Grape Juice
Ingredients
- grape juice or pulp-2 cups or 1 litre
- sugar-4 cups or 2 kg
- water-2 cups or 1 litre
- citric acid-1 1/2 tsp or 4 tsp
- tonovin essence(grape essence)-1 1/2 tsp
- rasberry red colour-powder(1 pinch) or liquid(1/4 tsp)
- sodium benzoate(SB)(preservative)-2 pinches or 1/4 tsp
Method
- select fresh ,ripe juicy black variety grapes.
- seperate from the bunch and wash thoroughly ,keep in a perforated vessel for sometime for the water to drain completly
- take it in a vessel and crush it using wooden masher.
- place on fire and cook it in a reduced flame for 10 to 15 minutes
- remove from fire ,strain through a sieve or strainer,to remove seeds and skin ,when it is still hot.
- measure the juice,
For sugar syrup
- heat sugar ,water and citric acid together to boiling point(boil well)
- filter the syrup through a muslin cloth and cool it completly to room temperature
for syrup
- mix this syrup,juice,essence,colour and preservative (mixed with little warm water)together.
- fill in sterlized and dry bottles leaving 1 inch head space,cork and store in a cool place or refrigerate .
to serve
- dilute with 3 parts of ice cold or ordinary water
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