Not sure if you will read this since its a couple of years old, but you should get yourself a steam juicer. It makes making fruit juices so easy! I make my applesauce and apple juice at the same time! I peel and core the apples, then juice them. What is left is the cooked apple and jars of delicious pure apple juice. I then simply add the extra ingredients to the apples to make apple sauce and have quarts of apple juice ready to can! They are fairly inexpensive as well.
I bought one to make blackberry jelly and it’s a game changer. Steam juicer is the way to go. A good one is a little expensive but I see it as an investment. Easy peasy extracting juice.
Great timing I have 10# of blackberries in the freezer to make blackberry pie filling I think I will do syrup also. It will go good over the ice-cream and pie.
