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    Home Canned Cherries

    Published: Aug 17, 2020 Β· Modified: Sep 18, 2022 by Helene Dsouza

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    Canning cherries from scratch with adjustable measurments.
    Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
    Prep Time: 20 minutes
    Cook Time: 1 hour
    4.50 from 2 votes
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    Preparing canned cherries at home is easier than ever!

    That way you can preserve your beautiful fresh cherries for the months to come.

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    • πŸ“• What are canned cherries?
    • 🧰 Equipment that you will need
    • πŸ”ͺ How to can cherries?
    • 🍱 Storing
    • πŸ₯£ Uses
    • πŸ’­ FAQs
    • πŸ‘οΈ More Canning Ideas
    • πŸ“– Recipe
    • πŸ’¬ Comments

    πŸ“• What are canned cherries?

    Canned Cherries are cherries made to last, preserved in a water sugar syrup.

    Freshly washed cherries are left unpitted or are pitted and placed into canning jars. A syrup is poured over the cherries before the jars are closed.

    They are then "cooked" in a water bath at 185 Fahrenheit/ 85 Celsius so that the cherries are preserved for over a year.

    In your supermarket, you get those branded canned cherries. Those are just the commercial progression of what your ancestors used to do every year at the end of the fruit harvest.

    You can preserve various stone fruits with the same method.

    Besides you can pick which cherries you want to preserve. You can use regular sweet cherries or sour cherries.

    Canned cherries are more flavorful and soft. I prefer the fresh cherries in most dessert recipes.

    🧰 Equipment that you will need

    • Canning jars with rubber seals
    • Canning Jar Lifter
    • Kitchen towel
    • Canner pot with temperature indicator - Or a large pot with a lid to slide a thermometer through.
    • regular pot to prepare light syrup with a cooking spoon

    πŸ”ͺ How to can cherries?

    Luckily canning cherries at home is beyond easy.

    Here is an overview of how to do that at home from scratch. All the details can be found at the bottom of the post on the recipe card.

    Step 1

    Pick your fruits from the tree/ buy them and separate the cherries from the stems.

    Place into some water to rinse off the dirt.

    picking cherries and washing

    Step 2

    Keep clean jars ready and wide open.

    Place clean cherries, with the pit left in, into the jars, up until the rim.

    fill jar with cherries

    Step 3

    Prepare light water syrup by heating up water and sugar (2:1 ratio) in a pot until the sugar has dissolved in water.

    melt sugar in water

    Step 4

    Pour water sugar syrup over cherries in the jars. The cherries need to be covered.

    Close the lid well.

    pour water sugar over cherries

    Step 5

    To sterilize jars and their insides, place filled-up closed jars into a canner pot next to each other and/or over each other if there is space.

    place full jars into canner

    Cover the jars with water. The jars need to be fully submerged in water.

    Close with a lid and make sure you have a way to tell the temperature with a thermometer.

    cover jars with water in canner pot

    Step 6

    Heat up the canner and bring it to about 185 Fahrenheit/ 85 Celsius.

    Cook for another 30 minutes at 185 Fahrenheit/ 85 Celsius.

    keep constant heat

    Step 7

    Turn off heat when done, open the lid, and take out jars with the help of a jar lifter.

    Place jars on a spread-out kitchen towel to cool and keep them there until they are done cooling down.

    take out jars with cherries

    🍱 Storing

    Keep your unopened sterilized jars of preserved cherries in a cool and dry place away from direct sunlight on a shelf next to each other.

    We keep them in the cellar but in a room that hasn't a high humidity level.

    A pantry room will do the trick too or a cupboard.

    Your canned cherries will last up to 18-24 months if prepared and stored in a clean and perfect cool environment.

    A humid tropical environment is not that great and they will last maybe about 12 months max.

    πŸ₯£ Uses

    To use your canned cherries, just open up the jar by pulling the rubber seal.

    Use them up within a few days once opened and keep leftovers in the fridge.

    You can drink the juice too. I love it in cocktails too!

    Here is how we use our canned cherries:

    • with ice cream and chocolate sauce. You can heat up your canned cherries too.
    • with other canned fruits and juice to serve as a dessert. OR use them in a punch or sangria.
    • in a cake, as in black forest cake or a cheesecake
    • in other desserts such as custard-based treats. i.e french clafoutis.
    • as a pie filling or any other pastry filling. Think danish pastry.

    πŸ’­ FAQs

    Pitted VS Unpitted Cherries

    We don't pit cherries when we can our cherries because they taste better with the pit left in. However, you are free to pit them first before canning your cherries.

    Can I make the light syrup without sugar or with honey?

    To make canned cherries that last, I recommend not skipping the sugar. Sugar helps in preserving your fruits for the long term. Honey isn't 100% sugar, so the canned cherries won't last that long if you use honey instead of sugar.

    πŸ‘οΈ More Canning Ideas

    • Canned plums
    • Canned peaches
    • Canned mushrooms
    • Canned tomato coulis sauce

    Theoretically, you can can almost all fruits and veggies such as pears and carrots to just name a few. You can refer to my water bath canning guide.

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    Home Canned Cherries Recipe

    Canning cherries from scratch with adjustable measurments.
    4.50 from 2 votes
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    Course: DIY
    Cuisine: French
    canning cherries, how to can cherries at home
    Prep Time: 20 minutes
    Cook Time: 1 hour
    Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
    Recipe by: Helene Dsouza

    Ingredients

    • Cherries fresh
    • Water *see Notes for quanities
    • Sugar *see Notes for quanities

    Instructions

    • Remove stems from cherries and rinse them through clean water to get rid of impurities.
    • Place clean cherries into prepared clean jars. Fill up jars up to the top.
    • Prepare the light syrup by melting sugar in water, 1:2 ratio (see note section for details), in a pot over the heat.
    • Pour light syrup sugar water over the cherries in your jars. The cherries need to be completely covered. Close jars well.
    • Place sealed jars in a canner pot next to each other and over each other if you have more space or more jars to can.
    • Pour water over all the jars, they need to be completely submerged. Close the canner pot with a lid and make sure that a thermometer is showing the temperature.
    • Heat up the canner pot and bring the temperature to about 185Β° Fahrenheit or 85Β° Celsius. This can take about 30 minutes
    • Continue to sterilize and cook jars for 30 minutes at about 185Β° Fahrenheit or 85Β° Celsius. Control the heat to stay at that temperature.
    • To take out hot jars, spread a kitchen towel over a kitchen surface. Turn off heat when done, remove lid and take out jars with a set of jar lifter. Place hot and wet jars on the kitchen towels.
    • Allow jars to cool before you store them in a cool and dry place on a shelf preferably.

    Notes

    The quantities are variable and depend on the size of your jars, the size and quantities of your cherries, and how many you actually want to make vs how many fit into your canner.
    This will give you a baseline to work with: To fill up four standard 25 oz, ΒΎ liter (0.75) jars you will need about 5.5 - 6.6 pounds, 2.5-3 kg of cherries AND you will need 1.1 pounds, 500 grams sugar dissolved in 1 quart/liter water.
    The water sugar ratio is always 2:1.
    That way you can prepare more light syrup if needed. And you just need to fill up your jars without having to weigh them.

    Equipment

    • Canning Jars with a latch and rubber seal
    • Canner pot
    • Jar lifter
    • Reusable Paper Towels
    • Large Pot (min 8 qt)
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