How to cook sweet cherry in syrup for the winter?

Tasty and fragrant sweet cherry in many people is the most beloved berry. During the season it is best to use it fresh to get the maximum amount of vitamins and nutrients, as well as to feel the full flavor.But you can still cook a lot of cherries desserts for the winter. Most often from it make jam, jam, jelly or canned in syrup. Such a delicacy will certainly appeal to both adults and children. We will tell you in detail about how best to prepare a sweet cherry in a syrup.

In order for the berries in the syrup to turn out really tasty, it is important not only to observe all the details of cooking according to the recipe, but also to choose and prepare the berries correctly. It is desirable to use fresh fruits for preservation, so that they are the most useful and fragrant. To begin with, carefully sort out the sweet cherry in order to exclude rotten, overripe or unripe berries. Then wash them thoroughly, remove the stalks and leaves. Now dry the fruit, spreading them evenly on a kitchen towel or simply leaving it in a sieve.

While the cherry is dried, you can do the preparation of the container. There are several options for effective sterilization of cans.

• In the oven. Put clean jars of the required size on a baking sheet and send to the oven heated to 200 degrees. Keep them there for about 10 minutes, then remove and cool the container a little at room temperature. This method of sterilization is quite convenient, since it is possible to prepare several cans at one time without spending much time on it.
• Above the steam. Pour water into a pot or kettle and bring it to a boil. Then turn the jar over, put it on a special stand or an ordinary spoon. Keep tara over steam for 5 to 15 minutes. The exact time depends on how big the bank is.

There are several common recipes for making sweet cherries in syrup. Consider the most common ones.

Sugar based syrup - the most popular, classic. At half a kilogram of berries you will need about 250 grams of sugar and 350 ml of purified water. The cooking process is extremely simple: in the prepared jars place the sweet cherry and fill it with boiling water. Then wait 5 minutes and drain the water to boil it again. Now again fill the fruit with boiling water, cover the jars with a lid and wait a little more. Then drain the water again, but this time boil it with sugar. After its complete dissolution, wait for about 5 minutes and fill the cherry with syrup.

Now it remains only to tightly close the cans with lids, wrap blanks with a blanket and put them in a warm place for several hours. Additional heat treatment will favorably affect the taste and preservation of sweet cherries in syrup. Finished delicacy can be sent to the basement, refrigerator or balcony. It will be stored for a long time, until the next berry season.

This is another, rather interesting and unusual variation of fruit harvesting. For this recipe, you will need a pound of fresh berries, a half cup of water, 700 grams of sugar and a few sprigs of fragrant mint. Place the berries in a deep bowl or pan, add mint leaves to them, then add sugar to the contents and add water.

Gently mix the sweet cherry with sugar and put it on the fire. After the contents begin to boil, reduce the heat to low and simmer for about 20 minutes. After that, you can immediately pour the cherry-mint dessert in prepared jars and close the sterilized lids. Put them in a warm place at night, and in the morning lower into the cellar.

Pay attention to the advice of experienced housewives.

• To make the syrup taste of sweet cherries more intense and bright, add a little citric acid during the cooking process.
• If you did not have fresh sweet cherry on hand, it is quite possible to replace it with frozen.
• If you want the dessert to be more healthy and less nutritious, you should replace white sugar with brown.Or use fructose or stevia.
• If desired, you can diversify the recipe with various additives. For example, mix cherries with other berries, fruits or spices.

The finished delicacy can be consumed in its pure form, added to baking, ice cream and other desserts. Enjoy your meal!

How to preserve cherries for the winter, see the following video.