On a cold winter day, you open a jar of grape jam, scoop a spoon, and you have the overall impression that the sweet rays of the sun, saved from the summer, burst into the house. These rays are reddish-dawn, if the grapes are black, and hot-midday, if white grapes were used for jam. So in the summer it is worth a little work, so that in winter the grape dessert will give you a piece of hot sunny days. In this article we will look at three popular recipes for making jam from grapes.
Isabella Grape Jam Recipe
This wonderful dessert can be cooked thick or liquid - your choice.
Kitchen tools
To make this jam, you will need kitchenware in the form of:
- large bowls or pans;
- wooden spoon for stirring;
- ladle;
- colander;
- metal sieve;
- glass jars;
- hermetically screwed caps.
Did you know? The number of currently existing grape varieties in the world has surpassed the ten thousandth mark. For varietal diversity, only an apple tree with no less than different varieties can compete with grapes.
Ingredient list
For thicker product:
- Isabella grapes - 1 kg;
- granulated sugar - 1 kg;
- agar-agar - 10 g.
- Isabella grapes - 1 kg;
- granulated sugar - 0.5 kg.
Read also what useful properties the Isabella grape variety possesses and how to properly prepare Isabella wine at home
Step by Step Cooking Process
Thoroughly washed grapes should be separated from the stalk and placed in a container, where to add sugar. Stirring the mixture thoroughly, you need to put the container on medium heat. After the grapes put out the juice, reduce the heat and, stirring, boil for 10-15 minutes.
While the product is being boiled, a thickener in the form of agar-agar should be prepared.
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To do this, in 10 g of this tool, you need to add three tablespoons of water, mix the mixture well and leave it to swell. 
Then jam with a metal sieve should be wiped so that in the end it left only bones.
After that, add swollen agar-agar to the product, mix the mixture, put the container with it on low heat and cook for five minutes until the agar-agar is completely dissolved. 
The finished dessert is poured with the help of a ladle in pre-sterilized jars and tightly closed with sterilized lids.
And to prepare a liquid version of this product, you need to do everything the same way, only sugar should be taken in half and not to use agar-agar.
Video: how to make grape jam
White grape jam with lemon: a recipe
Kitchen tools
To cook this delicacy, you need the following kitchen utensils:
- wide pan;
- colander;
- wooden spoon;
- toothpick;
- grater;
- juicer;
- knife;
- glass jars;
- covers.
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Ingredient list
To make jam you will need the following products:
- white grapes - 1 kg;
- granulated sugar - 1 kg;
- lemon - 1 pc .;
- water - 200 ml.
Step by Step Cooking Process
First you need to cook the syrup, for which you need to pour 1 kg of sugar into the container, add 200 ml of water to it, stir and put on a slow fire.
While the syrup is boiling, you need to prepare the grapes. It is thoroughly washed and separated from the stalks. Then each grape with a toothpick must be pierced in two or three places. 
With a grater, you must remove the zest from the lemon, and squeeze the juice from the lemon itself. Then both the zest and juice together with the prepared grapes should be added to the boiled syrup. 
After that, the mixture must be boiled again and immediately removed from the heat, allowing it to cool completely. Then it needs to be boiled again and cook for a quarter of an hour over low heat.
Important! The foam formed during cooking on the surface of the jam must be removed.
The readiness of the product can be checked by dropping it on a saucer. If the drop does not spread, the dessert is ready. 
It is still necessary to pour it hot into pre-sterilized cans, which should be hermetically sealed with sterilized lids.
Video: white grape jam with lemon
Raspberry Jumbo Grape Jam: Recipe
This seedless grape jam is made very original by the presence of an almond nut and some spices.
The most popular among the dark varieties are "Jupiter", "Kesha", "Monarch", "Amur", "Cabernet", "Moldova", "Cardinal". The berries of these varieties produce very fragrant, moderately sweet drinks, as these grape varieties have very low acidity.
Kitchen tools
To prepare this dessert, you need to stock up on such kitchen utensils:
- metal capacity for cooking;
- metal sieve;
- colander;
- wooden spatula;
- ladle;
- glass jars;
- lids.
Ingredient list
To cook this jam, you will need:
- Kishmish grapes - 1 kg;
- granulated sugar - 1 kg;
- cherry leaves - 5 pcs .;
- almond nut - 200 g;
- badyan - 1 sprig;
- Cinnamon - 1 stick.
Step by Step Cooking Process
Well-washed grapes should be separated from the stalks and planted, for which the berries should be dipped in boiling water, adding cherry leaves.
A minute later, the berries with a sieve should be removed from boiling water and put them in cold water, then extract from the water and put in a colander to drain water.
In the vacant boiling water you need to throw almonds, and in the pan in the meantime you should stir the sugar with a glass of water and put the mixture on the fire, bringing it to a state of liquid and clear syrup.
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While the syrup is being prepared, the almonds must be peeled, which, after being in hot water, is easily removed.
Then pour the berries into the prepared syrup and, stirring them with the syrup, cook for ten minutes, then leave the dessert to cool and settle for eight hours.
After settling, jam for the second time should be boiled for ten minutes and again leave it to stand for eight hours.
Did you know? Jam is prepared not only from traditional berries and fruits, but also from vegetables such as carrots and zucchini, as well as from nuts, flowers, young pine cones and even herbs.
During the third boil in the boiling mixture you need to fill in the nuts and add a sprig of star anise and a stick of cinnamon.
After 7-10 minutes, the fire must be turned off, the almonds and cinnamon removed from the jam, and the finished product itself must be poured into sterilized jars in advance and sealed with boiled lids.
Video: grape raisin jam with almonds
What else can you combine
Properly cooked grape jam itself is very tasty and healthy. But in order to expand the taste palette of this dessert, add new shades and fragrant tones to it.
Many grape jam manufacturers blend it, that is, add other fruits and spices in the form of, for example, oranges, pears, apples, peaches, gooseberries, almond and walnuts, cinnamon, cloves, various dried fruits and spicy herbs.
Grape jam is not as common as cherry, strawberry or raspberry, but it is not inferior to the traditional taste and aroma.
