It is the time for elderflowers again. I love the smell of these little white beauties. When you collect them, bring them home and cook them into a syrup your whole house will smell like it. Divine! You can use the syrup in your water or beer to flavor it or pour it over pancakes or waffles. I like it most on top of waffles, that I have baked with an umbel of elderflowers and sprinkled over some powdered sugar. Yes, that’s a sugar overdose, but sooooo delicious!

Have fun collecting those elderflowers and cooking your syrup!

Love,

Rina

Elderflower Syrup

 

Aktiv

10 m

Passiv

60 m

Total

1 h 10 m

 

Autor/Author: Rina

Ergibt/Yield: 4 bottles, containing 250 ml each

Zutaten/Ingredients

• 1 liter (4 cups) water
• 3 lemons
• 500 g (18 oz) sugar
• 20 umbels elderflower

Zubereitung/Instructions

1. Juice the lemons and combine the juice, sugar and water in a pot. Put on your stove and bring to boil.
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3. When the Water ist boiling, turn off the heat, add the elderflowers and let them steep for 1 hour.
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5. Remove the elderflowers and strain the syrup through a cloth strainer or nylon sock. Either use it right away for drinks or bring it to boil again and boil until desired thickness.
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7. To preserve the syrup boil the bottles before filling them. Then, after filling, close the lids and put them in a big pot with water and cook for about 30 minutes.

Tipps/Notes

The syrup will be good for two weeks, if you keep it in the fridge. Or at least a year, when you preserve it.

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