Sweet cherries can be in abundance at harvest time. It's worth storing the fruit in jars. Refined and refined, preserved cherries are welcome on many occasions.
How can you preserve sweet cherries?
Preserving sweet cherries is easy: pit fresh cherries and fill them into sterilized jars, cook a sugar solution with spices (e.g. cinnamon, star anise) and pour over the cherries. Close the jars and put them in the canner or oven.
Waking sweet cherries
You will need fresh cherries, sugar, spices to your taste (e.g. cinnamon stick) and sterilized mason jars. No matter which glasses you prefer, all should be boiled before use or sterilized in the oven for ten minutes at 100 degrees.
- Wash your cherries, remove the stems and pits. To remove the stones, use a cherry stoner, which only drills a small hole in the fruit and pushes the stone out.
- Collect the finished cherries in a bowl.
- Then cook a sugar solution from water and sugar. The amount of sugar depends on your taste. Add spices to the brew, such as a cinnamon stick, star anise, anise flowers or a clove.
- Now fill the prepared cherries into the glasses, leaving about 2 cm of space towards the edge.
- Then pour in the sugar solution. Make sure that some of the spices go into each glass and that the fruit is completely covered with liquid. Use a funnel when filling so nothing goes wrong.
- Dry the rim of the jars and seal.
- The next step is preserving.
In the preserving machine
Place the glasses in the kettle at a distance and fill them with enough water so that half of the glasses are submerged in water. Cook the cherries at 90 degrees for half an hour. The cooking time begins when the specified number of degrees is reached. The glasses then cool down a little in the kettle and are then placed on the worktop covered with a cloth to cool completely.
In the oven
Place the glasses in the drip pan and add 2 cm of water. Place the drip pan in the oven and set a temperature of 175 degrees (fan oven). As soon as the cherries are boiling, small bubbles appear in the glass, turn off the oven. Leave the glasses in the oven for half an hour and then place them on the worktop under a cloth to cool completely.
