elderflower jam
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The Grock in the Frock
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is it possible to make....does anyone have a recipe?
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yes please! 
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Grock, here are a couple for you which are just using elders only. From the Delia Online site, posted by Donatella and authored by Eliana Panchieri.
Elderflower Jam
1 Kg elderflower berries
800 g sugar (less than that would mean it won’t keep well)
Wash and weight the berries, put them in a pan and add sugar, some lemon or orange juice and eventually lemon zest. Let stand while you wash, rinse and warm up your jars.
Then, stirring, bring slowly to the boil and cook, always stirring until a drop of jam does not “run” when put on a plate (or your usual method for testing jams).
Put in jars while still warm and close.
Eliana says they are good mixed with tart apples, always doing 800 gr sugar per kilo fruit.
Cooking time is similar to that of bilberry/ whortleberry jam, about 15-20 minutes, but the main thing is to keep testing.
Elderflower Jelly
20 nice fresh elderflower heads
2 l water
200 ml apple juice without preservatives
juice of 1 lemon
jellifying sugar
Wash flowers carefully. Put them, head down, in a bowl or pan with the rest of the ingredients, except sugar. Leave in the fridge for a week. Fileter the liquid and boil it for about 5 minutes. Then measure and add sugar:
1.250 kg sugar per litre (it can be less, but the jelly will be more liquid).
Boil hard for another 4 minutes.
If you decide to make either, I would love to hear how they turn out.
Elderflower Jam
1 Kg elderflower berries
800 g sugar (less than that would mean it won’t keep well)
Wash and weight the berries, put them in a pan and add sugar, some lemon or orange juice and eventually lemon zest. Let stand while you wash, rinse and warm up your jars.
Then, stirring, bring slowly to the boil and cook, always stirring until a drop of jam does not “run” when put on a plate (or your usual method for testing jams).
Put in jars while still warm and close.
Eliana says they are good mixed with tart apples, always doing 800 gr sugar per kilo fruit.
Cooking time is similar to that of bilberry/ whortleberry jam, about 15-20 minutes, but the main thing is to keep testing.
Elderflower Jelly
20 nice fresh elderflower heads
2 l water
200 ml apple juice without preservatives
juice of 1 lemon
jellifying sugar
Wash flowers carefully. Put them, head down, in a bowl or pan with the rest of the ingredients, except sugar. Leave in the fridge for a week. Fileter the liquid and boil it for about 5 minutes. Then measure and add sugar:
1.250 kg sugar per litre (it can be less, but the jelly will be more liquid).
Boil hard for another 4 minutes.
If you decide to make either, I would love to hear how they turn out.
Last edited by Chez on Mon Jun 05, 2006 4:06 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Just found this thread. I made an elderflower "champagne" from a recipe in the Guardian last saturday (several nice elderflower recipes in there BTW). However really want to make elderflower cordial but can't find any citric acid. Chemist says won't sell it any more as can be used to purify drugs or something like that. Found a few places on ebay, but any ideas of where to look locally.
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PLEASE BE CAREFULwhen making elder flower champagne. A friend of mine did so and woke up one night to what sounded like explosions. On investigation she found that her elderflower champagne had burst it's bottles. It had done so with sufficient force to drive shards of the glass into the hardwood cupboard. The consequences of this if a tender fleshed human was adjacent would clearly be very unpleasant. And she had followed all of the instructions carefully too, she's not a fool. So do remember to check the pressure.