Compote of fresh cherry berries in jars for winter

Cherry compote for the winter, after which your children will forget about soda. It is difficult to convince children not to drink soda. It is sharp and sweet, also with any additives, not a drink, but a dream. But you can try to introduce a family tradition of drinking homemade compotes for lunch, which you can cook and close in the summer. And a non-banal compote of cherry will come in very handy. Its slightly tart taste may well replace carbonated drinks, its benefits for the body are undeniable.
Common cherry is a species of low trees (occasionally shrubs) from the genus Plum of the Rose family grows in forests and shrubby thickets throughout Russia, mainly in the European part, Western and Eastern Siberia, in the Far East to the Sea of Okhotsk, in Western Europe and Asia. Bird cherry prefers moist, rich soils with a close occurrence of groundwater, grows mainly along the banks of rivers, in riverine forests and shrubby thickets, along forest edges, on sands, along forest clearings. The fruit of the bird cherry is a spherical black drupe with a diameter of 8-10 mm, sweet, strongly astringent. The bone is round-ovoid. The fruit is initially green, heart-shaped, dense, as it matures, the skin turns red, then turns black. The flesh of mature fruits is green, turns dark purple in the air. Cherry blossoms abundantly every year in May — June, and the fruits ripen in July — August, but it does not bear fruit every year, since the flowers are damaged by late spring frosts, and the trees themselves are attacked by numerous pests. Cherry fruits are harvested as they ripen from July to September.