Marinated fruits

Marinated plums

Ingredients
For 1 l marinade fill — 240 ml of 6% vinegar, 490 ml of water, 270 grams of sugar and spice: 1.5 g cinnamon, 0.5 clove, 0.7 star anise and 0.6 allspice.

For marinating select ripe plums, removing both overripe and unripe. Then clear the peduncles and impale plums in a few places that are not cracks on the fruit and that they soon saturated with marinade. Prepared plum put in a good steamed and washed container and pour the marinade.
Depending on the use of plums, marinated can be done without adding spices.

Marinated cherries

Ingredients
For 1 l marinade fill — 270 ml of 6% vinegar, 420 ml of water, 310 grams of sugar and spice: 1.3 g cinnamon, 0.5 clove, 0.6 star anise and 0.5 allspice.

Cherries to sort out, separating overripe, damaged and rotten. Remove the peduncles. After this wash the cherries, place in container and cover with marinade. Depending on the use of cherries, marinated can be done without adding spices.

Marinated grapes

Ingredients
For 1 l marinade fill — 260 ml of 6% vinegar, 570 ml of water, 170 grams of sugar and spice: 1.5 g cinnamon, 0.5 clove, 0.65 star anise and 0.6 allspice.

In barrels you can marinate the whole bunches of grapes, in large bottles — only berries. The grapes are sorted to remove damaged and immature, rinse, put in a barrel and pour the marinade.

Marinated pears

Ingredients
For 1 l marinade fill — 220 ml of 6% vinegar, 530 ml of water, 250 grams of sugar and spice: 1.25 g cinnamon, 0.5 g clove, star anise and allspice.

Pears clear from the peduncle and calyxes. If the peel is rough, then it should be cleaned. Pears not more than 4 cm diameter can be left as a whole, and larger fruit cut into halves along removing the seed box. Prepared pear drop to 2-10 minutes (depending on their level of maturity, fruit size and the varieties of pears) in boiling water, which added 0.1% (from the amount of boiling water), citric or tartaric acid. After that pear immediately cooled in water, put in a good steamed and washed container and pour marinade fill.