Blackcurrant Juice

Ingredients

• 4 kg red blackcurrants
• 2 l water
• 2 kg sugar
• juice of one lemon

Instructions

1. 1.

   Wash the berries, drain and remove stems. Place them in a pot, mash, and bring to a boil with water.

2. 2.

   Spread the cooked fruit over a muslin cloth stretched between two chair legs and let it drain. Measure the extracted juice and stir in sugar (maximum 650 g per litre).

3. 3.

   Bring the juice to a boil once more, skim off foam, stir in lemon juice, pour into bottles and seal tightly.