Cranberry Juice

I love cranberries!! 

I eat them in my oatmeal almost daily.  I like them in crisps.  I use cranberry sauce as the jelly on a PB&J sandwich.  Love those little berries!  I also love cranberry juice, but it's so expensive, and I don't like how much sugar it has.  I want to taste the cranberry, not the apple and pear juice!

I read a recipe online that says you can make a simple juice by putting one cup fresh cranberries and 1/3 cup sugar into each quart jar.  Then fill with hot water.  Process in a hot water bath for 20 minutes.

 

After processing I just loved the colors in the jars as they turned into juice!

Look at those lovely berries!

Here is a jar of the juice the next day.  From what I understand, the juice will get stronger as you let it sit.  I was impatient, though, so I opened up a jar.  If it gets better as it sits, I'm in for some FREAKING AWESOME juice!!!  This stuff was great!

Just a note for your information...a 3lb bag of fresh berries makes 12 quarts of juice!

I did think it was a bit too sweet for me.  It wasn't as sweet as store bought juice, but I still wanted the cranberries to shine.  In my next batch I only put 1/4 cup sugar in each jar.

I did a few more jars using cranberries and blackberries.  I'll tell you how it turns out in a few days!