Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
If you have your own tree, pick berries. I had a good harvest. But the cherry does not ripen all at once, so I collected it in parts. Fortunately, this bright beauty happens in the store almost all year round, including in ice cream form.
Step 2:
Then there is an important moment. First, sterilization of cans and lids. There are several ways to do this. Including boil in a saucepan for 10 minutes. And it is better to sterilize not one, but at least three cans - you never know what.
Step 3:
And you also need to sort out the berries, prepare them for cooking, including tearing off the tails and washing in several waters.
Step 4:
Washed? We will drain the water, but not so that it is straight to the droplet. We need juice anyway. Fill the cherries with sugar and, without hesitation, mix thoroughly. If the berries are very ripe, then you need to do everything carefully so as not to harm them.
Step 5:
I was waiting for the cherry to give the juice. Five minutes later, she looked like this.
Step 6:
And the juice itself went literally half an hour later. Although, if you put the saucepan right on the stove and cook the cherries a little while stirring, the juice will go more intensively.
Step 7:
I didn't cook, so as soon as I saw that the juice appeared in large quantities, I turned on the stove. It is necessary to bring the contents of the saucepan to a boil. When cooking cherry jam, there is always a lot of foam. Remove with a spoon or spatula.
Step 8:
When everything cooled down (since there were not so many cherries, it took 10-15 minutes for this procedure), I put the saucepan on the fire again. Cooked for 5 minutes, then set aside. In total, I did 3 such approaches. For the last time, we will put the boiling jam into jars and twist it in the way that is convenient for you.
Step 9:
When the jam cools down, it becomes stringy. The fragrance is incomparable!
And more tips
If you want a thicker jam, add gelatin (according to the instructions) or cook longer – then the jam is boiled.
Jam with cherries can be cooked with the addition of other berries and fruits. For example, I like cherries in combination with cherries, which will share their sweetness, slices of apples or apricots.
Do you use frozen berries? They can be cooked in syrup prepared in advance – they pour cherries, and they are defrosted in this syrup, as it were. And then the rest of the processes go.
If there is time, you can fill the cherry with sugar and boil it in several steps.
The amount of sugar can be adjusted in the direction of decreasing or increasing.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sour cherry - 52 kcal/100g
- Sweet cherry - 64 kcal/100g
- Dried cherries - 292 kcal/100g
- Canned cherry - 61 kcal/100g
