jam young walnuts - a rather unusual and incredibly delicious treat.Those who have never tried it, it is difficult to understand how you can even cook a meal.As a general rule, cook it at home, but in order to get a really delicious jam from walnuts recipe must be followed strictly.Err on some point or another, you get a completely unsuitable food substance.
cook it in several ways, but the nuts in any case, should be collected at the stage when the hard shell is not yet fully formed.All their recipes are soaked in lime, to get rid of bitterness, and some even cut off the top part of the rind.Any jam Walnut (photos can be seen below), it is best to cook with gloves because your hands after contact with the iodine-containing juice is virtually impossible to clean up.Besides burns probable.
jam walnuts (recipe with cleaning)
first step is to calculate the correct time, when the shell has not yet solidified, and nuclei themselves have already begun to emerge.This period usually begins in late May, at least - in early June, but still better to put them ahead of time, because in the case of hardening of the rind have to wait for next year.Check softness walnut can be a toothpick, which effortlessly should pierce it through.Per kilogram of nuts take half kilograms of sugar, 300 ml of water, citric acid, vanilla, and lime.First nuts soaked in lime solution during the day (100 grams of powder per liter of water).Then a further 10 days in water, it periodically changing.This is done so that all bitterness gone and got a delicious jam from walnuts (recipe also includes every nut prick needle or toothpick to make it happen faster).
After this procedure, the fruits are cleaned from top peel (with a knife, not forgetting gloves) and boiled in a solution of citric acid (25%) for 20 minutes.From the water and cooked sugar syrup is added to the nuts, boiled for 20 minutes, then shut off and allowed to soak for 10-12 hours, then boiled for 5 minutes, add a little citric acid and vanillin, and after 5 minutes removed from heat.Poured into sterile jars and sealed.In this method the mass of turns yellow, and contains less iodine than the next version.
jam walnuts (recipe without treatment)
number of components required is the same as in the previous recipe.If you wish, you can add spices (cloves, cinnamon).After soaking in lime nuts pierce with a toothpick and blanch in water (5-7 minutes), then throws them in a colander and wait until all the water has drained.Separately, cook the syrup (as in the previous recipe) and shift him nuts.After boiling jam it shut down, leave for two days in the impregnation.Then again, bring to a boil, add spices, lemon or orange peel, and off.Expanded in sterile jars, twist and stored in a cool place.This jam turns black, delicious, fragrant, and most importantly - useful.
