How to make jam out of "nankeen"?From whom?What kind of fruit is - "Kitaika"?Maybe there is some mistake?No, that's right.There is a notion among the people - "Kitaika."Let's look at it closer.
"Kitaika" - interesting apples
How to make jam out of "nankeen"?About what a fruit is it?"Kitaika" - this is an apple tree, which many call "paradise" or "Rajko".It grows almost everywhere, from Russia to China.The sapling is very picky, able to withstand extreme cold.Fruits give a lot.There is a great variety of grades, "pupil", "long", "gold chereshenka" - all "Kitaika."
In Russia, this tree is cultivated and grown in gardens especially in China, it grows in the wild.We call it "nankeen" of small stature and small fruits.While botanists will tell you that if the little apple tree growth, it is - "Raika" and "Kitaika" - is slivolistnaya apple normal growth, but with little fruit.But we are not botanists, we habitually call "nankeen" those apple trees, which grow in the "paradise apples".
Grades Gudulu
Why the name is from this tree?Because it is small, undersized fruit gives very tiny, the size of which a little more than cherry, and the weight of twenty or twenty-five grams.In appearance, color and taste of these fruits are very diverse.Bright red apples elongated, which ripen in late summer, belong to the class "long."Inside this fruit cream with thick red veins.
If apples to "nankeen" took after rosy, but inside the flesh is white and juicy, this "ward", and if the fruits are yellow, round, in white, and the taste of self-leveling and sweet, this sort of styled "goldenchereshenkoy. "You know it must, as it is very much like a cherry.Now, when you think how to make jam out of "nankeen" apple appearance will prompt you to answer.
type and grade of apple jam
Before you look for a recipe of jam, think about what you want to cook.If the jelly or jam, it is best to take the ordinary (large) apples.They are more razvaristye.From "nankeen" derived mainly whole jam, more like candied fruit or candy.
If your grade "nankeen" - "golden chereshenka" it is ideal for the whole apple jam.From "Gudulu long" better to prepare a thick jam for the winter, and "ward" you can try to rework the jam or marmalade.Thus, knowing which variety you grow, you will be easier to determine how to make jam out of "nankeen".
Prepare the fruit
To cook whole jam, which will replace the candy you remember the following recipe: one kilo of apples "golden chereshenka" we must take the three hundred kilos of sugar and three cups of water.
Before you decide how to make jam out of "nankeen", you need to prepare the apples:
- Sort out - should be the same size, evenly ripened, with tails and the stalk (if they do not fall apart during cooking).
- Warm - immerse in boiling water for one minute and cool immediately in cold water.
- After that you need to chop fruits toothpick or fork in several places.Apples are ready for cooking.
Cook fruits correctly
Now let's talk about how to make jam out of "nankeen", so it was nice and most helpful.Color saturation and density depends on the cooking time and the degree of interaction with fruit syrup.The more apples are in the syrup, so they will be more whole.The longer jam boiling, the lower the vitamins in it persists.Therefore, the question of how to make jam out of "nankeen" in the winter, often respond - in several stages.
's how:
- Heat three cups of water to a boil.
- In boiling water, add three hundred pounds of sugar - a syrup.
- prepared fruit immerse in boiling syrup and leave for 8 hours.
- Soaked fruit syrup is boiled for ten minutes at intervals of two to three hours.
- do this procedure two or three times, you have to get jam with transparent apples in a thick syrup.
