Sweet cherry jam, sweet, slightly tart, will be an excellent
preparation for the winter. Berries usually ripen in the middle of summer, often a very large crop. Bird cherry trees are unpretentious and do not need any special conditions and care. In addition, their fruits contain many
vitamins (PP, E, C) and trace elements, amino acids and volatile, both fresh and in jam or jam.
Bird cherry, whose beneficial properties have been known since ancient times, has a general strengthening and bactericidal effect on the body. In addition, it is able to improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, jam or berry jam will be so useful in the cold season, when our immunity needs additional support.
How to make cherry jam
For 1 kilogram of berries you will need:
- 1.2 kg of granulated sugar;
- a tablespoon of fresh lemon juice.
Clean cherry from debris - leaves and twigs, wash and dry. Then put the berries in a bowl, cover with sugar, mix and leave overnight. During this time, the
fruits of bird cherry will give juice, it must be drained into a separate bowl. Now mix the contents of the basin, add freshly squeezed lemon juice and put on fire, bring to a boil and cook for a quarter hour. Do not forget to stir - cherry jam can burn. After add to the berries the juice collected earlier and cook another 15 minutes. Done - now you can spread the jam on
sterilized jars, roll up the lids, cool, and then remove it to a dark place before winter.
Cherry jam mashed
It is possible to make a workpiece not from whole berries, but from wiped ones through a sieve. For 1 kg of bird cherry you will need:
- glass of water;
- 250-300 g of granulated sugar.
Sort the berries and rinse, then put in a saucepan. Add some water and cook until the bird cherry is soft. Puree the berry mass through a sieve, add sugar and mix thoroughly. Put the workpiece in jars, close the lids and sterilize in boiling water for twenty minutes. After cool and put in a cold place to be stored until winter.
Stewed bird cherry for the winter
In addition to jam, other preparations are also popular from berries, for example, compote. To prepare it, you will need:
- 1 kilogram of ripe berries;
- 300 g of granulated sugar;
- 1.2 l of water.
Be sure to sort the bird cherry before cooking, the berries should be ripe, but not wrinkled and spoiled, then your compote will be rich, tasty, beautiful bright ruby color. Boil water in a saucepan, and then pour berries there and cook for a couple of minutes. Remove the dishes from the stove. Put the berries in a separate container for compote, and pour the water. Now bird cherry need to pour sugar syrup (boil the specified amount of water with sugar) and leave for 5-7 hours. After this, the berries must be removed from the container, filled with sterilized jars by about a quarter, and the syrup in which they languished, boil again, and then pour to the fruits. Done - now roll up the compote with lids, cool slightly and store in a dark place. After about a month, the berries will give away all the juice, the drink will turn out to be saturated and very tasty. Here's how many blanks can be made from ordinary bird cherry.