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Description: Capture early summer flavours
Author: Nina
Cuisine: homemade
Category: Drink
Tags: #home-made #summer #syrup
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Ingredients for 2
| 24 elderflower | blossoms |
| 1 l | water |
| 1 lemon | (organic) |
| 860 g | sugar |
Preparation
- Carefully examine the collected elderberry blossoms, remove dead flowers and bugs.
- Soak the flowers in the water for 24 to 48 hours. Leave them in a cold and dark place.
- Sieve the liquid through a fine cloth. Pour it in a pan.
- Cut the lemon into slices.
- Prepare bottles for storing the syrup. Use boiling water to sterilize them.
- Add the lemon slices and sugar to the pan, bring to a boil.
- Taste, carefully, maybe add more sugar.
- Pour the still boiling hot syrup in the prepared bottles.