Use baking machines to cook jam

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If you have an automatic baking machine, it is usually equipped with a number of additional programs. Many bread makers also have a jam program. If you like to eat jam, it is worth trying this function out.

Cook your favorite jam yourself.
Cook your favorite jam yourself.

What you need:

  • 500 g of fruit according to preference
  • Preserving sugar in proportion

When using the bread maker (BBA) for the production of jam there is the difference that the machine makes the jam at 85 ° C and it is not cooked like on the stove.

Try jam from the baking machine

  • If you want to prepare jam in a bread maker, you should consider the ratio of fruit to preserving sugar.
  • Preserving sugar already contains pectin and citric acid. Depending on the label on the preserving sugar packaging, the proportion of fruit to sugar is different.
  • Use the same amount if the ratio is 1: 1 fruit and sugar, with a preserving sugar 2: 1 you need 1 kg of fruit for 500 g of sugar.
  • If you would like to use normal sugar instead of preserving sugar, please add the to 1 kg of fruit juice a lemon too.
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  • Do not use any sweetener, otherwise you will only get sweet fruit pulp, but not jam.
  • Which fruit you choose depends on your preferences. You can also puree the fruit before processing if you don't like the pieces in the jam.
  • Basically, the weight of the type of fruit used relates to the cleaned, peeled and pitted ingredients. Do not leave the pieces too big, the machine will not shred them automatically.
  • The time that the baking machine needs varies from manufacturer to manufacturer.
  • Pay attention to the maximum amount that your baking machine can process. For a test jam, you should start with 500 g of fruit.

Jam recipes for the baking machine

  1. Clean and cut the fruit that you want to use for your jam.
  2. The fruit pieces should be mixed with the preserving sugar before you fill the baking machine.
  3. Select the "Jam" program and let the machine work.
  4. Thoroughly clean the jam jars.
  5. When the program has ended, remove the baking pan with kitchen gloves.
  6. Now you can pour the jam into the prepared jars, whereby the jars should never be overfilled.
  7. You should close the jars immediately and put them on the lid to cool.

Dare to experiment with different flavors. Interesting mixes are created time and again. For example, strawberries and lime juice and zests go very well together. The mix of rhubarb and ginger is just as interesting.

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