Cranberry Juice Drink - Lori's Cookbook

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This is my entry for this week's @foodfightfriday

A few weeks ago, I made cranberry-berry sauce. At the same time, I also made cranberry juice. This one is amazingly simple and can be used with other fruits as well.

Cranberry Juice Drink

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I tried this first last year and was really pleased with the way it turned out, so I did it again this year.

This is so simple, anyone can do it!

Fill your quart jars about halfway with your fruit.
Pour over about 1/4 cup sugar.
(Add more if you prefer it sweeter... Go ahead and try honey or another sweetener... experiment!)

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Fill the jars to their shoulders with hot water (boiling is fine.)
Place in the waterbath canner for 10 minutes (after the water returns to the boil.)

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Preparing to drink...

Strain a quart of cranberry juice drink into a jug.
(Reserve the cranberries for another use - like the Cranana-Chumpkin Bread I shared last time.)
Add water to taste (50/50 is about right for me.)
Enjoy with your holiday meal.

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Oh, I was just going to mention these lovely, vintage jam jar juice glasses.
I sometimes find these in the thrift stores for around $0.30-0.50 each. They are worth around $5 each on ebay right now (take a look...) Although the one on the left is from the anniversary run in 1983, the one on the right is older, though I'm not aware just how long these were produced by Anchor Hocking.

I love these glasses because they are sturdy, cheap and pretty - and they hold just the right amount for a small drink.

Recipe Card

Feel free to print this out for your collection.

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Two of my kitchen witches. One hung in my grandmother's kitchen as long as I can remember, so I have mine - adding a certain magickal spice to my cooking, presumably...
My grandmother's now lives in my mother's kitchen.

Previous recipes in Lori's Cookbook

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Holidays (Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc.)

Cranana-Chumpkin Bread
Cranberry-Berry Sauce (canning too)

Breakfasts

Basic French Toast

Easy Suppers

Dirty Mac & Cheese
Simple Cheeseburgers
Spanish Rice
Italian Meatballs
Spaghetti and Meatballs

Main Courses

Fathead Stromboli
Garlic Curry Baked Drumsticks

Side Dishes

Turmeric Rice
Garlic-Herb Bread

Breads

Cranana-Chumpkin Bread
No-Knead Bread
Fathead Dough - a grain free substitute for many bread situations!

Snacks

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sauces

Spaghetti Sauce
Basic Salsa
Garlic-Herb Butter

Desserts

Peach Cornmeal Cobbler
Tapioca Pudding

Canning

Rebel Canning - a general guide about what I do, and why I don't always follow USDA guidelines.
Cranberry-Berry Sauce
Meatballs and Spaghetti Sauce

Note: All photos are mine - Pentax K30, Samsung NX11, Kodak Z981 (hubby's camera)
Crossposted at Steem, Whaleshares, WeKu



Lori Svensen
author/designer at A'mara Books
photographer/graphic artist for Viking Visual
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This looks like something we call Groselha. I wonder if it's the same thing... it's a very sweet drink, no sugar needed.

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Cranberries are naturally very tart, so they really do need a bit of help. I've used about the minimum sugar, I think... but it wasn't very sweet.

Your drink sounds interesting though.

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Hey, @viking-ventures.

I really like cranberry juice, so I'll need to try this one of these days. I was wondering at the beginning how you would get to the juice and wasn't expecting a steeping effect. Guess I should have. I'm more into the consumption rather than how cranberries are prepared.

They are tart, though, so a little can go a long way. It's amazing how many things cranberries can show up in, though, and either make or break the flavor.

I'm glad to see we're not the only ones who drink juice from jam jars, since that's pretty much what was in them. Somehow, we've managed a small collection. They're not vintage, though. :)

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Thanks for stopping by.
I confess that I was also surprised about how easy it would be to make this drink - and with using the berries themselves in the bread (or something else), there's no waste, like there is with other kinds of juice.

The rebel canners that I got this from also used it for grapes. I'd expect you could use it with lots of different fruits including the red currants that @trincowski was talking about.

It's very useful to do the juice this way since cranberries are only really available this time of year, so I make my juice, my sauce and my winter cold medicine (which I didn't photograph this year...)

I remember those jam jars from when I was little and was delighted to find them again - and doubly excited when I found out they had a good collector's value. I'm not selling them though - will just keep collecting (especially as there are other versions that I recognize now...)

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I love cranberry juice and your recipe looks so easy to make, gotta give it a shot. (of vodka) maybe? hehe
Every week you come up with such great stuff @viking-ventures, glad you spend #fff with us.

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Thank you! And yes, it's very easy. If you want to make it tipsy, I would use the vodka or whatever (cassis would probably be wonderful) as part of the redilution.

I have to make many things myself due to allergies, so I started taking pictures as I went. I'm glad to have a reason to dig into my pictures every Friday (and to keep more coming.)

Thanks for stopping by!

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