Hardly any of us have ever tasted jam - homemade, cooked by a caring mother or grandmother or bought in a store. This is the most popular way of preserving fruits, because the summer variety of fresh plant products and want to save until the winter, and often it happens that there is simply nowhere to put a plentiful harvest from the dacha. Jam from cherries with bones is considered to be one of the most delicious, especially if you do not take out the seed. They say that in this case the billet turns out to be more fragrant. But keep in mind that if you cook a berry with a bone, then you can store such jam or jam for no more than a year, as some substances in the seed begin to transform into poison. You should also pay attention to the choice of fruits - cherries should be very ripe with a beautiful and rich color. In order to prepare a jam from cherries with bones, you will not need any special devices. Despite the fact that the whole process lasts about 5 and a half hours, most of this time the workpiece will simply be infused. By the way, Zakharievsy, Shubinka, Turgenevka, and also Podbelsky and Anadolsky are considered the best berries for preparation of delicacies.
We prepare jam from cherries with stones
So, we have already figured out which berries to choose for the home harvesting for the winter. From the ripe, dark-colored cherry will get the best delicacy. For 1 kg of berries you will need 1300 g of sugar and about 300 ml of water. First, the fruits should be cleaned of the stems (twigs) and rinsed thoroughly. After dissolving sugar in water in a saucepan of the appropriate size, put it on a stove, let the liquid boil and, stirring constantly, cook for a while. Add berries and boil not more than 5 minutes, removing the formed foam. Next, the pan should be removed from the fire and give the sweet mass to stand for 5 hours. After the dishes with the stock again put on fire, boil the mass for about 5 minutes. Jam from cherries with pits is ready, when its droplet does not spread over the saucer. At the final stage, it must be cooled, packaged in cans and sent to a dark place before the winter cold. As already mentioned in the article, it is not recommended to store such a preparation for more than a year, as the bones in small amounts contain the amygdalin substance, which, when decomposed, is converted to cyanide potassium , a deadly poison.
We prepare jam from cherries with stones "Pyatiminutka"
To prepare this delicacy, you can take a berry with or without bones. At 1 kg. Cherries require about 500 grams of sugar. First, rinse the berries thoroughly and clean them from the stems. Put half of the fruit in a saucepan, pour in 250 g of sugar. Next, cover the remaining berries and sprinkle with sand again. After that, the workpiece for the jam needs to be left for 3 hours in order for the cherry to start the juice. When this time has passed, put the cooking pot on medium heat and bring the berry mass to a boil, leave it on the stove for 5-7 minutes. Done. Cherry jam with bones, the recipe of which differs slightly from the previous one (as you see, it takes twice as much sugar to make it, and the berries are cooked in their own juice), it needs to be placed in sterilized jars and rolled up with lids. Again, the period of storage should not be more than a year.