{"id":6166,"date":"2013-07-12T08:15:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T07:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greensideup.ie\/?p=6166"},"modified":"2015-07-15T23:40:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T22:40:18","slug":"blackcurrant-juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/blackcurrant-juice\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make blackcurrant cordial"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last year it was cakes and buns, this year its cordials!<\/p>\n
<\/a>In our quest to avoid the aspartame (see the post here on our reasons why) <\/a>I’ve scoured the books looking for ways to make some of our produce into cordials. This week I brought home a few blackcurrants from Callan community garden<\/a> and made this delicious summer juice\u00a0in just 15 minutes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The refreshing recipe below\u00a0(published in The Guardian recently)<\/a> doesn’t make a huge amount\u00a0– 400g of blackcurrants makes about 750ml concentrate cordial, but it reminded me of childhood summers and drinks as they used to taste\u00a0before they became chemical cocktails. If you’re growing blackcurrants, know anyone with a blackcurrant bush or spot any in your local farmers market, it’s well worth trying and a lovely way to use the fruit.<\/p>\n Just a quick word of warning if you’re growing these sharp little fruit that are packed full of vitamin C in your garden or allotment, they’re prone to attack from a little caterpillar that’s the larvae of the gooseberry sawfly<\/a> so do keep an eye out or you could lose them all in a couple of days.<\/p>\n