Berries juice a la grandma, without a "proper" juicer
Here is an old method of making berry juice by steam. If you do not have a steam extractor, but feel like experimenting in the kitchen, I introduce here this old method:
You need:
- Berries that you want to juice - about 750 g
- A big pot with a lid
- 1 wooden board that fits in the large pot on the floor - or a small tile. Anyway, something on which the small pot is higher.
- 1 small pot standing on the wooden board / base.
- 1 cheesecloth - fresh diaper, e.g. and water
That is how it goes:
- Place the board in the large pot and place the small pot on it.
- Water is filled up to half of the small pot in the large pot.
- A cloth is placed over the large pot, you need someone who holds with, so that the cloth does not slip into the pot.
- The berries come washed in the cloth. They lie in it like in a hammock.
- Now put the lid on and tie the ends of the cheesecloth on top of the lid.
- Put the pot on the stove, boil the water in it.
The following happens now:
The steam rises, the berries burst and the juice runs into the small pot. That takes about fifteen minutes.
Be careful when opening - hot steam escapes!
You can now squeeze the berries in the cloth, then you get even more juice.
This juice can be boiled with jelly sugar to jelly, or boil with sugar and fill in bottles.
If you want to consume the juice in the next two weeks, it is not necessary for preservation, a lot of sugar.
This type of preparation is intended for small amounts of juice. A glass of sparkling or sparkling wine with homemade redcurrant juice is something fine.
I wish you a lot of success and helping hands, if you want to try the "juicing à la grandma".
