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Prepare cherries properly

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

1. Wash the cherries under cold, running water.
2. Core the cherries with a cherry pitter and remove the remaining stems. Cherries that already have rotten spots or cracks are sorted out.
3. It is best to put the cherries directly into the rinsed glasses. So no juice is lost.
4. Fill the jars to just under (about 2 cm) below the rim.
5. Depending on your taste, you can add spices, such as a vanilla pod, a cinnamon stick or a little star anise.
6. Now make the sugar syrup.
7. To do this, take about 400-500 g of sugar per liter and boil the whole thing.
8. Pour the hot sugar solution over the cherries so that all the fruits are covered.
9. Now the jars are closed with screw lids or glass lids and rubber rings and cooking pegs.

Preserve cherries

Once the jars are full, you can either boil them down in the preserving machine or in the oven.

Wake-up kettle

Place the jars in the preserving machine, but leave some space between the jars. If they touch, the heat could cause them to burst. Pour in water until the glasses are two-thirds in the water. Close the kettle and cook the cherries at 90 degrees for half an hour. Let the glasses cool a little in the kettle, then take them out and let them cool completely under a tea towel. When soaked, the cherries can be kept for several months.

In the oven

Preserving in the oven is just as easy as using a preserving machine. Preheat the oven to 150 degrees. Place the glasses in the drip pan and fill them with water about 2 cm high. Put the drip pan with the glasses in the oven and turn the heat down to 100 degrees. Cook 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 cooled down completely on the worktop.

Use canned cherries

Use your cherries as a topping for a cake, as a compote or use it to prepare a cherry jelly for fresh waffles.
The cherries are also very tasty in yoghurt. You can also try them as an accompaniment to a game dish.