Cranberries are one of the healthiest berries growing in Russia. Its fame was so great that Russian merchants sold tons of it abroad; it was one of the main export goods along with black and red caviar. Everyone knows about its benefits and therefore actively uses it, for example, for preparing fruit drinks. But does everyone know how to make cranberry juice? Let's make a real drink, while preserving all the vitamins and microelements contained in this berry.

Classic cranberry juice

Take ripe cranberries, rinse them thoroughly under cold running water and let them drain. Now we place the berry in a deep container and crush it well with a wooden or ceramic pestle. Of course, you can grind the berries with a blender, but given the high acid content in it, it is better to avoid contact of the pulp with metal parts of the mechanism. Squeeze the resulting pulp through cheesecloth. Set aside the juice (we will need it at the final stage of preparing such a wonderful drink as cranberry juice), and fill the pulp with sugar and fill it with water. The proportions are as follows: for a glass of cranberry puree, take half a glass of sugar and a liter of water. Place our mixture on the stove and, stirring until the sugar dissolves, bring it to a boil and simmer for no more than two minutes. Let our mixture cool, filter it and mix with juice. Using the same method, you can prepare a fruit drink from frozen cranberries. The only difference in the recipe is that the berries must first be defrosted. By the way, freezing is perhaps the best way to store any berry. Its main disadvantage is that fruits and vegetables take up a lot of space in the freezer.

How to make cranberry juice with honey?

Based on the classic recipe, you can make an even healthier drink. To do this, you need to exclude sugar from the list of ingredients and add honey at the stage of mixing the juice with the pulp broth. If it has already become candied, put it in a lukewarm liquid, so it will dissolve faster and will not lose its beneficial properties. You need a little less honey than sugar, as the fruit drink can turn out cloying. And do not forget that such a drink is contraindicated for people with allergies to bee products.

How to prepare cranberry and lingonberry juice?

If you think about what berry can compete with cranberries in health benefits, then it is, of course, lingonberries. It is not so juicy, but not so sour, and the fruit drink made from a mixture of these fruits has a rich taste, aroma and perfectly quenches thirst. For a liter of water, take half a glass of lingonberries, cranberries and sugar, and a tablespoon of mint. Boil water, dissolve sugar in it and add mint. Let it brew for fifteen minutes. Meanwhile, chop the berries in an accessible way and add to the almost cooled infusion. Let it sit for half an hour and strain. Morse is ready!

Cranberry jelly

We now know how to make cranberry juice, but you can make more than just this drink from it! Let's please the kids and prepare jelly for them. For it we need fruit juice and gelatin. We take forty to sixty grams of gelatin per liter of liquid, then the jelly will be strong and will hold its shape perfectly. You need to prepare it in accordance with the instructions on the package, then melt it and pour it into a slightly warm fruit drink, stirring vigorously. All that remains is to pour our masterpiece into molds (it’s convenient to use silicone ones) and put it in the refrigerator to harden. When the jelly is ready (and you will immediately understand this, since it will resist pressing with your finger), remove it from the molds and call the children! Knowing how to make cranberry juice and reducing the amount of water in the recipe to three tablespoons, you can easily prepare

Cranberry is a berry whose beneficial properties are very difficult to overestimate. Despite the fact that the natural environment where cranberries grow is unsightly swamps, they contain elements important for human health, such as:

1. vitamins: B1, B2, B3, B6, B9, C, E, P;
2. minerals: potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, iron.

Cranberries taste sour, so there are many ways to consume them other than in their pure form. One of these methods is. If you decide to adhere to a healthy diet, for example, vegetarianism, cranberry juice can not only provide your body with many useful substances, but also, when consumed systematically, it:

• improves blood circulation in the body;
• prevents the formation of plaque and kills oral bacteria;
• is an effective support for the health of your eyes;
• protects organs such as the colon and cervix from cancer;
• prevents the development of peptic ulcers if there is a predisposition to it;
• prevents the development of urolithiasis, and also promotes the destruction of already formed stones;
• supports cardiovascular health;
• promotes the removal of cholesterol;
• is an effective prevention of atherosclerosis;
• significantly relieves asthma attacks;
• is an excellent way to combat various infectious diseases and prevent them;
• cleanses the body of various harmful substances.

And besides, everyone knows the healing properties of warm cranberry juice to fight colds. In the summer, a glass of cold cranberry juice will relieve you of thirst and maintain good spirits and tone throughout the body.

Below are ways to prepare cranberry juice and how to cook cranberry juice from frozen cranberries - recipes for any time of year.

Cranberry juice: preparation

The benefits of cranberry juice are obvious to everyone! This drink tones and invigorates, increases physical performance, and also activates the functioning of our brain. Among other things, cranberry juice helps maintain a beautiful, healthy appearance, and together with proper nutrition, restores youth, blooming appearance and slimness to the fair sex. So how can you prepare fruit juice in such a way that, during heat treatment, the cranberries retain all of the above-mentioned miraculous properties and substances?

It's very simple: prepare fruit juice with the addition of freshly prepared natural cranberry juice. This way, your body will receive everything that is healthy in fresh cranberries, but at the same time your stomach will not suffer from acid, which cranberries are also very rich in.

It is worth noting that cranberry juice with the lowest sugar content is the most healthy, so if you are not allergic to honey, replace sugar with it when preparing fruit juice.

Cranberry juice: recipe

Today there are a lot of recipes for making cranberry juice. Let's look at two recipes:

1. cranberry juice with honey is an excellent prevention of colds in winter;
2. cranberry juice with mint - quenches thirst and gives a boost of energy in the summer.

So, for cranberry juice with honey you need to prepare the following ingredients:

• 1.5 cups fresh cranberries;
• 1 liter of pure spring water;
• 2-2.5 tablespoons of honey.

First of all, you need to sort out the cranberries and throw away any bad berries, if any. Mash the berries in a deep bowl with a wooden mortar; it is best to use non-metallic utensils. Now strain the resulting mixture either through a sieve or cheesecloth. You should have a paste with seeds and cranberry juice; Set the juice aside for now. Pour the pulp with seeds and peels into one liter of water and put on fire. As soon as the fruit drink starts to boil, reduce the heat and let it simmer for five to seven minutes. After this time, turn off the fire, and filter the fruit drink again; Now the resulting pulp can simply be thrown away. Next, pour the cranberry juice we set aside earlier into the pan and let the fruit drink boil again. Add our honey to the resulting fruit drink, while it is still hot, and let it “disperse” there; You can help him and mix with a spoon.

To prepare cranberry mint juice we will need the following ingredients:

• 500 grams or 3 cups of fresh cranberries;
• 8-10 fresh mint leaves;
• honey to taste.

As in the first case, we sort through the cranberries and remove the bad berries, then rinse them thoroughly. Mash the cranberries with a wooden mortar, squeeze out the pure cranberry juice and leave it aside for now. Transfer the resulting pulp into a saucepan. Mint leaves should be thoroughly washed and, like cranberries, crushed with a wooden mortar. Now add the crushed mint to the cranberry pulp. Next, pour the mixture of mint and cranberry pulp with two liters of water and put on fire. We wait until the fruit drink boils, now turn down the heat and let this broth “simmer” for five minutes. Next, turn off the fire, wrap the pan with fruit juice in a warm blanket and wait another hour; Now you can strain the fruit drink and pour in the previously obtained cranberry juice, mix thoroughly and add honey.

How to make cranberry juice from frozen cranberries

Cranberries are harvested late in the fall, when the first frosts have not yet arrived. Naturally, harvested cranberries cannot last long, even in the refrigerator, therefore, in order to be able to prepare fruit drinks in winter or use cranberries for baking, freshly picked berries are frozen. Below is a very simple recipe for making cranberry juice from frozen cranberries.

Helpful advice: if you have picked or purchased fresh cranberries and plan to freeze them, do not wash the berries.

So, there are frozen cranberries in the freezer compartment of your refrigerator; why not make a delicious and healthy fruit drink?

You will need the following ingredients:

• 3-4 cups frozen cranberries;
• 2 liters of clean spring water;
• honey to taste.

Once you remove the berries from the freezer, rinse them with cool water and leave until they are completely defrosted. Then, using a blender, grind the cranberries until a paste forms. Squeeze out the juice through cheesecloth and put it aside for a while. Pour the resulting cake with two liters of water and boil for about ten minutes. After the fruit drink has boiled, turn off the heat and cover the pan with a blanket or towel and let the broth brew for an hour. Then we filter the now infused fruit drink again, then add our pre-prepared cranberry juice and honey to this fruit drink. The tasty, and most importantly healthy fruit drink is ready!

When preparing cranberry juice, you can also add your other favorite berries, for example, cherries or blackcurrants. This fruit drink made from a mixture of healthy berries is even more enriched with substances that have a beneficial effect on our body.

If you prefer the classic recipe for cranberry juice without any third-party additives, you can put the prepared drink in the refrigerator and consume two tablespoons of it daily half an hour before meals. This way you will prepare your stomach for upcoming food processing, support your immunity, and also help your body cope with daily stress and fatigue. And besides this, in this way you can maintain the health of your children, help them cope with constant stress and stressful situations at school. However, before letting your child drink fruit drink in large quantities (for example, a 200 ml glass), start with one tablespoon and see if there are any allergic reactions.

Try to use what nature gives us; in this case we are talking about cranberry juice. You will always have time to buy a bunch of medications at the pharmacy, which, by the way, do us more harm than good. In combination with proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle, cranberry juice is not just a thirst quencher that tastes good, but can also serve as a remedy for many ailments, such as migraines, impaired functioning of the gastrointestinal tract and many others.

Cranberry is a valuable berry; it surpasses other berries in the content of vitamins and microelements. Due to its qualities, this berry is used in the field of medicine and cosmetology. However, it is most widespread in cooking.

Healthy, life-giving cranberry juice

All sorts of homemade preparations are made from cranberries, jams are prepared, drinks are used in the form of fresh berries or cooked, they are used in cooking, or they are simply added to tea. We will tell you how to properly and tasty prepare cranberry juice.

It can quench thirst and give vigor, cure colds, and there are a great many ways to prepare fruit juice. We will show you the secrets of this refreshing, vitamin drink and give you many ideas for making cranberry juice for all occasions!

Cooking cranberry-based fruit juice is not difficult; it is a relatively simple process and usually does not take much time.

Crushing cranberries with a masher

1. Disassembled and washed berries are crushed
2. Pour water into a metal, non-enamel container and heat
3. The berry is prepared in 5 minutes, then the resulting drink is strained and allowed to cool.
4. You can pour freshly squeezed berry juice into the resulting liquid.

Skin irritation may occur upon contact with the juice of this sour berry, so advice - Wear gloves to protect your hands.

If you need to prepare fruit juice every day, it is much more advisable to use a blender or other chopper to extract the juice; this will save time and effort.

Add sugar or honey to add sweetness. In some cases, juice or pieces of citrus zest are added to the prepared drink, and spices, such as clove pods or cinnamon, are added to give the drink a tart fragrant aroma. If you add rose hips, the fruit drink will not only taste good, but also be very healthy, and in terms of vitamin C content it will surpass all other drinks.

You can decorate a glass of cranberry juice with a mint leaf, a slice of orange or lemon, whole fresh berries - in general, there are many options! Whatever your imagination tells you!

First stage. Preparing food and utensils

To make a delicious cranberry drink, you must first defrost the berries that were frozen, and sort out the fresh berries. Then you need to carefully wash them and grind them using a pressing kitchen device, such as a masher.

Squeeze the resulting pulp until the juices appear and add the released liquid to the prepared fruit drink. If rose hips are added, the berries are prepared, cleaned with water and steamed. It is convenient to soak rose hips in a thermos; the infusion time is 1 night. The prepared fruit drink is consumed chilled and poured into glasses or glasses.

Kitchen utensils you may need:

1. metal utensils not enameled for cooking
2. cup for squeezed liquid
3. masher or masher
4. modern kitchen appliances such as blender
5. To strain the berry mass, use a sieve or a piece of clean gauze.

Recipe for frozen cranberry juice

We bring to your attention a classic, easy-to-prepare recipe for frozen berry juice.

Frozen cranberries from the store

Ingredients:

1. frozen cranberries – 500g;
2. sugar – 300g;
3. Boiled water – 6-7 glasses.

Preparation progress

1. Frozen berries must be moved from the freezer to the refrigerator overnight.
2. Place the thawed berries in cheesecloth and crush with a masher until the mixture releases juice.
3. Squeeze the crushed mass into gauze.
4. Add warm boiled water and sugar to the released juice.
5. Stir all ingredients until sugar is completely dissolved.
6. To add a refined taste, add a few mint leaves.
7. The finished drink is served chilled.

Recipe for fruit drink based on cranberries and honey

Ingredients:

1. water – 1 liter;
2. cranberries – 1 cup;
3. honey – 2 tablespoons.

Preparation progress

Pre-clean the berries from debris and rinse. Take a deep bowl and mash well with a spoon or use a blender for these purposes. Transfer the resulting raw material into cheesecloth and squeeze out all the contents to the end. Pour the juice into a glass container, close tightly, and place in the refrigerator to cool.

Add 1 liter of water to the squeezed cranberries and heat on the stove, boil for about 5-7 minutes. Cool this mass and then strain it through a sieve or cheesecloth. Mix this liquid with juice from the refrigerator. Dissolve honey in the resulting solution (choose the quantity based on your preferences).

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Fruit juice recipe in a slow cooker

An excellent example, let’s prepare cranberry juice without much hassle and sorting through the dishes. The fruit drink will be prepared preserving all the best qualities of cranberries. This device in the proposed version is used as a thermos for infusing berry solution.

Ingredients:

1. cranberries - 2 cups;
2. water – 2 liters;
3. sugar – 1 glass.

Preparation progress

As usual, you first need to prepare the berries, clean them of debris and rinse them with water. Wipe them in a sieve over a deep cup prepared in advance, where the released juices will drain.

Put sugar in the slow cooker, pour in the pre-prepared freshly squeezed juice and what’s left of the berries. Boil water separately and pour boiling water over the contents of the multicooker. Mix the entire mixture thoroughly and cook for 3-4 hours. The final stage is to strain the resulting drink.

Recipe for fresh cranberry juice without cooking

In this option, it is noteworthy that the juice will not need to be subjected to heat treatment, i.e. heat over a fire, which significantly increases the usefulness of the product. But this method also has disadvantages, because it forces you to spend a lot of time and effort in the kitchen.

Ingredients:

1. cranberries – 500g;
2. sugar – 300-400g;
3. water – 6-7 glasses.

Preparation progress

First you need to sort the cranberries, then pour boiling water over the berries in one go and rinse again, but for the second rinse use cold boiled water. Crush the berries and pour in 1 glass of water, mix well, and then place the mixture in cheesecloth, consisting of 2-3 layers, and squeeze out the juice.

The squeezed berries should undergo the same manipulations described above about 2 more times, i.e. add water, stir and squeeze. After 2-3 spins, the berry pulp can be thrown away.

Dilute the resulting drink with cold boiled water, sweeten it with sugar or honey, if you are a lover of honey taste, and you can treat it to guests or family.

Cranberry juice with added rose hips

A pleasant-tasting vitamin drink with a delicate rosehip aroma will give you energy, vigor and replenish the body’s reserves with useful substances for a long time. A boost of vitality on a completely natural basis.

Ingredients:

1. fresh cranberries – 0.5 kg;
2. rosehip – 1 cup;
3. sugar (to your taste);
4. water – 2 liters.

Preparation progress

The cranberries need to be sorted and washed with water. Take a fairly deep cup and mash the berries, squeeze the juices out of them. Add water to the squeezed berries and heat on the stove, boil the mixture for about 5 minutes.

Strain the infusion and add the desired amount of sugar to your taste. At the same time, prepare an infusion of rosehip; it needs to be peeled, washed and infused in a thermos in hot water.

The approximate settling time for rose hips is night. After the rosehip has infused, strain the rosehip infusion and add cranberry to it. Now you can enjoy this wonderful berry mix!

Cranberry is one of the most valuable gifts of nature. It contains a rich vitamin complex, indispensable for women at any age. Cranberry juice helps the body fight infectious diseases, increases overall tone, and improves the functioning of the heart muscle. Making cranberry juice is quite simple. Let's start taking care of our health right now?!

How to make cranberry juice?

Ingredients

Cranberry 1 stack Boiled water 1 liter Granulated sugar 0 stack

• Number of servings: 4
• Cooking time: 12 minutes

Why is cranberry juice valued?

Wild berry juice contains an abundance of microelements, vitamin complex, acids and minerals. It can be consumed at any time of the year, warm or cold. Mors restores a person’s strength after illness and during the changing seasons, gives vital energy and increases performance. It is unacceptable to exclude berry nectar from your diet.

A simple recipe for making cranberry juice

How to make cranberry juice so that all the nutrients remain in it? To make the drink you will need:

1 cup fresh cranberries;

1.5 liters of boiled water;

0.5 tbsp. granulated sugar.

The berries are washed, then passed through a meat grinder or made into a paste using a wooden masher. The resulting crumb is squeezed through a plastic sieve (metal destroys vitamins). The resulting juice is mixed with water and placed on low heat.

You need to bring the drink to a boil, but do not allow bubbles to form on the surface. After 5 - 7 minutes of boiling, remove the juice from the heat and add sugar. That's it - the fruit drink is ready to drink. This is the most simplified and affordable way to prepare a healthy drink.

How to make cranberry juice correctly?

The juice will become more valuable if, instead of water, the juice is diluted with a decoction of another healthy berry - rose hips.

1. Fruit juice goes well with mint leaves. It is recommended to use honey instead of sugar.

2. Lemon juice will help increase the value of the product. A pinch of cinnamon or a couple of sprigs of cloves will help flavor the juice.

3. Cranberry juice can be given to children starting from the age of two. There are no restrictions on the amount of drink consumed, only individual intolerance.

The product is not allergenic, does not cause heaviness or difficulty in the digestion process, but if you have stomach diseases, it should be taken with great caution. If it is difficult to prepare fruit juice every day, you can prepare the preparation and store it in a glass container in the refrigerator. Frozen and fresh berries are equally healthy. You can survive the off-season without compromising your health with the help of cranberry nectar: ​​simple, appetizing and healthy.

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Culinary Etude 01/11/2018

Dear readers, you must agree that the best thing is when the drinks that appear on our table are not only tasty, but also healthy. And today we will talk about just one of these drinks - cranberry juice. Natalya Litvishko, author of the blog “About money and not only...” I give the floor to her about the benefits and how to prepare cranberry juice at home.

What is fruit drink

The fruit drink got its name from the Byzantine “mursa” - water with honey, a corruption of the Latin “mulsa”. Morse is prepared from berries such as cranberries, cherries, lingonberries, red currants, raspberries, blackberries, bird cherry, thorns, that is, either those that have a lot of seeds or are collected in large volumes.

To prepare fruit juice, berries are taken by volume or weight 2-3 times less than water, and boiled for 2-4 hours, depending on the volume. Then it is left to settle, drained, filtered, and the grounds are squeezed out. Sugar or honey, sometimes spices, are added to the resulting juice, heated again to a boil, after which the drink is ready.

What are the benefits of cranberry juice?

Cranberry is a unique berry; it contains many substances necessary for our body: organic acids, pectins, natural sugars - glucose, fructose, sucrose, vitamins, micro- and macroelements, tannins, etc. You can read more about the benefits of cranberries in the article

When cranberry juice is prepared correctly, almost all the beneficial substances are retained in the drink, so it is not surprising that it has so many beneficial properties.

Cranberry juice will help:

• reduce the temperature and alleviate the patient’s condition during fever;
• lower blood pressure;
• improve sleep;
• increase immunity;
• cleanse the vessels;
• cope with sore throat;
• cope with poisoning;
• reduce nausea;
• remove excess water from the body.

Contraindications

Despite all the benefits that cranberry juice can bring to health, it is worth knowing about the restrictions on its use. One of the contraindications is individual intolerance to cranberries and products made from them. These also include diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Moderate consumption of a vitamin drink in a reduced concentration of juice is possible only with the permission of a doctor.

Secrets of making delicious cranberry juice

Dishes for preparing cranberry juice

It is very important to choose the right container for preparing cranberry juice. The berry is rich in organic acids. Therefore, duralumin utensils are not suitable for preparing a drink - the acids will react with the metal.

It is also undesirable to use stainless steel utensils. Although this material is more resistant to acids due to alloying additives, it is still a metal. The best option is enamel, glass or ceramic dishes.

It is preferable to take wooden or ceramic crushers and pestles for squeezing juice from berries. You can puree the cranberries in a blender or food processor. But it is undesirable to use a meat grinder for these purposes - the knives in them are made of iron, the oxidation process will accelerate. Fruit juice after such processing of berries may have a metallic taste.

Precautionary measures

Cranberry is a juicy berry. To avoid damaging your clothes with juice that accidentally gets in while mashing the berries, use an apron. But it’s not even so scary that the juice gets on your clothes. Beware of accidentally getting the juice into your eyes - the acid can cause severe irritation to the mucous membrane of the eyes.

Squeeze the juice while wearing rubber or silicone kitchen gloves to protect your hands from acids and staining from the juice.

Do not strain freshly brewed fruit juice to avoid thermal burns.

How to prepare berries for cranberry juice

Fresh berries should be rinsed with cool water in a colander, pouring the raw materials into it in small portions. Place the colander with the berries in a kitchen basin or deep cup of water. Change the water several times.

When washing the berries with running water, watch the pressure. Too much pressure can damage the shell of the berries, and then the juice will escape.

After washing, the berries are ready for further use.

If you have frozen the berries after this, then when you are ready to prepare fruit juice, all you have to do is take them out of the freezer and put them to use. If you use frozen cranberries from the store, you need to rinse them in a colander several times with cool water without defrosting. During the washing process, the berries will partially thaw.

Some recipes can use partially defrosted cranberries. For recipes that require juicing, the cranberries should be allowed to thaw at room temperature.

Dried cranberries should be washed, changing the water a couple of times. It can be used to prepare an infusion or decoction.

Cranberry juice recipes

There are several ways to prepare cranberry juice:

1. Simple, no heat treatment.
2. With juice extraction from boiled berries.
3. With the addition of pre-prepared cranberry juice.
4. Infusion.
5. Decoction.

I will not give strict weight ratios of products. Quantity calculation: two glasses of cranberries per liter of water. It is with these proportions that the fruit drink has a rich taste and beautiful color. Sugar - according to your preference, from a quarter glass.

If the prepared drink turns out to be too sour, you can add boiled water to it or sweeten it with sugar syrup.

It is useful to always have ready-made sugar syrup in the refrigerator. If necessary, it is easier to sweeten a finished cold drink with syrup than with granulated sugar.

Two 200 ml glasses of frozen cranberries are approximately 300 g of berries. Measuring cup full to the brim - 200 g.

If you replace sugar with honey, remember that honey does not like high temperatures, its beneficial substances are destroyed and only sweetness remains.

Now, using specific recipes, we will look at how to prepare cranberry juice.

Cranberry juice without cooking - a simple recipe

Do you remember how, as a child, you quickly made yourself a drink by stirring a couple of spoons of any jam in a glass of water? It was delicious? This is the simplest fruit drink recipe.

To obtain a preparation for such a fruit drink, mash the berries with a masher, add sugar, grind well and place in jars. For two glasses of berries, take from half to a whole glass of sugar. It all depends on how sour the berry is and your taste preferences. You can make this preparation in a food processor. The degree of crushing of the berries will be higher.

To make the cranberry juice itself, you need to stir 2-3 teaspoons of previously prepared cranberries with sugar in a glass of chilled boiled water. That's it, the simplest cranberry juice is ready.

This preparation should be stored in the refrigerator.

This is a suitable option for fruit drink when there is no need to prepare it in large quantities. It is also good to use in hot weather. Sourish cranberry juice perfectly quenches thirst, refreshes and tones.

I suggest you watch the video. A quick recipe for making cranberry juice.

Cranberry juice from frozen berries - recipe with step-by-step photos

Pour the washed, not completely defrosted berries into a pan with cold water.

Bring to a boil, simmer for 10-15 minutes at minimum temperature.

The cooking time will depend on the type of cranberry. Cranberries grown on agricultural farms require more time to boil. It has a denser shell. Agrotechnical varieties are bred specifically taking into account transportation and long-term storage. Cranberries collected in the natural environment are smaller, the skin on the berries is thinner. Cooking time can be reduced.

Leave covered until almost completely cooled.

Strain the drink through a sieve lined with gauze or linen napkin. I use a linen napkin.

Squeeze the juice from the berries through two layers of gauze or a linen napkin. From cultivated varieties of berries, the pomace will have a consistency similar to puree.

To prevent juice stains from remaining on linen napkins, just rinse them well with cold water and boil them in a small amount of water with the addition of baking soda. Let cool in soda water. After this, simply rinse in cold water. No stains, no odors!

Return the remaining pulp to the sieve and pour over the cooled broth to make the most of the juice that did not pass through the napkin. From two glasses of cranberries there will be such a handful of cake left.

Add sugar syrup to the fruit drink to taste.

Cranberry juice with freshly squeezed cranberry juice

Place a pan of water on the stove. By the time the water boils, squeeze the juice from the berries. To do this, place the washed berries in a two-layer gauze bag or linen napkin, crush them, and squeeze the juice into a glass container.

Add berry pulp to boiling water. Boil for 5-7 minutes. Turn off the stove. Pour in cranberry juice. Add sugar.

You can also add juice to a cooled drink. Then the squeezed juice should be kept in the refrigerator until use, sweetened with sugar syrup. It is believed that this method of preparation preserves the most vitamins.

Cranberry juice without cooking (infusion)

Pour two cups of crushed berries into a half-liter thermos and pour boiling water over it. Let it brew for 6-8 hours. Strain the resulting infusion and squeeze out the juice.

Store the infusion in the refrigerator in a glass container for a week. Separately boil sugar syrup. Dilute the infusion with cold boiled water, add sugar syrup to taste.

Cranberry juice from dried/dried berries (decoction)

Now you can find dried cranberries on sale. The concentration of nutrients in the dried product is much higher, and the amount of organic acids is less.

For making fruit juice from dried cranberries, the decoction recipe is most suitable. Pour the prepared raw materials with cold water, bring to a boil, simmer over low heat for 15-20 minutes, turn off the stove, add sugar or sugar syrup to taste.

Delicious cranberry and blackcurrant juice

For this drink you need to take a glass of cranberries and black currants per one and a half liters of water. Squeeze juice from berries. Place the berry pulp into boiling water. Let it simmer for 5-7 minutes. Cool the resulting broth. Strain off the pulp. Add the squeezed juice and sugar syrup to the cooled broth to taste.

How to make sugar syrup

Notice that I always recommend adding sugar syrup. To prepare it, you will need a low saucepan with a thick bottom, a spoon, water, and sugar.

Take two parts sugar and one part water. You will get a thick sugar syrup. For one part sugar, one part water. Medium consistency syrup.

Measure out the water, pour into the saucepan, and bring to a boil. Add sugar little by little, stirring until the grains are completely dissolved. Bring to a boil, remove from heat. After cooling to room temperature, pour into a glass container. Store in the refrigerator.

I hope the recipes and those little secrets of making delicious cranberry juice that I shared with you will be useful to you. If you have questions, ask in the comments, I will be happy to answer. Good health to everyone!

Natalia Litvishko

I thank Natalia for all the cranberry juice recipes that she shared with us. I myself love to simply eat this berry with sugar, but this is not suitable for everyone. And then fruit drinks really help out a lot. This or that recipe will definitely turn out to be the most suitable.

Cranberry juice in questions and answers

Is it possible to give cranberry juice to children and at what age?

It is not recommended to give raw cranberries to children under 3 years of age. Include caution in the diet of children with allergic reactions. Cranberry juice can be administered to healthy children from 1 year of age. But it is better to dilute it with boiled water 1:1. It's better to cook without sugar. Acceptable norm for children under one year: 10-20 g (1-2 tbsp.) berries per day, no more than 2 times a week.

From 3 years old, a child’s diet can be safely diversified. Make cranberry-based purees, smoothies, compotes, or simply eat raw berries.

Can you drink cranberry juice if you have diabetes?

Many berries raise blood sugar, but cranberries do not. It does not increase blood sugar, and in type 2 diabetes it lowers it a little more.

However, you should not abuse, even if it is a useful product. 240 ml per day will be quite enough to vitaminize the body.

Is it possible to drink cranberry juice during pregnancy?

We talked about everything in more detail in the article. There you will find recipes for fruit drinks and other healthy cranberry drinks that can be consumed during pregnancy.

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