Crabapple Jam for Winter
A bright, beautiful treat made from amber crabapples for winter! Crabapple jam is a really interesting recipe, and I always put up at least a little. I love the sweet-tart taste of these clear, amber, humble little fruits!
Cooking method
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Step 1:
For crabapple jam, use any crabapples—the jam comes out tasty from all kinds; you'll just need to gauge how firm they are, which affects how much they soften. You'll also need a little citric acid, plus granulated sugar and water for the syrup.
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Step 2:
Wash the crabapples well under running water, dry them, and prick each one a few times near the stem with a wooden skewer.
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Step 3:
In a pot, basin, or saucepan, combine the sugar and water and cook a syrup. Add a little citric acid and stir.
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Step 4:
Lower the prepared crabapples into the syrup; once it boils, spoon syrup over them. Try not to stir, so the apples don't fall apart. Cook for about 10 minutes, gently pressing the apples down and basting them with syrup. Cool completely.
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Step 5:
Then bring the crabapples back to a boil in the syrup, pressing them down—they keep floating up and flipping onto the side that's already cooked and soaked with syrup, since that side is heavier. Cool the jam again and let the apples soak in the syrup, pressing them down with a suitably sized plate.
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Step 6:
Cook the jam to doneness one last time. Cool it and pour it into dry, clean jars. You don't have to sterilize them, but it's best to store the jam somewhere cool.
- This jam is like a memory of childhood, even though we didn't make it in my family—often moms don't want to spend their precious time on it. Crabapple jam has a reputation for being lower-grade than jam from other berries and fruits. And yet it's a genuine treat! Beautiful, tender, appetizing, its amber fruit gleaming in the sun! And best of all, the crabapples keep their little stems, so it's easy to pluck the amber treats right out of the dish. Sometimes the crabapples cook down to mush—a sign the variety has fruit too soft, which falls apart no matter what tricks you try. So choose tried-and-true varieties, and the jam will reward you with its beauty and one-of-a-kind taste!
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Citric acid - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Ranetki - 47 kcal/100g
