Preserving currant juice: Preserving made easy

2025 Author: Leonars Benson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 11:22

If the currants ripen, you can usually harvest a lot of fruit within a short period of time. These can be frozen or made into jam. Another variant of preservation is to boil down he althy currant juice.

How can I make blackcurrant juice?

To make currant juice, you need 1 kg of currants, 500 ml of water and 200-400 g of sugar. Simmer the washed berries in water until they burst. They are then strained, the juice is boiled with sugar and filled into sterilized bottles.

Make blackcurrant juice and cook it down

You can juice and preserve currants relatively easily without a juicer.

Ingredients

• 1 kg fresh currants
• 500 ml water
• 200 – 400 g sugar

Needed kitchen appliances

• 2 large cooking pots
• Kitchen strainer
• Cheesecloth
• Funnel
• Sterilized juice bottles with matching cap

Preparation

1. Scratch the currants from the clusters with a fork and wash thoroughly.
2. Heat the water in the saucepan and add the currants.
3. Bring to the boil once and continue to simmer until all the berries have burst.
4. Pour through a sieve into the second pot, squeezing out the pulp with a ladle.
5. Pour through the cheesecloth back into the first cooking pot.
6. Bring the juice to the boil and add sugar.
7. As soon as the sugar crystals have dissolved, pour the hot juice into the previously sterilized bottles.
8. Close very well immediately.
9. Let cool and store in a dark, cool place.

Make juice with the juicer

This method is gentler because more of the valuable ingredients in the currants are retained. Water is poured into the lower part of the device and the berries are placed in a sieve insert above. The water is heated and steam rises, which dissolves the liquid from the berries. In order for the juice obtained in this way to last, you must additionally boil it down.

Pasteurize blackcurrant juice

Mix the juice with 250 - 500 g of sugar per kilo of berries and stir until the crystals have dissolved. Then pour into sterilized juice bottles.

1. Place the opened bottles in a roasting pan and add about three centimeters of water.
2. Boil in the oven at 75 degrees for 20 minutes.
3. Close immediately.

Tip

Currant juice freezes well. This makes sense if you want to prevent valuable ingredients from being destroyed by the heating required for sterilization. Even if you want to avoid sugar, you can use this method of preserving blackcurrant juice.