It's no secret that the most healthy drink is fruit drink, especially if it is redcurrant fruit drink. There is a lot of vitamin C in these berries, a drink from them strengthens the immune system, prevents diseases: flu, SARS, colds - it is healthy and tasty. It is especially recommended that children drink this fruit drink, but since red currants are very acidic, be sure to add granulated sugar or honey when cooking. To preserve all the benefits in the drink as much as possible, first the juice is squeezed from the berries, then the cake is brought to a boil in sweetened water and cooled, so that syrup is obtained, and the juice is added to the syrup after it has cooled.

Ingredients

• 250-300 g of frozen red currant
• 2 tbsp. l honey
• 700 ml of water

Cooking

  1. Put the currants in a deep bowl - a bowl or salad bowl, bowl.

  2. Pour cold water to defrost the berries on top, and immediately pour it, since the berries in the water will become soft in 2-3 minutes and will cease to hold their shape. We clean the berries from brushes, stems, leaflets, etc., if this was not done by you in due time before freezing. If frozen currants were purchased in a supermarket and, therefore, they have already been cleared of all this - just rinse it.

  3. Pour into a container with high sides, so that when pressing around, do not splatter anything. We compress it with a press for boiled potatoes or another special device for obtaining juice.

  4. Pour the juice from the berries into another container and leave for later.

  5. The cake will be moved to a saucepan or stewpan, pour hot water and place on the stove, turning on medium heat. Since a significant part of the beneficial vitamins and minerals is lost during boiling, we will not boil the contents of the pan, but simply bring it to a boil when a light foam appears on the surface of the liquid. The cake should not sink to the bottom.

6. Strain the hot liquid with cake through a strainer and remove the cake - he gave his color and useful vitamins, so we no longer need. Cool the hot liquid to room temperature for 1 hour, and then add honey or granulated sugar if there is no honey. However, with honey, the drink is more beneficial.

What could be nicer in the scorching heat, if not a glass of burning cold fruit drinks with pieces of ice? The best of soft drinks is considered to be fruit juice made from fresh blackcurrant, cranberries and lingonberries, they are in the lead among all others in the presence of useful substances. Together with saving coolness, several important vitamins enter the human body: C, B, D and A, each of which is a guarantee of health.

To prepare a fruit drink, you do not need any special tricks, lengthy processes or special components, enough berries, water and sugar, as well as very little free time.

What is a fruit drink?

A cold drink made from any berries without heat treatment. For comparison: compote is a decoction of berries or fruits, and fruit drinks are fresh or frozen berries, crushed and diluted with water. The value of fruit drinks is that they retain the maximum amount of vitamins and nutrients contained in fresh berries, while in boiled (in compote) their amount decreases in direct proportion to the time of heat treatment.

Currant juice is an excellent way to quench your thirst, although you can drink it hot instead of tea or coffee, which, incidentally, is made by adherents of a healthy lifestyle: vegetarians and raw foodists. Such a drink perfectly energizes, significantly affects the overall tone of the body and mind, nourishing a person with useful trace minerals from berries.

Who invented the fruit drink?

Many people think that fruit drink is an original Russian, Slavic drink that was made from wild berries in the Middle Ages. This opinion was formed due to the fact that the first mention of fruit drink as a drink is found in the main book on "proper housekeeping" - "Homebuilding" (XVI century). In fact, fruit drink was in use even earlier, only the name sounded a little different: "mursa", which in Byzantine means "berry water with honey." It was Byzantium - the real homeland of fruit drink, and the Slavs slightly changed the name of this drink to a more familiar local language. Over time, the principle of preparation has slightly changed, but the essence remains: berry sweetened infusion to quench thirst - this is the modern fruit drink.

A simple recipe for black currant fruit drink with honey

For those who are very busy, but want to treat themselves to a delicious drink, there is an extremely simple and quick to prepare recipe for which you can use any berries: fresh or frozen. Beat blackcurrant (200 grams) and a glass of boiling water with a blender, add another half liter of cold water and 2-3 tablespoons of honey.

Mix again and strain through a strainer that is in every kitchen. If not, you can use a doubled gauze. The resulting fruit drink can be drunk immediately or additionally cooled by dropping a few pieces of ice into it. What could be better in the summer heat than astringency and sourness of blackcurrant ?!

From frozen berries

Is this recipe perfect in the summer heat when the thermometer rises above 30 and the body craves cooling? The saving acidity of the lemon present in the recipe will be very useful. To prepare the fruit drink, take the frozen blackcurrant and let it thaw slightly at room temperature, in the meantime, remove the zest from the lemon with a knife for peeling vegetables, while trying not to use white peel.

Pour the currant berries into the blender bowl, send the zest there, sprinkle everything with half a glass of sugar and add a glass of boiling water. Beat the mass with a blender at high speeds, add another 800 ml of cold purified water, squeeze the juice from the lemon into it and beat again. Strain the resulting fruit drink through a sieve to rid the liquid of small particles of berries: pieces of skin, seeds. Then send the cooked fruit juice to the refrigerator for half an hour for cooling.

Blackcurrant and cinnamon fruit drink recipe

Grind black currants (200 grams) and rub the mass through a sieve, put the filtered juice to the side, and pour the meal with three glasses of water and boil it, add half a glass of sugar and a good pinch of cinnamon. Sugar, in principle, falls to taste - therefore, we act at our discretion. Boil the liquid for five minutes, strain and mix with currant juice. Let the fruit drink cool and can be served. Such a spicy drink is ideal on frosty evenings, bestowing the aroma of summer and a light warming spiciness of cinnamon, filling the body with pleasant invigorating warmth.

How to cook fruit drink with orange flavor?

Morse is traditionally made from berries, so it will not work out from an orange - it will be more like an orangeade. But black currant juice with an aromatic note of orange is quite possible.

Required Products:

• 800 ml of water.
• Zest and juice of one orange.
• 5 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar, can be replaced with two tablespoons of honey.
• 500 grams of black currant.

Morse is prepared very simply: boil water with zest and sugar, add the berries chopped in a meat grinder or blender into it. When the liquid has cooled to room temperature - add freshly squeezed orange juice, mix and send to the refrigerator.

This fruit drink is very fragrant and refreshing, and also extremely useful for colds, especially if sugar is replaced with honey and served not cold, but still warm. The body will receive a double dose of vitamin C, which will significantly affect health. Protected immunity will not miss a harmful virus, so this drink is recommended for weakened children: tasty and healthy.

From blackcurrant cake

Morse can be prepared not only from whole berries, but also from oilcake left after making freshly squeezed juice for jelly, sauces. Two drinks from one ingredient - Ebenezer Scrooge himself will envy! About every two and a half grams of cake made from blackcurrant fruit juice will yield about two and a half liters: we take exactly so much boiling water and fill it with cake. This is easier to do in a three-liter jar: convenient and takes up little space in the refrigerator.

We add about ten clean and fresh mint leaves to the currant in the water, you can gently rub them in your hands, then the leaves will give off the aroma faster. We put sugar to taste: someone loves sweet drinks, but some people know what is fraught with sweet for a figure, so they use a minimal amount or even replace them with honey. We leave fruit juice from blackcurrant to infuse for at least an hour and then you can use it for its intended purpose, having previously filtered the liquid.

Cake can not be used immediately after squeezing the juice - it can be frozen in small silicone molds and taken in the winter, if necessary, preparing a fragrant fruit drink. How to cook fruit drink? Get a briquette of frozen cake and pour boiling water, then follow the recipe above.

If you add a couple of branches of thyme (to boiling water) to an ordinary blackcurrant fruit juice, then the unsurpassed aroma of the drink will win your heart, while stimulating the circulatory system (which this unique spicy herb is famous for).

In the refrigerator, fruit drink can be stored for several days without losing its nutritional properties, so you can cook a few liters at a time, and at the right time, life-giving moisture is always at hand.

By experimenting with the addition of natural flavors and flavor enhancers, you will be able to create your own unique fruit drink recipe. Nutmeg, lemon, ginger, tangerine zest or lemon balm - these fragrant plants will be able to diversify the main fruit of blackcurrant, each time making it new, with a unique bouquet of flavor.

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.

For the sake of newfangled (and absolutely not healthy) drinks, the old Russian fruit drink was forgotten - from blackcurrant, lingonberry, cranberry, raspberry and other gifts of the gardens at hand. We even learned how to make Coke at home, without thinking how much it is needed, and without thinking about how much harm we do to ourselves. It is time to return to traditions that not only bring taste to life, but also supply tired organisms with vitamins, supporting them with the heavy rhythm of modern existence. Blackcurrant fruit drink is exactly what you need for vigor and optimism. And he will surely be able to replace chemical pops for our children - let him have to try for this.

What you need to know and remember

Mors, however, as well as from other berries, is prepared very simply. However, the key to success in preparing a drink will be the recognition of some culinary truths.

1. Black currant juice should be prepared only in a heat-resistant glass or enamel pan. Aluminum does not categorically fit: juice can react with it if the wall is scratched during cooking. In addition, the color and smell deteriorate. Yes, the enamel on the vessel will darken, and it is unlikely to be washed. But the average family can quite afford to get a "superfluous" pan, intended exclusively for fruit drinks.
2. At the time of preparing the berries, you can use a blender, juicer or mixer. But our goal is not to speed up the process, but to fully preserve all the usefulnesses available in the berries. In contact with the metal, part of the vitamins in the berries irrevocably collapses. Therefore, blackcurrant fruit juice should be made the old fashioned way, by hand.
3.   perfectly combined with almost all other berries, both garden and forest. Blackcurrant fruit juice with cranberries is especially appreciated by sour-lovers. But with strawberries, raspberries, lingonberries - yes with anything! - the drink comes out excellent.

Otherwise, the process, unlike most culinary "approaches", is simple to disgrace.

Currant juice: the first cooking option

On the rules for preparing a drink, disputes go on without stopping. There are two ways, and both have their supporters and fans. To begin with, we suggest you try blackcurrant juice, the recipe of which involves preliminary squeezing the juice. On it, a quarter of a kilogram of washed and sorted berries are slightly kneading, after which they are rubbed through a sieve or pushed with a normal mashed potato pusher. If you used the second method, then the mass is collected in cheesecloth and squeezed well, so that the cake was almost dry. Juice is set aside, and the remains of blackcurrant are poured with a liter of water and boiled for three minutes from the moment of boiling. When the broth cools somewhat, it is filtered off, sugar dissolves in it (its amount depends on your favor for sweets) and combines with the juice. For taste, you can put in a decoction for a while cooling a couple of sprigs of mint. And you can acidify blackcurrant fruit juice with fresh lemon juice. They drink it most often chilled. But if you are sick, a warm drink will be the perfect alternative to bored tea.

Currant juice: the second cooking option

He also has his supporters who believe that its use makes it possible to obtain a more delicious and rich fruit juice from blackcurrant. The recipe does not differ in composition: the only difference is in the processing of berries. They are placed in water poured at the rate of a liter per 150 grams of currant, and boiled over the quietest fire for five to eight minutes. Then the currant is pulled out with a slotted spoon and juice is squeezed out of it. Then both liquids merge, sweeten and drink.

Apple currant pleasure

Very people approve of the fruit of red and black currants. It is prepared in exactly the same way as drinking from one type of berries. But we suggest adding another ingredient to the list: an apple. The taste becomes so refined that it overshadows everything that has been tried before. For a third of a kilogram of berry mixture, a large ripe apple is taken, preferably from hard varieties. It is rubbed coarsely, poured with two glasses of water and covered with sugar, taken to taste, and cooked for about five minutes. Juice is squeezed out of the currant; cake can also be added to the compote to the apple. The components are combined - blackcurrant fruit juice with pleasant additions is ready to eat.

Vitamins for the winter

Stewed fruit, preserves, jam - this is familiar and not too interesting. But the fruit juice from fresh blackcurrant, timely rolled up and opened in the gloomy season, will please with unexpectedness and summer smells. Half a glass of sugar is dissolved in a glass of boiling water. A sprig of thyme is added to this - for a brighter flavor - and cake from half a kilogram of currant. Syrup is boiled, which, in a slightly cooled form, is drained and merges with previously squeezed juice. Hot fruit juice is once again passed through a double layer of gauze or a sieve, and a spoonful of honey, even sugared, can be dissolved in it. The drink is poured into a sterile jar and pasteurized for a third of an hour - either the old fashioned way, in a saucepan where the water is boiling, or in an air grill set at 120 Celsius.

Winter drink

Those who do not like to mess with banks and sterilization will still not be left in the cold without vitamins. They can easily make frozen blackcurrant fruit juice. The only thing you have to take care of in advance is to freeze the berries. Of course, it will be possible to “figure out” a tasty drink from the store ones, but from the ones frozen personally it will be completely natural, because you will be sure of the source of raw materials. Currants thaw before cooking. Natural thawing is the best way out, so it will not lose either the aroma or the benefits it contains. Berries are crushed, frayed, juice is extracted from them. To make the process of its extraction a little easier, a little water is poured into the puree. Shells from berries are poured with water and simmer on fire without boiling for about a quarter of an hour. Next, the broth is combined with juice and sweetened with honey or sugar. For zest, you can mash a leaf of mint in a fruit drink or drip lemon juice.