How to make cherry jam?

All lovers of sweets will easily list the most popular treats, for example, cakes, pastries, Turkish delight and other culinary delights. Also, cherry confiture can be added to this list. This wonderful dessert not only has a special taste, but is also useful. Indeed, in this treat you can find all the useful substances that are present in the composition of cherries, which is considered to be a fount of iron and vitamins. It’s good to know how to cook it, and therefore we offer a dessert recipe.

A bit of history

Cherry jam is considered one of the varieties of jam or jam. This word comes from the French word "confiture", which means "boil in sugar." However, it is believed that the origin of the dessert originates from Eastern Europe (Hungary, Bulgaria and so on). In these parts, in the 17th century, a married-up girl should have the ability to cook different types of such treats.

Confiture traditionally is a very thick jelly with small pieces of fruit or whole berries. In France, it was originally made from quince, apricots and apples, later the culinary masters began to add the juice of currants or cherries, which gave the dessert a special aroma and taste. Also gradually vanilla, citric acid, gelatin, starch and other thickeners became permanent ingredients of the treat.

Manufacturing technology

Cherry confiture has a special delicate taste, but in order to get a successful result, it is better to comply with all the conditions prescribed by the recipe. In order to prepare this treat, you must:

1. Prepare cherries (1 kg). Wash the berries and remove the seeds.
2. Pour the prepared raw materials with sugar (800 g) and pour the juice of one lemon. Leave the mass for a while until the juice comes out.
3. Boil cherries for about 10 minutes, cool and separate the syrup from the berries.
4. Cut two apples into small slices and put in cherry syrup. Cook the fruit until the volume of liquid is reduced by half.
5. Put boiled cherries into the mass and grind everything with a blender. Put the cherry jam on the fire again (for about 10 minutes).
6. Arrange the hot mass in a glass container and seal.

Another recipe

It’s probably interesting to know how to make cherry jam with chocolate and almonds. To cook it, you need to proceed as follows:

1. 
   Prepare a thickener. Dilute gelatin (55 g) with cold water and leave to swell for about 40 minutes.
2. Pure pureed cherries (100 g).
3. Cook almond flour. To do this, peel the nuts (80 g) and grind into small grits, first passing them through a meat grinder and then processing them with a blender.
4. Add almond flour, gelatin and sugar (600 g) to the cherry puree.
5. Heat the mass gradually, when it boils, hold on the fire for another 2 minutes and remove from the stove.
6. In a still hot dessert, put slices of chocolate (100 g) and stir.

Thus, you can make cherry jam for the winter, if you roll it right away into sterilized dishes. This dessert is very tasty and very useful, as the technology of this treat will allow you to save all the useful qualities of the ingredients in almost original form.