How to prepare a confiture of cherries?

All lovers of sweet will easily list the most popular treats, for example, cakes, cakes, rahat-lukum and other culinary delights. Also to this list, you can also include the confiture of cherries. This wonderful dessert not only has a special taste, but also useful. After all, in this treat you can find all the useful substances that are available in the cherry, which is considered by right to store iron and vitamins. It's good to know how to cook it, and therefore offer a recipe for dessert.

A bit of history

Confiture of cherries is considered one of the varieties of jam or jam. This word comes from the French word "confiture", which means "cook in sugar." However, it is believed that the origin of dessert originates from Eastern Europe (Hungary, Bulgaria and so on). In these parts of the XVII century, the girl had to have the ability to cook different types of such food.

Confiture traditionally is a very thick jelly with small pieces of fruit or whole berries. In France, it was originally made from quince, apricots and apples, later the master of culinary affairs began to add currant juice or cherries, which gave the dessert a special flavor and taste. Also gradually, the constant ingredients of the meal were vanillin, citric acid, gelatin, starch and other thickeners.

Manufacturing technology

The cherry confiture has a special delicate taste, but in order to achieve a successful result, it is better to comply with all the conditions that are prescribed by the recipe. In order to prepare this treat, you need:

1. Prepare cherries (1 kg). Berries wash and remove bones.
2. Fill the prepared raw sugar (800 g) and pour one lemon juice. Leave the mixture for a while until the juice comes out.
3. Cherries boil for about 10 minutes, cool and separate the syrup from the berries.
4. Cut two apples into small slices and place in cherry syrup. Fruits cook until the volume of liquid is not reduced by half.
5. In the mass put the cooked cherries and grind everything with a blender. Again put confiture of cherries on fire (for about 10 minutes).
6. Heat the hot mass in a glass container and cork.

Another recipe

Probably, it is interesting to learn how to make a confiture of cherries with the addition of chocolate and almonds. To prepare it, you need to proceed as follows:

1. Prepare the thickener. Gelatin (55 g) is slightly diluted with cold water and left to swell for about 40 minutes.
2. Make a puree of cherry (100 g) pitted.
3. Prepare the almond flour. To do this, peel the nuts (80 g) and grind it into small grain, skipping them first through a meat grinder and then treating it with a blender.
4. In cherry puree add flour from almonds, gelatin and sugar (600 g).
5. The mass should be heated gradually, when it boils, hold on for another 2 minutes and remove from the plate.
6. In another hot dessert, put the slices of chocolate (100 g) and stir.

Thus, you can prepare a confiture of cherries for the winter, if you roll it immediately into sterilized dishes. This dessert is very tasty and very useful, since the technology of performing this treat will save all the useful qualities of the ingredients practically in their original form.