Four Fruit Juice

In one of my earlier posts about the peaches I got from the orchard, I mentioned that we didn't get very many. 

All the peaches I got this year, the cicadas killed the rest

 So looking through my canning book I found a recipe for fruit juice that called for pureed peaches.

I had just enough so I pureed the peaches and froze them until I could get the other ingredients from the store to complete the recipe.

Peach Puree

This is the recipe I used.

Four Fruit Juice

4 cups of Peach puree, 4 cups orange juice, 4 cups of pineapple juice, 4 cups of grapefruit juice, 2 cups of water and 1/2 cup of honey.

Combine all ingredients in a large sauce pot.  Heat juice for 5 minutes at 190 degrees F. Do not boil.  Remove from heat. Skim foam if necessary. Ladle hot juice into hot jars, leave 1/4 in. head space. Add lids and bands.  Process pints and quarts 20 minutes in a boiling water canner.

Four Fruit Juice

The recipe ended up making 5 quarts and 1 pint.  I canned up the 5 quarts per directions for later use.  With the left over pint we all had a little taste.  To my surprise the juice was sour, not sweet at all.  I thought with the honey and the pineapple juice it would be sweet but its not. 

It has more of a mild grapefruit taste to it.  The kids loved it as they love sour food.  I added ice and a little extra cold water to mine and I like it much better.

I'm happy to have tried a new recipe, even happier that we all like it and it won't go to waste.  The labor to make it and the juice.