Homemade fruit purees

[dougdecinces]

Once summer rolls around (long time away, I know) I plan on making a blackberry brown ale. My girlfriend's parents have dozens of blackberry bushes on their property so I was thinking I'd eschew the whole Oregon puree thing and create my own.

I am wondering if anyone has their own recipes for fruit purees and/or are there any precautions I need to make when making my own fruit purees.

 

[boostsr20]

I was just pondering this myself today. Curious to see what others have done.

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

I'd think with the berries you could probably just freeze, thaw and then crush them. No need to go all the way to puree.

I would definitely pasteurize the fruit after crushing by bringing it up to 165F, cooling quickly and pitching it in.

 

[Jayjay1976]

Puree the fruit, seal it up in a bag and pasteurize via sous vide. IMHO, Oregon purees are ridiculously expensive vs. their regular canned fruit, to the extent that it is worth the trouble to puree it in a blender and re-pasteurize before use.

 

[Brooothru]

Puree the fruit, seal it up in a bag and pasteurize via sous vide. IMHO, Oregon purees are ridiculously expensive vs. their regular canned fruit, to the extent that it is worth the trouble to puree it in a blender and re-pasteurize before use.

Agree Oregon brand fruit purees are ridiculously high priced, though the quality is always top-flight. Disagree that their canned fruit is relatively inexpensive. I pay as much as $3 or more per can of their tart red cherries when I can even FIND them. They're the best in SWMBO's Holiday Cherry Pie .