SundayScentExperience: Elder blooming - how to make elder flower syrup?

in #sunsayscentexperience6 years ago (edited)

Elder is a bush or small tree with fragrant flowers, that can be used for drinks and delicates. The inflorescence of elder is built up of tiny white flowers and it has a lot of yellow pollen that rose beetles and other insects love very much. Interestingly, bees never visit elder flowers, because they have no nectar, though they have a special sweet scent.
Elder is also herbaceous, good for respiratory deseases and has a diaphoretic effect. We often drink elder flower tea when we are in the sweat hut in Boldva.

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Have you already drunk elder lemonade or elder syrup with soda water? They are very pleasant cooler drink when it's too hot. Elder beer can also be fantastic!

I made elder flower syrup today. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

3 litre water
1,5 kg sugar
30-40 elder flower
2-3 lemon with peel

Put 3 litre water in a big pot, add the sugar, warm it to boiling until the sugardissolved. Take the pot off the oven, then put the flowers in it. Do not rinse, you'd rather shake them to remove bugs. Then wash the lemons very carefully, cut them in rings, add them also to the syrup. Soak this mixture for2-3 days, filter it, then boil it again. Pour the hot syrup in clean bottles and close them carefully.
Despite the fact that a lot of sugar is in it, sometimes it can be fermented. Don't worry, you'll have elder beer, a really strong one :))) Also very tasty but be careful, do not drink too much!

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What is a sweat hut is that like a sauna? Saunas seem to have become more popular recently after a bit of a drop off.

Yes, it is a kind of sauna. This sweat hut is a round shaped building, built up of adobe and covered with soil. Covered with wood inside and there is a small iron oven in the center. This sweat hut is for 10-12 people. For cooling down there is a wooden tub, filled with cold water.

I do yoga in a hot humid room I guess it's probably the same principle.

Dear @Kalemandra, thank you for this recipe, the flowers are just blooming so I can get to work with them! 💮😉💮
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I love elderflower cordial in the Summer, it's such a sign of summer, it begins with the flowers and end with the berries, they say. Although I am tyring to be carb free so not sure I will have much this Summer :)

I would love to make a sugar-free variant, but i don't know how. I don't want to use artifical sweeteners. Maybe stevia (?) Stevia is very-very expensive in Hungary.

This looks beautiful

We have a similar elder drink recipe from our friend. In German it's called Holundersekt. We put less flowers and sugar. Didn't know about the syrup though, will try it - it's already blossoming here!

Syrup has long shelf-life and it needs dilution - it's a flavour concentrate.

Thank you for sharing the delicious syrup recipe,

I just simply love the smell of these flowers and the juice reminds me about my childhood. :)

Oh, that wonderful childhood! I love to remember that time!

Gracias por la receta @kalemandra! El Sauco tiene propiedades curativas. Es bueno para bajar la fiebre y aliviar la tos. Saludos =)

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