Elderberry Syrup
45 min · makes 1 bottle
Crops from your garden in this recipe: 🫐 Elder
Ingredients
- 300 g Ripe elderberries, stripped from stalks (grown in the garden)
- 200 g Sugar
- 1 tbsp Lemon juice
- 3 Cloves
- 2 slices Fresh ginger, sliced
Green items are crops you can grow yourself.
Method
- Never eat elderberries raw as they can cause stomach upset; they must be cooked.
- Put the berries, 500 ml water, cloves and ginger in a pan and simmer for 20–30 minutes until the berries have burst.
- Strain through a muslin cloth, pressing gently.
- Return the juice to the pan with the sugar and lemon juice and simmer for 5 minutes until syrupy.
- Pour into a sterilised bottle. Keep in the fridge for up to 3 weeks and use over pancakes, in drinks or on ice cream.