Birch juice

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 40 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to prepare birch sap with citric acid in jars for the winter? Prepare the necessary products. The longest process in collecting birch sap is collecting it. To collect the juice, you need to make a small hole in the trunk and insert a stick into it, along which the juice will run into the container. It is better to collect juice early in the morning. After harvesting, the wound on the birch must be covered with garden varnish.

2. STEP 2

   

   There are quite a few different ways of collecting birch sap for the winter, with various additives: lemon, oranges, black currants, barberries, rose hips and others. The simplest classic is more popular. You only need three ingredients: birch sap, citric acid and sugar. Pour the birch sap into an enamel pan, put it on the fire, bring to a boil, remove the yellow foam that forms from the surface with a slotted spoon.

3. STEP 3

   

   Add sugar and citric acid and let them dissolve while stirring constantly. Turn off the heat. Sterilize jars of the required volume using one of the convenient methods: in a water bath, in the oven or in the microwave. Wash the lids, boil and dry.

4. STEP 4

   

   Pour birch sap into prepared jars and immediately close the lids. Turn them upside down and leave them under a warm blanket until they cool completely at room temperature.

5. STEP 5

   

   Store jars of birch sap in the refrigerator, pantry or other cool place. Birch sap is ready for the winter at home. Bon appetit!