Cranberry juice - we prepare our own natural cure for flu and colds
With the arrival of October, it becomes disgusting and damp on the street, and colds increasingly remind of themselves to those who have not yet had time to change light clothes for warmer seasonal clothes. However, there is one wonderful remedy that our grandmothers used to protect our body from a cold, cough and other delights of the disease - this is cranberry juice. In addition to being very tasty, the drink is also extremely healthy due to the rich vitamin composition of red berries. The most important thing is to properly prepare the fruit drink in order to preserve the maximum amount of vitamins, and then it can really not only quench your thirst, but also strengthen the immune system. We know some tricks on how to do this, and we will gladly share the secret with you.
So that the berries do not lose their beneficial properties, they must be properly prepared. From 0.5 kg of cranberries, 3 liters of fruit drink are obtained.
Preparation of berries
First, pour the cranberries into a bowl and rinse thoroughly under running water. To drain the excess, put the berries in a colander. By the way, there is absolutely no need to sit and painstakingly select each leaf or twig, because they still will not get into the fruit drink itself.
So, the berries are washed and now we start the process itself:
- Fill cranberry with boiling water.
- Cover and leave for 15 minutes, no longer. During this time, the berries will steam up and then give the juice better.
- After a quarter of an hour, cover the pan, in which the fruit drink will be prepared, with gauze folded in 4 layers, and strain the steamed berries through it.
- Now, right in a colander on gauze, we begin to squeeze the juice from the berries using a potato grinder.
- We twist the cheesecloth into a kind of bag and squeeze the juice out of it with the same potato grinder.
In total, we got two ingredients: juice together with water, which we poured over the berries, and pomace. Pour the liquid part into a bowl and set it aside. We put the pomace in a saucepan - you can still get juice from them.
The gauze must be folded in 4 layers, otherwise it will break during the extraction of cranberry juice.
Cranberry juice - stages of preparation
To get 3 liters of fruit drink from 0.5 kg of cranberries, fill the pomace with water in an amount of about 2.5 liters. We put on fire and begin to warm up. All this time we continue to knead the berries.
If the fruit drink is prepared for adults, add 1 glass of sugar to the specified amount of liquid. For children, it's better to make an unsweetened drink.
It is impossible to bring to a boil, because then we will lose most of the vitamins, in particular vitamin C. Therefore, when the liquid is about to boil (bubbles will appear along the edge of the cake), the pan must be removed from the stove and filtered.
In conclusion, it remains to combine the strained infusion of pomace and cranberry juice and enjoy a fragrant drink of a beautiful ruby color.