Kitchen appliances and utensils: hob or stove, measuring cup or kitchen scale, cutting board, jam basin, tablespoon, knife, jars and lids.
Ingredients
| Product | amount |
| Fresh figs | 1.2 kg |
| Sugar | 1 kg |
| Water | 1 stack |
| Lemon | 50 g |
Step cooking
Syrup preparation
- In an iron bowl, mix 1 kilogram of sugar and 1 cup of water. Stir.
- Put the syrup on a small fire. Bring to a boil and boil for 1 minute. Foam will form on the surface and must be carefully collected.
- Turn off the heat and let the syrup cool for 3-5 minutes - it should become transparent. Remove the foam from the syrup again.
Did you know? The main requirements for utensils for cooking jam: it should be quite wide and low. The pelvis is best suited. It should be brass or copper; stainless steel utensils are also often used. If you intend to use an enameled bowl, make sure that there are no cracks on it. Quite often, for making jam, they take aluminum dishes.
Fig preparation
- Rinse the figs thoroughly under running water. It will need about 1.2 kilograms. Remove the ponytails - they are too hard and will fall into the jam.
- Pierce each berry with a skewer or a toothpick in several places. This will allow sugar syrup to thoroughly soak the berries.
First heat treatment
- Put the syrup on the fire and bring to a boil. Add pre-prepared figs to the syrup.
- Stir occasionally to warm all the berries evenly. Cook until boiling syrup again. Let the jam boil for 1-2 minutes, then remove from heat.
- Leave the syrup to cool completely overnight or for 5-6 hours.
Did you know? If you want to give oriental notes of jam, then add nutmeg, cloves, cardamom, ginger, rosemary or cinnamon. You need to add a little bit, at the tip of the knife, so as not to interrupt the taste of the fig itself.
Second heat treatment
- Rinse the lemon. Cut 50 grams of lemon first into thin rings, and then into quarters.
- Put a bowl of jam on the fire. Bring to a boil. Cook jam after boiling for 10-12 minutes, stirring constantly. The syrup should thicken a little.
- After 7-8 minutes, add chopped lemon to the jam.
- Boil the jam for another 3 minutes, then remove from heat. Let the jam cool.
Third heat treatment
- Put the bowl on a slow fire and boil. Cook for 5-7 minutes (no longer needed, otherwise the jam will turn out to be very viscous).
- Remove the bowl from the heat. Pour jam into pre-sterilized hot jars and cover them with a lid. Leave the cans to cool completely.
- After this, the jars of jam can be cleaned in a cool place where they will be stored. The dish is ready. Enjoy your meal!
Video recipe
Check out the step-by-step video of making fig jam. It will allow you to understand in more detail the stages of preparation, as well as visually see what consistency syrup should be at each stage of heat treatment.
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