Cherry jam five minutes with pits

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients. For jam "pyatiminutka" only the cherry itself and sugar are needed, no thickeners and other additives are required. We begin the preparation of jam with the collection or purchase of ripe cherry berries. Of course, it is better to use cherries harvested on ecologically clean plots, or grown on your own plot. We sort out the berries, remove the garbage, leaves, twigs, rotten berries, wash them under running water and throw them into a colander to drain the water.

2. Step 2:

   

   We pour the berries into a metal saucepan or cup, do not use aluminum dishes to avoid oxidation. We cover the cherry with sugar on top and leave it for 6 hours, covering it with a paper towel. During this time, the cherry will let the juice, the sugar will dissolve.

3. Step 3:

   

   After the time has elapsed, put the pan with cherries on the fire. Bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium and cook for 5 minutes. During this time, be sure to remove the foam formed on the surface and mix the jam. You need to sterilize the jam jars in advance. This can be done in a water bath – by putting the jar down the neck on an electric kettle with water boiling inside. Or in the oven.

5. Step 4:

   

   Do not forget to pre-rinse the soda cans with cold running water. The lids to the jars also need to be boiled and dried. We lay out the hot jam in sterilized jars. Immediately tighten the banks. Turn them upside down, cover them with a warm blanket on top. Thus, the jam continues to be sterilized. Let the jam in this position cool down at room temperature.

6. Step 5:

   

   We remove the jam for storage in a cold pantry or store it in the refrigerator. It is stored for quite a long time, despite the minimum of heat treatment. At the same time, the berries in the jam remain almost as fresh and juicy. Bon appetit!