Cooking compote will take 40 minutes.
How to cook cherry and strawberry compote
Products
For 3 liter cans
Cherries – 600 grams
Strawberries – 350 grams
Sugar – 500 grams
Water – 2,1 liters
Preparation of products
1. Sort out 600 grams of cherries, remove the stalks. Wash the cherries in a colander.
2. Sort out 350 grams of strawberries, remove the rotten berries, separate the sepals. Wash the strawberries using a colander.
3. Pour 2,1 liters of water into a saucepan, heat to a boil.
Cooking compote
1. Arrange cherries and strawberries in jars.
2. Pour the prepared boiling water over the berries. Let stand under the lid for 10 minutes.
3. Pour water from cans into a saucepan.
4. Pour 500 grams of sugar there, as it boils – cook the syrup for 3 minutes.
5. Pour the syrup over the berries.
6. Close the jars with cherry and strawberry compote with lids, put the lid down and wrap with a towel.
Put cherry and strawberry compote in jars into the pantry.
Delicious facts
– Jars for cherry and strawberry compote must be washed and sterilized with boiling water or steam.
– You can make a delicious drink from frozen berries for every day: put strawberries and cherries in a saucepan (do not thaw), add water and sugar. Cook for 2 minutes after boiling, let it brew for 20 minutes.
– The cherry and strawberry compote prepared for the winter will help fill the vitamin deficiency and help with colds.
– There is an opinion that cherry compote with seeds is tastier. Attention: cherry pits contain amygdalin glycoside – a substance that over time turns into a rather poisonous hydrocyanic acid. Compote cooked with seeds cannot be stored for more than a year. A sure way to protect a product from hydrocyanic acid is to remove the seeds.