A simple recipe for making lingonberry juice for the winter

Beautiful, bright lingonberries ripen at the end of August, and they can be harvested until November. In addition to a large amount of vitamins and minerals, lingonberries contain a natural preservative - benzoic acid, thanks to which the berries can be stored for a long time without any processing. Since lingonberries are not eaten fresh, it is better to prepare them for the winter, for example, freeze them, make jam or lingonberry juice according to one of the various recipes.

Content

1 Cooking features
2 Preparation of the main ingredient
3 Lingonberry juice recipes
4 Storage of fruit drinks

Cooking features

This refreshing, healthy drink retains a maximum of vitamins. It is good to give it to children and adults, especially in winter, during colds. Morse can be boiled or cooked without boiling for a long time. The latter option is more saturated with valuable components, but it can be stored worse.

Morse made from one lingonberry (with sugar or honey, since it is sour) is delicious on its own. For a change, you can combine lingonberries with cranberries, blueberries, strawberries, cinnamon, ginger, lemon, mint.

Preparation of the main ingredient

Lingonberry does not require special preparation - it is enough to rinse it under running water, remove leaves, small debris. You can dry the berries on a towel. If the hostess takes lingonberries from the freezer, they must first be defrosted.

Lingonberry juice recipes

Fresh berries for the winter

You will need:

0.5 kg of fresh lingonberries;
3 liters of filtered water;
0.5 kg of sugar or honey to taste;
half a lemon.

Preparation:

You will need a piece of gauze or a fine sieve. Place clean berries there, put a glass or enamel container under the bottom. Crush in a puree with a wooden mortar, carefully squeeze the lingonberry mass so that it releases all the juice.
At this time, bring water to a boil in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Put berry cake and sliced lemon in water, cook over medium heat for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, add sugar or honey, stir.
When the broth has cooled to room temperature, strain it. The berry mass can be thrown away. Add squeezed juice to the pan.
The drink can be consumed immediately or rolled up in sterilized jars.

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Frozen lingonberry

Frozen lingonberry juice is good because it can be prepared at any time of the year or use berries from the store.

You will need:

2 cups frozen berries
2 liters of filtered water;
4 tbsp. l. honey;
1 cinnamon stick (optional)

Preparation:

The berries need to be defrosted, it is better to do this naturally, without using a microwave oven and other quick methods.
Squeeze the juice out of the lingonberries using a sieve or gauze.
Boil water in a thick-walled saucepan, add cinnamon and berry cake there, boil for 3-4 minutes. Remove from heat.
Add honey to a saucepan, stir. When the mass has cooled to room temperature, strain it, add lingonberry juice to the liquid.
Morse is ready. You can serve it to the table or roll it up in sterilized bottles.

Lingonberry and cranberry

You will need:

200 g of fresh cranberries and lingonberries;
2.5 liters of filtered water;
honey, sugar to taste;
half a large or one small lemon;
a couple of sprigs of fresh mint.

Preparation:

Rinse, remove debris and dry the fruits.
Place the berries in a sieve or cheesecloth, crush to release all the juice.
Add berry cake, sliced lemon and mint to boiling water. Boil for about 5 minutes, add honey or sugar, stir, remove from heat.
When the liquid has cooled to room temperature, strain it and roll it up in pre-sterilized containers.

Can fromcook fruit drink according to this recipe with the addition of not only cranberries, but also blueberries, strawberries, raspberries. Lingonberry goes well with other forest and garden berries.

Recipe without cooking

To make fruit drink especially useful and rich in vitamins, berries do not need to be exposed to high temperatures. You can make a really healthy drink without boiling using this recipe.

You will need:

300 g fresh or frozen lingonberries;
2 liters of water;
sugar or honey to taste.

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Preparation:

Place clean, sorted lingonberries in a sieve or colander.
Boil water, pour boiling water over the berries, you can several times.
Kill the scalded berries with a blender in mashed potatoes, place in a deep container and pour 2 liters of clean drinking water. Let stand for 30 minutes.
After half an hour, strain the berry mass, the cake can be thrown away, and the lingonberry juice itself can be filled with honey or sugar.

Such a drink must be consumed within 2 days or rolled up, after having previously pasteurized.

Storage of fruit drinks

The less berries are cooked, the more vitamins are stored.... If possible, it is better to freeze lingonberries and cook fruit drinks for one or two days as needed. However, many useful substances also remain in the home-made canned drink, it is tasty, refreshing and always at hand.

In order for the lingonberry juice to be well stored, several conditions must be observed:

During the preparation of the blanks, observe the greatest possible cleanliness - it is good to wash the berries, hands, all used dishes.
Sugar is a natural preservative. It is better to prepare a sweet drink and dilute it with water, than it will start to deteriorate even before opening.
Since it is undesirable to cook berry fruit drinks for a long time, a maximum of 5 minutes, it is better to pasteurize the finished rolled jars.

To do this, you need to put them in a basin or pan with a wide bottom and pour water, not reaching 3-4 cm to the top of the cans. Turn on the fire and bring the jars to a near boil. It is good if you have a kitchen thermometer - the temperature of the water in the pan should not exceed 90 degrees. Pasteurize the cans for 8-10 minutes, then carefully remove them, turn them upside down, wrap them in a blanket and leave to cool.