Elderflower Cordial

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Hope this helps with identification.
http://www.british-trees.com/treeguide/elders/nbnsys0000004324.htm
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This is the identification from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambucus

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Its goes wonderfully in a G&T.

I make lashings of elderflower cordial every spring/summer, although my recipe is slightly different to the one here. It's delicious served over ice and a slice of lemon/lime with fizzy water.

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grannyactivist, PLEASE can we have a look at your recipe .
Another Elderflowerists out there?
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I also make Elderflower cordial but with 1 lemon and 1 oz citric acid. It is so simple to make, very cheap and absolutely delicious. Elderflowers seem to be in great abundance this year too!

ELDERFLOWER CORDIAL

2kg sugar
2 pints boiling water
20 large flower heads
2¾oz citric acid
1 lemon sliced
Grated rind and juice of 2 lemons

Try to collect flower heads in sunshine (honestly, the taste does differ according to when picked). Clean by flicking elderflower heads onto a counter top and have a damp j cloth to hand in order to wipe up the tiny black flies you’ll expel.

Add sugar to boiling water in a large pan, cook over low heat and stir thoroughly until dissolved. Remove from heat then add lemons and citric acid before stirring in the flower heads. Cover pan and leave overnight (about 12 hours is good). Strain through muslin and keep in the fridge.

Serve with still or sparkling water over ice and a slice of lemon and lime and you will never want to drink shop bought elderflower cordial again.

I make it every year and you're right HildaW - it's great with Gin too!!

Elderflowers go beautifully with gooseberries. Add a head of elderflower to gooseberries when you cook them. Perhaps give the flowers a gentle wash first or at least a good shake! Remove the head of flowers before serving the gooseberries.

They grow like weeds here - i am forever pulling them up from the garden - downland chalk

Also wonderful with Rhubarb. Just drag the clean heads through the cooking rhubarb ,then discard them.

I have a purple one and a standard one so will try this. DS1 & DiL don't drink and like this as a substitute but I have always bought it.

So I made it on sunday it tasted great .I put it in a dark cupboard .Opened the cupboard today to show off and all the tops /corks had popped off the bottles and its slightly fizzy .Pleeeeez don't say i have to throw it away .Where have I gone wrong.? help

ps didn't put the citric acid in

Don`t know about the cordial, but as a child I loved to eat elderberries, by the bucketload!

Made my first batch ever the other week. Martha Stewart recipe. Just lemons, sugar and elderflowers, it is delicious and supposed to be excellent with vodka. I dont think shelf life is very long.