Bring in cherries: It's easy

Cooking cherries is a great way to control large quantities of cherries from your own garden, but also to take the taste of the summer into the cold season. And it is also very easy.

Bring in cherries: the ingredients

1 kilogram of cherries
1 liter of water
400 grams of sugar
4 mason jars à 500 milliliters
To taste: cinnamon, cloves or anise

Plant about 50 minutes to cook the cherries.

To reduce the cherries? Step by step

Glasses and lid with hot water rinse and so sterilize, Drain the glasses.
Meanwhile, the cherries wash, drain and remove the stems. Who wants to save the fight with the stones while eating, stoned the cherries in advance. This is done, for example, by placing the cherries with the stalk hole on top of the opening of an empty bottle and sticking it through the cherries with a straw so that the core falls into the bottle. We show you further methods to core the cherries here.
The cherries fill in the glasses, Make sure you fill the preserving jars to about two inches below the rim.
Now that Make syrup: Bring one liter of water to a boil and stir in the sugar. Bring the sugar water to a boil, stirring constantly until the sugar has dissolved. If you like, you can now add a spice (cinnamon, aniseed or cloves) of your choice and add a special flavor to the cooked cherries.
Place the glasses on a heat-insensitive surface until just below the edge (about 5 mm) fill with the syrup, The cherries must be completely covered at the end. Wipe the glasses with a cloth to remove any residue and avoid contamination. Then close tightly.
Now lay out a large pot with a clean dishcloth, place the jars side by side in the pot so that they do not touch, and fill the pot with water so that the glasses are three-quarters in the water. The water in the pot bring to a boil and then cook for 30 minutes.
Then remove the pot from the heat, leave the glasses and the water in it and Allow everything to cool completely, Remove the cooled glasses from the water bath and let rest overnight. Then label store in a cool, dark and dry place, This is how they last for at least half a year.

Bringing cherries in the oven: That's how it works

Alternatively to the method in a hot water bath, you can also wake up the cherries in the oven. For this, steps 1-5 remain the same. Meanwhile you can open the oven 150 degrees Preheat.

Once the jars are tightly closed, they will be in one Pan with high edge, Then the pan about fill two inches high with water.

Then the pan with glasses about half an hour in the oven let it boil down. Once you have awakened, remove the pan from the oven, carefully remove the glasses (preferably with a dishcloth or special pliers) and allow to cool on a heat-resistant surface.

Tip: For example, cooked cherries taste delicious on pancakes.

By the way: Another way to preserve cherries is to boil them as cherry jam or as cherry juice. Cherry thickening also succeeds very easy and to be able to enjoy the red fruits all year, you can also freeze cherries. We also clarify why cherries are healthy.