Currant fruit drink is a favorite treat of many, which is appreciated for its beneficial properties and taste. It can be drunk warm and cold. In winter, it protects against the influence of viruses and prevents the spread of respiratory diseases, and in the summer it quenches thirst perfectly. Blackcurrant fruit drink is a universal drink that is equally appropriate both during an illness and at a festive feast.

There are two versions of the appearance of this drink in Russia. Many believe that this is an original Russian treat, but most historical documents confirm that it first appeared in Byzantium, where it was called "Murza". True, the composition was somewhat different - it was ordinary water with the addition of honey.

In Russia, honey and bee products have always been revered; it is not surprising that the treat quickly fell in love and took root under the name "fruit drink". Over time, its composition changed, berries were used in the recipes and today it is a berry drink.

For the first time, its description is found in culinary records that date back to the 15th century, where not only the recipe is given, but also useful properties with contraindications.

The benefits and harms of currant berries

Blackcurrant fruit juice, like redcurrant fruit juice, has a lot of useful properties, because the berries of these varieties have a rich chemical composition, due to which the use of the drink has a comprehensive positive effect on the body.

• Organic acids normalize the functioning of the intestine, destroy pathogenic microflora.
• Pectin normalizes sugar levels, has an antitumor effect.
• With the regular use of a currant drink, the body is gently cleansed of toxins.
• The presence of phosphorus strengthens bone tissue.
• Magnesium helps to normalize the activity of the heart muscle.
• Currant has a calming effect, normalizes the functioning of the nervous system, strengthens blood vessels, gives them elasticity.

In addition, it contains the set of vitamins A, PP and B1 necessary for human life.
Currant fruit drink, both black and red varieties, is an excellent preventative in winter, when colds are widespread.

Currant fruits are highly acidic, so doctors often do not recommend preparing fruit drinks for people with stomach pathologies. If you prepare a treat using a berry mixture, in which blackberries are present in addition to currants, it is important to consider that in this case an excessive load on the kidneys is possible. And cherries can cause allergies.

Recipes

There are many ways to make a berry drink. Recipes for red currant fruit drink completely repeat the technology of making black currant fruit drink. Moreover, both drinks are equally tasty, both in cold and warm form. Cooking them is very simple and it is much more useful than buying juice in a store.

Classic way

It will take about 200 grams of fresh berries.

1. They need to be washed and kneaded, for this you can use the usual nudge for potatoes.
2. After you need to squeeze the juice and dilute it with boiled water. The amount of water is determined by individual taste preferences. An average of 200 grams of berries is used from half a liter to a liter of water.
3. Then, a sweetener is added to taste - sugar or honey, usually a few tablespoons for every half liter.

If initially there were a lot of berries, then just put the treat in the refrigerator and drink when you want.

If there are few berries, they are not poured with water, but with a decoction of the cake obtained. To do this, the raw materials obtained after extraction must be put into a container, filled with water and boiled for ten minutes (the fire should be minimal). After cooling the broth, it is mixed with juice and sugar or honey is added. Such a drink will turn out to be more saturated and tasty, more vitamins are stored in it.

Note: if you boil currant meal without squeezing the juice, most vitamins will not remain in the drink, since under the influence of high temperature ascorbic acid is destroyed.

Currant jam fruit drink is also good for immunity. The main thing is that the jam should not be digested and cooked correctly with the preservation of all vitamins.

Frozen Berries Recipe

It will require 200 grams of currant (berries can be previously thawed or frozen raw materials can be used). Berries should be put in a blender, add the zest of lemon, four to five tablespoons of sugar and 100 milliliters of boiled water. All components must be whipped, to taste add more water, lemon juice and again whipped with a blender. The resulting drink can be filtered or drunk unbroken.

From berry mixtures

Best combined with currants, cranberries, cherries, gooseberries. Here is a berry drink recipe.

An equal amount of currants (black, red), cherries, strawberries, lingonberries will be required.

1. It is necessary to remove seeds from the cherry. All the fruits are kneaded by a crush, the juice is squeezed, and the cake is folded into a pan.
2. The raw material is poured with water so that the liquid covers the cake completely, and is brought to a boil.
3. When the mixture boils, add sugar to it and simmer another five minutes over low heat.
4. After the container is removed from the fire, the contents are filtered, cooled, juice is added, everything is mixed.

Drink fruit juice chilled or warm, honey can be added instead of sugar. The drink is equally useful at any age.

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Currant fruit, red or black, is quite popular. He drinks well during illness, after a feast, in the heat, or just like that, when you are thirsty.

This drink is not our Russian invention at all, as it once seemed to me. In fact, he came to us from ancient Byzantium under the name "Mursa" and in a slightly different form. It was water with honey diluted in it. Well, since honey was always held in high esteem in Russia, the mursa quickly took root, and the name was transformed into the Russian “fruit drink”.

The composition also began to change. And now a drink of berries is called a fruit drink.

There are many recipes for fruit drink. After all, it can be prepared not only from currants, but also from many other berries. Drink fruit drinks often cold, but in cool weather, hot is also suitable. This delicious drink has tons of vitamins. And if you remember that he is preparing quickly and simply, then why not make fruit drinks more often. It will be much more useful and cheaper than buying beautiful packages with dubious contents in a store.

By the way, the regular use of currants in any form increases immunity and, as is sometimes claimed, reduces the risk of developing cancer.

Cooking fruit juice from red or black currant

Everything is done very simply. We take a gram of two hundred fresh berries, wash them and knead well. You can use a potato pusher. Then we squeeze out the allocated juice.

The juice is squeezed very easily, so it is not necessary to get a juicer.

We dilute the juice with boiled water to taste, it will take from half a liter to one liter of water, this is what concentration you like. Then, in the same way, add sugar to taste, about two to three tablespoons per half liter.

If you have a lot of berries, then you can stop there. We put the resulting drink in the refrigerator and use it whenever you want.

But if there are not very many berries, the juice can be poured not with water, but with a decoction of currant oilcake. We put what remains after squeezing the juice into a saucepan, fill it with water and put on fire. Bring to a boil and let boil over low heat for five to ten minutes.

When the broth cools down a bit, mix it with juice, add sugar. The drink is more saturated and even more delicious, only it takes a little longer to prepare and cool.

It is possible to boil not the strained cake, but the whole crushed mass. Hassle is less, but vitamins are also slightly less, boiling destroys the main advantage of currant berries - vitamin C.

Fruit drinks are prepared similarly from other berries: cranberries, lingonberries, and so on.

Frozen currant fruit drink

From frozen currants, fruit drink is made in the same way. It is easier to crush unfrozen berries, but it’s convenient for anyone.

Here is one interesting recipe.

Take 200 grams of frozen currants into a blender, add the zest of one lemon, five tablespoons of sugar and half a glass of boiled water. Beat everything, add another half liter or a little more (to taste) of water, squeeze the juice from the peeled lemon and whisk again.

The resulting fruit juice can not be filtered. For example, I like it more.

Other options for making currant juice

• You can mix together the berries of black and red currants.
• Berries of currants, blueberries and cranberries go well in fruit drinks
• Add honey instead of sugar to the finished fruit juice.
• For lovers of very sour drinks, you can add honey and lemon juice.

Berry freezing

If you have frozen berries in the freezer all winter, and even from your own summer house, then you will never have a deficiency in vitamins. Berries perfectly retain all their vitamins if they are packaged in freeze bags, sold everywhere.

I have a whole freezer for this purpose, but for some reason there is always not enough space. But there is an opportunity to save it.

I do not really like this method, I prefer to freeze whole berries, but sometimes I have to resort to it.

We take the berries of currant (strawberries, gooseberries and so on), pass them through a meat grinder and mix with sugar. One kilogram of currant needs one and a half kilograms of sugar. But I did less, it is still perfectly stored.

Step-by-step recipes for making blackcurrant fruit drink: variants of a delicious blackcurrant fruit drink with cinnamon, lemon, oranges, cherries

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Option 1: The classic recipe for black currant fruit drink

Large lemons with a thick, tuberous crust are preferred for currant fruit drinks, use them unless otherwise specified in the recipe. Such fruits are more fragrant and contain less acid, especially if their peel is light orange in color. The taste of such lemons is somewhat spicy and in perfect harmony with cinnamon, but you may have to slightly reduce the amount of this grated spice.

There is also a recommendation regarding sugar used. For cooking jams, jams and other thick sweets, however, as well as for stewed fruit to be preserved, yellow beet sugar is good. On the palate it seems sweeter than snow-white, but often such sugar has its own smell and aftertaste. For tender fruit drinks it is better not to use it, but to put it exclusively refined.

Ingredients:

• one large lemon;
• two liters of clean, filtered water;
• 5 gr. ground cinnamon;
• a glass of sugar;
• blackcurrant - 400 gr.

Step-by-step recipe for blackcurrant fruit drink

Remove from the branches not damaged by rotting berries. Rinse the currants well with cool water. It is advisable to do this not in a colander, but in a saucepan so that the emerging small litter can be drained with water.

Pour water into the pan and place it on the stove, turn on the maximum heat. As soon as it boils, we fall asleep berries, sugar, cinnamon. Boil the currants after boiling with slight drilling from a quarter of an hour. Cool down.

Immerse the lemon in boiling water for three minutes. Drying with a towel, cut the citrus lengthwise and squeeze it well over the cup. We remove seeds from the collected juice and measure - we need at least 50 ml of lemon juice.

Pour the prepared fruit juice into a sieve set on a bowl, grind the strained berries through it. It is more convenient to do this not with a spatula, but with the back of a spoon. Throw the cake.

Combine the finished juice with lemon juice. We take the sample and, if necessary, sweeten or vice versa add a little more lemon juice.

Option 2: Quick recipe for black currant fruit drink

We defend water in fruit drinks and boil if it is tap. If possible, of course, it is worth using spring water or bottled. The water passed through the filter is considered by many to be “inanimate,” if you disagree with this, use it boldly, there are no bad impurities in it.

Ingredients:

• blackcurrant - 350 gr.;
• half a glass of sugar.

How to quickly make blackcurrant fruit drink

Remove the berries of fresh currant from the branches in a pan with cold water. We collect floating litter from the surface, decant the water and fill it with clean water. Repeat several times until all the garbage is washed. Leaning in a colander, gently dry the washed berries and pour them into a clean saucepan. Frozen currants do not require preliminary preparation, it does not need to be completely thawed. Simply rinse the berries with warm water.

Pour the currants laid out in a pan with sugar, mix and let stand for about ten minutes. We knead the fruits with a gnaw, but not to the state of mashed potatoes, but only so that the berries only burst.

We pour one liter of hot water to the currant and move it to the stove. Over high heat, occasionally stirring, warm. As soon as the water begins to boil intensively, boil the fruit drink for a minute and immediately turn off the heat.

We set a colander over a clean pan, lining it with gauze, filtering hot fruit juice through it. We collect gauze with a bag of cake gathered on it and squeeze it well. We pour the filtered juice into a jug, it is ready for use. If desired, the drink can be cooled.

Option 3: Blackcurrant fruit drink with lemon zest

A variant of a rich refreshing blackcurrant drink with a pronounced aroma of lemon peel. Freshly squeezed citrus juice gives the fruit juice additional acidity and emphasizes the taste. Similarly, you can cook blackcurrant juice with orange. In this case, you will need to take only part of the zest, since an orange is much larger than a lemon.

Ingredients per 1 liter of water:

• six tablespoons of sugar;
• lemon - one large, thick-chested fruit;
• 250 gr berries of fresh currant.

How to cook

After sorting, we wash the currants with cool water. If you decide to use frozen berries, first put them in a bowl and thaw at room temperature.

Wash lemon with a sponge in hot water. We carefully wipe the zest to remove a characteristic coating from it. You can withstand citrus for two minutes in boiling water, then plaque will be easier to remove, and more juice will stand out. Cut a thin layer of lemon zest so that the brightly colored layer does not leave a white peel. Cutting the fruit, squeeze the juice.

Put the dried berries in the blender grinder, put the zest of lemon between them and fill everything with sugar. Grind the berries as much as possible, add a glass of boiling water to them and again interrupt.

Spread the prepared berry puree in a bowl, dilute with the remaining hot water. Add lemon juice and mix well. We filter the finished juice with gauze layers or through a sieve into a decanter and serve.

Option 4: Combined blackcurrant fruit drink

If possible, choose cherries for fruit drinks. Strange as it may seem, sweeter currants correspond to large tinted cherries, while small and fragrant berries are more suitable for cherries in combination with other types of berries.

Currants provide the basic taste and color of the drink, so you can put faded fruits such as a pear or an apple. Currants are also good with cherries, but here the proportions of the berries are somewhat different, the cherry leaves are put in the drink twice as much, but their color is unimportant, and light and dark varieties are suitable.

Ingredients:

• a glass of beet sugar;
• two hundred grams of fresh cherries and as much red currant;
• a quarter kilogram of black, large currants.

Step by step recipe

We sort through all the berries. We remove tails from cherries, remove currant berries from twigs. We wash the berry harvest with water and remove the seeds from the cherries.

Pour the cherries and currants into a bowl and knead as much as possible with the help of a pusher. Putting it on a sieve, express the juice, and to make it stand out more, rub the berries with a spoon.

A bowl with berry juice is temporarily set aside, and put together the cake in a bowl in a pan filled with three liters of water. Add sugar.

Moving to the stove, boil the berry meal by boiling for up to a quarter of an hour, still hot, filter through a sieve. Mix the strained broth with the previously filtered berry juice, pour the finished fruit juice into a jug.

Option 5: Blackcurrant ginger fruit drink with honey and orange

It is easy to improve the taste of currant juice by adding a handful of red berries. This is especially good if you have a large black currant cultivated. Such berries are often not acidic, and the aroma from them is not so strong. Red currant will add sourness and astringency, more typical of small varieties of black berries.

If, on the contrary, the berries are small and very odorous, a handful of sweet ripe gooseberries will help to smooth out the harsh taste. Like currants, it perfectly retains its properties when frozen.

After removing the zest, if time permits, the orange can be sent to the freezer for up to an hour, it is believed that the juice from frozen citruses is better in taste and squeezed a little easier.

Ingredients:

• currant, frozen - three hundred grams;
• two full spoons of sugar and honey;
• a spoonful of chopped ginger;
• large sweet orange.

How to cook

With a small grater, carefully peel the zest from the orange, we only need a layer of bright color. Remove the rest of the white peel, disassemble the fruit into separate slices and chop them coarsely. Squeeze the juice from the orange and strain, we do not need the pulp.

Using a steel scraper, carefully crush the slightly thawed currants, squeeze the juice, and pour the zest powder and ginger to the squeezes, pour boiling water (two liters), and put on a fast fire. After boiling, lower the temperature and boil for about ten minutes, strain and return to heat.

We add berry and orange juice to the broth, after boiling, immediately remove from the stove. After standing for twenty minutes under the lid, put and stir until honey is dissolved, followed by sugar. After cooling, filter again and serve with slices of citrus.

Blackcurrant fruit drink

Morse is one of the most ancient drinks in Russia. In those days, it was made from wild berries. It was a drink filled with a unique forest aroma and famous for its healing properties.

Today it offers you 2 ways to prepare this healthy drink. In this way, you can cook blackcurrant juice, both from fresh and frozen berries.

What you need to cook:

• Berry black currant fresh or frozen 12 tbsp. l .;
• Sugar 9 tbsp. l ;
• Water 10 glasses.

Cooking blackcurrant juice:

1. Rinse the berries. Put 10 glasses of cold water on heating, bring it to a boil.

2. When the water boils, put 9 tablespoons of sugar without top, stir and cover.

3. When the water boils again, add 10 tablespoons of berries, stir, cover and let the liquid boil at maximum heat. Note: Bring the berries to a boil, but do not boil, so as not to destroy the vitamins. This is especially true of the most sensitive to heat treatment vitamin C (ascorbic acid). This vitamin is destroyed by boiling.

4. And so, as soon as the drink begins to boil, turn off the heat, let it stand under the lid for about 30 minutes. Then we cool and pour it into the glasses. Morse is ready to eat.

You can use another way to make blackcurrant fruit drink

We keep the proportions of the products for cooking the same as in the first recipe.

1. Wash the berries, then knead a crush.

2. The resulting juice is poured into a separate bowl (for example, in a glass) and sent to a cold place.

3. We put a pan on the fire with 10 glasses of water, add 10 tablespoons of sand and cake from the berries. Mix well, close the lid and bring to a boil, but do not boil. Turn off the fire, cool the mixture.

4. When the fruit drink is cooled, filter it through cheesecloth, and add the squeezed and already cooled juice from the berries to the resulting solution, again mix everything well. Now our fruit drink is completely ready for use. You can use similar cooking methods for making redcurrant fruit drink.

Make a blackcurrant blank for the winter, freeze the berries in the refrigerator. And you can cook blackcurrant juice all year round, which will undoubtedly provide your body with healthy substances.

For reference: 250 ml of blackcurrant fruit can give us 45% of the daily intake of vitamin C.

Summer is an amazing time when we have the opportunity to eat vitamin berries, fruits and vegetables, as well as prepare them for ourselves for the winter for the future. Of course, it’s unlikely that anyone will eat ice cream, but it’s very possible to use it for cooking main dishes, desserts and drinks. And one of the most famous, popular and delicious drinks based on berries and fruits is considered to be fruit drink. We’ll talk about how to make currant juice better, consider recipes that have been checked in case you have enough red or black berries, and also find out how much our body can benefit from consuming such a drink.

Frozen or fresh currant fruit drink

To prepare fruit drinks from red currants (or from black), using this recipe, you can use fresh berries and frozen ones.

To create a drink, you need to prepare twelve tablespoons of black or red currant berries (fresh or frozen), nine tablespoons of sugar, and ten glasses of water.

First, rinse the currant berries and peel them if necessary. Pour water into a saucepan and bring it to a boil. After pour the prepared sugar into the liquid, stir and cover with a lid. After the water boils a second time - add the berries of currant into it, stir and cover with a lid. Let the fruit drink begin to boil at maximum heat, after which it must immediately be turned off. You do not need to boil the currants, because all of Vitamin C is destroyed in it. It is enough to bring to a boil after throwing berries into the water. Insist the cooked fruit drink for half an hour under the lid, then cool and pour into glasses.

Currant fruit drink (fresh)

This version of fruit drink can be prepared only from fresh berries of black or red currant.

Use exactly the same proportions as in the previous recipe. Rinse the berries and mash them with a crush. Pour the juice into a separate glass from the resulting mass and put it in the refrigerator.

Boil the water in a saucepan, add sugar and oil cake left over from the berries. Stir the liquid, cover and bring to a boil. Turn off the heat immediately and cool the resulting broth.

Then strain the liquid through cheesecloth and combine it with chilled berry juice. So you get a product that is already ready for consumption. In addition, it contains a lot of useful substances, since the juice has not undergone heat treatment.

Why is currant juice appreciated, what is the use of the drink?

Black and red currants are surprisingly useful berries for our body. They are a source of a significant amount of vitamins, among which ascorbic acid should be especially distinguished. This element is a well-known antioxidant, it is needed to maintain immunity and activate the body's defenses. In addition, this substance takes part in blood formation processes.

Red currant is an excellent source of pectins, so it can be used to cleanse the body of many toxins and toxins. The consumption of such a product helps to prevent the development of inflammatory lesions, cure many diseases of the digestive tract and even slow down the onset of neoplasms.

Redcurrant contains especially a lot of iron, necessary for the optimal functioning of blood vessels, as well as potassium, which has a beneficial effect on the activity of the heart and removes excess fluid from our body, preventing the occurrence of excessive swelling.

Scientists also found that consuming red currants helps eliminate pain and speed up recovery from cancer. Fruit drink from such a berry has all the qualities described. It can be taken as a choleretic, hemostatic, as well as antipyretic, to achieve a diuretic and laxative effect.

Blackcurrant contains much more ascorbic acid than redcurrant. It also helps prevent cancer and helps prevent heart and vascular problems. It is believed that its consumption helps to maintain mental abilities until old age.

Scientists also argue that such a berry can prevent the onset of diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Eating it for food is able to maintain visual acuity at different ages.

It is believed that blackcurrant fruit juice will be beneficial for hypertension and atherosclerosis, it can be drunk to achieve a diuretic and laxative effect, as well as a diaphoretic and hemostatic agent. Such a drink will benefit from anemia and liver ailments, with the exception of hepatitis.

Consumption of fruit drinks from black and red currants will help to cope with ailments provoked by Staphylococcus aureus, fungal diseases and the causative agent of dysentery. Such drinks are an excellent find for people faced with acute respiratory infections and acute respiratory viral infections, respiratory tract lesions. They are useful in the treatment of urolithiasis, cystitis and pyelonephritis. Currant fruit drinks will help increase the acidity of the digestive juice and get rid of excess weight, thanks to the optimization of metabolic processes. Their consumption will also contribute to the elimination of nausea, including with toxicosis of the first half of pregnancy.

Such drinks will be an excellent find in the heat, because they effectively quench your thirst, you can drink them chilled and even with ice. In addition, they have a wonderful tonic effect.

Fruit drink from blackcurrant or from its "cousin" of red currant is prepared very simply. You can prepare such drinks in a short period of time in your own kitchen and please the whole family. It will be delicious and very healthy.

Ekaterina, www.site

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