Reduce currant juice »Basic recipe with tips and hints

Win currant juice and boil it down

You can make currants relatively easily juicing without a juicer and boil down.

ingredients

• 1 kg of fresh currants
• 500 ml of water
• 200 - 400 g sugar

Required kitchen equipment

• 2 large saucepans
• Kitchen sieve
• Cheesecloth
• funnel
• Sterilized juice bottles with matching closures

preparation

1. Remove the currants from the panicles with a fork and wash them thoroughly.
2. Heat the water in a saucepan and add the currants.
3. Bring to the boil once and continue to simmer until all the berries have burst.
4. Pour through a sieve into the second pot and squeeze out the pulp with a soup ladle.
5. Put through the cheesecloth back into the first saucepan.
6. Bring the juice to the boil and add sugar.
7. As soon as the sugar crystals have dissolved, pour the hot juice into the previously sterilized bottles.
8. Close very well immediately.
9. Let cool and store in a dark, cool place.

Obtain juice with the juicer

This method is gentler, as more of the valuable ingredients of the currants are retained. Water is poured into the lower part of the device and the berries are placed in a sieve insert over it. The water is heated and steam rises, dissolving the liquid from the berries. In order for the juice obtained in this way to be preserved, you must also boil it down.

Pasteurize currant juice

Mix the juice per kilo of berries with 250 - 500 g sugar and stir until the crystals have dissolved. Then fill into sterilized juice bottles.

1. Place the opened bottles in a roaster and pour about three centimeters of water.
2. Boil in the oven at 75 degrees for 20 minutes.
3. Close immediately.