Cherry is a delicious and fragrant sweet and sour berry with a long, deep history. It was first observed in the territory of modern Turkey, Sweden and Denmark as far back as the 8th millennium BC. Thanks to the ancient traveler Lucullus, a real rich man and a glutton, the plant spread throughout Europe. Over time, the culture became known in Byzantium and, of course, in Russia. Already from the 10th-11th centuries in Russian gardens cherry occupied one of the most prized places, along with apple and pear. No wonder, because our forefathers, like modern housewives, very quickly adapted to cooking delicious desserts and drinks from healthy red fruits. But most, perhaps, the frequent use of cherries in recipes for the winter: jams, jellies, jams, liqueurs and much more.
Among the abundance of berries available in our region, cherry is considered one of the most capricious and perishable. One day in a cool place is enough to make appetizing berries become a miserable sad spectacle. Having gathered at least half a bucket of cherries, immediately proceed to harvesting for the winter. How? Yes, any, there are many of them: freeze, dry, cook sauce, roll the jam or compote. The latter will be discussed in more detail.Classic simple cherry jam recipe for pitted winter
Essential Ingredients by Prescription without Pits
- ripe fresh cherry - 1 kg
- sugar - 1,2 kg
- drinking water - 1 t
Step-by-step recipe instructions for pitted winter
- Cherry for a couple of hours, pour water to rid them of worms, then remove them from the bones. Sugar is dissolved in water and boiled to obtain a syrup.
- Fill the berries with a hot sweet solution and leave for 8-10 hours in a cool place. During this period, the cherry leaves a sufficient amount of juice.
- At the end of the time, place the container with berries on the cooking zone and cook the contents until ready, regularly removing the foam.
- According to a simple recipe, cherry jam for winter is best laid out in a capacity of half a liter, previously scalding the cans from the inside. Then roll the cherry for the winter with cooked metal covers, turn over and leave in the room until completely cooled.
Cherry on vodka - a recipe for winter at home
Necessary ingredients for cherry on vodka for the winter
- ripe juicy cherries - 2-3 kg
- sugar - 10-12 tablespoons.
- quality vodka - 1,5 l
Step-by-step instruction for harvesting cherry vodka for the winter
- Berries carefully rinse, thickly punctured with a toothpick, pour into a three-liter can "on the shoulders," pouring the specified amount of sugar. The neck of the container should be wide, so that the cherry can be easily reached.
- Pour the container to the top of the vodka. Its quality should be appropriate, so that the drink is not hopelessly spoiled. Cover the jar with a lid and set it in a dark place.
- Every three days, shake the container to gradually start the process of giving off the juice and dissolving the sugar. For the first period it will take at least 7-8 weeks. During this time, the drink will become more saturated color, taste and smell.
- After 2 months, you need to remove all berries, so that cherry bones do not poison the tincture with prussic acid. Dried berries are often used to make home sweets "drunk cherry", chocolate-cream desserts, etc.
- Pour out a bottle in small bottles and tightly seal. Before serving, a fragrant drink for the winter should be thoroughly cooled, according to the recipe, to 10-12C.
Jelly cherry jam for winter - prescription blank with photo
The ideal way to make cherry jelly jam for the winter is a new recipe with zhelfix. The outlandish ingredient is easy to find in any large department of food. Zheliks is a combination of powdered sugar, pectin, sorbic and citric acid. In this recipe, the amount of sugar can be reduced by a factor of 2, from which the cherry blossom will not become less delicious for the winter, but it will necessarily be even more useful. Such a component can be used to preserve any fresh berries. Cherry was not an exception!Necessary ingredients for the jelly-jam recipe for the winter
- ripe cherries - 3 kg
- granulated sugar - 1 kg
- zheliks - the amount is better to check with the instruction on the package
Step-by-step recipe for cherry jelly-jam
- Ripe (you can sour) cherries thoroughly rinse, remove the stems, remove the bones. To facilitate the process, you can use a gypsy hairpin, untwisted clip or any similar object. With their help, easily poddervaetsya and get a bone, without seriously damaging the berry.
- Hot jam chop with a blender or "crush" for potatoes. Cook another 5 minutes and lay out the resulting cherry jelly jam for the winter in sterilized jars. Roll the dainty with lids and turn until it cools down.
- Peel the cherries in an enamel saucepan, fill with yellowfish and put on moderate fire. After boiling, add a lot of sugar and cook the contents of the pan for another 15 minutes, stirring constantly. Everything, our jam-jelly from cherry for the winter is ready.