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Quince is a unique fruit that can be used to make many different desserts. These delicacies are liked not only by adults, but also by children. Thanks to their pleasant aroma and balanced taste, they can be used as independent dishes, as well as as an addition to pancakes, pancakes and biscuits. But quince marmalade is especially successful at home, which does not require complicated steps. Therefore, any novice cook can easily make it.
Marmalade is ideal for decorating pastries, cakes and other baked goods.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
For delicacies, you must choose ripe fruits without signs of rot. They must first be thoroughly washed, the tails discarded and placed in a colander to remove excess liquid.
Then the fruits must be peeled, cut and cored. At the end, you should grind them, which will ultimately result in a uniform consistency.
How to make quince marmalade
There are several recipes for making this dessert at home.Each of them has its own characteristics. Therefore, you should first familiarize yourself with them, which will allow you to choose the most suitable option.
This video shows how quince marmalade can be prepared at home with the addition of other ingredients:
A simple recipe for making quince marmalade at home for the winter
Required components:
- 1.3 kg Japanese quince;
- 1 kg sugar;
- 1 lemon.
Step-by-step recipe for making quince marmalade:
- Place the chopped fruits in a wide saucepan and add cold water until the liquid covers the fruit.
- Add lemon, cut into four parts.
- Bring to a boil over moderate heat.
- Cook for 25-30 minutes. until softness appears.
- Drain the water, sprinkle the crushed fruit with sugar, stir.
- Bring the resulting mixture to a boil, reduce heat to low.
- Cook the mixture until thickened.
- The duration of the procedure is 1 hour 15 minutes.
- After this, the pan should be removed from the heat and the delicacy should be allowed to gradually cool.
- Pass through a sieve.
- Put it back on the fire.
- After boiling, cook for 10 minutes.
- Pour the resulting mass hot into a rectangular shape.
- Keep the dessert in a cool place for 10-12 hours so that it hardens well.
After cooling, the dessert made at home must be cut into pieces of arbitrary shape. Then they should be rolled in sugar and placed in a container. After a few hours, the delicacy can be served.
You need to cut the delicacy after it has cooled completely.
Recipe for making Japanese quince marmalade in a slow cooker
You can also prepare dessert at home using a slow cooker. In this case, the cooking process is significantly reduced.
Required ingredients:
- 1 kg quince;
- 1 vanilla pod;
- 1 kg sugar;
- 1.5 liters of water.
Step-by-step process for preparing dessert in a slow cooker:
- Pour water into the bowl, bring to a boil in the cooking mode.
- Dip chopped fruit into hot liquid.
- Boil the fruit for 20 minutes.
- After the time has passed, drain the water and grind the fruit mass to a puree.
- Put it back into the slow cooker.
- Add vanilla and sugar to it.
- Cook for a quarter of an hour in milk porridge mode without closing the multicooker with a lid.
- At the end of time, place the mixture in a 2 cm layer on a baking sheet covered with parchment.
- Dry the delicacy for two days, then cut it and sprinkle it with sugar.
When cooking at home, it is necessary to constantly monitor so that the fruit mass does not burn.
Sprinkling with sugar prevents the dessert pieces from sticking together
Quince marmalade without sugar
If necessary, you can prepare the treat at home without sugar. But you need to take into account that in this case it will be very sour, since this fruit is not particularly sweet.
You need to prepare it according to any of the recipes proposed above. But sugar and lemon should be excluded. Otherwise, the cooking technology is completely preserved.
In marmalade, the astringency of the fruit is completely absent
Terms and conditions of storage
The shelf life of quince marmalade prepared at home does not exceed two months. Optimal storage conditions: temperature +4-6 degrees and humidity about 70%.Therefore, it is best to store the treat in the refrigerator to preserve its consistency and taste.
Conclusion
Making quince marmalade at home is not difficult if you prepare the ingredients in advance and follow the technology. In this case, you can be confident in its quality and naturalness. After all, when buying dessert in a store, it is impossible to know exactly the composition of the product. However, you should not prepare the delicacy for future use, as it is not suitable for long-term storage.
