Many know about the culinary abilities of Alena. Moreover, Alena, as a real pioneer and the creator of trends, was able to prove to everyone a few years ago: to cook delicious jam is not at all "lesson for grandmothers." When her book "About jam" came out in 2016, it instantly evaporated with bookshelves, and recipes began to be transferred from mouth to mouth. Now this book appeared in a new mini-format, which is so comfortable to keep in the kitchen at hand. Well, or you can save this article to surprise guests and households (and yourself, of course).
Pear with pepper and lavender (main photo)
Ingredients:
- pears without peel and core - 2 kg;
- White Sugar Sand - 2 kg;
- cardamom - 2-3 grains;
- Chile pepper dried - ⅓ pod;
- Lavender flowers - 1 tsp;
- Lemon zest - 2 tbsp. l.
Cooking method:
My pears, consider the skin with a thin sharp knife, cut the fruits in half and remove the core. Finished clean halves cut your favorite way - I prefer smooth cubes.
Already in the pelvis fall asleep with sugar, lemon zest, crushed (not in powder) chili, pushed grains of cardamom and lavender. How to shake the pelvis, forget it for a while. In the hour, the pear can give a lot of juice. Check!
When sugar is almost completely soaked with juice, we shake and put the pelvis on a slow fire, we wait for boiling. We drive the foam to the center and remove it. If the syrup is added to two times, we remove the pear cubes by shimmer and gently shift them into a clean ass. And the syrup continue to evaporate on low heat. As soon as he thickens, we return the pear back, remove the foam and immediately check on the droplet.
If the lens from the first time did not come out, we make another occasion, cool - both by banks.
Plum with almond
Plum with almond
Ingredients:
- plums without seeds - 2 kg;
- White Sugar Sand - 2 kg;
- Almond purified - 500 g;
- Flowers lavender - ½ h. L;
- Saffron - on the tip of the knife;
- The nutmeg - on the tip of the knife.
Cooking method:
Rinse plums, lay down to dry on linen towels. We cut the fruits in half, remove the bones (if the drain is early and tender - do not torment it, leave the bone inside). In the pelvis fall asleep the fruits with sugar and leave alone for 2-4 hours.
With the first appearance of juice, we put the pelvis on a slow fire. Miscending it, bring the jam to a boil, we collect foam, drain extra syrup, turn off the plate and clean cool. Almonds pour boiling water for 2 hours. And how to mock, squeeze the sides with two fingers and fishing white grains into a clean mist.
In the second cooking, bring the plum to a quiet boil and fall asleep almonds
In the second cooking, I bring the plum to a quiet boil (not drilling!), Watch how amethyst syrup slowly turns into a saturated garnet. After removing the foam, we fall asleep white almonds, saffron, nutmeg and lavender. Tomis together for another 3 minutes and remove from the fire.
The third (as a rule, final) cooking only in order to "press" the surplus of the syrup and get the perfect linzochka drop. And after cooling - and by banks.
Gooseberry separately fall asleep sugar
From the gooseberry with pistachios
Ingredients:
- Gooseberry without tails - 2 kg;
- White Sugar Sand - 2 kg;
- Pistachios purified - 300-400 g;
- Orange zest - 1-2 art. l;
- nutmeg - on the tip of the knife;
- Water - 200 ml.
Cooking method:
Sharp (can be manicured) with scissors cut off at the gooseberry tails on both sides, we rinse under cold water and lay down to dry. Pistachios pour hot water for 2 hours, and after easily purifying from the skins.
Sugar divide into two equal parts. One fill with water, add nutmeg, put on fire and, often stirring, prepare syrup. The remaining sugar fall asleep the gooseberry in the pelvis, we try to smooth each berry with a sharp fork (so that they did not explode during the cooking).
Only noticing the juice, put the pelvis with the gooseberry on a weak fire. Next, heated syrup, without bringing to a boil, and pour them berries. This trick will accelerate the dissolution of sugar, help keep the shape and taste of berries. When the sugar can be dissolved in thick syrup without a residue, peeled peeled pistachios and finely chopped orange zest. I bring to a boil, shook the pelvis, we collect precious foam - the gooseberry is always enough of her. And we give jam to get to another 5 minutes.
Checking a drop. In a good way, the lens should be formed already after the first cooking gooseberry. Enjoy - and by banks.