Leftover juices and canned syrups

SAVING JUICES

Our citrus will be quite prolific this year. The trees are loaded. We have lemons, limes, oranges and pomelos.
Also the passion fruit has taken on a deep breath and started producing again!

To save all of this for later use I juice batches of the fruit and freeze in ice trays. After they freeze, pop out of the trays and place in double layers of freezer-style ziplock plastic bags.

The reason for this is that if you leave them in the trays, they somehow shrink and evaporate (?) and a regular cube will turn out to be a little bitty sliver.

If you do several different fruit juices, be sure to mark the bags accordingly.

I use them for cooking and seasoning and dropping into ice tea glasses. They can also be used for making citrus based desserts or syrups.

SAVING CANNED FRUIT SYRUPS

When I use canned fruits that need to be drained, I save all the juices or syrups in a plastic container in the freezer, or sometimes I put it in ice trays and make cubes.

You can use them in ice tea, or you can use them in fruit punch if you save enough.

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