It is pleasant in the cold winter evening to enjoy the taste of your favorite summer berry. To do this, you need to work a little during the ripening period of sweet cherries.
Kitchen appliances and utensils
To close the cherry compote for the winter, the hostess will need a small saucepan in which you can boil water, a large saucepan for sterilizing the jar, the lids for preservation, the plastic lid with holes to drain the water, the scales, the spoon.
The size of the preservation can depends on the crop and the size of the family. If the family is small, from two to three people, enough liter cans. When there are more than three people in a family, it is better to prepare compote for the winter in 2-3-liter jars.
How many cans to close, each housewife decides for herself, depending on how much the family likes to drink compotes.
Did you know? The second name of sweet cherry is "bird cherry", due to the fact that she is very fond of pecking birds.
Ingredients Required
To preserve cherries for the winter, you will need a berry, sugar, citric acid. If desired, you can add the fruit of strawberry or cherry.
Features of product selection
When choosing a bird cherry, remember that the fruit should be fresh and neat in appearance. There should be no stains, dents and worms.
The color of the fruit and its variety do not matter. Here you need to be guided solely by their taste preferences. You can make a mix of different varieties.
Important! Worm can be expelled from the cherry, but it does not guarantee that the taste of the berries will not change.
How to prepare a sweet cherry compote: a step-by-step recipe with photos
Close compote for the winter will not be difficult. How to do this, tell below.
Sweet cherry (without sterilization)
If the hostess is full of household chores and there is not enough time to stock up stocks for the winter, you can close the compote without sterilization. This is a fast and effective way to prepare canned food for the winter.
For him you will need:
- 500 grams of sweet cherries;
- sugar to taste;
- water;
- citric acid to taste.
Important! Safe storage of compote from berries with stones, including cherries, is not more than 2 years. Further chemical interactions that are unsafe for the human body begin to occur in the product.
Here is a step-by-step recipe for making cherry compote for the winter without sterilization:
- Preparing dishes. Banks are thoroughly washed with soda. We perform sterilization on the steam bath or in the oven.
- Preparation of fruits. While the container is sterilized, we sort out the berries, separating the fruit from the tail, wash it.
- Put the finished berries in jars, filling them in half or under the neck (according to your desire).
- Pour the fruit with boiling water to understand how much syrup is needed for preservation. The water should be on the corollas.
- Cover with a metal lid and leave for 15 minutes.
- Drain the water in a saucepan, add sugar and citric acid to taste. Stir well.
- Bring the syrup to a boil and cook on low heat for 2-3 minutes.
- Fill berries with syrup and roll them up.
- Turn over the container with compote and cover with a towel. Wait until it cools down completely.
Sweet Cherry and Strawberry
This type of drink requires prior sterilization.
You will need:
- 250 grams of sweet cherries;
- 250 g strawberries;
- sugar to taste;
- water.
Step-by-step recipe for cooking canned sweet cherries with the addition of other berries (strawberries) to the compote:
- Prepare cans and berries as described above.
- In the finished container, we pour the sweet cherry and strawberries in equal proportions.
- Fill the jar filled with berries with cold water to find out how much is needed to preserve the syrup.
- Drain the water in a saucepan and add sugar to taste.
- Boil water and pour hot syrup into jars with berries.
- Cover the container with a metal lid for canning.
- Set the full jar in a pan with hot water.
- Bring to a boil, reduce the fire to a minimum and boil for 12-15 minutes.
- At this time, the lid is also immersed in a pot of water and boil them for 5 minutes.
- Roll up the banks.
Learn also how to prepare for the winter: strawberries, cherries, cranberries, raspberries, plums, red and black currants, apples, watermelons, lingonberries, mountain ash, sunberry, hawthorn, blueberries, yoshta berries
Storage rules
Harvested and fully cooled compote is stored in a cool place, best in the cellar. It is recommended to store canned compote for no longer than 6-8 months. Preservation can get on the table and after a year or two from the moment of preparation, but its taste will be changed.
Did you know? For the first time tried to preserve the product in banks in 1804 a French cook.
Here is a useful vitamin product for the winter. Compote can be used as a separate dish, and used in the preparation of various desserts.
