Easy and quick: Make homemade cherry juice!
Make homemade cherry juice which is an ideal refreshment for warm days.
Cherries are one of the favorite fruits used throughout the year. However, their season is short and most people try to use them fresh, both for food and cakes, and some put them in the freezer. Of course, we should not forget our favorite drink from this sour-sweet fruit - juice, which refreshes us, especially during the summer months.
Ingredients:
- 3 kg cherries
- 2.5 liters of water
- 1 sachet of lemon juice
- 1 kg of sugar per liter of juice obtained
Preparation:
- Clean the cherries from the stalks and wash well.
- Put them in a bowl with lemon juice and water.
- Mash the cherries, then cover the dish and leave it in a cool place for 24 hours.
- After that time, strain the cherries and measure the amount of liquid you have received.
- Pour into the bowl in which it will be cooked, add as many kilograms of sugar as you got from a liter of juice and mix well to melt.
- Put on the stove and cook at a moderate temperature.
- When foam appears, remove it.
- Continue cooking the juice for another five minutes after removing the foam.
- Wash the glass juice bottles well, dry them and sterilize them in the oven at 150 degrees for about 5 minutes.
- Pour hot juice into hot bottles.
- Allow the bottles to cool to room temperature, then store them in a cool, dark place.
