Plum jam

The cherry plum jam proposed in this recipe is not cloying, has a thick consistency, and has a slight sourness. Cardamom adds nobility to the preparation and gives a pleasant, subtle aroma. If you have a sweet tooth, then when making jam you just need to add a little more sugar.

Jam is a jelly-like product containing pieces of fruit. Making delicious plum and strawberry jam at home is quite easy if you follow the cooking rules. The main difference between jam and other similar preparations is that the fruit must be well boiled.

Cherry plum belongs to the plum family, and looks very similar to them.The color of the fruit can be very diverse: yellow, burgundy, red and even green. Inside the cherry plum there is a large drupe, which in most varieties is very difficult to separate from the pulp. The taste of the fruits is quite sour, but this does not prevent them from being prepared into amazing dessert dishes. One of them is jam. Today we will try to understand all the intricacies of the process of preparing this delicacy at home.

I, like many housewives who always make many different homemade preparations for the winter, have in my arsenal several recipes for preparing such preparations from plums. I prepare fragrant plum jam for future use in two ways. I have already described the first method, now I am posting the second recipe.

Plum jam prepared according to the presented recipe is perfectly stored, even without screwing the lids on. Our grandmothers covered such plum jam with paper, secured it with an elastic band and left it in the cellar for the whole winter.