Bring the cherries in syrup to a boil, leave for 10 hours, then bring to a boil again and cool. Boiling – repeat cooling 2 times.
For quick cooking, put the cherries in boiling syrup, leave for 4 hours and then cook for 10 minutes after boiling.
How to make cherry jam
Products
For 1 kilogram of cherries for cooking cherry jam, 1,2 kilograms of sugar and 200 milliliters of water are needed.
How to cook cherry jam
1. Wash berries, remove seeds, dry a little.
2. Pour water into a steel pan, add sugar.
3. Bring the jam to a boil and turn it off.
4. Cover the jam and leave for 10 hours in a dark place.
5. Boil the jam, cool.
6. Repeat the procedure 2 times.
Cherry jam in a slow cooker
Pour the washed and boneless cherries into the multicooker saucepan, add sugar, cook the jam on the “Baking” mode for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
Delicious facts
– The calorie content of sweet cherry jam is 250 kcal / 100 grams of jam.
– To taste, you can add cinnamon, lemon juice, orange fruits to the jam syrup.
– To easily release the bones from the berries, you can use a special device – a pitting machine.
– If the cherry jam is liquid, it is recommended to add a gelling agent or drain and boil the syrup. When cooking, it should be borne in mind that the jam after cooling will be less liquid than hot.
– Cherry jam season – from mid-June to early July, at this time it is most profitable to buy cherries for preparations.
– Cook jam from yellow cherries in the same way as from red ones.
– The difference between cherries and cherries: sweet cherries are a subspecies of cherries, berries are considered larger and sweeter. Cherries are more expensive than cherries, and the difference is not always obvious. Taste the berry: if the taste is soft with almost no sour shades, if the berry is fleshy and very soft – most likely it is cherry.
How to cook cherry jam with walnuts
Products
Sweet cherry – 1 kilogram
Walnut (peeled) – 300 grams
Sugar – 1 kilogram
Water – 1 glass
Lemon – 1 piece
How to make cherry and walnut jam
1. When cooking cherry jam, use a stainless steel, brass and aluminum saucepan or bowl, a wooden spoon / spatula and a slotted spoon.
2. Wash the cherries, sort them out, remove leaves and possible debris, put the peeled berries in a colander.
3. Chop the walnuts, select the edible parts and cut them into small pieces.
4. Remove the pit from each cherry berry, replacing it with a walnut.
5. Pour water into a saucepan, add sugar and put the saucepan on a low heat.
6. Bring the cherry jam syrup to a boil, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon.
7. Put the berries in the syrup so that all of them are evenly immersed in the syrup.
8. Insist cherries in syrup for 4 hours.
9. Put a saucepan with cherry jam over low heat and cook for 5-7 minutes.
10. Squeeze the lemon juice into the jam (remove the seeds), mix and cook for another 3 minutes.
11. Pour hot cherry jam with walnuts into sterilized jars.
12. Until the jars of jam have cooled completely, put upside down and cover with a blanket.