Elderflower Syrup
How to Cook Recipes Elderflower Syrup using 5 ingredients and 5 steps
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You can have Elderflower Syrup using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients make Elderflower Syrup
- It's 12 umbels of elderflower.
- Prepare 1/2 orange (organic!!!).
- Prepare 1/2 lemon (organic!!!).
- Prepare 500 g sugar.
- You need 500 ml water.
Elderflower Syrup step by step
- Wash orange and lemon with hot water. Cut into slices. Yes, the peel stays with them. In a large pot cook water and sugar until sugar has dissolved plus 10 minutes..
- Carefully wash the elderflowers and drain. If you know they are already clean when picked just shake out insects that might possibly be in the flowers and try to keep the pollen. In a big glass jar layer the slices of the citrus fruits with the umbels. Pour over the warm, but not too hot syrup and cover with a kitchen towel..
- Let the syrup infuse for three days at room temperature. Stir twice a day. (The photo shows the syrup on day three.).
- Fill the syrup into super clean bottles using a very fine strainer possibly using a fine cloth. Secure tightly and store in the fridge. Should be good for 6 months if everything was very clean before filling in..
- Enjoy with water or sparkling wine. Can also recommend the here very popular combination of sparkling wine, elderflower syrup, a little water and a branch of mint as aperitif (an alternative to Aperol spritz)..
Elderflower Syrup - Thank you and good luck