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Recipe: Swedish red currant cordial (röd vinbärssaft)

September 1, 2016 by Kalle Leave a Comment

Swedish red currant cordial If you have plenty of red currant (or is it redcurrant?) in your garden or from a friends garden, then I can highly recommend making a batch of this Swedish red currant cordial (syrup). Especially if you have kids it is great to always have some homemade cordial/syrup at hand.

Here you can find this recipe in swedish.

Swedish red currant cordial

Recipe: Swedish red currant cordial (röd vinbärssaft)

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Prep Time 1 hr
Cook Time 45 mins
Total Time 1 hr 45 mins
Course Drinks
Cuisine Swedish
Servings 1 ,5 l

Ingredients
  

  • 2 kg red currant
  • 400 ml water
  • 600 g sugar use 400 g per litre of liquid
  • 1,5 ml sodium benzoate optional

Instructions
 

  • Sterilize the bottles (bottles to hold around 1,5 litres). Boil the bottles in a big pot for 10 min.
  • Rinse the berries and remove bad ones, but you don't need to remove them from the stem
  • Bring the berries and water to a boil and let it boil under lid for 10 min
  • Use a ladle to mash the berries
  • Strain through a muslin, coffee filter, cheesecloth or similar fine mesh sieve. Let it strain through for around 30 min
  • Measure the liquid and add 400 g sugar to every litre in a pot
  • Bring to a boil while stirring to dissolve the sugar then remove the froth.
  • If you are using sodium benzoate then take a cup of liquid and mix it with first before mixing it all in the big pot
  • Fill upp the bottles and place in fridge once it has cooled
  • To make a refreshing juice you need to add 4-5 parts of cold water for every part of red currant syrup
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Enjoy on hot summer days together with this delicious rhubarb crisp with coconut and almond paste. Check out our other Swedish recipes here Spara Spara Spara

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