With the arrival of autumn and colder, gloomy days, nature presents us with a multitude of medicinal plants, and beautiful and healthy fruits of diverse appearance, taste, and color. One of them is the blackberry, a sweet black fruit with an intense aroma and exquisite taste.
You will easily find it in nature, along the edge of the forest, or in thickets, and recently it is more and more often grown in the gardens of growers. Although blackberry fruit is edible and very tasty, it will provide a special aroma and taste if you process it into jam, liqueur, wine, syrup, or juice.
Blackberry jam will give desserts an irresistible sweet-sour taste with a recognizable smell, well-chilled liqueur will serve as a perfect aperitif during toasts, but many will agree that it is blackberry juice that will provide the body with a lot of nutrients and energy, thus refreshing you. to quench thirst.
Although the blackberry is a wild plant that grows in nature and as such produces very sweet and tasty fruits, today various varieties with different characteristics are cultivated, both in terms of the appearance of the plant and fruit, as well as the purpose of processing.
If you want to prepare healthy and refreshing blackberry juice, it is best to look for them in their natural habitat, because that way you will get a sweet drink with a particularly pleasant smell and aroma.
But in the absence of them, cultivated blackberries that you will find in stores or from local growers will be sufficient. Blackberries are available for sale at markets, stores, and local growers.
When buying, pay attention to the firmness of the fruit and its color, which should be uniform and vary from dark purple to black.
In the absence of fresh blackberries, you will be served frozen ones, which can also be found in stores.
Blackberry juice is a medicinal and refreshing drink with a specific sweet taste and a recognizable aroma.
Diluted with water and served with a few ice cubes and a slice of lemon, it will provide you with an indescribable rhapsody of taste and aroma and at the same time quench your thirst and restore energy to your body.
It is easy to prepare, does not require a lot of time and ingredients, and brings satisfaction to housewives who are happy to prepare it, but also to tasters, especially children.
During the preparation of the juice, you can reduce or increase the amount of sugar depending on the taste and the variety of blackberries you have.
You can pour blackberry juice into plastic bottles and, if necessary, freeze it without fear of spoilage. Leave the frozen juice to thaw, dilute with water if necessary and enjoy a quality and refreshing drink.
Prepared according to the recipe of our grandmothers, whose pantries were full of delicious fruit preserves, this juice in combination with plain or mineral water will give you an indescribable taste and aroma. You will get 3 liters of juice from the quantity of the mentioned ingredients.
Blackberry Juice
Ingredients
- 5 kg of blackberries
- 2 kg of sugar
- Juice of two lemons
Instructions
Wash the healthy, undamaged blackberries and drain well, transfer to a pan and cook on low heat for 10 minutes
Then blend the blackberries in a blender, return the resulting juice to the saucepan and add sugar
Cook on low heat with constant stirring until the sugar melts, and at the end of cooking, add lemon juice and mix well
Sterilize juice bottles and pour hot juice into hot
Cover the top of the bottle with cellophane and then the cap. Let them cool completely and store them in a dark and cool place
Serving:
Serve diluted with water or mineral water and ice cubes
Tip:
The syrup will be even more aromatic if you have the opportunity to get wild, not cultivated, blackberries
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