Quince and apple jam with cinnamon and rum
Two popular fall fruits, quince and apple, are combined in the delicious jam. Cinnamon and rum give it a particularly fragrant note. With this recipe you can make the quince and apple jam at home.
Servings 1500 g
Equipment
- sterilized preserving jars
Ingredients
- 800 g pitted quinces
- 400 g pitted apples
- 380 g sugar
- 20 g apple pectin
- juice of 1 lime freshly squeezed
- 3 sticks of cinnamon
- 1 tbsp rum
Instructions
- Cut pitted quince and apples into small cubes and put them into a saucepan.
- Add freshly squeezed lime juice and stir it.
- Add 200 g of sugar and cinnamon sticks, stir and heat slowly over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the sugar has dissolved.
- Now bring the fruit mixture to a boil, put the lid on the saucepan and steam the fruits for about 10 minutes or longer until the quince and apple pieces are soft.
- Take the saucepan off the heat, remove the cinnamon sticks briefly and puree the fruits with a hand blender.
- Mix the remaining 180 g sugar with apple pectin, add it to the fruit mixture and blend.
- Put cinnamon sticks back into the fruit mixture and bring to a boil while stirring.
- Cook the quince apple mixture until bubbly, 3 - 4 minutes.
- Take the fruit mixture off the heat, add rum and stir briefly.
- Immediately fill the hot quince and apple jam into sterilized preserving jars up to the rim, removing the cinnamon sticks, seal the jars, put them on the lids for about 15 minutes, then turn them and let them cool.
Notes
- You can also use quince and apples in a 1:1 ratio.
- Apple pectin and sugar together you can replace with the same amount, 400 g, of preserving sugar 3:1. Add the entire amount of preserving sugar to the fruits and cook until soft. After pureeing, bring the fruit mass to a boil again for a short time.
- Instead of lime juice, you can also use lemon juice.
- The cooking time of quince depends on its variety. Some varieties of quince need to be cooked longer until they are done, others only briefly.
- For more cinnamon flavor, use ground cinnamon instead of cinnamon sticks.
- You can omit cinnamon and rum. You can also add other spices of your choice.
- Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the quince and apple jam at the top of the post.