Winter jam made easy

What you need:

• 1350 grams of pitted plums
• 0.75 teaspoons of gingerbread spice
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 1 ½ packets of preserving sugar 2: 1
• Plum juice
• Plum liqueur
• Jam jars
• big pot
• Hand blender

Winter jam is made quickly

With a few fruits, tasty spices and preserving sugar, you will quickly have a wintry one jam manufactured. One recipe for how to easily make a jam is plum and cinnamon jam with gingerbread spice.

1. Start by washing and pitting the plums thoroughly. Put the plum halves in a large saucepan and chop with a hand blender. Depending on your taste, you should still have a few pieces left over for your jam.
2. Now add the preserving sugar and the gingerbread spice to the plum mixture. Stir the mixture well and add some prune juice if necessary. Now you can add the cinnamon sticks and, if you like, stir in some plum liqueur.
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3. Let the jam mixture boil for about three to five minutes, stirring constantly. The jam is ready when your jelly test is successful.
4. For the gelling test, put a teaspoon of the mixture on a small plate. The mass should set after a short time.


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5. After you have removed the cinnamon sticks, you can pour your winter jam variation into the prepared jars.

How to prepare the jam jars

1. You should boil your already washed, clean jam jars again before filling. Fill a large saucepan with water and bring the water to a boil.
2. Place the jars and lids in the boiling water for at least sixty seconds to disinfect them.
3. Now you can take the jars out of the pot with tongs and turn them upside down on a clean tea towel before you pour your winter plum and cinnamon jam into them.
4. When filling the glasses, you should make sure that as little air as possible remains in the glass. Close the jars tightly and place them on the lids to cool.

You can decorate the finished and cooled glasses for winter or Christmas. So you can easily give them away as well.

More variations for winter jam

• The winter plum jam is even tastier if you rub half a bar of dark chocolate into the mixture before you cook it. Block chocolate is also suitable for this jam.
• Do you like it exotic? Then you can also bring some sharpness into play. To do this, add some red chilli to the mixture. But be careful so that your winter jam doesn't heat you up too much.
• Just as easily produced, popular and very tasty is a winter orange jam with cinnamon, aniseed stars and orange liqueur. Even with this variation it is possible to do something else chocolate to bring into play. With the orange variant, white chocolate is a good option for a special touch.
• The orange jam also goes well with some ginger powder to give your variation something special.