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Today we offer you simple recipes, which even young or inexperienced hostess can handle easily. As a result, you can make fragrant apricot jam with different flavors. This treat will delight your family and guests throughout the winter, before the new season begins.
The classic recipe for apricot jam
If you are lucky enough to harvest a rich harvest of fruits in your garden, be sure to use this recipe. Sweet dessert can always be served for breakfast with crispy toasts or make light cakes from it.
Ingredients:
- apricots - two kilograms;
- lemon juice - a quarter cup;
- water - half a glass;
- sugar - four glasses;
- gelatin or pectin - one sachet.
In the following, we will explain in detail how to make apricot jam for the winter. The recipe and photo process will help you to better understand all the subtleties.
First you need to process the fruit. Wash the apricots, remove the bones, and cut the flesh into small pieces. Banks wash and sterilize in any convenient way. Boil tin lids on the stove for several minutes.
Combine water with lemon juice, half sugar and gelatin in a large saucepan. Stir the products, shift the fruit to them. Boil the mixture over the fire, then add the remaining sugar. After that, turn up the heat and bring the jam to a boil again. 
Check the consistency of the future dessert is very simple. To do this, cool the spoon in ice water and scoop up the jam with it. If the result does not suit you, then add a little more gelatin to the pan and boil the products for some time.
After a minute, remove the pan from the stove and pour the hot dessert into the jars. 
Roll the covers with the key and turn the dishes upside down. When the jam has cooled, it can be immediately served with hot tea or sent to storage until winter.
Jam with Apricots and Rosemary
Using a multicooker will simplify the process of cooking dessert and make it even more pleasant. Apricot jams for the winter can be prepared with aromatic herbs and spices. This time we suggest using rosemary, and in the future you will be able to experiment with other additives.
Ingredients:
- two kilograms of apricots;
- one and a half kilograms of sugar;
- two sprigs of rosemary.
So, prepare the apricot jam. In the slow cooker you need to fold the peeled and finely chopped fruit, and then pour them with water( approximately half of the glass will be needed).Set the mode of "Quenching" and cook the fruit for half an hour.
Put the rosemary in a saucepan and pour 100 ml of water into it. After the broth boils, boil the herbs for another five minutes. Remove the twigs from the pan and set them aside.
When the apricots are soft, remove them from the bowl and whisk in a blender. Then return the puree back and fill with fragrant decoction. Add sugar and set the cooking mode to 40 minutes. Do not forget to periodically remove the foam and mix the sweet mass.
If desired, you can cook the jam on the stove in a regular saucepan. In this case, the cooking time will increase to one and a half hours.
When the jam is ready, place it in jars and roll it up. As usual, it is better to cover the dishes with a woolen blanket or a warm blanket. The next day, treats can be sent to the pantry or any dark and cool place. And, of course, one can can be opened immediately to enjoy your favorite dessert.
Apricot Jam with Almonds
The original taste of this sweet homemade product allows you to expand its scope. For example, you can use apricot jam with nuts as a filling for puffy puffs or buns.
Ingredients:
- Apricots - 30 grams;
- almonds - 30 pieces;
- cane sugar - 200 grams.
The recipe for apricot jam is very simple. You will see this when you read it to the end.
Fill the almonds with hot water, and after a couple of minutes, drain the liquid and peel the nuts. Immediately after this, the kernels should be dried in a dry frying pan. 
You can achieve the original taste without the help of almonds. To do this, you will need only a few nucleoli extracted from apricot kernels. Add them to jam a couple of minutes before the end of cooking.
Wash, peel and peel the fruit. After that, cut them into slices and chop with a blender. In the resulting puree, pour in the sugar and whisk the products again. Send the fruit mass to the fire and bring it to a boil.
After five minutes, remove the foil from the surface of the jam and add prepared nuts to it. Cook for another two or three minutes, and then transfer it to glass jars. Roll up blanks in the usual way, cool them and take them to the pantry
Apricot jams, the recipes of which we have described on this page, are very tasty and beautiful. Having in stock a jar of sweet treat, you can always please the guests with a fragrant dessert or prepare a fruit pie for their arrival.
