Thick pumpkin jam with apples for the winter - how to make jam at home.

Proportions of products for cooking:

- pumpkin pulp - 800 gr.;

- apples - 1.2 kg;

— granulated sugar – 1 kg;

- orange peels - a quarter of a teaspoon.

How to make pumpkin jam with apples.

First, the peeled pumpkin must be stewed in a saucepan (until soft), and then the stewed pumpkin pulp must be crushed by any available means, for example, rubbed through a sieve or colander.

For sour apples, you need to remove the seeds and peel them, then simmer them until soft and rub them through a sieve while hot.

After that, put the apple and pumpkin mixture in one bowl. Pour in half the amount of sugar specified in the recipe, mix thoroughly until smooth and then simmer over low heat, not forgetting to stir in a timely manner.

The remaining sugar should be added at the end of cooking. Then add orange peels to our jam.

The homemade jam, boiled to the desired thickness, is then packaged in prepared sterilized jars and sealed with sterile lids.

If you don’t want to roll pumpkin jam, you can boil it a little longer until it leaves the bottom of the bowl. The jam boiled to such a thickness can not be rolled up, but transferred into sterile dry jars, which we first cover with gauze folded in half. And the next day we will cover the jars with wax paper soaked in vodka and tie them with twine.

In winter, such thick jam can be used to make various fillings for pies, pancakes and pancakes. Or you can simply spread it on fresh bread and serve for morning tea.