One of the leaders in taste among the compotes is compote of strawberries and cherries, and having prepared it for the winter you can enjoy a wonderful drink all year round. To achieve the most harmonious combination, it is better to take these berries in the same proportions, and the concentration and sweetness can be varied to your liking.
How to properly close for the winter compote of strawberries and cherries read below in our article.
Preservation of compote from sweet cherries and strawberries according to the following recipe assumes the receipt of a sufficiently concentrated drink, which before consumption should be diluted with boiled water to your liking.
The recipe for summer compote from cherries and strawberries for the winter
Ingredients:
To one three-liter jar:
- ripe cherry berries - 550 g;
- ripe berries of strawberries - 550 g;
- granulated sugar - 500 g;
- purified water - 2.5 liters.
Preparation
Wash the jar with soda solution, sterilize for a couple of fifteen minutes, and let it dry. Strawberries and cherries are sorted, we get rid of spoiled and crumpled berries, we cut off the sepals from the strawberry, and we have tails in the sweet cherry. Then we wash the berries in cold water, let them drain, and we put them into the previously prepared jar. We bring the purified water in a saucepan to a boil, pour out the sugar, cook for about five minutes, and fill the syrup with our berries. Do this as gently and slowly as possible, trying not to get boiling water on the sides of the jar to avoid splitting it from the temperature drop. Then immediately cork it with a boiled lid and put the bottom up under a warm blanket until it cools down completely.
Very rich, with original and fresh taste, you get a compote of cherries and strawberries, if you add a fresh apple and mint. Below is the recipe for such a drink for the winter.
Compote of cherry, strawberries and apples with mint
Ingredients:
To one three-liter jar:
- ripe cherry berries - 250 g;
- ripe berries of strawberries - 250 g;
- apples - 200 g;
- twigs of mint - 2 pcs .;
- purified water - 2.5 liters.
Preparation
Strawberries and cherries are sorted, cleaned from the tails, washed well with cold water and let it drain. Apples are washed, cut out the core, cut into slices and put into a dry, sterile can. There we send berries and pure branches of mint. The water is heated to a boil, pour out the sugar in it, boil for five minutes, and pour the resulting syrup into a jar. Immediately roll up the sterile lid and put the lid under the blanket down to the full cooling.