Homemade blackcurrant syrup: how to make your own currant syrup, step-by-step recipes

Blackcurrant syrup can be prepared in two ways, and we will now look at both of these recipes.

Hot blackcurrant syrup (with cooking)

Wash and sort the currants.

Sprinkle the berries with sugar, press them down a little and put them in a bottle or pan. With this method, the proportions of sugar and berries are 1:1. Cover the container with a lid and place it in a warm place for 2-3 days, even in the sun. During this time, the berries will ferment slightly and this will give a special, piquant taste to the syrup.

Now the berries need to be boiled. Bring the berries to a boil and cook them for 10 minutes.

Grind the hot currants through a sieve.

Do not throw away the remaining pulp. You can then make marshmallows from it, or cook compote.

Pour the syrup back into the pan and boil. Blackcurrant contains a lot of pectin, so it gels very quickly and should not be boiled for a long time.

Pour the hot syrup into sterilized bottles and store it in a cool, dark place. This syrup can last for more than a year if air does not get under the lid.

Cold blackcurrant syrup (without cooking)

Cleanly washed currants should be chopped and juice squeezed out. It is better to do this with a juicer, but if you don’t have one, then a manual method is also suitable - a blender and then grinding through a sieve.

For 0.5 liters of juice you need 1 kg of sugar and 5-6 grams. citric acid.

Mix the juice with sugar and stir until completely dissolved. Add citric acid and pour the syrup into oven-baked bottles. Seal with caps and, to be secure, dip the closed bottle caps into melted paraffin.

The “cold” method has its advantages. After all, the berries were not subjected to heat treatment. They retained all the vitamins and aroma of fresh berries.

But at the same time, syrups prepared without cooking have a short shelf life. They will last no more than 6 months in the refrigerator, and in the pantry, at room temperature, they will ferment within 2 weeks.