How to cook cherry confiture?

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All sweet lovers can easily list the most popular treats, such as cakes, pastries, Turkish delight and other culinary delights. Cherry confiture can also be added to this list. This wonderful dessert not only has a special taste, but is also he althy. After all, in this treat you can find all the useful substances that are in the composition of cherries, which are rightfully considered a storehouse of iron and vitamins. It's good to know how to cook it, and therefore we offer a recipe for making a dessert.

A bit of history

Cherry confiture is considered one of the varieties of jam or jam. This word comes from the French word "confiture", which means "boil in sugar." However, it is believed that the origin of the dessert originates from Eastern Europe (Hungary, Bulgaria, and so on). In these parts, in the 17th century, a girl of marriageable age must have had the ability to cook various types of such treats.

Confiture traditionallyis a very thick jelly with small pieces of fruit or whole berries. In France, it was originally made from quince, apricots and apples, later culinary masters began to add currant or cherry juice, which gave the dessert a special aroma and taste. Also, vanillin, citric acid, gelatin, starch and other thickeners gradually became constant ingredients of the treat.

Production technology

Cherry confiture has a special delicate taste, but in order to get a successful result, it is better to follow all the conditions prescribed by the recipe. In order to prepare this treat, you need:

1. Prepare cherries (1 kg). Wash the berries and remove the seeds.
2. Pour the prepared raw materials with sugar (800 g) and pour over the juice of one lemon. Leave the mass for a while until the juice comes out.
3. Boil the cherries for about 10 minutes, cool and separate the syrup from the berries.
4. Two apples cut into small pieces and put in cherry syrup. Boil fruits until the volume of liquid is halved.
5. Put boiled cherries into the mass and chop everything with a blender. Return the cherry jam to the fire (about 10 minutes).
6. Spread the hot mass into a glass container and cork.

Another recipe

Probably wondering how to make chocolate and almond cherry jam. To prepare it, you need to proceed as follows:

1. 

2. Prepare thickener. Gelatin (55 g) slightly dilute with cold water and leave to swell for about 40 minutes.
3. Make puree of pitted cherries (100g)
4. Make almond flour. To do this, peel the nuts (80 g) and grind them into small grains, first passing them through a meat grinder and then processing them with a blender.
5. Add almond flour, gelatin and sugar (600 g) to cherry puree.
6. Heat the mass gradually, when it boils, keep on fire for another 2 minutes and remove from the stove.
7. Put chocolate slices (100 g) into the still hot dessert and stir.

Thus, you can cook cherry confiture for the winter, if you roll it immediately into a sterilized dish. This dessert is very tasty and very useful, as the technology of making this treat will keep all the useful qualities of the ingredients almost in their original form.