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About this time of the year three bushes on our talus burst into pure white flat heads of flowers. The flowers of the Elderberry are distinctive forerunners of the deep black fruits to follow in the autumn. Last year Barbara made a litre of Elderflower cordial which, after we finished it in August, we decided wasn't nearly enough.
So today we've been making the first two litre batch of the year.
First collect the flowers, they need to be fully open and fresh counting 20 heads to a litre:
Then make a syrup with three kilos of sugar:
And the juice of four lemons:
Bring the syrup to the boil, add the lemon juice and elder flowers and allow the flowers to steep in the syrup for 24 hours:
Tomorrow the liquor needs to be sieved, filtered and bottled.
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