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Mors (Russian Berry Drink)

Name: Mors (Russian Berry Drink)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Russia
Ingredients: 300g Frozen Mixed Berries; 1L Water; 80–100g Sugar; 1 tsp (optional) Lemon Juice

Drink

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Mors is a sweet-tart Russian berry drink: crushed berries are pressed for juice, the skins are simmered in water, and the two are combined and sweetened. Delicious chilled or warm.

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📖 The Story Behind This Drink

Mors has been made since medieval times with wild cranberries and lingonberries. Because the fresh juice isn’t cooked, its vitamins survive, and people drink it when they have a cold. It’s served by the pitcher at home and in canteens.

🌆 Where it’s enjoyed: At Sunday lunch, a glass pitcher of red mors stands in the middle of the table next to plates of pelmeni.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Frozen Mixed Berries 300g
Water 1L
Sugar 80–100g
Lemon Juice 1 tsp (optional)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Thaw the berries and press them through a sieve set over a bowl with the back of a spoon to extract the juice. Refrigerate the juice.
Put the leftover skins and seeds in a pot with the water. Bring to a boil and simmer 5 minutes on low.
Strain and dissolve the sugar while hot.
Once it cools a little, stir in the reserved juice. Add lemon juice if you like.
Chill and serve. In winter, it can be warmed (don’t boil it).

💡 Tips for Success

Adding the raw juice at the end is the mors method — it preserves the color, aroma, and vitamins.
Cranberry-only mors is the classic. Use frozen cranberries if you can find them.
It keeps about 3 days in the fridge. Sweetening with honey is also traditional.

🍽 Goes Well With

Pelmeni (Russian Dumplings)

Pirozhki

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