Mixed Fruit Jam Recipe – Red Currant and Strawberry Jam Recipe
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Red currant and strawberry jam recipe ingredients:
- 2 kilograms strawberries
- 500 grams red currants
- 1 1/2 kg sugar
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Homemade mixed fruit jam recipe instruction:
Mix washed and cleaned strawberries with red currants, and pour sugar over them in deep saucepan. Let it in refrigerator over night.
Next morning put your saucepan on the heat to boil. Cook the fruits for about 40 minutes (stir it often).
To be sure that your mixed fruit jam is done, take some jam with the spoon and let few drops to fall in the plate. When drops are cooled, they must be thick (not in a liquid state).
Pour your fruit jam in warm sterilized jam jars and put them (without lids) in the oven to warm up on 100°C for about 10 minutes.
Seal the jars and wrap blanket around them over night (until they become cold).
Store them in the cool and dark place.
The Difference Between Jams and Jellies, Marmalade, Preserves, Compote and Syrup Recipes
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The difference between them comes in the form that fruit takes.
How to make jam?
Jams are made by boiling fruit and sugar to a thick consistency and does have fruit bits.
How to make jelly?
Jellies are made by boiling sugar, the juice of fruit and with gelatin or pectin, and does not have fruit bits.
How to make marmalade?
Marmalade is a clear sweetened jelly, sometimes with fruit rind and without fruit bits.
How to make preserves?
Fruit Preserves – fruit made into jams or jellies and cooked whole or in large pieces, so as to keep its shape.
How to make syrup?
Fruit Syrup is a thick sticky solution of sugar and concentrated juice of a fruit.
What is compote?
Fruit Compote is a dessert of fruit cooked in syrup.
Homemade Jam Recipe – Plum Jam Recipe
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Plum jam recipe ingredients:
- 1 kilogram plums
- 600 grams sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Juice from 1 squeezed lemon
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Making jam instruction:
Put plums in boiling water for 2 minutes, take them out and then pour cold water over them, so you can peel them easier.
Peeled plums divide into halves, take plum pit out and put them in the enamel pot. Pour lemon juice and then sugar over plums and let them in a cold place over night.
Next day, cook your prepared plums about 25 minutes in moderate temperature.
When your fruit jam is cooked, stir vanilla in it. Pour hot jam into warm jam jars and close them good.
Closed jam jars put at wood base, cover them up (you can use blanket) and let them cool. Your homemade jam recipe is ready for use!
Quick and Easy Homemade Strawberry Jam Recipe
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Homemade strawberry jam recipe ingredients:
- 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) strawberries
- 600 grams (1.32 pounds) sugar
Wash strawberries and arrange alternately, in your cooking dish, layer of strawberries and layer of sugar few times, till you put all jam ingredients in.
When strawberries let off their juice and soak the sugar (about 1 hour), put your dish on moderate heat for about 20 minutes. Stir it periodically and be careful, because strawberries must not fall apart.
Pour finished strawberry jam into jam jars (warm up jars first, so they don’t break up) and close them hermetically.
This is quick and easy homemade jam recipe to make, without any food additives, so it is healthier fruit jam recipe for your family than store-bought jams. I am sure you will like it!
