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- Fresh juice from the garden: juicing blackberries
- Which blackberries are suitable for juicing?
- Five ways to juice blackberries
- Preserve fresh blackberry juice
Blackberries can be easily juiced
Fresh juice from the garden: juicing blackberries
When in late summer the shrubs hang in the forest and in your own garden full of blackberries, you often can not process your entire harvest fresh. Since it is worthwhile to process a portion of the berries to fruity-sweet blackberry juice.
Which blackberries are suitable for juicing?
Not only the special brambles that grow in your garden, are suitable for juicing: The much smaller, but often particularly aromatic blackberries that grow in forests, along roadsides and railway embankments are wonderful juice donors.
In any case, the blackberries must be fully ripe, but without brown or even moldy spots. When washing, thoroughly check the blackberries to make sure they have no quirks and sort out unsuitable berries for juicing.
Five ways to juice blackberries
Preserve fresh blackberry juice
If you do not want to enjoy the fresh blackberry juice right away, you can preserve it by heating it. You can choose between the simple method of hot filling and the proper cooking.
During hot filling, the blackberry juice, heated to 80 ° C, is filled into sterile bottles and sealed immediately. This juice is not as reliable for several months as the boiled blackberry juice.
For bottling put the bottled juice in sealed bottles in the water-filled pan of your oven. Heat it up to 175 ° C and turn the oven off as soon as bubbles appear in the jars. The bottles remain in the closed oven for 30 minutes. You can safely store the blackberry juice soaked for at least one year.