third cooking, add citric acid.
- Pour dessert into sterilized jars and roll up.
Pitted jam is prepared in the same way. When preparing the grapes, they cut them in half and remove the seeds. There is an opinion that the seeds give bitterness to the delicacy, but most of this bitterness is not noticed. So it’s a matter of taste - making jam with or without pits.
Did you know? Jam with the addition of walnuts can affect digestion, relieve worms, and relieve toothache and headache.
In combination with other fruits and nuts
1.5–2 L 3-4 hours
sweet and sour apples
800 g
walnuts
1.5 cups
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Rinse apples and grapes thoroughly.
- Cut the apples into small cubes. Grapes cut in half.
- Put apples together with grapes and nuts in an enameled bowl and mix with sugar.
- When juice stands out, mix. Simmer for 5 minutes, remembering to remove the foam.
- Add water if necessary.
- Insist jam until it has completely cooled.
- Bring to a boil again.
- Pour into banks and roll up.
Important! Sour apples are best suited for jam preserves. They quickly digest, turning into a homogeneous mass. In the above recipe, grape berries retain their shape by soaking in apple juice and sugar syrup. Such a treat is very good for pouring open pies.
Rules and features of storage of the workpiece
Canned preserves should be stored in a dry, unheated, dark room (in the pantry or cellar), or in the room (at a temperature not lower than 0 ° C). It can also be stored in a closet and in a niche (on shelves).
The main causes of damage to conservation:
- violation of sanitary conditions and rules;
- poorly washed raw materials or containers;
- poor sterilization or tightness of blockage.
Grapes are a tasty and healthy treat. If it is properly prepared and stored, it will always please you and your loved ones, even in the harsh winter season. Having prepared the berries according to the above recipes, you will get tasty, aromatic and sweet preservation.Did you know? Grapes are not only tasty, they also have a lot of useful properties. From bactericidal to lowering blood pressure.
