Sour-sweet, fragrant berry is a real summer miracle and a storehouse of vitamins. Usual, inexpensive and loved by many cherries contains the amount of vitamin C, comparable with lemon and orange.
Delicious cherry compote
Before you tell how to prepare a compote of cherries with bones, we will explain why with bones. When extracting seeds from any berry, a lot of juice is lost, the berries themselves are damaged and when cooking often lose their normal appearance. So, rolling up the canned compote from cherries with bones, we at once save both appearance, and utility of berries. To make the compote turned out to be especially fragrant, you can add a little raspberries, black currants or mint to it. But sugar is an individual matter. You can add it, but you can use the compote of compote from cherries with bones without sugar. Let's start with this version of a simple and very useful drink.
Fast compote for the winter
To make a compote of cherries with bones for the winter, we use a summer berry with a rather dense flesh, not watery, sweet or sour-sweet.
Ingredients:
- cherry ripe without tails and litter - 5 kg;
- filtered or distilled water - 12 l;
- mint or melissa (the top shoots a maximum of 6 leaves from the top) - 10-12 branches.
Preparation
Since the compote is brewed very quickly, we first prepare the dishes: we check that there are no cracks, bubbles or chips on the glass on the glass. Soak in warm water for about a quarter of an hour, well wipe off all the dirt using baking soda. Naturally, after this, the jars need to be rinsed very well in order to remove the remaining soda. When our tanks drain, proceed to the cooking.
Tell you how to brew a compote of cherries with bones. Cherries are sorted, put the berries in a strainer or colander and keep under a stream of running water for about 3 minutes, then transfer them to a bowl. In a large saucepan, let's boil the water. In the steeply boiling water we put all the cherries and immediately sterilize the cans above the steam. When compote boils, cook it on low heat for exactly 3 minutes, then quickly pour into prepared containers and roll. We turn the banks and hide for a couple of days. After that, the compote is transferred to a cool room.
It is often asked how much cherries are stored in cherries with bones. It's simple. This compote even in the basement can be kept no longer than a year. At the end of the year, prussic acid, contained in the bones of many types of berries and fruits in small quantities, enters the liquid, and compotes become unsuitable for consumption.
If there is not enough space
It happens that everyone loves compote in the family, but there are not enough places in the apartment, so you do not want to "roll up the water." There is an exit. Tell you how to roll for a compote cherry with a stone. This sinking takes up little space due to the fact that there is almost no water in it. But in the winter, after opening the jar, you can transfer its contents into a pan and cook a delicious drink.
Ingredients:
- a large cherry tree without twigs and leaves - 4-4.5 kg;
- sugar of domestic production, purified, white - 2-2.5 kg.
Preparation
This way to prepare a compote of cherries with bones for the winter is more difficult, since sterilization is required. Prepare the banks. For this recipe, it is better to use 1.5-2-liter containers, although if there are many lovers of compote, you can roll up large volumes. Banks mine using any degreaser,
We place the cans in a sterilization vessel: a large basin, a pan, a tank, covering the bottom of the container with a towel. Cover each jar with a lid, pour cold water into the container and turn on the fire. From the beginning of the boiling water, wait a quarter of an hour and roll our concentrated compote.