Sour Cherry Juice
2014 is the time to make Sour Cherry Juice is you have not done so before: easy, delicious, nutritious, economical and brilliant versatility in the pantry.
Ingredients
- Fresh sour cherries , washed but not pitted
- Water to cover bottom of pan
Instructions
- In a heavy pan that will hold your cherries, place enough water to cover the bottom of the pan, and up to one inch high if the pot will be full
- Place washed freshly plucked cherries in the heavy pot with the water in it
- Heat to medium high, until the water steams, the cherry skins split and emit their juices; turn heat down immediately
- Mash berries into their juice
- Strain into a sieve immediately, and cool
- Once juice is cooled, if you want a clean liquid, strain again through a cheesecloth
- Freeze, or preserve in sterilized jars
Notes
The preparation time would be about 10 minutes for a litre of cherries and the cooking time would be about 5 minutes for that amount of cherries; their will be about a 2 cup yield of juice