Nothing like drinking fresh juices made at home. I have a garden with many fruit trees. When they start yielding I make juices from many of the fruits. Here is a list and the method.
This is a summer crop and ideal for the weather. Not much is left to be preserved as most of it consumed in the season.
Cashew apples are first steamed to get rid of the astringency. They are then cooled and the juice is squeezed out after cutting off the stem portion.
A 2 string syrup is prepared and the fresh juice added when the syrup cools. a bit of liquid preservative is added and the juice is refrigerated.
This again is a summer fruit and is in great demand in the season
This fruit is put in a mixie and the juice removed. A 2 string sugar syrup is prepared to which crushed ginger is added. The juice is added to the cooled sugar syrup with a bit of liquid preservative and then refrigerated.
These fruits show up in the rainy weather. Much of the fruits drop down and cannot be used.
Both these fruits follow the same procedure. The fruits are wiped clean and weighed. Sugar is added in the proportion 2:1 where 2 is the fruit and a glass or plastic container is filled with this mixture. In the monsoons since the fruit has more moisture more sugar is added. This comes with practice. The container is then placed in the fridge for seven or more days until the juice is extracted and the shrivelled fruits float atop. A bit of liquid preservative is added.
Pulp is removed from the fruit and put in a liquidizer. It is weighed and sugar syrup prepared in the same manner as above is added when cooled and mixed thoroughly. Liquid preservative is then added and refrigerated.
All the juices thus prepared are concentrates. While serving enough water is added depending on the desired sweetness.
These juices remain fresh for several months.
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I haven't tried the other juices you mentioned here. As far as I could remember, cherry juice is the only created craft in the kitchen department. Unfortunately, the available tropical fruits in my country can be extracted freshly.
Extracting fresh juice is quite the normal thing. We too do that but my blog talks of preserving them. I have loads of fruits in my garden and therefore need to preserve the juice.
@bestwriter Do you mostly preserve the fruit by making juices, or do you also make jams or canned fruits, or other conserves? I think in North America it is pretty rare for people to make fruit juices for the long term - perhaps because juices and other drinks here are quite inexpensive.
Most people who grow fruit in quantity will can the fruit or make jams, pickles, relishes, and such. These are used by the family, given as gifts, and sometimes even sold. Few will extract the juice from a larger quantity of fruit, and those who do it to sell at market seem to prefer a pure, unsweetened juice. For this reason, many locals here freeze the juice in jugs. It is sold at fruit stands and farmers markets during the harvest season.
Very interesting about the word, "punch!" I didn't know that!
That's nice you have trees bearing fruits now. Well, my mother's farmland has its all the same situation. However, it is too far from the city. Aside from this, we are still dealing with the other sibling of her to pay us back for being fraud in the land property.
Oh no!! This land grab by siblings seems to be a universal issue.Hope it will all be settled to your mother's satisfaction.
It is sad to hear about such act, but we need to face the fact. We are still planning to file a case. The only thing we can do is to freeze the land property. People really changed because of such situation.
How very different your method is, compared with how most people prepare juices in North America. Here, those who want to drink homemade fruit juices will buy a juicer or another appliance (like a stand mixer or food processor) that has a juicing attachment.
The juices are made by simply placing the fruit or vegetables into the feed of the juicer and pushing them through. Juicers generally filter out some or all of the pulp (this depends on how powerful the motor is, among other things.) What's left is a pure juice with no sugar or preservatives.
Many people who drink these juices will create blends with multiple fruits and vegetables. There are even health claims that circulate around the properties of specific individual juices or blends.
The method here in most kitchens is no different from what you have mentioned. I do it my way because I want to preserve them. I have loads of fruits and I do follow your method when the need arises to have it then and there.
Blending of juices is also done in my kitchen too. I call it punch (5 juices) Punch is a Sanskrit word for 5