How to make cherry jam
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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 pan, add sugar, cook the jam on the "Baking" mode for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
Fusofacts
- 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
ProductsSweet 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 pan or bowl, a wooden spoon / spatula and a slotted spoon.
2. Wash the cherries, sort them out, remove the 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 sweet 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.
