How to prepare mors

Morse is a non-carbonated soft drink that is made from berry (more rarely - fruit) juice, sugar syrup (or honey) and non-carbonated drinking water. Formerly, fruit drinks were mostly made from wild berries, especially cowberry mors and cranberry mors were popular.

But you can prepare mors from almostany available berries, fruits and even vegetables. Most often, red and black currants, strawberries, raspberries, kostyanik, blackberries and other berries are used to prepare Morse. Can make the juice from a mixture of juices - you get a kind of assorted.

To taste, fruit drink looks like fruit juice, but it does not taste so rich: More than half of the content of the fruit is water. And this has a logical explanation: forest berries do not give too much juice, besides, 100% juice from the same cranberries will be very concentrated and sour - without water and sugar can not do. And when you add water and sugar, it's just a mors.

Of course, there are fewer vitamins in the fruit juice than in natural juice, especially if you cook boiled water with boiling water. But Morse quenches thirst much better than natural juice, and less load the pancreas. Natural fruit drinks increase appetite, and fruit drinks prepared from berries with a high content of vitamin C, increase immunity. Useful properties of a particular type of mors are dependent on which berries it is made from.

Morse can be given even to children, however, certainprecautions. Usually it is recommended to acquaint the child with fruit drinks at the age of three. In this case, it is necessary to give a mors prepared from one kind of berries, which the child has already tried "in its pure form", in order to avoid an allergic reaction.

You can prepare Morse in many ways, but for all methods there are severalimportant rules. Firstly, you can add only boiled water to the mors. When adding "raw" water, Morse can ferment. Secondly, the fruit must be cooked in a bowl that does not oxidize.

The easiest way to prepare a mors Is to make sugar syrup by dissolving sugar inhot water. When the syrup cools down, you need to add the juice squeezed out of the berries into it and stir it. Juice can be wrung out "grandmother" method, through gauze, but it is much more convenient and hygienic to use a juicer.

But more often Morse is prepared by boiling. How to prepare mors with this method? The berries are picked and washed. If necessary, you need to remove the bones from the berries, rub it in a mortar or grind it in a blender. Then the prepared "raw materials" are put in a saucepan and poured with boiled water.

The pan is put on a strong fire, brought toboiling and boiled for a while (no longer than fifteen minutes). Decoction filter, and from the cake squeeze the juice and add to the broth. Then the drink is diluted with boiled water and sweetened with sugar or honey.

With this method of cooking berries lose a lot of vitamins, so you can boil a little differently. To do this, juice from berries is squeezed before heat treatment. The squeeze is boiled, the broth obtained is diluted with raw berry juice and sweetened to taste.

If desired, you can add spices to the mors (for example, cinnamon), lemon zest or a slice of lemon, lime or orange. In summer, the mors is served cooled to the table (you can add ice to a jug of fruit juice or directly into glasses with a drink), and in winter - warm. In winter, by the way, you can prepare vitaminized fruit juice from frozen berries.