Sugar cherries for winter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   For harvesting cherries in sugar, we use only ripe berries. The fruits should be large, ripe and necessarily fresh.

2. Step 2:

   

   Cherries are washed under running water. After washing, we lay them out on a table covered with a kitchen (paper) towel, leave them until the water is absorbed and evaporates.

3. Step 3:

   

   Remove the seeds from the cherry. When removing the stone, it is necessary to damage the fruit minimally and try to preserve the juice. To remove the bone, we use a special separator device or improvised means: a cocktail tube, a pin, or, like me, a hairpin.

4. Step 4:

   

   In all recipes without cooking cherries and sugar are taken in the same amount. Therefore, we weigh the berries and measure an equal amount of sugar. We shift the cherries with sugar from a small saucepan, taking into account that it fits in the refrigerator (the condition is mandatory). Fill the cherries with sugar and mix thoroughly.

6. Step 5:

   

   Leave the pan in the kitchen for 10 hours at room temperature. Mix the cherries every 3-4 hours. It's not difficult, just put the pan in a prominent place and stir every time you enter the kitchen. At night, we put it in the refrigerator with the lid closed so that the mass does not absorb foreign odors of products. In the morning, we take the pan out of the refrigerator and again keep the workpiece at room temperature, stirring systematically. And so for 4 days!

7. Step 6:

   

   On the fourth day we prepare cans. Before using the jar, we review for cracks and chips on the thread. We clean it with baking soda, because the alkaline composition of the substance neutralizes the acidic environment that causes fermentation, so the shelf life of the product will increase. Banks can not be sterilized, since we also do not sterilize cherries. The main thing is that they are dry.

8. Step 7:

   

   Put the berries in jars and pour the syrup to the top so that there is no air cushion left, close.