Cucumber Jam Recipe
In any dacha, the period from August to September. After all, soon the abundance of vegetables will go to no, and we don’t have time to look around when the harvest season is over. Everything without exception, summer residents seek in this period of time to prepare as many vegetables and fruits as possible for the winter.
And what do we do most often in the winter in the kitchen? Right! We are drinking tea, a lot of tea, tasty, fragrant, incredibly enjoyable. AND often, for tea, our housewives serve jam on the table. But agree, it’s already a little beaten and banal to serve raspberry or cherry jam, constantly want something unusual. And there is such an unusual solution, his name is cucumber jam!
This useful “master” cucumber
Cucumber is essentially the only vegetable you can use in the green stage. They started growing it in India eight thousand years ago, and already in the sixteenth century in Mother Russia began to eat this vegetable everywhere. Most likely, he managed to us get from Greece, because in translation from Greek cucumber denotes not ripened, unripe.
By the way, gourmets have long been aware of such an unusual recipe cooking cucumbers like jam. And our ancestors are enough such unusual jam was actively prepared for the winter. And who knows perhaps rummaging in grandmother’s notes, you will also find a ton unusual for our time, and so familiar for that time recipes.
To make cucumber jam you will need:
- Small cucumbers (best to use gherkins) – 1 kg;
- Sugar – 1 kg;
- Water – 370 gr;
- Salt for salting water;
- Cabbage leaf.
Cucumber Jam Recipe
So, let’s move on to the recipe for making jam from cucumbers. For you need to select it very tiny cucumbers, length each cucumber should not be more than five centimeters. These little cucumbers (gherkins) must be lowered into the salt water in which should already be cabbage leaf. In this pickle you must leave the cucumbers for three to four days, the cucumbers in this pickle will acquire yellowish tint.
Next, take out the cucumbers from the salt water and transfer to a basin, covering with a cabbage leaf, and salt water, from which you took out the cucumbers, it is necessary to boil and pour the cucumbers with it. This the procedure needs to be repeated until your little cucumbers will not turn green again. Then they should be for three days in place cold water. After three days, take out the cucumbers again from the water, dry a little and you can already pour warm syrup.
For syrup, you need to take a pound of sugar for one and a half glasses of water, pour the juice of two ripe lemons into it and add the zest of these lemons with twenty five grams of grated ginger. In syrup, cucumbers should stand for a day, then it must be drained. Then add sugar to proportions for four hundred grams of cucumbers six hundred grams of sugar, cook to a thick consistency, boil twice. Everything your unusual the jam is ready, you can invite guests to a tea party.
Tasty ideas
For homemade sweet tooth you can also cook delicious desserts from numerous recipes for sweet dishes. Surprise your household with delicious and unusual dishes!
