Delicious lingonberry juice. How to make lingonberry juice from fresh or frozen berries

Fruit drink made from fresh or frozen berries is a source of vitamins and other useful substances. And if the main component is lingonberry fruits, then the positive effect of such a drink on the body is difficult to overestimate. The product helps tissues fight cancer cells and infectious agents, has tonic, strengthening and antipyretic properties. But to obtain the desired result, you need to know how to properly cook the composition so that important chemical compounds are not destroyed during processing. And you should start with proper preparation berries to the process.

General rules and nuances of working with lingonberries

To prepare 3 liters of drink you will need about 2-3 glasses of lingonberries. Before starting work, wash the product several times in standing water. Although the berries are covered with a fairly dense skin, if running liquid is used, it can burst. The fruits will lose juice, which will affect the quality of the final product. To obtain an ideal result, the components are first washed in warm water, then once in cool water.

In addition, you should learn a few more rules:

The prepared berries are ground through a sieve. Fruit juice is usually prepared exclusively from the pomace, and the juice is added to finished product. Ceramic or glassware. The high acidity of the composition in contact with metal can provoke a chemical reaction.
You should not “cook” the drink for several minutes. It is better to remove it from the stove immediately after boiling. This will preserve vitamins and other chemical elements in the product.

Tip: Lingonberry drink is tastier and healthier when fresh, so you should not prepare it in large quantities at one time. After just a few hours, not even half of the elements that were there at the beginning remain in the mass. As a last resort, the product can be stored in the refrigerator, but no more than two days.

When a recipe involves the use of sugar, and you want to get the maximum result useful composition, the sweet component should be replaced with honey. However, it is worth considering that it will only act as a sweetener, because at high temperatures the beneficial substances in it are destroyed. If you want to avoid this, then honey should be added to the already prepared fruit drink.

Some housewives prefer to blanch the berries before boiling the drink. This allows you to get the maximum rich taste, but the benefits of such a product are much less.

Classic and unusual recipes for lingonberry juice

The approach to preparing a drink from lingonberries depends on the presence of additional components in the composition. Most often, housewives use the following recipes and approaches:

Classic fruit drink. For 0.5 kg of lingonberries, take 3 liters of water and sugar to taste. Squeeze the juice from the berries. Place the pulp in a saucepan, add water, and add a little sugar. Place the container on the fire and bring the mixture to a boil. There is no need to boil the composition, just remove it after boiling and cool. Then strain the mixture, add the squeezed juice and serve.
Drink with cranberries. For 300 g of lingonberries, take 200 g of cranberries, 3 liters of water and sugar to taste. Combine the berries, grind them, express the juice. Fill the cake with water and put it on fire. The mixture should be cooked for no more than a minute after boiling. Then remove it from the stove, add sugar and cool. Strain the product and add berry juice to it.
Morse with mint. For 0.5 kg of berries, take a few fresh mint leaves, 3 liters of water and sugar to taste. The drink must be brewed according to classic recipe
. The only thing is that washed and dried mint leaves are added to the berry mass along with water and sugar. Lingonberries with beets.

For 300 g of lingonberries, take 200 g of beets, 3 liters of water and sugar to taste. Grind the berries through a sieve and express the juice. Place the pulp into a cooking pan, and add the peeled and grated beets there. Add sugar, fill everything with water and bring to a boil. Strain the finished mixture and add juice to it.

To prepare tasty and healthy lingonberry juice with other ingredients, we follow the same plan. The main thing is to select well-combined ingredients that do not interrupt the taste and aroma of each other, but emphasize each other.

How to cook fruit drink from frozen lingonberries?

The approach to preparing fruit juice from frozen lingonberries is slightly different from the usual method. In this case, the drink will have to not only be brought to a boil, but boiled. But here you don’t need to limit yourself to one component; you can safely use auxiliary components.
For 500 g of frozen berries, take 3 liters of water and sugar to taste. If sugar is replaced with honey, then it is added only to the finished chilled composition.
Fill the workpiece with water and put it on fire. Bring the mixture to a boil and cook over low heat for 5 minutes.
Ready drink Remove from heat, strain through cheesecloth and cool. If you want to get a richer taste, first infuse the product, then filter it.

Despite all its positive characteristics, fruit juice made from lingonberries has one contraindication. It should not be consumed by people experiencing problems with the stomach and other digestive organs. The abundance of acids in the product can aggravate chronic processes or simply cause discomfort.

A drink made from berries, prepared independently, guarantees that the body receives a pure complex of vitamins. Lingonberry juice is one of the simple, tasty and healthy drinks that can be prepared both for consumption in the near future and for storing for the winter.

Of course, fresh berries have the maximum number of nutrients, unlike frozen or dried ones.

Ingredients:

3 liters distilled water
0.5 kg of ripe lingonberries
4-6 tablespoons sugar, adjust to taste

Preparing a simple fruit drink:

First of all, wash the fruits thoroughly: keep them warm for a few minutes, and then rinse them under running cold water.
The fruits must be manually rubbed through a fine sieve. Squeeze the juice out of the resulting puree using gauze, place the dry extracts in an enamel container, pour in 3 liters of water and put on fire.
When the fruit drink preparation boils, add sugar and stir thoroughly. Cook for 15 hours over medium heat.
Add freshly squeezed juice to the almost finished drink, mix well and cook for another 5-7 minutes.

How to make fruit drink from frozen lingonberries?

Morse made from frozen lingonberries is not as healthy as those made from fresh fruits. However, it retains quite a number of useful properties and taste qualities.

Products:

400 g frozen berries
2 liters of purified water
3-4 spoons of sugar
1 clove inflorescence
1 g vanilla

Preparation:

Thaw the fruits at room temperature, rinse under running water, and place in a sieve or colander.
Grind the berries in a blender, squeeze the juice from the pulp into a separate container.
Place the pomace in a saucepan and add water, bring to a boil.
After boiling, reduce the heat and add sugar, vanilla and cloves. Cook for 5-7 minutes. Remove the drink from the heat and let cool slightly.
Strain the drink through a sieve, pour the juice into the fruit drink and mix well.

When preparing a drink from frozen fruits, you do not need to separate the juice from the berry puree.

Note! Lingonberry juice is useful for infectious diseases, cancer, and is also popular as an antipyretic drink.

Recipe without cooking
Today, a raw food diet is popular - eating foods without heat treatment.

We suggest preparing lingonberry juice without cooking.

Products for raw food drink:

2 cups lingonberries
1 cup agave syrup or liquid honey
1.5 liters of water at a temperature of no more than 40 degrees

Preparation of the drink:

Rub clean berries through a sieve using a spoon. This way the juice should be pressed into the container.
Pass water through a sieve with the remaining berries and press the remaining cake again with a spoon.
Pour syrup or honey directly into the container with juice, depending on what you choose. Stir the prepared fruit juice thoroughly.

This fruit drink has a rather interesting taste due to its freshness. But it is better to drink the drink prepared in this way within the next 2-3 hours, otherwise useful qualities will start to disappear.

Note! Lingonberry juice is contraindicated for gastritis, colitis and similar gastrointestinal diseases. Fruits have a large amount of acid, which negatively affects damage to the digestive organs.

Lingonberry juice for the winter

Housewives often prepare fruit drinks, compotes and preserves for the winter. After all, this great option cook completely natural product, without unnecessary additives and dyes. In addition, homemade preparations are much cheaper than store-bought ones.

Ingredients for fruit drink for 1 3-liter bottle:

4 cups lingonberries
as much water as will fit into the bottle in addition to the berries
1-1.5 cups sugar

How to prepare lingonberry juice for the winter:

Carefully sort the berries for spoilage, rinse and place in a pre-sterilized bottle.
Boil water and then pour it over the berries. Let it brew for a third of an hour.
Strain the water through a sieve into a separate pan, leaving the berries in the container. Boil and add sugar, boil again. Make sure the sugar dissolves.
Pour the syrup over the berries and roll up immediately.

Recipe for lingonberry juice with cranberries

This mix is a real vitamin boost in the autumn-spring period.

To prepare take:

250 g cranberries
400 g lingonberries
4-5 spoons of sugar
2.5-3 liters of drinking water

Preparation of the drink:

Rinse the fruits and rub through a sieve. Squeeze juice from berry puree. Place the liquid in the refrigerator for a while.
Pour the remaining dry pomace with water, sweeten it and put it on the fire, bring to a boil. Afterwards you can immediately remove from the stove.
Cool the fruit drink and strain through a sieve to remove any remaining cake. Mix the finished drink with fresh juice and serve.

The drink should be consumed within the next 24 hours.

Lingonberry juice with beets

Beetroot and lingonberry juice would be quite interesting.

Products for cooking:

400 g lingonberry berries
300 g beets
3-3.5 liters of drinking water
3-6 spoons of sugar.

Preparation:

Prepare the berries in the same way as in previous recipes, not excluding squeezing the juice. Peel and grate the beets, mix with berry pulp.
Pour water over the raw material, sweeten it, and let it cook. After boiling, cook for 3-5 minutes.
Further steps are standard - strain the boiled fruit juice and mix with juice.

The drink is very healthy, especially during colds. But children may not like it - in this case, you can add more sugar, and better than honey, which contains a lot of useful microelements.

Fruit drink with apples

The lingonberry-apple juice turns out to be tasty and aromatic. Even the littlest picky eaters will appreciate this drink!

Beverage products:

2 heaped glasses of lingonberries
4 medium sweet apples
1-1.5 liters of water
1 cup of sugar

Preparation:

Wash all berries and fruits. Cut the apples into quarters and remove the membranes in the middle.
Place a saucepan of water on the fire. Place apple slices and berries in it. Add sugar and stir. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon.
Once it boils, cover tightly and turn off the heat.

IN this option According to the recipe, the drink is infused in hot liquid. Once cool, you can pour it into a refrigerator storage container, such as a screw-top bottle or carafe.

On a note. Considering the acidity of the berries, it is recommended to add sugar to taste - some people like very sweet fruit drinks, while others like sourness.

Mint recipe

Mint leaves add flavor to the drink spicy note, thanks to which the familiar taste of fruit drink acquires new flavor notes.

Ingredients

0.5 kg lingonberries
2-4 sprigs of fresh mint
2.5-3 liters of water
3-5 spoons of sugar.

Preparation of the drink:

The beginning of preparation is no different from the usual scheme: prepare the juice and pomace. Tear off mint leaves and rinse them.
Sprinkle the pomace with sugar, mix and leave for 3-5 minutes. Next, add water, add mint and start cooking. Immediately after boiling, remove the drink from the stove.
After the mor has cooled a little, strain it from the remaining berries and leaves, mix with juice and serve with puff pastry. fragrant baked goods with berries or fruits.

Mint juice with lingonberries is good in summer season— mint gives a refreshing effect, in combination with berries it invigorates well.

Lingonberry juice is one of the traditional Russian drinks that was invariably present on the tables of our ancestors. It is not difficult to explain such popularity of the drink. The juicy berries ripen in the fall, when the harvest has already been harvested and you can go into the forest for lingonberries. In addition, there are no problems with storage, even in an unheated room. After all, fruit juice made from frozen lingonberries is no less tasty and healthy than fresh ones.

Thrifty housewives prepared berries in huge quantities. Children helped them in this from a very early age. And the whole family was provided with a real vitamin cocktail. Our ancestors knew about the properties of lingonberry juice, its benefits and harm to the body many centuries before medical research showed it. For example, lingonberry juice helped against edema during pregnancy, but those who suffer from stomach pain should not drink it.

How to make a drink from lingonberries?

Morse is a drink in which lingonberry juice is diluted with water. Everything seems to be clear. But in Russian cuisine there are so many recipes for its preparation, both with and without cooking, that sometimes it can be difficult to choose the best one. Lingonberries are not the only berry from which fruit juice can be made. In Rus' it was made from cranberries, raspberries and sometimes blueberries. That is, from those berries that can be collected in large quantities. More “piece” fruits, such as strawberries, were usually not used. But in winter they prepared fruit juice only from frozen berries. There was no other way to store raw materials suitable for this drink. And raspberries and blueberries could only be dried.

So, the starting material for making lingonberry juice is fresh or frozen berries. You cannot wash it before putting it in the freezer. In this case, when frozen, lingonberries almost do not lose their beneficial properties, and the taste of the berry does not change.

An old and proven recipe

The simplest recipe for making fruit juice has been used for centuries. In order to prepare lingonberry juice (and not only), washed and sorted berries need to be crushed, diluted with water and... that’s it. In the old days in Rus', sugar was a great delicacy; it was eaten like candy. Even wealthy people did not add it in its pure form to drinks. Therefore, in search of an answer to the question of how to prepare fruit juice according to ancient recipes, it is useless to determine the exact recipe. After all, before, as now, some liked it “sour,” and others liked it “sweeter.”

Nowadays, fruit juice is prepared according to the following recipe:

0.5 kg of berries;
3 liters of cold (purified, boiled or spring) water.

When preparing lingonberry juice, the recipe, or rather its proportions, can be changed. But you can change the basic components. At the same time, the beneficial properties of lingonberries in combination with other berries will certainly be preserved.

You just need to mash the well-washed berries with a masher and add water. The drink is ready, and there is no need to cook lingonberry juice. Moreover, water can be added several more times. Although nutritional properties fruit juice will deteriorate, its beneficial properties will still remain. This “sleepy”, low-concentrated fruit drink can be consumed when breastfeeding, and even in very large quantities. In the old days, lemongrass or mint herb was sometimes added to such a fruit drink. And since these days there is no problem with sugar, the last product added to taste will make the drink more familiar to a modern person.

It is surprising that jelly was made from “sleeping” crushed berries or added to the filling for pies. And even this cake still had a lot of benefits!

How to cook fruit juice?

At heat treatment In any product, some of the vitamins and minerals disintegrate. Brewed fruit juice is no exception. Approximately 30% of its usefulness is lost during processing. But its taste improves and the negative impact on the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines decreases. During the feeding period, it is better to drink boiled fruit juice to avoid deterioration in the quality of milk.

The most commonly used are 2 methods of preparing fruit juice.

Recipe one

Rub 0.5 kg of berries through a sieve. Add 3 liters of drinking (boiled or purified) water, approximately 500 g of sugar to the resulting mass and bring to a boil. Is it possible to continue cooking fruit juice? It is forbidden. Further boiling will spoil the taste and neutralize all the benefits of fruit juice.

The cooked mass must be cooled and only then strained. To save money, sugar can be added after straining. By the way, fruit juice without sugar contains only 6-8 kcal. It is rare that a product can be so low in calories with such a high content of nutrients. The calorie content of fruit drink with sugar increases in proportion to the amount of the latter. To reduce it, you can use sugar substitutes, but pregnant women should not do this.

Recipe two

This is the recipe our grandmothers used to make the drink. Therefore, most people are familiar with this taste from childhood. And some may remember how lingonberries boiled in a large saucepan and the berries burst with a characteristic sound.

How to cook childhood fruit juice? You can ignore kilograms and grams. Fill any pan 1/3 full with well-washed berries and add water 2/3 full. This time, any - even from the tap, since the boiling process in this recipe is quite long. Then bring the liquid to a boil, reduce heat and cook for at least another 3-5 minutes. During this time, all the berries will burst with a characteristic sound, releasing their contents. Next, the still hot fruit drink needs to be strained through a sieve, immediately add sugar to taste and then cool. How is this fruit drink useful? Firstly, a lot of vitamins are preserved in this form, and secondly, a child or a nursing mother will like this fruit drink with a softer and more delicate taste much more.

Medicinal properties of lingonberries

Lingonberries, unlike many berries, are rarely eaten just because of their sour-bitter taste. This is why lingonberry juice is valuable and useful. Children drink it with pleasure, and nursing mothers who really need vitamins are not afraid to use it.

But lingonberries have long been known as a medicinal plant, and are recognized not only in folk, but also in traditional medicine. Almost every woman seen in a antenatal clinic has at least once drunk a decoction of lingonberry leaves, which helps prevent swelling. The leaves, unlike the berries, are dried. The taste of the decoction is quite bitter. But for pregnant women, this is the only natural and safe diuretic medicine. It is prescribed not only to women.

The leaves of this plant contain many flavonoids, tannins and acids. In addition to being a diuretic, it has anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties. Lingonberry is such a wonderful berry. A real elixir of health and beauty, because its juice is an excellent antioxidant.

Women in villages tried to get pregnant at the beginning of winter. And not only because of lingonberries. A large number of vegetables, fruits, and berries provided the female body with everything necessary for normal conception, and for already pregnant women they served as a guarantee that the baby would be born strong and healthy.

But if a decoction of leaves is still a real medicine, with its own contraindications and dosage, then a drink made from lingonberries is also a wonderful delicacy. It’s clear how to prepare lingonberry juice, but does this plant have any contraindications?

Contraindications: use with caution

And yet, lingonberry juice is not always useful. Fortunately, the list of contraindications is relatively short. These are peptic ulcers and gastritis with high acidity. For a nursing mother, especially in the first days after childbirth, fruit juice from fresh berries It's better not to drink. This applies to almost all fresh plant products. A newborn sometimes has an unexpected reaction even to the most harmless and hypoallergenic products.

Fresh lingonberry juice has a certain danger for the kidneys. In case of urolithiasis, its use can provoke uncontrolled movement of stones. How to prevent this from happening? Drink boiled fruit juice or lingonberry juice. It is less aggressive on kidney stones. But under the supervision of a doctor, you can be treated with lingonberries even for this disease. The decoction is used as aid. Lingonberries are completely contraindicated only for urate stones. No matter how healthy fruit juice is, in this case it is better not to drink it. In this case possible harm outweighs the benefits.

As already mentioned, lingonberry decoction is widely used during pregnancy for edema. In this sense, fruit drink does not have such a pronounced diuretic effect. Therefore, replace the tasteless broth delicious drink not worth it.

In conclusion, I would like to note that natural homemade drinks are much healthier for the body than store-bought ones. Making lingonberry juice is not a complicated process at all. And if you have the opportunity to go into the forest to pick berries yourself, then this is generally wonderful, because it’s still not worth buying lingonberries from your hands and near the roads. It is better to do this with people you know who can guarantee that it was collected in an environmentally friendly place.

Village grandmothers can tell you how to make lingonberry juice with the addition of other fruits and herbs. Ancient recipes can be very original and unexpected! And every housewife can independently come up with her own and unique recipe this amazing drink using the basic recipes described.

There are many delicious things in Russia traditional drinks, one of them is lingonberry juice. About him beneficial properties known many centuries ago. A freshly prepared drink is good for the body, because it contains many vitamins.

Fresh lingonberries make a drink rich in nutrients.

Cooking time – 25 minutes.

Ingredients:

sugar – 6 tbsp. l.;
water - three liters;
half a kilo of berries.

Preparation:

Pass the berries through a fine sieve and squeeze the juice out of the puree.
Pour the pomace with water, after boiling, add sugar and juice and cook for five minutes.

This drink, prepared without cooking, turns out healthy, because the berries are not subjected to heat treatment and the vitamins are not destroyed.

Ingredients:

water - one and a half liters;
two stacks berries;
stack honey

Preparation:

Grind the berries, the remains with warm water pass through a sieve.
Squeeze the juice out of the remaining pulp again.
Add honey to the juice and stir thoroughly.

The drink has a special taste thanks to the freshness of the berries and honey. You need to drink fruit juice within a few hours until it has maximum benefits.

This drink will charge you with energy and vitamins during the autumn period. If you stock up on berries and freeze them, fruit juice can be prepared during the cold season, when the body needs vitamins.

Ingredients:

water – 1.5 liters;
1 stack lingonberries;
sugar – 3 tbsp. spoon;
cranberries – 120 gr.

Preparation:

Grind the fruits through a sieve and squeeze the juice out of the mass.
Fill the pomace with water, add sugar, when it boils, remove from heat.
Cool and strain the drink, pour in the juice.

If you combine beets with lingonberries, you will get a fruit drink with an interesting taste.

Cooking time – 15 minutes.

Ingredients:

water – 3.5 l;
beets – 320 gr;
six tbsp. l. Sahara;
430 gr. berries

Ingredients:

four apples;
2 stacks berries;
one and a half liters of water;
stack Sahara.

Preparation:

Cut the apples into quarters and remove the seeds.
Pour water over apples and berries, add sugar.
Bring to a boil, cover and leave to cool.

Mint is refreshing and adds flavor to the drink.

Cooking time – 15 minutes.

Ingredients:

5 tbsp. l. Sahara;
four sprigs of mint;
3 l. water;
half a kilo of berries.

Preparation:

Squeeze the juice from the berry puree.
Add mint with sugar and water to the pomace. When it boils, remove from the stove.
Strain the cooled drink and pour in the juice.

This fruit drink helps strengthen the immune system and during colds.

Cooking time – 20 minutes.

Ingredients:

1 stack. lingonberries and cranberries;
sugar;
a piece of ginger;
two liters of water.

Preparation:

In a juicer, squeeze the juice out of the berries, add water to the juice and add ginger, keep on the stove for seven minutes after boiling.
Add sugar and juice to the cooled drink.

Lingonberry juice with cinnamon and orange

The peculiarity of this recipe is in the ingredients and the fact that it is consumed hot. Cooking time – 30 minutes.

Ingredients:

2 oranges;
1 kg frozen berries;
4 tbsp. l. Sahara;
three liters of water;
cinnamon sticks.

Preparation:

Squeeze the berries when they are defrosted, add water to the pomace, when it boils, cook for 15 minutes, strain.
Cut the orange in half, thinly cut one part into circles, then into quarters, peel the zest from the other half.
Put sugar with cinnamon and zest into the broth; when it boils, remove from heat and cool, pour in juice and honey, heat again.
Pour into glasses and garnish with orange and cinnamon.

beautiful, bright berries Lingonberries ripen at the end of August, and they can be collected 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.

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

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

Preparation of the main ingredient

Lingonberries do not require special preparation - just rinse them well under running water, remove leaves and small debris. You can dry the berries on a towel. If the housewife takes lingonberries from the freezer, they must first be defrosted.

Lingonberry juice recipes

From 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 and place a glass or enamel container underneath. Crush into puree with a wooden mortar, carefully squeeze the lingonberry mass so that it releases all the juice.
Meanwhile, bring water to a boil in a thick-bottomed saucepan. Place berry pulp and sliced lemon in water and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, add sugar or honey, stir.
When the broth has cooled down to room temperature, strain it. The berry mass can be thrown away. Add the squeezed juice to the pan.
The drink can be consumed immediately or rolled into sterilized jars.

The good thing about frozen lingonberry juice is that it can be prepared at any time of the year or you can 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 thawed, it is better to do this naturally, without using microwave oven and other quick ways.
Using a sieve or gauze, squeeze the juice out of the lingonberries.
Boil water in a thick-walled saucepan, add cinnamon and berry pulp, boil for 3-4 minutes. Remove from heat.
Add honey to the pan and stir. When the mass has cooled to room temperature, strain it and add lingonberry juice to the liquid.
Morse is ready. You can serve it to the table or roll it in sterilized bottles.

From lingonberries and cranberries

You will need:

200 g each 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:

Wash, remove debris and dry the fruits.
Place the berries in a sieve or cheesecloth and crush until all the juice is released.
Add berry pulp, 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 in pre-sterilized containers.

Can With cook fruit juice according to this recipe with the addition of not only cranberries, but also blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries. Lingonberries go well with other forest and garden berries.

Recipe without cooking

To make a particularly healthy and vitamin-rich fruit drink, the berries do not need to be exposed to high temperatures. You can prepare a truly healing drink without boiling using this recipe.

You will need:

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

Preparation:

Place clean, sorted lingonberries in a sieve or colander.
Boil water and pour boiling water over the berries, several times.
Puree the scalded berries with a blender, place in a deep container and fill with 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 seasoned with honey or sugar.

This drink should be consumed within 2 days or rolled up, having previously been pasteurized.

Fruit juice storage

The less the berries are cooked, the more vitamins are retained. If possible, it is better to freeze lingonberries and prepare fruit juice for one or two days as needed. However, a home-canned drink also contains a lot of useful substances; it is tasty, refreshing and always on hand.

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

When preparing preparations, maintain the maximum possible cleanliness - wash the berries, hands, and all utensils used well.
Sugar is a natural preservative. It's better to cook sweet drink and dilute it with water, which will cause it to begin to deteriorate even before opening.
Since it is not advisable to cook berry fruit drinks for a long time, a maximum of 5 minutes, it is better to pasteurize the finished rolled up 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 from the top of the jars. Turn on the heat and bring the jars almost to a boil. It’s good if you have a kitchen thermometer - the temperature of the water in the pan should not exceed 90 degrees. Pasteurize the jars for 8-10 minutes, then carefully remove them, turn them upside down, wrap them in a blanket and leave to cool.

Leave the workpieces in a cool, dark place with low humidity.

If all conditions are met, berry fruit drinks can be stored for 2 years from the date of preparation.