Sliced ​​peach jam

By the end of summer, all gardens and orchards are full of a rich harvest. And on the shelves of the store are delicious and juicy fruits. One such fragrant fruit is the peach. So why not stock up on preparations for the winter? The best option for harvesting is amber peach jam with slices. It cooks very quickly, but it turns out very fragrant, beautiful and tasty.

How to cook peach jam slices

It is not difficult to choose fruits for making peach jam with slices for the winter. These fruits must be ripe, but not overripe and without damage. Unripe fruits are very dense and do not have a characteristic fragrant smell. The presence of impact marks and dents on the delicate surface is also not allowed – such fruits are more suitable for making jam or confiture.

If harder varieties were chosen for the workpiece, then it is best to dip them in hot water for a couple of minutes. For cooking with the skin, before dipping it in hot water, it should be pierced in different places with a toothpick. This procedure will help maintain the integrity of the peel.

If it is necessary to remove the skin from the fruit, then after hot water, the peaches are dipped in pre-chilled water. Such a contrast procedure will allow you to carefully separate the skin without damaging the pulp.

Peaches themselves are very sweet, so you need to take a little less sugar than the fruits themselves. And if the recipe uses a uniform amount of ingredients, then for preservation for the winter it is recommended to add citric acid or juice. Such an additive will prevent sugaring of the workpiece.

Sometimes, to smooth out the sugary-sweet aftertaste, they put spices in amber peach jam.

Classic peach jam recipe

There are several options for preparing peach blanks for the winter. You can resort to the classic recipe for peach jam slices with step by step photos. To prepare it, you need:

• 1 kg of peaches;
• 1 kg of sugar.

Method of preparation:

1. Ingredients are prepared: they are washed and peeled. To do this, washed peaches are first dipped in boiling water, then in chilled water. The peel after this procedure is quite simply removed.

   

2. The peeled fruits are cut in half, the stone is removed and cut into slices.

   

3. The chopped pieces are poured into a container for cooking the future jam and sprinkled with sugar, let it brew until the juice is released.

   

4. After the appearance of juice, the container is placed on the stove, the contents are brought to a boil. Remove the emerging foam, reduce the heat and simmer the jam for 2 hours, stirring often and removing the foam.

   

5. The finished delicacy is poured into previously sterilized jars and rolled up with a lid.

Turn over, leave to cool completely.

The easiest recipe for peach jam slices

In addition to the classic, peach jam slices for the winter can be prepared according to a simpler recipe. The whole highlight of the simplified version is that the fruits themselves do not have to be cooked, which means that as many useful substances as possible will remain in them.

Ingredients:

• peaches – 1 kg;
• sugar – 0,5 kg;
• water – 150 ml;
• citric acid – 1 tablespoon.

Method of preparation:

1. Prepare the fruits: they are thoroughly washed and dried.

   

2. Cut in half.

   

3. Remove the bone with a spoon.

   

4. Cut into narrow slices, preferably 1-2 cm.

   

5. Transfer the chopped pieces to the pan and set aside until the syrup is prepared.

   

6. To prepare the syrup, pour 500 g of sugar into a saucepan and pour water over it. Put on fire, stir, bring to a boil.

   

7. Pour 1 tablespoon of citric acid into the boiled sugar syrup, mix thoroughly.

   

8. Hot syrup is poured over chopped slices. Leave to infuse for 5-7 minutes.

   

9. Then the syrup is poured without slices back into the saucepan and brought to a boil.

   

10. Pour peaches a second time with hot boiled syrup and insist the same time. Repeat the procedure 2 more times.

    

11. The last time the syrup is boiled, the peach slices are carefully transferred to a jar.

    

12. Boiled syrup is poured into a jar. Close the lid tightly and leave to cool completely.

    

Peach jam with slices for the winter, according to a simple cooking option, turns out to be rich and transparent, full of a pleasant peach aroma.

Peach jam slices in amber syrup

In addition to a thick preparation, completely consisting of pieces of delicious fruit pulp, you can cook peach jam with slices in a large amount of amber syrup.

Ingredients:

• 2,4 kg of hard peaches;
• 2,4 kg of sugar;
• 400 ml of water;
• 2 teaspoon citric acid.

Method of preparation:

1. Prepare the fruits: they are pre-soaked in a weak solution of soda to remove the top layer of the fluff from the peel. For 2 liters of cold water, you need to put 1 tablespoon of soda, mix thoroughly and lower the fruits into the solution for 10 minutes. The peaches are then removed and washed under running water.

   

2. The fruits are dried and cut into halves. Remove the bone. If the bone is not removed well, you can separate it with a teaspoon.

   

3. Peache halves are cut into small slices, approximately 1-1,5 cm.

   

4. When the sliced ​​peach slices are ready, prepare the syrup. Pour 400 ml of water into a container for cooking jam and pour all the sugar. Put on gas, stir, bring to a boil.

   

5. As soon as the syrup boils, throw peach slices into it and bring it to a boil again. Remove from heat and let steep for 6 hours.

   

6. After 6 hours of infusion, the jam is again put on gas and brought to a boil. Remove foam and cook for 20 minutes. If you plan to make the syrup thicker, then boil for up to 30 minutes. 5 minutes before readiness, citric acid is poured into the jam, mixed.

   

7. Pour the finished jam with slices into sterilized jars, tighten the lids tightly.

Turn the jars over and cover with a towel to cool completely.

Thick peach jam with pectin slices

Today, there are recipes for cooking peach jam with slices for the winter with a minimum amount of sugar. You can minimize the amount of sugar by using an additional ingredient – pectin. In addition, such a blank turns out to be quite thick.

Ingredients:

• peaches – 0,7 kg;
• sugar – 0,3 kg;
• water – 300 ml;
• 1 teaspoon pectin;
• half a medium lemon.

Method of preparation:

1. Peaches are washed, peeling is not required, dried with a paper towel.
2. Cut each fruit in half and remove the pit.
3. Cut peach halves into slices, transfer to a container for cooking jam and sprinkle with sugar.
4. The lemon is washed and cut into thin circles, put on top of the slices sprinkled with sugar.
5. After infusion, a spoonful of pectin is added to a container with fruit, poured with water and mixed.
6. Put the container on gas, stir, bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and leave to languish for 15-20 minutes.
7. Hot jam is poured into pre-prepared jars.

How to cook peach jam with cardamom and cognac slices

As a rule, classic jam made from only peaches and sugar is a very simple preparation, but you can give it more sourness and flavor with the help of spices and cognac.

You can cook jam, where peach slices are combined with cognac, by following the following step-by-step recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg peaches cut into slices (1,2-1,3 kg – whole);
• 250-300 g of sugar;
• 5 boxes of cardamom;
• 5 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice;
• ¼ cup brandy;
• 1 teaspoon pectin.

Method of preparation:

1. Wash and dry approximately 1,2-1,3 kg of peaches. Cut into 4 pieces and remove the stone. If you wish, you can cut the fruit parts in half again.
2. Sliced ​​peaches are transferred to a container, covered with sugar and poured with cognac. Cover the container with cling film and place it in the refrigerator for 2 days. At least 2 times a day, you need to mix the contents.
3. After infusion, the juice obtained from the fruit is poured into a cooking pot and put on gas. Bring to a boil.
4. All the slices of peaches from the container are transferred to the boiled syrup and brought to a boil again, constantly stirring. Reduce heat and let simmer for 15 minutes.
5. After boiling, the gas is turned off and the jam is left to cool. Then the pan is covered and left for a day.
6. Before the second cooking process, cardamom should be added to the jam. To do this, it is crushed and poured into a saucepan, everything is thoroughly mixed. Put on fire and bring to a boil. Remove the foam, reduce the gas and leave to cook for 20 minutes.
7. 3 minutes before the end of cooking, add pectin. It is stirred with 1 tablespoon of sugar, and the mixture is poured into the boiled jam. Stir.

When hot, the finished jam is poured into clean jars.

Hard peach jam

Often there are cases, especially among those engaged in their gardening, when a lot of unripe hard fruits are showered. And this is where the recipe for jam from hard green peaches with slices will help. To prepare it, you will need:

• 2 kg unripe peaches;
• 2 kg of sugar.

Method of preparation:

1. Peaches are washed and separated from the pits. Since the fruits are unripe and hard, it is required to make 4 cuts on all sides and carefully separate the parts from the stone.

   

2. Then the resulting pieces are placed in a saucepan in layers, alternating with sugar. In sugar, fruits are left for a day.

   

3. After a day, put the pan on the fire, bring to a boil and immediately turn it off. Leave to infuse for 4 hours. Then they put it on gas again and turn it off after boiling. This process is repeated 2 more times with a break of 2-4 hours.

   

4. Before the fourth time of boiling, banks are prepared. They are thoroughly washed and sterilized.
5. The finished jam is poured hot into jars and rolled up with lids.

Despite the fact that the jam was prepared from unripe hard fruits, it turned out to be quite fragrant and beautiful.

How to make Peach Jam with Vanillin Slices

Vanilla and peaches are an amazing combination. Such jam will be the most delicious dessert for tea, and you can prepare peach jam with vanilla slices according to the following recipe with a photo.

Ingredients:

• peaches – 1 kg;
• sugar – 1,5 kg;
• water – 350 ml;
• citric acid – 3 g;
• vanillin – 1 g.

Method of preparation:

1. Wash the peaches thoroughly, pat dry with paper towels.

   

2. Then cut in half, remove the bone and cut into slices.

   

3. Now you should prepare the syrup. To do this, pour 700 g of sugar into the pan and pour water. Bring to a boil.

   

4. Put the chopped fruits into the boiling syrup and remove from the stove. Leave to infuse for about 4 hours.

   

5. After 4 hours, the pan needs to be put on fire again, add another 200 g of sugar. Bring to a boil, stir, cook for 5-7 minutes. Remove from the stove, leave to infuse for 4 hours. The procedure still needs to be repeated 2 times.

   

6. The last time of boiling 3-5 minutes before readiness, it is necessary to pour vanillin and citric acid into the jam.

   

Pour the finished jam still hot into sterilized jars. Close tightly, turn over and wrap with a towel.

Storage rules and periods

Like any other preparation for the winter, peach jam should be stored in a cool and almost unlit place. If the blanks are planned to be stored for a year or more, it is best to place them in the cellar.

Basically, jam is stored for no more than two years, provided that the cooking technique and the ratio of the proportions of the ingredients are correctly observed. If there is less sugar, then such a preparation may ferment. And, conversely, with a large amount of sugar – it can be sugared. If sugars are taken in an equal amount by weight with fruits, then it is best to add lemon juice or acid when cooking.

Open jam should be stored only in the refrigerator for two months.

Conclusion

Amber peach jam with slices is an amazing delicacy that will delight you with its summer taste and aroma on a winter evening. It will not be difficult to prepare such a preparation, but such a wonderful sweetness will delight with its presence on the table all winter.