If you have a summer cottage or a house in the village, then you probably came across such a shrub as an elderberry. We do not value it especially: it does not bloom very beautifully, it gives inedible berries. Although syrup is made from berries, it turns out to be very useful.
But syrup is made not only from berries.
Those who have met Ikea's products have probably seen bottled elderflower syrup - Dryck Flader. Go even tried it. The main note of taste is sourness, but with a floral aroma and even with some slight floral aftertaste.
If you look for comparisons, then the syrup from elder flowers can be called foreign birch sap (by the way, it is generally similar in color).
By the way, you can cook it at home - and according to several recipe options. I decided to bring them today, because May is just around the corner, and the elderberry begins to bloom like where - where and in a couple of weeks maybe, and where - at the beginning of June.
So let's go!
Basic Scandinavian Elderberry Syrup Recipe
For one kilogram of sugar, we take 10 elderberry umbrellas, a liter of water and from 15 to 25 grams of citric acid
The preparation is simple: dilute sugar and citric acid in boiled water. we send flowers there and let it brew for up to 5 days.
Then we filter the syrup into bottles. You can boil it.
It turns out this is such a liquid, which we dissolve in water and drink delicious sour lemonade
Option two - with oranges and lemons
Here, per liter of water, we take two kilograms of sugar and twenty elderberry umbrellas, a couple of oranges (we cut slices together with the peel) and one lemon, and also 25 grams of citric acid (if you feel sour - reduce).
Cooking tek is the same as usual elderberry syrup - dissolve sugar in boiling water, pour lemons, oranges and flowers with it and leave to infuse for up to 5 days.
We filter, we can gently boil and bottle.
Bon appetit (and drink).