Make Your Own Fruit Juice From Berries

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Drink to your health by harnessing the flavors and antioxidants in raspberries, blueberries, and other prolific summer fruits.

Like most people, if you give me something sweet to drink, I will probably like it. I liked flavored “vitamin waters” until I read their labels, and with years of soft drink slurping behind me, I have some making up to do. Enter dazzlingly delicious (and awesomely nutritious) drinks made from the juices of raspberries, blueberries, and even rosehips. If you can boil water, you can make – and preserve – wildly wonderful fruit concentrates to enjoy year round.

Any canning book will tell you how to turn potent little berries into jam, but most have nothing to say about canning raspberry, blueberry or blackberry juice. You can find instructions for canning berry syrup or grape juice, but information is slim on making juice from berries. Go figure! Slightly sweetened berry juice over ice with a sprig of mint is exactly what your body wants on a hot day. Try it once, and you’ll see.

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