Just Natural Delicious Elderflower Cordial
- Servings:
- 20
- Preperation Time:
- Cooking Time:
- Circa 25 hrs
Ingredients
- 2 ½ kg white sugar (granulated or caster)
- 2 ¾ pints water
- 2 lemons, unwaxed
- 20 elderflower heads, fresh and stems trimmed
- 85g Just Natural citric acid (food grade)
How to Make it
- In a very large saucepan, heat the sugar and 2¾ pints of water. Be careful not to bring it to the boil, but instead heat gently only until all the sugar has dissolved.
- In the meantime, peel the zest from the lemons using a vegetable peeler and slice the body of the lemons into rounds.
- Once the sugar has fully dissolved, then bring the saucepan of syrup to the boil and turn off the heat.
- Fill a washing up bowl with cold water and rinse the flowers in this to clean off dirt or bugs. Shake off the flowers when lifted out of the water.
- Add the flowers and the lemons, zest, and the citric acid to the syrup. Stir well and cover and set aside for 24 hrs.
- Line a colander with a clean tea towel. Place this over a large bowl or pan and ladle in the syrup. Let it drip slowly through and do away with the remainders in the cloth.
- Funnel into sterilised bottles and enjoy.