Cherry Juice

Our harvest from the garden. Approx. 2.5 kg of cherries. The raspberries and strawberries went into the freezer and the cherries will be made into juice.

The cherries were a bit wormy so I chose to pit them and clean them really, really good. This took forever to do.

My DH bought me a steam juicer for Christmas and today is the first time trying it out. I watched some utube videos and read the instructions front to back and got a good sense of what is supposed to happen. So cool!

It comes in 3 parts

The bottom which holds the water...I filled it with 4 1/2 qts of water

This is the middle part which collects the juice

...and the top which holds the fruit. There is a glass lid that goes on top.

I let it steam for 1 hour and then poured it off into jars. Got to watch that you don't point the end in the wrong direction!

So this is what I got in the end and it tastes soooo good. Thinking I need to go find me some more cherries!

I froze what was left in small batches for adding to smoothies. The flavor is definitely "watered down" but should work.

Update****

Went to the fruitstand and bought 20lbs more! This time I only rinsed the cherries and threw stems and all into the pot. After an hour I kept adding more cherries on top until all was steamed. First time using the new campstove...love it!

 7 1/2 qts later...ran out of time so will do the waterbath tomorrow.