Hello everyone.
This weeks question are very interesting. When fruit season is on we try to use as much of fruit as possible. One way of course beside eating and preparing jams for winter is drinks we prepare from fruits from our garden.
When fruits starts to ripe we use our steam juicer in summer kitchen to get some juice and drinks.
This is steam juicer we use.
In bottom pot you put water and in top pot you put sliced fruits.
Here we used apples from our garden. Pears, plums and quince can be used as well.
We clean and slice them and that is all you need to do.
You close the put and after some time the juice will start slowly to drip.
And you have juice ready to drink. Delicious apple juice from our garden.
Sometimes you can mix different fruit. Here beside apples there is aronia berry, plum and pear if I recall correctly.
Fruit mix ready to drink.
It is up to you what taste do you prefer. You can have your special mix of fruits.
You put fruits in the steam juicer and as you do your chores or something else the juice will drip and you will have lovely refreshment.
Beside steam juicer we collect some of our fruits such aronia berries, blackberries and strawberries and later we use them in kompot or compot. You can use any fruit to make compot. Apples, pears, quinces, plums, figs, cherries are all suitable for compot.
These are aronia berries or Chokeberries.
Kompot is basicaly prepared from boiled fruits. You can use fresh or dried fruits.
You slice any fruit you like and put it to boil. Add sugar if necessary and thats it
Kompot is tasty and refreshing drink with some fruits part in it. It can be used as drink or dessert.
We store our aronia berries, blackberries and strawberries in freezer. Later you can use them for kompot.
Figs are also very nice fruit for kompot.
Dried or fresh kompot fig is such such a treat. Dried figs and plums are quite nice in kompot.
Blackberries are delicious in steam juicer. Juice is so sweet and it is lovely drink.
Grape juice is also must try. We have two grapes in our garden. When grape is ready besides eating fresh grapes - grape drink is second best thing.
This is elder tree or elderberry. I really like elder tree drink. You put flowers inside the jar, you can boil or not, it is up to you, and you add sugar.
After some time it is delicious drink. You add some water and enjoy beautiful elder tree drink.
Elder flowers inside the jars. It has special taste and it is one of my favorite drinks. Elder tree flowers can be used for tea as well. We dry some of them to get lovely tea. Drying is easy as you just put the flowers on paper and they dry after some time (just dont stack flowers , better to spread them and leave some space). There is specific number of flowers for specific amount of water, sugar.
Also we have wild mint on couple places in our garden. We can have mint tea from fresh mint during summer. Of course it is possible to dry mint and use it later.
Also you can add fresh mint leaves to lemonade.
To sum up basically we prepare drinks from almost all of our fruits. There are many ways to use the fruits in your garden and preparing drinks is one of delicious end product.
And for first question there is restaurant in Sarajevo with lovely garden. Super place to relax during summer.
Photos by @sammy00.