Perhaps, cherry jam is the most favorite for many of us since childhood. Aromatic, with whole berries, you can eat it and just with tea, and make it home-made fruit drinks or jelly, and also use for filling pies. How to cook cherry jam with seeds? The recipe for its preparation, exactly the one that our grandmothers used, and several of its variations, you will find in our article. You will only have to prepare the ingredients and get down to business.
Cherry jam with bones: a recipe for the classic harvest of berries for the winter
You will need these ingredients:
- 1 kilogram of fresh cherries with bones;
- 800 g of granulated sugar;
- 2 cups of simple filtered water.
Wash and clean the berries from the stems, for best cooking, each must be pricked with a match or toothpick in several places. After they must be blanched in hot (heated to 80-90 degrees) water for 4-5 minutes. Prepare the syrup from the specified amount of sugar and water, dip the cherry into it for a few minutes, let it stand, and after cooking on the stove until cooked. It's very simple to check: take a drop of jam with a spoon and pour onto the plate, if it spreads, you need to cook a little more, if not - ready. Pour into cans and put in a dark place for storage.
Cherry jam with bones: recipe for cooking without adding water
This method is similar to the previous one, but you do not need to add water when preparing the jam. For 1 kilogram of berries you will need the same amount of sugar. In the evening, wash the cherry, dry it and put it in the cooking bowl, then add sugar, mix and leave until the morning: during this time, the juice is formed. After put the dishes with berries on the stove and cook for 10 minutes, let stand for 5-6 hours (this method involves the preparation of jam in several receptions), and after the specified time bring to readiness. How to check it, described in the previous recipe. Pour into cans and store until winter.
Cherry jam with bones: a recipe for quick and unusual cooking
What the landlady can not come up with, in order to shorten the cooking time of various dishes. Here we will tell you how to prepare a jam on ... a frying pan! If you use this recipe, your billet will turn out thick and fragrant. Take the prepared berries and granulated sugar in a proportion of 1: 1, put into a frying pan, stir and bring to a boil, water in this case is not necessary. As soon as the berries are allowed to start the juice, boil, lower the heat and fry for 25 minutes, stirring and taking off the foam. Done. You can pour on sterilized jars and roll them up. The only thing - remember that the cherry jam should be stored no more than a year, as the bones secrete hydrocyanic acid, which is extremely dangerous for health. The same goes for, for example, storing supplies from plums with pits. By the way, the taste and aroma of our billets are repeatedly mentioned in the literature and songs, for example: "And the century after century is dissolved in the cycle of fuss. And you are terribly busy - you eat cherry jam ..." (author Mikhail Shcherbakov, "Cherry jam"). That's how dessert can become an object of creativity, for good reason we mentioned that this is one of the most favorite delicacies of adults and children. Try in the winter to make from it a fragrant pie with a filling, it can be proudly put on a festive table, especially on a children's holiday or on a birthday. Now you know how to make cherry jam with bones, and you can understand that it is not more difficult to prepare than jam or jam from other berries.