What is jam? This is a certain way of preserving, where the main preservative is sugar. During the preparation of jam, the most important thing is to observe the ratio of sugar and fruit, but it is necessary in order that the jam is not candied. It is brewed from fruits, berries, as well as zucchini, carrots, pumpkins, rhubarb. In order to make the jam unusual and especially tasty, it adds honey, nuts, lemon peel, etc. Consider several popular recipes, cooking jam at home:
Jam from cones
Ingredients:
- 1 kg. pine cones
- 1 kg. Sahara
Cooking method: How to make jam from pine cones? To do this, bumps must be cleaned and thoroughly rinsed under running water. Wash the cones in a pan and pour so much water to cover the cones. Put the pan on a stove and bring it to a boil on low heat. Cones cook for 7 minutes, then add sugar. Stir thoroughly and boil the jam, periodically taking off the foam with a noise for 2 hours. Pine jam - it's ready! Such jam perfectly helps with colds, bronchitis, tonsillitis. Bon Appetit!
Raspberry jam
Ingredients:
- 1 kg. raspberries
- 1 kg. Sahara
- 600 ml. water
Cooking method: In order to prepare homemade jam from raspberries, you need to raspberry raspberries from the stems and pour water, and then fall asleep with sugar. Cook the berries for 5-7 minutes, and then cool to a temperature of about 20 degrees. Cool the jam and put it on the fire again. Bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes, then cool again. Carry out the same procedure 2 more times. Ready raspberry jam pour on sterilized jars and roll. Bon Appetit! 
Strawberry jam
Ingredients:
- 1 kg. Sahara
- 1 kg. strawberries
Cooking method: Strawberries should be cleaned of leaves and rinsed well. Then put in a saucepan and pour sugar. Leave the pot with strawberries for 5-6 hours. After the strawberry leaves the juice, put the pan on the fire and bring to a boil. Cook for 5 minutes. Jam remove from heat, cool and put again on fire. Do the same procedure three times. Ready strawberry jam pour on sterilized jars and roll. Remember! When cooking jam - do not forget to remove the foam. Bon Appetit!
Cherry jam
Ingredients:
- 3 kg. cherries
- 2 kg. Sahara
- 2 packs of vanilla sugar
Cooking method: How to make cherry jam or cherry? To do this, the cherries must be rinsed and cleaned of seeds. In the pot, put cherries, each layer with sugar, and then leave for 5 hours, so that the berries let the juice. After that, put the pan on the fire, bring the jam to a boil and boil for 10 minutes. Then pan with berries set aside and cool. In the same way, carry out this procedure 2 more times. The third time left the jam on the fire for 15 minutes, and then add to it vanilla sugar, so it will get a very pleasant aroma. Ready cherry jam pour over sterilized jars and roll. Bon Appetit!
Nut jam
Ingredients:
- 1 kg. young walnuts
- 1 kg. Sahara
- 500 ml. liquid from nuts (left from scalding)
Cooking method: In order to prepare a jam from walnuts, you need young walnuts, pierced with a wooden stick, several times. Then fill the nuts with cold water and leave for 1 week. And two times a day you need to change the water. After a week, pour the nuts with boiling water, and then dip into cold water. In the liquid, which scalded the nuts, add sugar, and then cook the syrup. Nuts put in a colander, in order to make the water completely glass, and then put into a pan and pour the cooked sugar syrup and leave for 12 hours. After that, with the nuts merge the syrup and bring it to a boil. Cook for 15-20 minutes. Finished syrup to cool, and then pour them nuts and leave for 48 hours, and then syrup again to drain, boil and then lay out the nuts and cook until ready (no more foam will form). Ready nuts jam pour over sterilized jars and roll. Bon Appetit! 
Jam from oranges
Ingredients:
- 5 oranges
- 1 kg. Sahara
- 750 ml. water
- 1 teaspoon of lemon juice
- pinch of vanillin
Cooking method: Orange jam is prepared as follows: oranges are cleaned and boiled in a saucepan until ready, namely until they are easily pierced. Then, the oranges can be thrown into a colander and cut into eight pieces. In the pot, pour water, add sugar and cook until the syrup thickens. After that, put the oranges in the syrup and cook until done. To add spice to the jam, add lemon juice and vanillin at the end of cooking. Ready jam from oranges to pour on sterilized jars and roll. Bon Appetit!
Jam from vegetable marrows
Ingredients:
- 1 kg. zucchini
- 1 kg. Sahara
- 2 oranges
- 1 lemon
- 250 ml. water
Cooking method: How to cook jam from zucchini? Squash should be peeled and peeled. Oranges are also peeled and peeled, and then cut into cubes. Also cut the squash. Xu sliced in an enamel dish, covered with half of sugar and left for 10 hours. Then add the water to the bowl and put it on the stove. Cook for 10 minutes, then cool and put again on the stove, while adding the remaining sugar. In the same way - cool and put again on the stove - done 3 times. 10 minutes before the readiness, add the sliced and peeled lemon to the jam and mix thoroughly. Ready jam from courgettes to pour on sterilized jars and roll. Bon Appetit!
Kiwi jam
Ingredients:
- 1.5 kg. Sahara
- 1, 5 kg. kiwi
Cooking method: Kiwi is peeled and cut into small thin pieces, then put into a saucepan, pour sugar and leave for half an hour, in order for the juice to stand out. Place the saucepan on a slow fire, and stirring constantly to cook until the sugar dissolves. After the sugar has completely dissolved, the jam needs to be removed from the fire and cooled. Then again put on fire and cook for 5 minutes. Ready jam from kiwi pour over sterilized jars and roll up. Bon Appetit! We advise you to read:
