No matter how sad, but all good things come to an end. So the warm summer tends to end and sometimes give way to rainy autumn. But it happens very well in the fall - there is no reason to get depressed. Look at the beauty on the street! And your garden has prepared delicious gifts for you - apples and plums.
Fruits are rich in vitamins, and they need to be eaten fresh, so that the body stores the necessary substances until the next summer season. But if the harvest is large, and you have already fed all the relatives, and the fruits are still there, you can make a compote of plums and apples for the winter. A fragrant drink will give you a little warm sunny mood on a frosty winter day. Or is there such an option as cooking stewed apples and plums as a dessert for breakfast, lunch or dinner - the home will be delighted.
Useful properties of plums
Plums incorporate a huge amount of vitamins and minerals. In addition to the common magnesium, zinc and calcium, there are also quite rare ones: boron, chromium and nickel. Plums are a source of vitamins: A, C, PP and group B.
Plum fruits are 9–17% sugar: they contain a lot of sucrose, glucose and fructose. The acidic taste is provided by organic acids: citric, malic, oxalic, salicylic.
The plum also acquires useful properties due to the content of a large number of nitrogenous, pectin and tannins. They have a positive effect on digestion, lower cholesterol and prevent it from accumulating.
The benefits of apples
Apples are our favorite fruit. Their varieties are found in all regions of Russia. You can talk about the benefits of these fruits endlessly, because they contain a large amount of vitamins, organic acids and trace elements necessary for the human body at any age. Moreover, apples are also a hypoallergenic product, so everyone can enjoy it.
For many centuries, people have been using the valuable properties of apples and plums, eating them not only in summer. They are useful both individually and together. Therefore, a compote of plums and apples for the winter will preserve the taste and aroma of your favorite fruit and give a piece of summer mood.
Ingredients that go to apple and plum compote
The recipe for this delicious drink, which has a unique sweetish taste with sourness and a bright rich aroma, contains a minimum of ingredients. You will like the simplicity of cooking, and you will not have more of a question “where to put the whole harvest of apples and plums”.
So, for a three-liter saucepan of a drink for consumption, you will immediately need:
- apples (well, if they are sweet and sour) - 400 grams;
- plums, even if sour - 200 grams;
- purified water - 3 liters;
- granulated sugar - to your taste or 1 measuring cup.
The amount of fruit you can take more or less to your taste.
How to cook compote from apples and plums
The recipe for this drink is quite simple. He will not cause difficulties for any housewife. First of all, you need to put a pot of water on a strong fire. While it boils, cut the fruit in half, remove all the insides. Halves of apples are additionally cut into slices about 1 centimeter thick.
After boiling water, pour sugar into the saucepan. Again we are waiting for the boiling of sweet syrup and the complete dissolution of granulated sugar. Reduce the heat to medium and add apples to the water. Cook them for 10 minutes and add the plum halves. Bring the compote to a boil and cook for 3-4 minutes, removing the resulting foam.
Cover the cooked compote with a lid and cool in a cool place.
If desired, a couple of minutes before final readiness, you can add ground cinnamon or vanilla sugar.
Stewed apples and plums for the winter table
To enjoy the taste of your favorite fruit in winter, you can make a compote of plums and apples for the winter. You will need the same products for it, but the cooking technology is slightly different. So how to close the compote of plums and apples for the winter?
To prepare 1 liter of drink you will need: 4 medium-sized apples, 20 pieces of plums, a glass of granulated sugar, half a liter of water.
The number of fruits may be different. Their preparation is exactly the same: wash, dry, peel, cut. But besides them, for the winter version you need to prepare banks. They need to be thoroughly washed, preferably with soda, and sterilized. Rinse iron caps well and pour boiling water for a few seconds.
In a liter sterilized jar, put the fruits and pour cold water. Then pour this water into a pan and add sugar there. Boil.
Pour fruit in a jar with boiling syrup and leave for 10 minutes to stand under a closed lid.
Then pour the syrup from the jar into the saucepan again and boil for 1 minute.
Pour fruit into boiling syrup, roll up a tin can in a jar. Turn over the jar with compote and hide under a fur coat. After the preservation has cooled, put the compote into storage in a cool place.
Recipe without sterilization
Sometimes there is no time or just too lazy to mess with complex recipes, or rather, with the technology of preparation of preservation. For such a case, the hostesses figured out how to make compote from plums and apples without sterilization. There is nothing easier.
Banks do not need to be sterilized, but they will have to be washed well. It is in your own interests. Lower iron caps in boiling water for a few seconds. This will be enough.
We put the prepared fruits in jars and pour boiling water to the top. We cover the cans with tin lids, but so far we are not rolling up. Let it brew for 3–7 minutes.
Pour the water from the cans back into the pan, add the granulated sugar and bring to a boil. With boiling syrup, pour fruit again. Roll up the jars, turn them over onto the lid and hide them under a fur coat.