11 recipes for delicious winter jam

It is impossible to imagine winter without a warm sweater, plaid and, of course, jam. It can be prepared from a variety of ingredients, both traditional and not so. Unusual products from which you can cook jam include, for example, walnuts. Let's talk about eleven of the most delicious recipes.

Raspberry jam

Raspberry jam is indispensable in the winter. It is used as an antipyretic and antiviral agent. It contains vitamins: A, B2, C, PP, as well as salicylic acid. To prepare you will need:

• 1 kilogram of berries;
• 1 kg of sugar.

Cooking:

1. Rinse the raspberries under the tap first.
2. Put the berry in a bowl and sprinkle with sugar.
3. Stir and leave for an hour.
4. Put the pan on a slow fire, let it boil.
5. Remove the foam and turn off the heat, leave to cool for several hours.
6. Separate the syrup from the jam with a scoop.
7. Cook for another 20 minutes over low heat, stirring regularly and removing the froth.
8. Pour jam into sterilized jars and cover with lids.
9. Separately, boil the syrup, sending it to the fire for 10 minutes, stirring regularly.
10. Pour it into jars and screw the lids.

Pitted cherry jam

It is rich in vitamin C, K, B vitamins, carotene and biotin. To prepare it you will need:

• 900 g ripe berries;
• 1 kg of sugar.

How to cook:

1. Rinse and sort the berries, remove the seeds.
2. Move the berries to the cooking pot, and add sugar.
3. Cook on low heat, stirring with a spatula until boiling.
4. Let the jam cool, then put it on the fire again, let it boil and cook for five minutes.
5. After the jam has cooled, put it on the fire for the third time and also boil for five minutes, removing the foam.
6. Turn off, pour into banks.

Lemon jam

It contains a record concentration of vitamin C, E, B vitamins, zinc, fluorine, copper and manganese. It is indispensable in the winter, when the body is weakened.

Essential Ingredients:

• lemons - 1 kg;
• ginger - 50 g;
• sugar - 1.5 kg;
• vanilla sugar - 10 g;
• cinnamon to taste.

Cooking:

1. Peel the lemons, remove the seeds and cut into small cubes.
2. Rinse, peel, chop the ginger root.
3. Combine it in a saucepan with lemon, add all the sugar and cinnamon, leave for an hour.
4. After the specified time, put the pan on the fire and let it boil. Boil for five minutes, remove from heat and let cool.
5. In this way, cook and cool the jam two more times so that the jam thickens.
6. Pour the jam into the jars.

Seedless Cherry Jam

Cherry is a storehouse of vitamins A, C, B, E and PP. A quick tip: before cooking the jam, remove the cuttings and soak the berries for 20 minutes in water, this will help rid the berries of the worms, if any. If there is no pitting tool, you can use a pin.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of cherries;
• 0.6 kg of sugar (possible if the variety of berries is sweet).

Step-by-step cooking instructions:

1. Rinse the berries under the tap, remove the seeds.
2. Put them in a saucepan and cover with a glass of sugar.
3. Place the pot on a slow fire.
4. After the sugar has dissolved, boil the cherries for about five minutes.
5. Drain the juice.
6. Return the berries to the pan and cover with the remaining sugar, stir.
7. Cook over low heat until the jam is thick enough.
8. Pour jam into jars and cover with lids.
9. Turn them over and let cool.

Apricot jam

It is rich in vitamins A, B, C, E, P, PP, sodium, iron, iodine and some other trace elements.

Required:

• 1 kg of apricots;
• 1 kg of sugar.

How to cook:

1. First cut the apricots in half and remove the seeds.
2. At the bottom of a large pan, lay the apricot layer so that the inside is up. Sprinkle with a little sugar. Repeat a few layers until the fruit runs out.
3. Leave for an hour to give the apricots juice.
4. Cook the apricots with sugar over low heat, after boiling, remove from the stove and let cool to room temperature.
5. After the jam has cooled, let it boil again and repeat the cycle four more times.
6. After the last repeat - turn off the jam and send it to the banks.

Orange jam

It contains a high concentration of vitamin C, beta-carotene, iron, iodine, fluorine, vitamins A, B, C, E, P, PP. It can be used as an antipyretic.

It is necessary:

• 0.5 kg of oranges;
• 50 ml of lemon juice;
• 150 ml of water;
• 0.5 kg of sugar.

Recipe:

1. Cut the fruit into two parts, squeeze the juice. Peel the crusts from the inside with a spoon of white pulp so that only the orange crust remains.
2. Cut the crust into thin straws.
3. Pour the orange juice into the pan. Add water, lemon juice and chopped orange peel to it.
4. Stir all ingredients and let simmer over high heat. After boiling, remove the heat to a minimum and cook with the lid closed for half an hour.
5. After the specified time, add sugar and cook it for an hour and a half, not forgetting to stir.
6. When 10-15 minutes remain, remove the cover.
7. Let cool and spill.

Strawberry with whole berries

In strawberry jam there are vitamins A, B, C, E, P, PP, tannins, iron, manganese, fiber, potassium.

To prepare it you will need:

• 3 kg of berries;
• 2 kg of sugar;
• 1 sachet of pectin;
• 75 ml of lemon juice.

Cooking:

1. Rinse the berries under cold water.
2. Place the berries in a large saucepan, sprinkle with sugar and mix. Leave on for 4-5 hours.
3. Mix lemon juice and pectin and add to strawberries.
4. Bring to a boil and simmer for about half an hour.
5. Pour the jam into the jars, close and wrap until cool.

Cinnamon Apple Jam

Apple jam contains vitamins A, B, C, E, K, H, P, PP, calcium, magnesium, manganese, fluorine, and iron.

Essential Ingredients:

• 1 kg of peeled and core apples;
• 700 g of sugar;
• half a glass of water;
• a teaspoon of cinnamon.

How to cook:

1. Rinse apples, peel, remove cores and dead places, if any.
2. Cut into slices, add sugar and leave for 2-3 hours. If there is not enough juice, add half a glass of water.
3. Put the apples on a slow fire, bring to a boil, stirring and evenly distributing the slices in syrup.
4. Cook for 5 minutes, then turn off the heat.
5. Leave to cool for 2 hours.
6. Put the pan on the fire again and bring to a boil, after which - cook for 5 minutes.
7. Repeat the whole cycle again.
8. After the jam has cooled, put it on a small fire for the last time, add cinnamon and mix.
9. After boiling pour into jars.

Quince with walnut

This jam is a real storehouse of vitamins. It contains vitamins of groups B, A, D, K. In addition, it is rich in calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, sulfur, and silicon.

To make an unusual jam you will need:

• 1 kg of quince;
• 1 cup nuts
• 1 kg of sugar.

How to cook:

1. Rinse, clean and quince in cold water.
2. Pour the peel with a glass of water and cook for about half an hour.
3. Cut the quince into slices, drain the water from the peel and discard it.
4. Add sugar to this water, put on a slow fire, add quince slices. Ten minutes after boiling - turn off and leave for 12 hours. Repeat the cycle three times.
5. After the third time, let the jam boil again and add the peeled walnuts to it, cutting the halves into 4 parts.
6. Cook for 10 minutes, then pour into cans.

Chocolate plum

In plum jam there is a whole spectrum of vitamins: A, B, C, E, P, PP, sodium, iron, iodine.

For cooking you need:

• 1 kg of berries;
• 750 g of sugar;
• a bar of dark chocolate;
• a bag of vanilla sugar.

How to cook:

1. Rinse the plums, cut into two parts, remove the seeds.
2. Fold in a saucepan, pour sugar (along with vanilla), leave for 8 hours.
3. Put the berries on a slow fire and cook for about forty minutes.
4. Break the chocolate and add to the jam.
5. Cook and stir until the chocolate has dissolved.
6. Pour into jars.

Orange Peel Jam

Like orange, it contains vitamin C, beta-carotene, iron, iodine, fluorine, vitamins A, B, C, E, P, PP. We will tell you how to make such jam and what you need for this. Ingredients:

• 1 cup orange juice;
• 2 oranges;
• a quarter of a lemon;
• 1 glass of water;
• 2 cups of sugar.

Cooking:

1. Peel the orange, cut the peel into cubes.
2. Pour the crust with water and boil for 5 minutes.
3. Squeeze a glass of juice.
4. Drain the crusts.
5. Re-fill the crusts with water and boil for 5 minutes, then drain the water - this will leave the bitterness.
6. In another pan, add one glass of water and orange juice, 2 cups of sugar. Let the ingredients boil and cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
7. When the syrup boils, add the peels and a quarter of lemon to it.
8. Simmer for about half an hour.
9. Pour the contents of the pan into jars hot and cover with lids.

We hope you enjoy the recipes. Tell us in the comments which jam is your favorite.