The delicious and vitamin-rich raspberries ripen between May and August. Since the fruits are very sensitive and can only be kept for a limited time in the refrigerator, it is advisable to juice the raspberries from a large harvest and fill them in sterile bottles. Preserved in this way, the juice will keep for about half a year.

Raspberry juice isn't just a treat in the summer

Make your own raspberry juice

You have a number of options for juicing. You can juice the berries manually, with a centrifuge, by boiling, or by steaming.

Juice the raspberries hot

  1. Harvest the raspberries in the sun if possible, so they have the best aroma.
  2. Clean the berries from insects and dirt, possibly give the berries a quick shower.
  3. Put the raspberries in a pot and mash them with a hand mixer or a hand blender.
  4. Now fill up with water and boil the berries for about a quarter of an hour. For 4 kg of berries you need 1 liter of water.
  5. Filter the porridge through a very fine sieve or cloth and add sugar. For 4 kg of berries you need 2 kg of sugar.
  6. Boil the juice again. The addition of a packet of preserving aid is suitable for a better shelf life.
  7. Now fill the juice into sterile, well-sealable bottles.

If you own a steam juicer, juicing becomes less of a hassle. The cleaned berries are heated in the steam container by rising steam, the berries burst and release their juice.
You can fill the hot juice into sterile bottles via a drain tube.

Cold pressed raspberry juice

  1. Puree the clean raspberries.
  2. Add preserving aid and pour boiling water over the whole thing. 1 teaspoon of preserving aid and 1.5 liters of water are sufficient for three pounds of raspberries.
  3. Leave it covered for a day.
  4. On the next day, pass the porridge through a fine sieve or cloth and add sugar, 1 kg of sugar for 1 l of juice.
  5. Leave it covered for another day.
  6. Pour the juice into sterile bottles. The shelf life is about half a year.

Cold juicing in the juicer or centrifuge requires even less effort. Here, too, the juice is then sweetened, preserved with preserving aids and bottled.

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