In late spring, the cherries usually ripen all at once, so not all of them can be eaten. If you want to enjoy cherries later in the year, it's best to reach for the alarm kettle and preserve a few jars of cherries.

Cherries from a mason jar are a special treat in winter

Prepare cherries properly

First sterilize the jars, lids and rubbers in boiling water or in the oven at 100 degrees.
While the jars drain on a clean tea towel, prepare the cherries.

  1. Wash the cherries under cold running water.
  2. Use a cherry stoner to pit the cherries and remove the remaining stems. Cherries that are already rotten or cracked are sorted out.
  3. It is best to put the cherries directly into the washed glasses. So no juice is lost.
  4. Fill the jars to just under the rim (about 2 cm).
  5. Depending on your taste, you can add spices such as a vanilla bean, a cinnamon stick or some star anise.
  6. Now make the sugar syrup.
  7. To do this, take about 400-500 g of sugar per liter and boil it all up.
  8. Pour the hot sugar solution over the cherries, covering all of the fruit.
  9. Now the jars are closed with screw caps or glass caps and a rubber ring as well as a cooking clip.

canning cherries

When the jars are full, you can either cook them in the preserving machine or in the oven.

wake-up cauldron

Place the jars in the preserving machine, but leave some space between the jars. If they touch, they could burst from the heat. Fill with water until the glasses are two-thirds full. Close the kettle and cook the cherries at 90 degrees for half an hour. Allow the glasses to cool slightly in the kettle, then take them out and let them cool completely under a tea towel. Preserved in this way, the cherries can be kept for several months.

In the oven

Preserving in the oven is just as easy as in the preserving machine. Preheat the oven to 150 degrees. Place the jars in the drip pan and fill with about 2 cm of water. Put the dripping pan with the jars in the oven and turn the heat down to 100 degrees. Boil the cherries for half an hour. Here, too, let the glasses cool down in the oven for a while and then cover them with a tea towel when they have completely cooled down on the worktop.

Use canned cherries

Use your cherries as a cake topping, as a compote or use them to prepare a cherry compote for fresh waffles.
The cherries also taste delicious in yoghurt. Try them as an accompaniment to a game dish.

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