How long oranges and lemons jam to make?

In total, it will take 5 hours to cook.

How to make orange and lemon jam

Products

Lemon – 3 pieces

Orange – 3 pieces

Cinnamon – 1 stick

Sugar – 1,2 kilograms

Vanilla sugar (or 1 vanilla pod) – 1 teaspoon

How to make orange lemon jam

1. Wash the oranges, cut off the zest in a thin layer with a vegetable peeler or a sharp knife, set the zest aside.

2. Cut each orange into about 8 large pieces and remove the seeds.

3. Put the oranges in a saucepan, cover with sugar, set aside for a couple of hours so that the oranges will juice out.

4. Wash the lemons, cut each lemon in half.

5. Squeeze the juice from each half of the lemon with your hands or using a citrus juicer, do not throw out the squeezed lemons.

6. Pour lemon juice over oranges.

7. Cut the squeezed lemons into strips 0,5 centimeters thick.

8. Put the sliced ​​lemons in a separate saucepan, pour over a liter of water.

9. Place a saucepan with lemons in water over medium heat, let it boil, cook for 5 minutes.

10. Drain the pot with lemons, pour in a liter of fresh water.

11. Re-boil water with lemons on the stove, cook for 1-1,5 hours – the lemon broth will lose its bitterness.

12. Strain the lemon broth through a sieve into a saucepan with oranges, lemon peels can be thrown away.

13. Put a cinnamon stick, vanilla sugar in a saucepan with orange-lemon paste, mix.

14. Place a saucepan with jam on a low heat, cook for 1,5 hours, sometimes stirring.

15. Remove the cinnamon stick from the pan.

16. Put a blender in a saucepan with jam, or pour the jam into a blender bowl, and chop the oranges in puree.

17. Cut the orange zest into strips a couple of millimeters thick.

18. Combine orange-lemon jam, zest in a saucepan, mix.

19. Place a saucepan with jam over medium heat, let it boil, remove from the stove.

20. Arrange the jam in sterilized jars.

 

Delicious facts

– The zest from citrus fruits for jam must be removed carefully so that the white part does not get under the peel. This can be done with a regular grater, potato peeler, or a very sharp knife. There are also special graters and tools for removing zest from citrus fruits.

– To get rid of the bitterness of citrus fruits, peeled fruits must be soaked in cold water for a day. The water in which the fruits were soaked must be drained, and the citrus fruits themselves must be squeezed well with your hands.

– To make jam for future use, you need to prepare jars and lids. Jars can be sterilized in an oven – put well-washed jars on a wire rack in a cold oven with the neck down, heat to 150 degrees, hold for 15 minutes. Another way is to sterilize the cans by steam: put an iron sieve or grate on a pot of boiling water, put the washed can with the neck down on it, keep it there for 10-15 minutes, drops of water should start flowing down the walls of the can. The lids are sterilized by holding them in boiling water for two minutes.

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