Blackcurrant Cordial
40 min · makes about 1 litre
Crops from your garden in this recipe: 🫐 Blackcurrant
Ingredients
- 500 g Blackcurrants, stripped from stalks (grown in the garden)
- about 300 g Caster sugar
- 1 tbsp Lemon juice
Green items are crops you can grow yourself.
Method
- Put the blackcurrants in a pan with 500 ml water and simmer for 15 minutes until they have burst and the juice is deep purple.
- Strain through a muslin-lined sieve, pressing gently, and measure the juice.
- Return to the pan with 300 g sugar for every 500 ml of juice, plus the lemon juice, and heat gently until the sugar dissolves.
- Simmer for 2 minutes, skim and pour into sterilised bottles.
- Dilute about 1 part cordial to 5 parts water, or use in hot drinks or over ice cream. Keeps in the fridge for 4 weeks, or freeze in tubs for longer.