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Confiture

Confitur, jam - a type of jam. This is a jelly-like dessert with chopped pieces or crushed fruits and berries cooked in sugar with or without the addition of gelling substances. More details about confitur and jam...Confitur are recipes from the French "cook in sugar. " And from the English "jam" such recipes are jam. Confitur, jam can be prepared from almost any fruit and berries, even vegetable confits, jams are prepared. The most common are strawberry confit, cherry confit, apricot confit, red currant confit, orange confit.

How to make a confitur, jam? Confitur preparation has a lot in common with jam preparation. Berries or fruits are usually cut into pieces, added sugar, lemon or citric acid and boiled over a low heat. Depending on the type of confitur, the gelling agent may not be added. For example, without pectin or agar-agar, you can prepare apricot confitur, orange confitur. And also so beloved by many strawberry confits - this recipe may not contain gelling substances, since strawberries have a good ability to gell during cooking. However, liquor, cognac or other alcohol is often used as an ingredient. But it will be problematic to cook cherry confits without pectin.

In principle, how to cook confitur is not difficult to understand. But how much to cook confits is better to determine in practice. For example, you cook strawberry confits. It does not cook for long, for 5-10 minutes. But to determine the readiness of the confitur, drop the jam on a cold plate. A drop of finished confitur should not spread on it.