🌟 ELDERBERRY PUNCH🌟
Do you like to drink punch during Advent? A delicious non-alcoholic punch recipe with the healthy elderberry juice has today our PUCH MAGAZINE author Silja from the Wilde Möhre Blog for you.
The elderberry
The berries of the black elderberry (Sambucus nigra) ripen in August or September, depending on climatic conditions, and, like the flowers, are one of our favorite home remedies for preventing and treating colds. Initial experiments suggest that the berries even have an effect against flu viruses.
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Anyway, elderberries are rich in vitamins (especially vitamin C and B vitamins), minerals and flavonoids. Anthocyanins, which are responsible for the blue-black color of the berries, as well as a notable amount of manganese, are so-called antioxidants that protect our cells from harmful influences.
However, elderberries are not only a fountain of health, but also an interesting kitchen ingredient. Whether as elderberry roaster, elderberry balsamic or elderberry jelly, all variants are delicious!
Elderberry juice
A juice can also be obtained from the berries. To do this, boil the berries with water and simmer gently for about 15 minutes until they burst open. The juice is strained through a sieve and flavored with sugar or honey and spices, if desired. Then it is sterilely boiled down in jars or bottles.
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The juice is now in winter, where you can easily catch a flu infection, a great way to strengthen your immune system. To do this, drink a small glass once a day diluted with warm water or apple juice.
If you don't want to do the work yourself, or if you don't have any elderberry juice left at home from the summer, you can also buy it at the health food store. Mother juice is 100 percent pure and unsweetened.
But to get into the Advent spirit and do something for your health at the same time, you can also make a fine non-alcoholic punch with Christmas spices from the elderberry juice. This not only tastes good, it also does you good and can also be drunk by children.
ATTENTION: Elderberries contain the slightly poisonous sambunigrin. Eating them raw can cause nausea and vomiting, which is why the berries must always be cooked. This renders the ingredient harmless. To harvest, cut off whole panicles, wash thoroughly, allow to dry and then rub off with a fork or fingers. Sort out the green berries. The elderberry juice recipe can also be found in my wild herb book "Ganz schön wild".
Elderberry punch recipe
➡️For 4 cups you will need:
- 600 ml naturally cloudy apple juice
- 400 ml elderberry mother juice
- 2 oranges
- 100 g sugar
- Christmas spices, e.g.
- 10 allspice seeds
- 5 cloves
- 2 cardamom pods
- 1 star anise
- 1 Ceylon cinnamon stick
- ½ vanilla pod
- if necessary tonka bean for refining
➡️This is how it's done:
✨️Squeeze the oranges & remove the white skin from the peel.
✨️Gently pound spices in mortar.
✨️Gently boil apple juice, elderberry juice & orange juice with sugar, zest of oranges as well as spices (except tonka bean) in a pot.
✨️Switch down to lowest temperature & let steep covered for 10 minutes.
Strain through a sieve, refine with a little grated tonka bean if desired, and enjoy!
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