Homemade yellow plum compote for the winter - 3 simple recipes for compote with and without pits

Yellow plum compote with pits

Sort through the plums, wash and place in clean liter jars. It is enough for the plums to fill the jar to 1/3 of the height of the jar.

Pour one glass of sugar into each jar and pour boiling water over it.

Cover the jars with lids and pasteurize each jar for 15 minutes. Use a seaming key to close the lids, turn the jars over and wrap them in a warm blanket so that they cool down as long as possible.

Like many pits, plum pits contain hydrocyanic acid. This is dangerous, but only if the compote has been standing for more than a year and you drink the whole jar at once. But if you are making compote for children, then it is better to play it safe and cook the compote without seeds. Moreover, removing the pit from a yellow plum is not so difficult.

Compote of pitted plums

Wash the plums and remove the pits.

Place them in jars, but no more than half the height. Otherwise, the compote will be too concentrated and sour.

Boil water in a saucepan and pour this water over the plums.Cover with a metal lid and leave for 15-20 minutes.

Remove the lid, put a special nylon lid with holes on the jar and drain the water from the jar into the pan. This makes draining the water much more convenient. Such lids are sold in any hardware store and they will not be superfluous in the kitchen, especially during the seaming season.

Add sugar to the drained water at the rate of 400 grams for every three-liter bottle. Boil the syrup and pour the boiling syrup over the plums, up to the neck. Let even a little syrup pour out.

Roll up the jars with metal lids and cover the jars with a blanket. Pasteurization of such a compote is not necessary.

Sometimes plums taste bitter. It comes from plum peel. If you are very sensitive to this and want to get rid of excess bitterness, you just need to get rid of the peel by blanching the plum. After a little heat treatment, the skin of the plum will come off on its own. All you have to do is scrape it off the surface with a fork.

Quick yellow plum compote

Sometimes, after making jam, marshmallows, or other sweet fruit preparations, there is a lot of waste left that is a pity to throw away, but finding a use for it is very difficult. Well, this wasn’t easy before, but now we’ll see how to make a delicious compote from jam waste.

What do we have after grinding the plum pulp through a sieve? These are seeds, skins and some pulp.

Fill them with cold water, based on 1 liter of water, 2 cups of seeds with skin and 1 cup of sugar.

Bring the compote to a boil, boil it for 3-5 minutes, and remove from the stove. Cover the pan with a lid to let the compote steep.

Strain it and you can drink it. This compote is good for now; it’s not worth storing for the winter.To prepare compote for the winter, it is better not to skimp on products and spare no time.

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