Cherry jam can be prepared in many ways. With seeds, it turns out to be more healing and fragrant, because they contain many useful substances. But, if you procure it for future use or use it for feeding young children, then it is better to cook seedless cherry jam.
The classic version of making cherry jam begins with the harvesting of berries. It is better to collect them in dry and sunny weather. Berries harvested after rain contain more moisture and deteriorate faster, so it’s more practical to use them for harvesting jams or compotes.
Pitted fragrant cherry jam is obtained from ripe strong berries, which are best collected on the day of harvesting.
Then the berries should be washed well, drained excess liquid, remove debris, seeds and leave to dry a little. Then the berries are covered with sugar at the rate of 1: 1 and left for several hours until the juice is formed. Carefully transfer them to the cooking container along with the juice and the remaining sugar. First, jam is prepared on high heat, and after boiling it is thoroughly mixed and continued to cook on medium heat at one time. It is important to constantly remove the resulting foam so that the jam does not turn sour in the future.
To make the seedless cherry jam tastier, add citric acid on the tip of a teaspoon at the end of the cooking. It will preserve the product better and give a pleasant taste.
The most painstaking and complex procedure is the process of extracting seeds from berries. At present, various electrical and simple mechanical devices have been invented and are on sale to take out the bones from the cherry. In their absence, you can use a hairpin. It is unreasonable to break berries and take out the seeds with your hands due to a large loss of juice. This jam will be thicker and drier in taste. Adding water will not improve its taste.
Fragrant and bright cherry, jam from which many housewives cook according to their recipes, is useful in itself. The berry contains many vitamins P, A, C, PP, pectin, iron, organic acids. Cherry improves mood, improves digestion, improves anemia, hypertension, arthritis and heart disease.
If a young housewife manages to cook cherry jam, then she gets real pleasure already in the process of cooking it. Recipe for cherry jam boiled in syrup is gaining more and more popularity.
To do this, first boil the syrup from one and a half glasses of water and one and a half kilograms of sugar. Pure seedless cherry berries are thrown into boiling syrup and brought to a boil. Then the pelvis is removed from the heat and left for 5-8 hours to soak the berries. Jam is cooked in several stages for 15 minutes. The last time brought to readiness, which is determined by non-spreading drop on a flat surface of the saucer.
Ready jam is poured hot in sterile jars and rolled under the lids. Then they turn the banks over, wrap them and leave to cool. This helps to check the quality of the capper and additionally sterilizes the lids. There are other ways to pack jam. You can put liter jars pasteurized in a large container with boiling water for 15 minutes, after which roll up the lids.
The most useful option when seedless cherry jam is cooked quickly. The berries are covered with sugar at the rate of half a kilo per 1 kilogram of cherries and left to stand for 5 hours. Then they cook on a gentle fire, not forgetting to mix and remove delicious and aromatic foam on a saucer. The fire is turned off, the excess foam is again removed and the jars of hot jam are rolled up.
Our family prefers to cook cherry jam on syrup in several stages. We pour the prepared product into jars and allow to cool, covering them with clean sheets of paper. Then we close it with ordinary plastic lids and store it in a dark and cool pantry room.