Elderflower Cordial - Easy recipe without citric acid
Homemade elderflower cordial taste delicious and it's very easy to make and you only need three ingredients - fresh elderflowers, sugar and lemons. Great for making drinks, flavouring puddings or adding to baking.
Ingredients
- 10 elderflower heads
- 330 g granulated (white) sugar
- 2 lemons organic - not treated
- 650 ml boiling water
Instructions
- Pick 10 large elderflower heads.
- Gently shake them to make sure you get any insects or bugs and leave them for an hour on a tray (if there are any more bugs, they will crawl away)
- Cut out the green stems
- Prepare zest from the two lemons
- Put the elderflowers and lemon zest into a plastic container
- Cover with boiling water (I boil my water in a kettle and then place my plastic bowl directly on a scales, making sure they are set to zero and pour out the 650ml of boiling water)
- Cover and leave to infuse overnight or for at least 12 hours
- The next day, pour the infused elderflower water over a fine sieve (or a sieve lined with a musln cloth)
- Add the elderflower water to a large saucepan with the sugar and juice from the two lemons
- Heat very gently and make sure the mixture doesn't boil.
- When all sugar is dissolved, bring to simmering point and continue to simmer for a few minutes.
- Pour into a suitable bottle, seal and leave to cool down
- Use straight away or keep for a few weeks in the fridge or somewhere cold.
Notes
This recipe makes about 2 medium sized bottles (depending on the size you use).