Bug juice is a beverage. Exactly what the beverage is varies by area, and by tradition, but it appears to always be a soft drink. It can be as simple as red soda pop, straight up. In some traditions, such as North American summer camps for children, it is fruit-flavoured drinks, mixed up from powdered…
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Citrus Juicer
A citrus juicer is a device designed to extract juice from citrus fruit. There are manually-powered ones, and electric ones. Before choosing an electric citrus juicer, inquire what clean-up involves, and what storage space is required.
Cranberry Juice
Cranberry Juice is a bright red fruit juice, sweetened with sugar. Most juices sold are ⅓ cranberry juice, with the remainder being water and sugar to make them palatable. Even homemade recipes add sugar and water. White Cranberry Juice is made from cranberries harvested before they ripen to red. It is milder and less tart….
Frozen Orange Juice Concentrate
Frozen Orange Juice Concentrate © Denzil Green To make Frozen Orange Juice Concentrate, oranges are juiced in great quantities. Heat and vacuum is used to remove some of the water, concentrating the juice. Different batches of concentrate will have different sugar-acid ratios. The batches will be blended according to the preferences of which company is…
Fruit Drink
A Fruit Drink may be called a beverage, cocktail, or a punch. A Fruit Drink is a beverage with a low content of actual fruit juice in it. Most jurisdictions, though, have legal minimums that must be met for the beverage to still refer to itself as a “Fruit” something. Australia: 5% minimum juice Canada:…
Grape Juice
Grape juice is a liquid obtained by pressing grapes. Grape juice can be red or white. To make it, the whole grape is crushed including the seeds. The juice must then be pasteurized immediately so that it won’t ferment into wine. The juice must be 100% juice to be called grape juice in America. Kosher…
Juice Apples
Juice Apples © Steve Buissinne / pixabay.com / 2015 / CC0 1.0 Juice Apples is a term used to describe the best types of apples to use for producing apple juice. There are several factors that go into deciding what “best” means. 1. What varieties of apples are considered good for juicing? Jump down the…
Juicers
Juicers are tools for extracting the juice out of a fruit or vegetable. A good juicer is designed to get the maximum amount of juice out of produce, with the least amount of manual labour. One of the keys to evaluating a good juicer is — including clean-up time — how much total work does it save you?
Lemon Juice
Lemon Juice © Denzil GreenLemons are primarily used for their juice, as a souring agent to refresh the taste of foods, or to prevent food browning. Lemon juice is typically consumed in trace amounts as a flavouring element in dishes, and never in large quantities in its own right, except when it is heavily sweetened…
Lime Juice
Lime Juice © Denzil Green You can make your own juice from limes, or you can buy commercial lime juice that comes either in small bottles or in those small plastic containers shaped like limes. Some cooks are uneasy at the thought of buying lime juice like that, but it’s fine in a pinch, especially…
Mock Orange Juice
Mock orange juice (aka “Carolene”) was a recipe used during rationing in the U.K. in World War Two. It produces a liquid whose taste is reminiscent of orange juice. To make it, you peel and slice swede or turnip somewhat thinly, toss the slices in a few teaspoons of sugar, then let it stand overnight,…
Nectars
Nectar is a marketing term that came about in the late 1980s for a non-pure, diluted fruit juice to distinguish it from other non-pure fruit drinks. A “Nectar” will contain added water, added sugar or honey to sweeten it, and often contains fruit pulp to make it thicker than juice. There are no real standards…
Olive Juice
The phrase “olive juice” is a misnomer. Occasionally you will see it used to refer to the brine of preserved olives, when called for in a mixed cocktail such as a dirty martini. You can actually buy it now in jars for bar use. It comes without the actual olives in it. Elsewhere, the phrase…
Orange Juice
Commercial orange juice tastes orangier than orange juice that you have squeezed yourself from fresh oranges. The reason for this is that oranges meant for juicing can be left on the trees longer to develop fuller flavour.
Orange Juice Day
The 4th of May is Orange Juice Day. Who doesn’t like a glass of sunshine at breakfast? It’s also a delicious ingredient to cook with!
Pickle Juice
Pickle Juice © Denzil Green Pickle Juice is juice that has been used to pickle a food item. Though it’s usually presumed to be juice that cucumbers in one form or another were pickled in, that’s not strictly true: the juice can be from beets, pickled peppers, etc.. It can be re-used to make pickled…
Pineapple Juice
Pineapple Juice is a sweet, yellow-coloured juice squeezed from pineapples: not from the whole pineapple, but from the trimmings after the pineapple is cut for canning. It can be bought sweetened or unsweetened, in cans, bottles, as a frozen concentrate or as a powder. Sometimes sugar, water and preservatives are added to the canned juice….
Pomegranate Juice
Pomegranate Juice is the unsweetened juice of Pomegranates. You cut the pomegranates in half and juice as you would a citrus fruit. To juice the seeds, whiz them in a blender until the juice is released, then strain. It will stain most plastic containers it’s stored in. Cooking Tips You may wish to vary the…
Sparkling Juices
Sparkling juices are juices that have been carbonated make them fizzy. The more expensive sparkling juices use natural carbonation. The juice is let ferment a bit to create natural carbonation, then it is flash-pasteurized. This makes it somewhere in between wine and juice. The cheaper ones are artificially carbonated with C02, with the juice flash-pasteurized…
Tomato Juice
Tomato Juice © Denzil Green To make Tomato Juice, tomatoes are cooked to develop the taste and release the juice, then strained to remove excess fibres and seeds, and then canned or bottled. It differs from Tomato Sauce in that Tomato Sauce is cooked further until it reduces and becomes thick, and flavourings are definitely…
Yuzu Juice
Yuzu Juice is a yellowish-grey coloured juice from a Japanese fruit called Yuzu. The juice, sold in bottles, is quite expensive outside Japan: it’s more expensive than even truffle oil. It’s not cheap in Japan either, however, because Yuzu fruits don’t yield much juice. One average-sized Yuzu, about the size of a golfball, will only…