What can be made from cherries?

In the midst of summer, each hostess tries to make as many blanks for the winter as possible. Cherries can cook a variety of dishes.You can cook compotes and jams for the winter, bake delicious homemade cakes, add cherries to cocktails and drinks, use as decoration for the cake. There are many options, but first you need to do the workpiece itself.

Having gathered a rich summer harvest, I want to preserve its taste and benefit as much as possible until winter itself, so that in cold evenings to enjoy the unique taste of cherries. We offer you to make delicious preparations for the winter. By the way, cherry, even after heat treatment, retains most of its useful properties. Therefore, the billet will not only be tasty, but also useful.

We begin with a recipe for making delicious jam, which will pleasantly surprise you with its taste.

For its preparation you will need:

• 800 g of seedless berries;
• 500 g of sugar;
• teaspoon agar-agar.

While the mass is cooked over low heat, it is necessary to prepare the jars, namely: sterilize. The mixture should be boiled for no more than twenty minutes. Then we enter the agar-agar dissolved in water and boil for another three minutes. We put the jam on the banks and close. The result will be a thick, fragrant and tasty product. It is quite possible to use it with tea or to use as a filling for baking.

As a rule, cherry is associated with something sweet. This is jam, jam or candied fruit. And sometimes pickled berries.

For its preparation you will need:

• 500 grams of berries;
• 150 ml of water;
• two tablespoons of vinegar;
• tablespoon of sugar;
• a teaspoon of salt;
• Bay leaf;
• two cloves of garlic.

Also for this dish you will need aromatic spices to taste, for example:

• carnation;
• cardamom;
• nutmeg;
• black pepper.

To start, prepare the traditional way marinade. Namely: add salt, bay leaf, sugar and selected spices to the water. As soon as the mixture boils, wait five minutes and pour berries into the jars with liquid. Banks need to be sterilized and rolled up. Such a cherry can be eaten on its own or it can be a great addition to meat.

Even at home it is possible to make candied fruit.

Take:

• kilogram of berries;
• two hundred grams of water;
• kilogram of sugar.

The berries must be ripe and whole, with no obvious signs of spoilage and other defects. They should be thoroughly washed and remove the bones. Mix water with sugar in a large saucepan and boil for five minutes. Pour the prepared syrup with prepared syrup and leave for at least six hours, preferably overnight. After boiling everything over low heat for ten minutes and leave for five hours.

After we put it on the fire again and cook it until the syrup thickens, the berries should become light. Then we throw the cherries into a colander and leave to drain for an hour. Ready berries pour sugar, lay out on a flat surface and dry for five or six days. Candied fruit should be stored in a glass container with a tight lid. They can be used in baking, add to cottage cheese, tea or cook compote.

Previously, our grandmothers and mothers often prepared pastilla to somehow recycle a large crop and prevent berries and fruits from disappearing. We offer you to prepare such a delicacy of cherries in your kitchen. One kilogram of berries will need a pound of sugar. My berries and cleanse seeds. Fill them with clean water and set them on fire.

Water needs just enough to cover the berries. Bring to a boil and boil for forty minutes, until the berries are completely softened. Then the excess juice is drained, and the berries turn into puree. You can quickly do this with a blender. Cooked mashed potatoes boil until it thickens and easily falls behind the container walls.The resulting mass is spread on a baking sheet, previously covered with foil.

Foil should definitely grease with oil. We dry a cherry delicacy in an oven or in the open air. If you use the oven, remember that the temperature should not exceed 60 °. After the pastila is ready, it is best to keep it rolled up. The finished product can be used with tea or add it during cooking compote.

If the house has fresh or frozen cherries, then from it you can cook a lot of different dishes and drinks. Fresh fruit can be made into juice, and from frozen fruit you can make a cherry smoothie.

To prepare a refreshing and healthy cocktail, you will need the following ingredients:

• 150 ml of natural yoghurt;
• several ice cubes;
• two hundred grams of peeled berries.

Put everything in a blender and bring to a homogeneous state. By the way, instead of the usual ice, you can use frozen cherry juice or yogurt. It will turn out very tasty. To this cocktail, you can add a couple of leaves of fragrant mint or a pinch of ground cinnamon sticks. Cherry also goes well with raspberries and oranges.

But the recipe for a delicious and flavorful cake, which is based on this berry.

Ingredients:

• 100 g butter;
• 70 g sugar;
• two eggs;
• teaspoon baking powder;
• 150 g of flour;
• berries (quantity - at will).

One hundred grams of softened butter, beat with sugar. The result should be a creamy mass. Add two eggs and beat until fluffy. Add a teaspoon of baking powder or baking powder. Then slowly enter one hundred and fifty grams of flour. Sometimes the flour goes less. The dough should not be very thick, it should slowly drain from the spoon.

Pour the dough into the smeared form. From above we lay out berries without stones. Each berry should be “drowned” in the dough, so that only its upper part remains visible. Top with almond petals and cook in an oven heated to 180 ° for about thirty to thirty-five minutes.

Among other things, you can easily and quickly cook a cake with frozen berries. It is prepared very easily and quickly. We take a 200 gram pack of soft (unbleached) margarine, cut it into cubes in a spacious bowl. Add there four hundred grams of flour and one hundred grams of sugar. If desired, add some vanilla powder.

We turn all ingredients into a crumb. Part of the lay out in the form and lightly tamped, make small bumpers. Spread the berries and sprinkle with a little sugar on top. Top sleep with the rest of the sweet crumbs. We bake exactly thirty minutes. If desired, you can add whipped curd mass to the filling, it will also be very tasty.

Compote can be made from fresh or frozen berries. To do this quickly, we suggest cooking it in a slow cooker. A kilogram of berries should be thoroughly rinsed and laid in a bowl. Fill the berries with sugar, you need three hundred grams, and leave to infuse for an hour. After adding three liters of purified water and put on the "cooking" for half an hour. After that, leave for another half an hour under the lid closed.

From this berry it is quite possible to prepare an original sauce, which is perfectly suited to the meat dish.

Take:

• kilogram of peeled fresh or thawed cherries;
• one hundred grams of sugar;
• one tablespoon of salt;
• one tablespoon of soy sauce;
• three - four cloves of garlic;
• a pinch of dry coriander and chili.

Berries should be turned into a puree and boil it for twenty minutes over low heat. Chop the garlic and add to the cherry along with the rest of the spices. Cook the sauce for another half an hour. This sauce can be stored in the refrigerator for two weeks. If desired, it can be rolled up in small jars and opened only when necessary.

We have some interesting tips that will be useful to anyone who loves juicy cherries. These recommendations will help you to make dishes with this berry even tastier.

• Cherries go well with spiciness like cinnamon. Cinnamon stick can be added during cooking compote, jam or jam. After cooking, it must be removed.
• In sweet pastry, and not only, cherry goes well with apples.
• For compotes it is best to freeze berries with a bone in order to preserve vitamins. And if you plan to cook pies and use berries as a filling, then it is better to immediately clean the cherries. Allow the berries to drain before freezing, so that extra juice comes out.

• If you are making a chocolate cake with whipped cream, be sure to add a little cherry berries to the layer. Chocolate goes well with this sourish berry. As a result, the dessert will be original and not too sweet to the taste.
• In that case, if you cook a sauce for a meat dish, remember that the berry goes well with nutmeg, cloves and cardamom.
• If you want to make thick jam, the sugar in the recipe should be more. Feel free to increase its gram by two hundred from the usual proportion.
• To ensure that the cherry filling does not leak out of buns or pies, you can add a little potato starch.
• To diversify the taste of cherry compote, you can replace half the proportions with raspberry berries.

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