Options for harvesting cherries for the winter: jam and drying

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Have you harvested a rich harvest of cherries, but even the whole family can't eat it? Then home canning comes to the rescue. Its recipes are simple and tested over the years. Try some of them and decide how you want to enjoy this sunny summer fruit on cold winter evenings!

Cherry jam

The first thing that comes to mind when you hear the phrase "preparing cherries for the winter" is, of course, jam! A sweet, fragrant and bright treat, pleasantly reminiscent of a warm summer.

Ingredients (for 2 liters of jam):

• two kilos of cherries;
• two kilograms of sugar sand;
• 300 milliliters of water.

Jam jam strife

Recipes for homemade cherry jam preparations are different: some offer to pit the fruits, the second - on the contrary, leave them, the third - cook in one go, the fourth - on the contrary, stretch the process. This option involves preparing a treat without the laborious removal of the nucleoli, but using a large amount oftime. This is due to two reasons: firstly, the bones give piquant notes to the finished jam, and secondly, the duration of cooking makes the delicacy thicker, and the cherries in it - larger and juicier.

Cooking:

1. So, the process of harvesting cherries for the winter begins with its preparation. The fruits must be sorted out, removing leaves, twigs and other unnecessary specks, and washed thoroughly.
2. From water and three-quarters of granulated sugar, prepare a syrup, and pour clean fruit with the still boiling mixture. Leave overnight.
3. The next day, place the container with cherries on a burner with a medium-sized fire, cover with the remnants of granulated sugar. Boil five minutes on low heat, then leave the jam for 10-12 hours.
4. Boil again for 5 minutes over low heat, and again leave overnight.
5. For the third time, put the jam on the burner, cook for ten minutes, after which you can roll it into pasteurized jars. Cool jars upside down.

Dried cherries

Another option for harvesting cherries for the winter is drying. These dried fruits are very convenient to use for adding to muffins, biscuits and pies, for making compotes and fruit drinks.

Ingredients:

• two kilos of cherries;
• 600 grams of granulated sugar;
• liter of water.

Cooking:

1. Of course, the process of harvesting dried cherries for the winter begins with a bulkhead: clean, wash,dry.
2. The next more difficult step is to remove the bones. To do this, you can use a safety pin or a straw from the juice, squeezing the nucleoli out of the cherry.
3. Boil syrup from granulated sugar and water and dip the pulp of pitted cherries into it for about 6-8 minutes. It is better to put cherries in the sugar mixture in parts, then catch with a slotted spoon and put on a dish to cool.
4. Spread the cooled fruits in one layer on a baking sheet and put in a dry, dark room, turning every two to three days to the other side. After a couple of weeks, dried cherries can be considered completely ready. It needs to be put into glass jars with lids and put in a locker for storage and later use.