There comes the season of a cherry harvest. And it means that now the most suitable time to be engaged in house preparations. Cherry enjoys wide popularity. It can be used not only in pastries, but also to give as a dessert. Some of decisions as can stock up with cherry for the winter - to prepare it in syrup. Such way not only is very simple, but also allows to keep all advantage of vitamins.
It is required to you
- - cherry - 1.1 kg (weight with stones) or 1 kg (weight without stones);
- - sugar - 0.4 kg;
- - water boiled - 250 ml;
- - banks of 250 ml - 5 pieces + 5 covers;
- - towel;
- - basin or pan.
Instruction
1. Wash out cherry under flowing water and take all stones. For convenience it is possible to use a hairpin for hair or the special mechanical device. It is necessary to take out stones for a number of reasons: because of their existence toxic hydrocianic acid can be formed, preparation without them is longer stored in bank and it is much more pleasant to eat cherry pies, for example, without stones. Therefore surely we delete stones and we throw out.
2. Prepare jars and covers. They can be not sterilized. Enough will only be to wash out properly in hot water with soap and to dry. Fill banks with cherry to top. Take a basin or a wide pan and lay a bottom a towel, and then shift the filled banks there.
3. Now we will prepare syrup. In a separate saucepan pour in water. According to the recipe it is necessary to take 400 ml of water. But if in the course of extraction of stones cherry gave juice, then a part of water can be replaced with it that it will even be better. Add sugar and put on a plate. Stirring slowly, bring to the boil. As soon as water begins to boil, and sugar will be dissolved, remove the formed skin and remove syrup from a plate.
4. Fill in with ready hot syrup preparations with cherry, and then cover banks with covers. Now pour in a basin with banks in hot water so that water didn't reach a cover a little (2-3 cm are lower than edge) and bring to the boil. Thus it is necessary to sterilize preparations in the boiling water within 10-12 minutes.
5. After time accurately get hot banks from a basin, roll up covers and remove the turned look to the reliable place. For additional sterilization wrap up banks with a terry towel. Such house preparation from cherry can be stored at the room temperature, avoiding hit of direct sunshine.