Black Elderberry Syrup

Black Elderberry Syrup

Category: The drinks

Ingredients
inflorescences of black elderberry	25 pcs
lemon	2 pcs
water	1 l
sugar	1 kg
lemon acid	25 g

Cooking method

• Collect elderberry flowers.
• Here she is a beauty in bloom
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• Spread out for some time on a clean surface to get rid of uninvited guests (various insects and midges).
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• Heat water with sugar, bring to a boil, add citric acid, stir.
• Cool the syrup completely.
• Cut the lemons into slices.
• In a large container (for example, a 3-liter jar), alternating, place elderberry flowers and lemon slices.
• Pour everything with cooled syrup, cover and leave for 3 days at room temperature (stirring from time to time).
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• After three days, strain the infusion, bring to a boil (do not boil!), Pour into clean jars or bottles, close tightly and store in a cool and dark place.
• The syrup is claimed to have a shelf life of 1 year. I'm afraid he won't live so long with me
• The aroma and taste of the syrup is breathtaking !!!
• For cocktails, dilute the syrup in a 1: 2 or 1: 3 ratio with plain water, mineral sparkling water, dry white wine, and with Prosecco it's a fairy tale! And don't forget to add ice.
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Note

Briefly about elderberry you can see here... For those who are interested, more detailed information can be found on the Internet.



ELDERED, berry shrub 1.5 - 3 m high with deeply grooved bark. Leaves are odorless, odorless; flowers are yellowish-white, in umbellate or paniculate inflorescences; fruits - bright red or black-purple berries. Distributed in the temperate and subtropical zones of the globe. Grows in forests, bushes, near roads; grown as an ornamental plant. Fruits (ripen in August September) are fleshy, tart in taste, contain up to 49 mg% vitamin C, carotene, sugar (glucose, fructose), organic acids, tannins. Berries are eaten in the form of jelly, sweet gravy, and they also produce a harmless dye for the food industry.

Checkmark this is magical !! 1
And we cut it down like a weed bush. And here is such a delicacy!

And we don't have such beauty, and if it does, I don't know. Checkmark, right summer-summer in your photo. Thank you)

[Lyudochka]

And we cut it down like a weed bush.

Lyudochka,

right summer-summer in your photo

Angela, and collected and photographed in the very heat
It is a pity that it is not widespread among you. It grows without problems. Unusual and delicate aroma of her flowers, the best perfume rests

I made honey last year (there are a lot of recipes and the Internet), it is stored well for two years for sure (although we have a basement). We eat with pancakes, pancakes, cereals, especially with semolina. The aroma is really not incomparable here, I completely agree. Thanks for the recipe !!! I took it to the bookmarks and next year I will try to make syrup, since we have this good in bulk.

[Tatiana Nikolaevna]

this stuff we have in bulk.

Tatiana Nikolaevna, good for you! And I have only one bush, though it is 5 meters high. Despite this, the output of blanks is small. I can't cut off all the flowers, I need to leave them for the berries, but not all flowers are tied to berries, many simply crumble after flowering.
This year I will plant two more varieties with beautiful leaves.

: bravo: Bookmark. This year the elder has already faded, and on the trail.I will definitely do it for a year, all the same, the berries are bad and little tied, but how much I love jam from it. I will make syrup now

I'm going for flowers, maybe someone else wants to, I'll raise a temku so that they don't miss

Elderberry blooms in a violent color, the bush grows and grows upward. Has already grown bigger than my little house
New harvest.





Made syrup again. Experience has shown that it has been stored well for a year. Unfortunately, this year the flowers (and hence the syrup) are not so fragrant due to the endless rains.

[Gala]

Gala, but I did not manage to do it, I dried only a few inflorescences, 😢 well, at least in chats