Cherries in syrup for winter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make cherries in syrup for winter? Prepare the products. It is better to take cherries with sourness, too sweet will turn out to be cloying. The amount of water and sugar I give is approximate. It will depend on the jars and how many cherries you put in them.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pre-sterilize the jars. We will not sterilize the product itself, but the container must be. You can do it in any convenient way, I do it in the oven. Put clean jars in a cold oven and turn on the heat to 120 °C. When the oven warms up, mark the time for 15 minutes. Take out the hot cans by putting mittens on your hands.

3. Step 3:

   

   Boil the lids for cans for a few minutes — this will also sterilize them. I have cans with screw lids, tin cans are sterilized in the same way.

4. Step 4:

   

   Wash the cherries under running water, then flip them into a colander to drain the liquid.

5. Step 5:

   

   Arrange the cherries in the prepared jars, filling them with 2/3 of the volume. Do not remove the bones, so the berries will remain juicier. Remove the stems.

6. Step 6:

   

   Boil the water. Pour boiling water over the jars to the very neck.

7. Step 7:

   

   Cover the jars with lids and leave for 20 minutes.

9. Step 8:

   

   Next, you will need a kitchen scale or a measuring cup — you need to accurately measure the amount of liquid. To do this, carefully drain the liquid from the jar, taking care that the cherry does not fall out of it.

10. Step 9:

    

    Put sugar in the water at the rate of 250 grams of sugar for every 500 ml of water.

11. Step 10:

    

    Put the dishes with syrup on medium heat and bring to a boil. The sugar should completely dissolve — to do this, stir it when cooking.

12. Step 11:

    

    Pour boiling syrup over the jars again up to the neck. Careful, it's very hot!

13. Step 12:

    

    Close the jars immediately and tighten the lids tightly. If you use tin lids, then close them with a special device.

14. Step 13:

    

    Turn the jars upside down, so you additionally sterilize the lids. Cover the jars with a blanket and leave until completely cooled. Ready—made jars can be stored without a refrigerator - due to the acid of cherries and a large amount of sugar, the product is stored well. The longer the cherry will stand, the tastier it will turn out.