Juicing elderberry: the best tips and tricks

The elderberry is a real vitamin bomb. It contains plenty of vitamins C, B and A as well as potassium. If you juice elderberries, you can quickly make a healthy and delicious juice.

Juicing elderberries - how it works

If you pick elderberries, you should wear old clothes and gloves, because the juice of the berry is difficult to wash from clothes and hands.

• You should only collect umbels that have fully colored berries.
• Place the elder cones in a large saucepan and cover the cones completely with water. This helps to remove dirt, dust and insects from the berries.
• Use a fork to read the panicles from the umbels. You should note that only fully colored berries go into the pot. You should remove unripe berries.
• To make elderberry juice with a steam juicer, you need two kilograms of elderberries and 200 grams of sugar per liter.
• Place the elderberries in a colander and fill the bottom pot of the juicer with water. Then place the steam extractor on the stove. Once the water boils, let the berries juice for 50 minutes.
• Now drain a liter of juice. You should pour the juice over the berries. This ensures that the juice has the same concentration.
• Now you have to drain all the juice and put it in a large saucepan. Then add the sugar.
• The mixture must now be brought to a boil with stirring for two to three minutes.
• To make the juice last longer, you should fill it in sterile glasses with a good seal. Unopened, it can be kept for eight to ten months.

Make elderberry juice without steam juicer

You don't necessarily need a steam juicer or juicer to make fruit juice. You only need a large pot for this method. And just like when juicing with a steam juicer, you need 200 grams of sugar for two kilograms of elderberries per liter.

• Place the elderberries in a saucepan and cover them completely with water.
• The berries must now be simmered for about ten minutes before they burst.
• Once the berries have burst, you need to put the mixture in a sieve. Catch the juice. Put the berries on a tea towel and squeeze them out again.
• Add the sugar to the juice. Boil the juice while stirring and simmer for two to three minutes.
• Fill the juice into sterile glasses and seal them airtight. This keeps the juice stable for eight to ten months.

A lot of fruit ripens in the gardens in autumn. In order not to spoil the excess fruit, you can make juice from it, for example. In our next practical tip, we have summarized how you can juice apples.