Not one housewife will refuse to mothball.Cherry compote for the winter! A simple recipe (and difficulties are not foreseen absolutely), the speed of preparation, and most importantly - the full guarantee against blasting are attractive to all. Moreover, cherry compote is loved by everyone without exception. There may be doubts about other fruits. For example, a gooseberry drink is sour and quite sweet, and raspberry or strawberry are rarely obtained with whole, sprawling berries (and therefore it is preferable to make jam from them). A compote of cherry is drunk almost immediately after the opening. And more and quarrels about the berries happen!
How to roll a wonderful cherry compote for the winter: a simple recipe, but careful preparation
In order for a blank to succeed, simple, but well-defined rules are required.
- Cherries should be carefully sorted. Broken, burst, wrinkled berries are ruthlessly deposited - they can be put into dumplings. Unfinished or too small specimens are not suitable for seaming.
- It is desirable to select cherries in which the tails are not torn off: the stems come off just before being put into the jar, the juice will not be lost, and bacteria will not penetrate through the hole.
- When the cherry compote closes for the winter,a simple recipe prescribes to leave the bones in the berries. With this approach, the latter remain tight and beautiful. But compote will be stored no longer than a year; if the stones are raised, it will not spoil all three.
- After washing, water from cherries must be carefully drained. Typically, the berries for half an hour left in a colander with periodic shaking.
- Banks under compote washed thoroughly; to sterilize them or not depends on the specific recipe.
- Cherries are "friendly" with any berries, fruits, and evenvegetables (with zucchini turns out very original compote). But experienced housewives advise her to combine with pale berries - cherries, gooseberries, etc.
Fast and easy
The easiest cherry compote can even roll upinexperienced hostess. And simple - does not mean tasteless: it will turn out fragrant, ruby-colored and resistant to storage. The simplicity is only in the fact that such a compote of cherries is made without sterilization, which makes life much easier and speeds up the process. Berries are packaged in clean containers. To sterilize them before this is not necessary. Cherries should take up half the volume, maximum two thirds. To avoid unnecessary voids, they are shaken when filling. Pure water is boiled, poured into jars flush with the top edge of the neck, the vessels are covered with clean lids and left for a third of an hour. Then the water is drained back and again boiled, and sugar is poured into jars (a glass for a three-liter bottle). They are again filled with boiling water, immediately twisting, turning over and hiding under a blanket. After cooling, the cherry compote is stored in the pantry or under the bed - it does not need coolness.
Rich taste
There is another way to roll a cherry compote for the winter- A simple recipe, but for the patient. The beginning of its implementation is similar to that described above, but after pouring boiling water, the berries are left for half a day for infusion. Then the water is drained, supplemented with sugar in the same quantity, boiled syrup. Already they are filled with capacity, and then closed. They are cooled in the same mode as in the previous recipe.
Compote on syrup
You can do without pre-pouringboiling water. In this case, the washed cherry is scalded before packaging in cans, and the syrup is cooked immediately (the proportions of water and sugar: two and a half liters to three hundred grams). Dishes filled with boiling dressing, immediately sealed and sent to cool, as in other ways of canning.
Scented recipe
It is useful to those who fear that simplemethods will not give enough long storage. Fruits are arranged in cylinders, poured in steep syrup (half a kilogram of sugar per liter of water), flavored with a pinch of vanilla or a few buds of cloves - this is how a surprisingly fragrant cherry compote will turn out. Sterilization is carried out in the usual way, about half an hour on a three-liter. If you prefer smaller dishes, then shorten the time to twenty minutes.
Cherry-apple joy: version number 1
Cherries are combined with any other fruit andberries However, almost the highest taste harmony has a compote of apples and cherries. In the winter it can be closed in several ways. For the non-lazy, not afraid of pasteurization with sterilization, the following recipe is suitable:
- Fruits are thoroughly washed and disposed of.tails. If the apples are small, you can use them entirely. But the bones can give a specific taste, so it is better to cut the apples into quarters and remove most of the seeds.
- Cherry with apples mixed lay in the cylinders.
- An incomplete glass of sugar is poured into each one and boiling water is poured “under the neck”.
- Banks will be sterilized for three quarters of an hour - this is due to the high density of apples.
Next is a standard closure.
Version number 2
On the one hand, the recipe is simpler - in itno sterilization. On the other - more durable, because it requires pre-processing of apples. The cherry is immediately packaged in the right quantity for the dishes, filled with boiling water and drained from it in a quarter of an hour. The cherry-flavored water is poured into a large saucepan, sugar is poured into it, and apple slices are put into it. After seven minutes of boiling, they are arranged with a skimmer to the cherries, the syrup is boiled and bottled again. The resulting compote of apples and cherries for the winter is rolled, turned over and turned warm until it cools.
Juicy compote
A very interesting recipe for which even sugarnot necessary. True, it is feasible only if you have a lot of cherries. Part of it is poured into cylinders, juice is squeezed out of the main mass. They fill up the packaging, and the banks are pasteurized (a quarter of an hour - liter, twice as long - “treshka”) at 85about Celsius. It is even tastier if you combine cherries with wild berries juice, for example, blueberries.
