How to freeze cherries

In modern cooking cherry is not the last place. It is possible to cook milk soup, cream, dumplings, sauces, compotes and many other dishes. Cherries used as a dietary product, improves digestion, quenches thirst. It has expectorant, antiseptic and a light laxative effect. How to prepare it for the winter, to preserve all useful properties? The optimal solution is freeze.

You will need

• • cherry;
  • plastic containers;
  • the colander;
  • towel;
  • knife;
  • freezer.

Instruction

1. Buy cherries or assemble it on your site.
2. Sort the collected fruit. Cherries for freezing should be ripe. Remove all damaged and rotten and overripe berries. Remove all debris and stems.
3. Place the berries in a large pot, completely cover them with cold water. Wash the berries, gently rubbing them with your hands.
4. Pull the cherry out of the water with your hands and place it in a colander. In this case, all the dirt washed from the cherries and settled to the bottom, will remain in the pot. Allow to drain water remaining on the berries.
5. Arrange cherries in a single layer on a clean Terry towel. Wait for complete drying of the berries.
6. Fold the cherries in a plastic container. Note that re-freezing berries is invalid. Freeze them in such portions, which in winter can be used at a time.
7. If you want cherries, pitted, remove it from the washed and dried berries with a knife or a special device. Cherries , pitted put in containers.
8. Close the container lid and place in the freezer at the temperature from minus 18 to minus 25 degrees.
9. Possible freezing berries loose. For this clean dry the berries spread in a special pan, leaving between them a distance of 0.5 cm, Place the pan in the freezer and turn it on maximum power. Leave the berries for freezing for 3-4 hours. Then pour the berries into a bag or container and place in the freezer for storage.
10. The cherries are pitted and freeze it, sprinkling her sugar (put in a container in layers).