Canning Cranberry Juice - Easy Recipe With Whole Cranberries
Canning cranberry juice with whole cranberries is an incredibly easy way to make homemade cranberry juice. This makes a delicious juice that you drink plain or use in recipes or to make mixed drinks.
Canning whole cranberries for juice is my preferred way to make homemade cranberry juice. Store bought juice is full of sugars and sometimes even high fructose corn syrup.
Yes, this cranberry juice recipe for canning does have sugar, but it's necessary to extract the juice from the berries.
A home canned juice recipe doesn't get much easier that this one! Just place the whole berries, sugar, and water in the jar and process.
I love that I can make as much or as little as I want.
To make homemade canned cranberry juice, you'll either need to cook the berries and strain with cheesecloth to have the juice.
This way of canning cranberry juice makes a delicious juice that's more concentrated. You can also omit the sugar and use a sugar substitute when you drink the juice.
However, when canning whole cranberries for juice, you will need the sugar. The sugar is what pulls the juice and flavor from the berries.
This homemade canned cranberry juice is incredibly easy. You just clean your jars, add whole cranberries, add sugar, and then fill with water. Then process in a water bath canner.
To make a full canner load with 7 quart jar, you'll need about 4 bags of cranberries. This will be about 1 3/4 cups of cranberries per jar.
Canning Cranberry Juice - Easy Recipe With Whole Cranberries
Recipe details
- 8 servings
- Prep time: 15 Minutes Cook time: 25 Minutes Total time: 40 min
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How do you store the 7 jars after the 25-30 minutes is up? The last part of the recipe is confusing. How do I save the others for later?
Wish this recipe had info using pints. Not every household uses quarts.