Homemade, dried under the bright summer sun candied cherries with pits is a great alternative to sweets and store sweets.
Ingredients:
- cherry - 2 kg;
- granulated sugar - 2 kg;
- water - 200 ml.
Cooking
1. Remove the stalks, and then place the berries in a colander and hold them under a dispersed stream of cool water for 15 minutes.
2. If desired, you can remove the bones. However, this time-consuming work will take a long time. Candied cherries with pits prepare much faster and better retain their shape. While excess liquid is draining from the fruit, thick syrup should be cooked. To do this in a minimum amount of water you need to dissolve sugar. This should be done in a large, enameled pelvis without chips, in which candied fruits will be cooked. When the syrup boils, you need to collect foam from its surface and continue to do so throughout the cooking process.
3. Pour cherry into boiling syrup. She almost immediately significantly reduced in size. All berries must be carefully dipped in syrup. Let it boil for 5 minutes. and remove from heat.
4. In syrup, the cherry should stand for 8-10 hours. During this time, the sugar will gradually penetrate the fruit pulp, replacing the secreted juice. To protect the syrup from settling dust, cover the container with gauze or baking paper, fixing it along the edges with scotch tape or clothespins. The second time again boil the cherries for 5 minutes. and cool 10 hours. After the third boiling of the syrup in the pelvis there is practically no remaining, and the cherries will wrinkle and become very small.
5. They should still be kept hot in a metal colander with a tray, letting the liquid flow down. You can boil the rest of the syrup once more and roll it up in sterilized jars. In the future, it can be used for making various drinks or impregnating cakes. Cherry carefully put on a tray covered with parchment or tracing paper.
6. Fruits should be held under direct sunlight for 3-4 days, periodically turning them over. When candied fruits stop sticking to hands, they should be rolled in granulated sugar or powder. Then pour into a colander and shake to remove excess sugar.
7. Finished candied cherries with pits should be stored in a refrigerator or in a cool room in a tightly closed container.
