Jam from apples, lemon and nuts with cognac

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Ingredients:

• 500 g of apples (in purified form);
• 300 g of sugar;
• 1 lemon;
• 50 ml of water;
• 100 g walnuts;
• 40 ml of cognac;
• 1 dried bay leaf.
  
  

Preparation

Cut the apples into large pieces, removing the cores. In the saucepan pour the sugar, add finely grated lemon zest, juice of whole lemon and water.

Put the saucepan on a slow fire and cook, stirring, to a boil. Sugar should completely dissolve.

Put the apples in boiling syrup and cook for 5-10 minutes until they soften. Add the nuts and, stirring, cook for another 10-15 minutes.

Pour in cognac and mix. After a couple of minutes, add the bay leaf. Cook the jam for another 15 minutes and take out the laurushka.

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