Plum jam with cocoa

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the products. We will need plums, sugar, cocoa powder and vanilla sugar to taste. Take hard, ripe plums for jam, varieties that have a good bone are best suited.

2. Step 2:

   

   Fruits should be sorted well, remove questionable specimens and garbage. Next, they should be rinsed well under running water and thrown into a colander to drain all the water. Then the plums should be dried by pouring them on a spread-out towel and blotting with another.

3. Step 3:

   

   We remove the bones from the plums. We put it in a bowl in which the jam will be cooked. We weigh the resulting billet.

4. Step 4:

   

   Next, you need to measure out half of the total amount of sugar and fill the plum with it. We leave the fruits for a few hours so that the juice comes out.

5. Step 5:

   

   The sugar should completely dissolve, you can help it by stirring the mass from time to time. That's how much juice came out of my plums.

6. Step 6:

   

   We put our basin on the fire and start cooking. It is not necessary to make a large fire, it is better to make an average heating, the jam can burn.

8. Step 7:

   

   Heat the plums to a boil.

9. Step 8:

   

   While the plums are boiling, add cocoa and vanilla sugar to the remaining sugar. Stir it up.

10. Step 9:

    

    In the boiling mass, we pour the remains of sugar mixed with cocoa. Mix well.

11. Step 10:

    

    Reduce the heat and cook the jam for about 40 minutes, stirring all the time and removing the foam from the surface. Make sure that the jam does not burn!

12. Step 11:

    

    Hot ready-made jam is poured into prepared jars and closed with lids, or rolled under iron ones. We prepare the jars as follows: either keep them steamed or calcined in a hot oven.