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This Cranberry Water is made from raw cranberry juice and is absolutely delicious. A perfect summer drink that is refreshing and good for you, as cranberries are known to pack dozens of health-promoting compounds in them.
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Cranberry Water

Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 1 gallon
Calories
Author Victor

Ingredients

  • 900 g about 2 lbs fresh or frozen cranberries
  • 540 g / 19 oz sugar 60 g / 2 oz sugar per 100 g / 1/4 lb cranberries
  • 1 gallon of drinking water about 400 ml / 1 3/4 cup water per 100 g / 3.5 oz cranberries

Instructions

  • Wash cranberries and drain
  • Smash with stomper or some other similar tool
  • Place the resulting cranberry mass in cheesecloth and squeeze the juice out into a non-oxidizing container. Set aside
  • Take the cranberry cake out of the cheesecloth and place into a big pot, add sugar and water. Stir briskly
  • Bring to boil, and remove from heat. This process will allow the remaining juices and nutrients to get extracted from the cake
  • Cool down
  • Add the juice
  • Refrigerate and enjoy. This cranberry water may refrigerated for up to week, possibly more. Mine never lasted that long

Notes

I noticed that letting the cranberry cake and water boil for about 5 minutes make tartness more subdued, and gives the drink more body, more mouth feel