Blackberry Lemonade Concentrate
(Yield: About 3 pint jars)
3 cups blackberries
2 cups freshly squeezed lemon juice or bottled
3 cups sugar
Use a blender or a food processor and purée the blackberries until smooth and strain through a fine mesh strainer to remove seeds, put in a large pot. Add lemon juice and sugar and stir to combine. Heat to 190° F. using medium-high heat. Stir occasionally and do not boil. Remove from heat and skim off any foam.
Ladle into hot jars, leave ¼-inch headspace, clean rim, place lids and screw bands.
Place jars in prepared canner, with jars completely under water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to maintain gentle boil and process for 15 minutes. Turn off heat and remove canner lid. Allow jars to sit in canner for 5 minutes before removing. Set jars on rack or towel out of drafts and allow to cool. Remove screw band, label and store.
To reconstitute, mix one part concentrate with one part water, tonic water or ginger ale. Adjust concentrate to suit your taste.
**If you do not want to process this concentrate in canning jars, freeze the concentrate in 1 to 2 cup portions.
17 comments:
OMG this sounds so good. Have you tried it?
Yes, the blackberry lemonade concentrate looks fabulous.
I would love to do this with pineapple...any suggestions to convert to a non-berry??
I've been thinking about this since I saw the strawberry- could I use lime juice and cherries cherry limeade concentrate? I think it would be a fun variation.
Answer to a couple of comments
Joanne - omg so good. I have a pic of it in my Starbucks cup! Drank it for breakfast!
Trish- I am not sure about pineapple but will look into it. Pineapple juice taste weird after water bath sometimes.
Scratch - that combination with cherry and lime sounds great. You can sub lime juice for the lemon.
Mmm, this looks delicious. I still have maybe 20 pounds of berries in my freezer to use up. This could help :) Last year I made some strawberry-lemonade concentrate and froze it in small mason jars. It's a wonderful idea.
I make blueberry lime flavor.
Do you have to freeze the concentrates?
This sounds so good! I'm going to try it this year.
abbsmith22,
No you do't have to freeze them. Just water bath and you are good for one year!
Is it possible to use blackberries that have already been preserved in sugar? If so, what would I change? Thanks a million!
Amanda
Do you remember how much sugar you used in the original recipe to preserve the blackberries?
It's a medium syrup, but no not exactly. 3 cups, probably.
If you are going to do the small batch I would drain the liquid, measure the 3 cups of blackberries and then add the lemon juice and 1 cup of sugar to start. I would taste it and see if it's too tart from the lemon juice and add 1/2 cup sugar till the flavor is right. Because the blackberries are going to already be sweet it's better to add a little at a time.
Great - thanks a million!
Well, it took me almost a month to do it, but OMGoodness this is sooo delicious! I had enough for seven half-pints. Thank you thank you!
Just made up some. Has anyone tried it with tea? Hot or cold? If so what propertions?
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