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plum jam at various times considered an exquisite dish that could eat only kings and plum jam recipes for winter kept a closely guarded secret. Alexander the Great, including precious trophies than gold and jewels from the East brought some plum trees and often the privilege to try a delicious dish. Russian Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in the XVII century, ordered to land first plum trees in the Izmailovo Park. Their fruit so loved by aristocrats, that soon only the representatives of noble estates could afford the luxury of how to cook jam from plums. A French cooking so adored plum jam that even one of the varieties named in honor of one of his queens — Greengage.

Do not believe it, but in the world there are more than 200 varieties of plums! By the way, the taste of plum jam for the winter is very dependent on what kind of this fruit it is cooked. For example, prunes get sweet treats from Mirabell — spicy, sour, from Hungarian — thick and rich, and of greengage is very tender with a special thin really summer plum flavor. And all because the fruit of different varieties contain different amounts of sugar and, consequently, plum jam recipes for the winter will be different. In addition, a variety of flavors of plum jam, you can, if you add the fragrant spices: cinnamon, vanilla, lemon zest, cloves. And some, especially skilled kulinarka even add chocolate!

By the way, there is another supplement that will make plum jam unusual. This is nuts. This delicacy, they have their special purpose. The fact is that in any of the Council as plum jam for the winter, there is often the phrase «remove the plum pits.» And not without reason! The bones of this fruit contains hydrocyanic acid, which after prolonged and improper storage can cause poisoning. And then cooks come up with a «chip» — removing the bone from the plums, put inside a piece of walnut kernels. Plum and walnut perfectly combines taste and complement each other, as in the Caucasus, walnut, as well as plum jam too brewed in the winter! It turns out that such simple, albeit painstaking technique you «kill two birds with one stone»: on the one hand, your ready plum jam becomes special, with nothing comparable to the taste, and, on the other hand, creates the illusion of whole berries. Recipes jam of plums and there are so many on our site you will find the best of them.

Translated by site: wday.ru