They gathered a rich harvest of cherries, and even eat itthe whole family fails? Then home preserving will help you. Its recipes are simple and tested for years. Try some of them and decide how you want to taste this sunny summer fruit on a cold winter evenings!
Cherry jam
The first thing that comes to mind when the phrase "harvesting for cherry winter" is, of course, jam! A sweet, fragrant and bright treat pleasantly reminiscent of a warm summer.
Ingredients (per 2 liters of jam):
- two kilograms of cherries;
- two kilos of sugar sand;
- 300 milliliters of water.
Jam varen
Home made cherry jam recipesthere are different: some offer to clear the fruits from the bones, the second - on the contrary, leave them, the third - to cook at one time, the fourth - on the contrary, to stretch the process. This option involves the preparation of a treat without the time-consuming extraction of the nucleoli, but using a large amount of time. It is due to two reasons: firstly, the bones give a piquant note to the finished jam, and secondly, the duration of cooking makes the dainty more dense, and the cherries in it are larger and juicy.
Preparation:
- So, the process of harvesting cherry for the winter begins with its preparation. Fruits must be sorted by removing leaves, twigs and other unnecessary mote, and thoroughly washed.
- From the water and three quarters of granulated sugar, prepare the syrup, and pour in a still boiling mixture of pure fruit. Leave it overnight.
- The next day, put the cherry pot on the burner with medium-sized fire, cover with the remains of sugar. Boil five minutes on low heat, then leave the jam for 10-12 hours.
- Again boil for 5 minutes on low heat, and again leave for the night.
- The third time to put the jam on the hotplate, cook for ten minutes, after which you can roll in pasteurized jars. Cool the cans by flipping them downwards.
Dried cherry
Another option for harvesting cherry for the winter is drying. These dried fruits are very convenient to use for adding to cupcakes, biscuits and pies, for making compotes and fruit drinks.
Ingredients:
- two kilograms of cherries;
- 600 grams of sugar sand;
- liter of water.
Preparation:
- Of course, the process of harvesting dried cherry for the winter begins with a bulkhead: clean, wash, dry.
- Then the more difficult stage is to remove the bones. To do this, you can use an English pin or a straw from the juice, squeezing the nucleoli from the cherry.
- From sugar and water, cook syrup andput the flesh of the cherry, peeled from the bones, into it for about 6-8 minutes. Cherries are best placed in the sugar mixture in parts, then catch a noisy and put on a plate to cool.
- Frozen fruits to spread out in one layer on a baking sheetand put in a dry dark room, turning every two or three days to the other side. A couple of weeks, dried cherries can be considered completely ready. It should be spread over glass jars with lids and put into a locker for storage and subsequent use.
