Recipes for making jams from Japanese and regular quince

Preparation of ingredients

The fruits are capricious in terms of preparation, you should choose a large quince, the slices of which, in order to obtain juice, fill with sugar for at least 1 hour. Fruits are reluctant to juice, the peel is hard and poorly peeled, especially from small fruits.

If you want to make a dessert with pieces of fruit that resembles confiture in consistency, it is necessary to stir the sweet mass carefully during cooking, and add granulated sugar in stages. If you prefer a puree-like delicacy, similar to marmalade, at the end, knead the fruit mass with a crush and cook over low heat for about 5 minutes.

It's easy to find out about the readiness of a treat: you just need to put it in a spoon and cool it - if it falls in pieces, then you can taste it.

Video "Quince Jam Recipe"

This video will show you how to make delicious quince jam.

Step by step recipes

Next, we will tell you how to make quince jam at home.

Classical

The simplest option involves creating a treat from two components in 30 minutes, you only need 750 g of sugar and 1 kg of fruit. If desired, citric acid is added to preserve the color of the fruit, or water is added to obtain a dessert of the desired consistency.

The fruits are washed with water and dried, peeled from the skin, tails and cores. The fruits are cut into pieces, poured into a pan with a double bottom. Next, add 0.5 cups of water and boil until softened for about 20 minutes. To obtain mashed potatoes, use a blender or crush, add granulated sugar. Cooking takes 10 minutes.

Through a meat grinder

Now we give a step-by-step recipe for winter harvesting, in the process of cooking which fruits should be passed through a meat grinder. For dessert, take 1 kg of fruit, 2 kg of granulated sugar, a quarter of 1 tsp. citric acid and a whole spoonful of cinnamon.

The fruits are sorted out and washed, cut into four parts, the seeds are removed. Grind with the help of technology, add sugar and leave for about 2 hours. Next, the dishes with the sweet mass are put on high heat. Cooking, during which you need to stir and remove the foam, lasts 40 minutes. After adding cinnamon, the jam should be boiled over low heat until cooked.

Having filled in citric acid, you can check the readiness of the dessert - it should fall off the spoon with a "string".

In a multicooker

The advent of the latest household appliances has made the life of housewives easier. If you have a multicooker with the “Multipovar” function or manual mode, you can make jam in several steps from 2 kg of fruit. You will also need water and sugar - 1 liter and 1 kg, respectively.

The fruits must be washed, cut off the peel, discarding the seeds and dividing into 4 parts. Each of them is cut into a couple more pieces. The required option is selected in the bowl of the device and the temperature is set to +160 ° C. After the water boils, the fruits are poured, which are boiled for 30 minutes. They should be placed in a colander, find out their weight and sent back to the bowl.

Sugar should be added as much as the weight of the fruit mass. Cooking takes another 40 minutes, the temperature must be reduced to +130 ° C.The resulting delicacy should dry in a deep dish within 24 hours.

With spices

According to the recipe, 900 ml of water is required for 1 kg of fruit, 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice, a cinnamon stick, half an anise star, a pinch of thyme, 5 allspice and 10 black peppercorns.

The fruits are washed with running water, cut and cored. If they are of good quality, do not cut the peel. Pour in water and boil, add spices and boil for 10 minutes. The broth is filtered with a sieve, granulated sugar is added and boiled again, stirring occasionally. Fruits are chopped on a coarse grater, poured with ready-made syrup and boiled over low heat for 30 minutes.

Japanese quince

Be sure to prepare the following vitamin jam using 1 kg of seedless fruit (the correct name for which is chaenomelis) and 1.5 kg of granulated sugar.

Pure fruit should be cut into pieces, chopped with a meat grinder and covered with sugar, stirring gently. It is also recommended to process the fruit and sugar mass with a blender. That's the whole cooking process, the dessert can be packaged in cans.

Quince fruits also go well with lemons, oranges, pumpkin; nuts, cinnamon and vanillin, and other ingredients can be added to the delicacy.

Having opened a jar of such a blank for tea drinking in winter, you will certainly appreciate its refined taste and aroma.