Old-Fashioned Fruit Saft
A delicious syrup to add to lemonade or sparkling water
Equipment
- 1 Large Saucepan
- 1 Cooking Spoon
Ingredients
- 1-2 Ripe Plum(s)
- 1 pint strawberry
- 1 small container raspberries
- 3 inch piece of ginger, peeled, sliced thinly
- 2 Tbsps. elderberries (fresh or dried)
- 1 1/2 cups sugar or more to taste
- 3-4 cups purified water
- spring of fresh mint
Instructions
- Rinse fruit and mint. Cut plum into bite-size pieces. Hull strawberries and cut into bite-size pieces. Peel and cut ginger into thin slices. Add all ingredients except sugar to a pot and let simmer for about 25 minutes. Remove pot from stove, let cool slightly. Pour fruit and liquid in pot fitted with cheese cloth. Wait until cheese cloth with ingredients is not too hot, then squeeze out as much of the liquid from the fruit. When the liquid has been gathered, return pot with liquid to the stove. Add sugar and stir. Add sprig of mint and let this cook down for about 25 to 40 minutes until it resembles a thinner syrup. Remove pot from stove and let cool down before storing into a sterilized mason jar. Once the jar is cooled to room temperature, store in the refrigerator for up to three months. But this is so good it won't last that long :-)Use: Add to lemonade, water with ice, cold sparkling water, or even to fruit salads. To see how I made this recipe, please watch this video:Old-Fashioned Fruit Saft| Practicing Calligraphy| Homemade Lavender Laundry Soap| Slow Living Vlog
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