Pears with apples for winter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the necessary ingredients before starting cooking. Wash apples and pears well from dirt. Try to choose strong fruits without damage. If the fruits are soft, then when cooking they will completely boil in puree. Take the most fragrant pears.

2. Step 2:

   

   Peel the washed apples and pears, cut into 4 parts and remove the core. Then cut all the pieces into cubes.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put the chopped fruit in the prepared pan. Take an enameled, glass, stainless steel saucepan. Do not use aluminum, so that the fruit does not oxidize.

4. Step 4:

   

   Cover the prepared fruits with sugar. It is better not to add all the sugar at once. Focus on the sweetness of the fruit - it is always different! If you sweeten it, you can't fix it after. Leave the covered fruits to stand for several hours at room temperature so that they let the juice.

6. Step 5:

   

   A sufficient amount of juice will be released from the fruit. Put the pan on the fire and bring the mass to a boil. Boil for a couple of minutes and turn it off. Cover with a lid and cool.

7. Step 6:

   

   Then bring to a boil again, add a little citric acid. Why add citric acid? It serves as a preservative and prevents candying. Boil for a couple more minutes. Double cooking with intermediate cooling makes the syrup the thickest and does not boil all the vitamins out of the fruit, as if cooking for a long time. At the same time, the pieces of fruit remain intact.

8. Step 7:

   

   Sterilize the prepared jars in any way convenient for you. Pour boiling fruit into jars and cover with lids. I usually just pour boiling water over the lids. Turn the jars upside down, wrap them in a blanket and cool them down. In such a wrapped-up form, the cans will cool down very slowly and, so to speak, reach the desired condition. The syrup will become thicker, and the fruits will be softer.

9. Step 8:

   

   In winter it is very nice to open such a jar of pears with apples for the winter. Bon appetit!