Comments on: Elderflower Liqueur

By: Elderflower Fritters | The Official Site of Chef Georgia Pellegrini | Food, Travel, Lifestyle, Hunting and Redefining Slow Food

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:24:42 +0000

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By: Pudding club: foraging for food at Niles’s Blog

Pudding club: foraging for food at Niles’s Blog — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:32:32 +0000

[...] I’m growing very slowly and gradually in the stuff I eat from hedgerows. I urge everyone to make their own elderflower cordial at around about this time each year. It’s really easy, the ingredients are easy to find, and elderflowers are everywhere in England at least. My recipe is here. This year I also have some elderflower gin which needs to steep in a darkened place for another few weeks yet, and which I will report on in the fullness of time. Loosely based on this recipe. [...]

By: Your gardening suggestions please… at Niles’s Blog

Your gardening suggestions please… at Niles’s Blog — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:00:22 +0000

[...] cordial around this sort of time each year. This year, I’m also planning to have a go at elderflower vodka as well for something tasty to last a little [...]

By: hank

hank — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:46:03 +0000

Madeline: Yep, mine did that, too. I pulled them off — it is oxidation from the flowers’ contact with air. Nothing to get too worried about, but it might affect the flavor a bit.

By: Madeleine

Madeleine — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:12:24 +0000

I’ve followed your instructions and note that the flowers at the top have gone brown, looks a bit pond-like! Should I remove these or is it all part of the process. The lower flowers have retained their colour.

By: hank

hank — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:19:12 +0000

No, I do not rinse the flowers first, as this washes away a lot of aroma. I choose bugless umbels, or pick the few critters out that I find when I get home. They will die under the alcohol or boiling syrup anyway…

By: PitbullLawyer

PitbullLawyer — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:22:45 +0000

Hank, do you rinse the elderflowers first? If not, how do you keep from making “bug” liqueur, or does it matter? I did a little foraging this morning, and my umbrels are pretty buggy.