Showing posts with label currant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label currant. Show all posts
Saturday, January 24, 2015
How To Make Red Currant Sparkling Lemonade
When I was a child, I used help pick the red currants off either my parents or my grand parents red currant shrubs. Then, we would go inside and make something delicious to eat with the red currants such as rødgrød med fløde.
This Red Currant Sparkling Lemonade combines all things summer time delicious. My recipe below is a quick way to make a homemade lemonade and add red currant juice to kick the lemonade up a notch. Plus, adding the sparkling water is as if you are creating your own homemade soda.
First Step: Make the simple syrup
Ingredients:
Make the simple syrup by boiling the 2 cups of water and 2 cups of sugar in a heavy pot. When the the sugar water starts to boil, mix it until the sugar is dissolved. Add lemon zest to the sugar water (optional). Set the syrup aside to cool down.
Cooking Tip: Make sure your pitcher holds 10 cups of water. If your pitcher is smaller, you may want to reduce the quantities.
Second Step: Make the red currant juice
Ingredients:
Kitchen Tools:
Sprinkle a 1/2 cup of sugar over a cup of red currants and mix it around in a bowl. Then, set aside the red currants with sugar in the refrigerator for about an hour.
An hour later, start pressing a fork on to the red currants. Keep pressing until juice are pressed out of all the currants. Once there is no more to press, pour the red currant mixture onto a mesh strainer. You will need to move the red currants mixture around until there is no more red currant juice running through the mesh strainer.
Cooking Tip: A colander with big holes wont work. A cheesecloth is another helpful way to strain the syrup too. Otherwise, you might have to strain it a couple of times.
Final Step: combine the ingredients to make the red currant lemonade.
Ingredients
Mix simple syrup, red currant juice and fresh squeezed lemon juice in the glass pitcher. Fill the rest of the glass pitcher with sparkling water.
Slice fresh slices of lemons on a cutting board. Clean the fresh red currants.
Add ice cubes, sliced lemons and one cup of red currants. This layered colorful look is gorgeous to look at. Stir the mixture.
Fun Drink ideas:
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This Red Currant Sparkling Lemonade combines all things summer time delicious. My recipe below is a quick way to make a homemade lemonade and add red currant juice to kick the lemonade up a notch. Plus, adding the sparkling water is as if you are creating your own homemade soda.
First Step: Make the simple syrup
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of water
- 2 cups of sugar
- tablespoon of lemon zest (optional)
- heavy pot
- measuring cup
- spoon
Make the simple syrup by boiling the 2 cups of water and 2 cups of sugar in a heavy pot. When the the sugar water starts to boil, mix it until the sugar is dissolved. Add lemon zest to the sugar water (optional). Set the syrup aside to cool down.
Cooking Tip: Make sure your pitcher holds 10 cups of water. If your pitcher is smaller, you may want to reduce the quantities.
Second Step: Make the red currant juice
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of red currants
- 1/2 cup of sugar
Kitchen Tools:
- 2 bowls
- fork
- mesh strainer
Sprinkle a 1/2 cup of sugar over a cup of red currants and mix it around in a bowl. Then, set aside the red currants with sugar in the refrigerator for about an hour.
An hour later, start pressing a fork on to the red currants. Keep pressing until juice are pressed out of all the currants. Once there is no more to press, pour the red currant mixture onto a mesh strainer. You will need to move the red currants mixture around until there is no more red currant juice running through the mesh strainer.
Cooking Tip: A colander with big holes wont work. A cheesecloth is another helpful way to strain the syrup too. Otherwise, you might have to strain it a couple of times.
Final Step: combine the ingredients to make the red currant lemonade.
Ingredients
- fresh squeezed lemon juice (about 6 lemons)
- sparkling water, soda water or water
- red currant juice
- simple syrup
- slices of lemons
- plenty of ice
- one cup of fresh red currants
Kitchen Tools:
- glass pitcher that holds 10 cups of water
- spoon
- cutting board
- knife
Mix simple syrup, red currant juice and fresh squeezed lemon juice in the glass pitcher. Fill the rest of the glass pitcher with sparkling water.
Slice fresh slices of lemons on a cutting board. Clean the fresh red currants.
Add ice cubes, sliced lemons and one cup of red currants. This layered colorful look is gorgeous to look at. Stir the mixture.
Fun Drink ideas:
- add either fresh raspberries or strawberries into the lemonade too
- garnish the glass pitcher with a sliced lemon and a sprig of mint
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Friday, January 23, 2015
Red Currant Coconut Muffins with Orange Glaze
Red currants and shredded coconuts dont belong in a muffin?!...of course they do! Its so yummy! These muffins are perfect for breakfast or brunch, but who can resist them for afternoon, evening, and even midnight snacks? Theyre just too good.
Muffin Ingredients
Muffin Instructions
Orange Glaze Instructions
xoxo,
Karen Grete & Heidi.
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*how to make Swedish Glogg for Christmas & cold evenings! (glögg or mulled wine recipe)
*how to make aeblskiver (æbleskiver)
*how to make Danish Christmas Klejner
*how to make easy Danish cucumber salad (arguksalat)
*how to make Danish sugar browned potatoes (brunede kartofler)
*how to make Danish red cabbage (rødkaal)
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- 1 cup of all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon of salt
- 1/2 cup of sugar
- 8 tablespoons or 1 stick of butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon of orange rind
- 2 tablespoons of orange juice
- 2 tablespoons of sweetened coconut
- 1 cup of red currants (fresh or frozen)
- electric mixer
- 1 large bowl
- 1 wooden spoon
- muffin pan
- muffin cups
- measuring cup
- measuring spoon
Muffin Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups, or line with paper muffin liners.
- Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl.
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in eggs into the creamed mixture until blended
- Add flour mixture. Mix some more.
- Add orange rind, coconut and orange juice. Mix some more.
- Fold in gently the red currants with a wooden spoon.
- Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full.
- Bake at 375° for 20-25 minutes Place muffin cups on center rack of the preheated oven and bake until tops are golden and a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.
- Allow to cool.
Orange Glaze Instructions
- 1 cup of confectionery sugar
- 2 to 3 tablespoon of orange juice
- In a small bowl, combine confectioners sugar and 2 to 3 tablespoons of orange juice. Mix until smooth, then refrigerate until thickened. Drizzle over cooled muffins.
- Sprinkle with coconut over the glaze. Add one red currant in the center of the muffin.
xoxo,
Karen Grete & Heidi.
We hope you enjoyed our Red Currant muffin video and recipe! Please be sure to subscribe to our YouTube Channel Scandinavian Today. Our channel has videos including
*Red Currant Strawberry Smoothie Recipe Using Typical Scandinavian Flavors
*How to Make Rhubarb Syrup For Your Cool Summer Cocktails and Drinks.
*Black Cherry Strawberry Smoothie Recipe Using Icelandic Yogurt
*Wild Blueberry Smoothie Using Icelandic Yogurt
*Rhubarb Strawberry Smoothie! A Great Summer Drink With Typical Scandinavian Flavors
*how to make Danish Christmas rice pudding with cherry sauce dessert recipe (Risalamande med kirsebærsauce)
*how to make Swedish Glogg for Christmas & cold evenings! (glögg or mulled wine recipe)
*how to make aeblskiver (æbleskiver)
*how to make Danish Christmas Klejner
*how to make easy Danish cucumber salad (arguksalat)
*how to make Danish sugar browned potatoes (brunede kartofler)
*how to make Danish red cabbage (rødkaal)
Our Scandinavian recipes including Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish are on http://.blogspot.com/
Follow us either on Twitter @, Blogger, Google+, Google Pages, Pinterest and Subscribe to our YouTube Chanel Scandinavian Today! Lets get cooking Scandinavian foods!
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