Preparing an apricot jam
Today we will offer you simple recipes, with which even a young or inexperienced hostess can easily cope. As a result, you can prepare an aromatic apricot jam with different tastes. This treat will delight your family and guests all winter, before the new season.
Classic Apricot Cemem Recipe
If you are lucky to gather in your garden a rich fruit harvest, then be sure to use this recipe. Sweet dessert can always be applied to breakfast with crispy toasts or make light pastries from it.
Ingredients:
- apricots - two kilograms;
- lemon juice - a quarter of a glass;
- water is half a glass;
- sugar - four glasses;
- gelatin or Pectin is one bag.
First you need to handle fruit. Wash, remove the bones, and cut the pulp in small pieces. Banks wash and sterilize in any convenient way. Tin covers boil on the stove for a few minutes.
Connect water with lemon juice, half sugar and gelatin in a large saucepan. Stir foods, put fruit to them. Boil the mixture on fire, and then add the remaining sugar. After that, reinforce the heating and bring the jam to a boil again. 
Check the consistency of the future dessert is very simple. To do this, cool the spoon in ice water and scream it with it. If the result does not suit you, then add a little gelatin to the pan and negotiate the products for some time.
A minute later, remove the saucepan from the stove and burst the hot dessert in the banks. 
Slide the covers with the key and turn the dish upside down. When the jam cools, it can be immediately served to the table with hot tea or send it to storage until winter.
Jam with apricots and rosemary
The use of a multicooker will simplify the process of cooking dessert and make it even more pleasant. Jams from apricots for the winter can be prepared with fragrant herbs and spices. This time we offer to use rosemary, and in the future you can experiment with other additives.
Ingredients:
- two kilograms of apricots;
- half a kilogram of sugar;
- two sprigs of rosemary.
So, we are preparing an apricot jam. In a slow cooker, it is necessary to fold the purified and finely chopped fruits, and then pour them with water (it will take about half a glass). Set the "quenching" mode and cook half an hour fruit.
Rosemary Put in a saucepan and pour to it 100 ml of water. After the decoction boils, cook herbs for another five minutes. Remove the sprigs from the pan and set them aside.
When apricots become soft, get them out of the bowl and take the blender. Then return the puree back and pour the fragrant decoction. Add sugar and set the cooking mode for 40 minutes. Do not forget to periodically remove the foam and mix the sweet mass.
If you wish, you can prepare jam on the stove in a regular saucepan. In this case, cooking time will increase to one and a half hours.
When Jam is ready, spread it on jars and sunk. As usual, the dishes are better to cover with a woolen blanket or a warm blanket. The next day, the treats can be sent to the pantry or any dark and cool place. And, of course, one bank can be torn immediately to enjoy your favorite dessert.
Jam apricot with almonds
The original taste of this sweet home billet allows you to expand its area of \u200b\u200buse. For example, you can use apricot jams with nuts as a filling for lush layers or buns.
Ingredients:
- apricots - 30 grams;
- almonds - 30 pieces;
- reed sugar - 200 grams.
The prescription jam from apricots is very simple. You will see if you read it to the end.
Fill almond hot water, and after a couple of minutes, drain the liquid and clean the nuts from the skin. Immediately after that you need to dry the kernels on the dry frying pan. 
It is possible to achieve the original taste without the help of almonds. To do this, you will need only a few nuclei extracted from the bones of apricots. Add them to the jam in a couple of minutes before the end of the cooking.
Fruit wash, clean and remove the bones. After that, cut them with slices and grind with a blender. In the resulting puree, pumped sugar and beat the products again. Send a fruit mass on the fire and bring it to a boil.
Five minutes later, remove the film from the surface of the jam and add prepared nuts to it. Boil the treats two more or three minutes, and then put it in glass jars. Slide the workpiece in the usual way, cool them and take into the pantry
Apricot jams whose recipes we described on this page are obtained very tasty and beautiful. Having in stock a jar of sweet treats, you can always please the guests with fragrant dessert or prepare fruit pie to their arrival.
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