Elderflower Lemonade/Cordial is my favourite taste of Summer. Glad to see that the Flowers were ready to pick already (at least 3 weeks earlier than last year).
Sharing some pictures and also my Elderflower Lemonade/Cordial Recepie. I will post my original Recepie. Just count the number of Flower heads and multiply the recipie the number of times you need. (I picked about 300 Elderflower heads today - That will give about 15 litres of Lemonade in the end.)
You need:
40 Elderflower heads
3 Large Lemons
2 litres of Water
1,5 kilos White Sugar
50 g Citric Acid
1 Bucket
If you want to, you can also put in about 1 Tablespoon of grated fresh Ginger.
How to do it:
- Pick the Elderflower heads. Rinse if needed to get rid of bugs. (I try not to rinse if I don’t have to, since I do believe that it washes some of the great flavor away..) Put them in a bucket.
- Wash/scrub the Lemonades to get rid of any Mould and/or Chemichals. Slice them. Throw away the top/bottom parts and all parts with a lot of white areas. Place the slices in your bucket with the Elderflower heads.
- Boil the water.
- Add White Sugar and Citric Acid to the hot Water. Stir until it’s all dissolved and totally see through. Pour it it into the bucket.
- Stir.
- Put a lid on your Bucket and put it in a cold and dark place for 3-4 days. Stir once every day.
Filter and bottle the lemonade. Keep in freezer.