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Selwyn
It is made with rose water which is kinda like the distillation of elder flowers that you use for your elder flower limonade, but using rose petals instead of elder flowers. It is quite populaer in Middle Eastern dishes (or so I've heard).
Phyllis (aka Sidhe Uaine or Gaia Euphoria)
It is made with rose water which is kinda like the distillation of elder flowers that you use for your elder flower limonade, but using rose petals instead of elder flowers. It is quite populaer in Middle Eastern dishes (or so I've heard).
Phyllis (aka Sidhe Uaine or Gaia Euphoria)
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Here we go with the recipe for Elder Flower Lemonade
Hi Phyllis !
As I promised I would post as soon as I had tasted the experimental recipes we tried this year. Yet, let me say that these experiments have taught both my mother and I that our original recipe is the best we have still. That rose´water sounds interesting. I have never heard of it before but I will try and see if I can come by it some time.
Elder Flower Lemonade
Ingredients:
30 large Elderflowers (or more if smaller)
25 gram citric acid
3 lemons
1 kilo sugar
1 litre boiling water
Half a teaspoonful or one teaspoonful Atamon depending on how long you plan to keep it in before drinking it.
How to do:
Gather the 30 Elderflowers the same day as you begin making the elder flower lemonade since they become “dull” if left overnight after they have been cut off the tree.
Put the elder flowers into the pot.
Note I
An elder flower consists of a thick centre stalk from which springs several thinner stalks upon which the actual flowers are. Cut the all the smaller stalks and thus all the flowers loose from the centre stalk and put them into a large pot, which you have a lid for. The centre stalks are not poisonous or anything it is just that cutting the flowers loose from the CertEd stalk will give you a “flower mass” which is easier to work with. That which gives the elder flower lemonade it’s elder flower taste is the flowers and not the stalks so you do not loose anything tastewise by removing the centre stalks.
Note II
After the elder flowers have been put into the pot you should look for insects which also like elder flowers and which will probably by accident have found their way into your pot. In Denmark none of these insects are poisonous and it presents no danger to let them stay. Yet, I have always felt pity for them and try to remove the majority of them before going any further in the process.
Hi Phyllis !
As I promised I would post as soon as I had tasted the experimental recipes we tried this year. Yet, let me say that these experiments have taught both my mother and I that our original recipe is the best we have still. That rose´water sounds interesting. I have never heard of it before but I will try and see if I can come by it some time.
Elder Flower Lemonade
Ingredients:
30 large Elderflowers (or more if smaller)
25 gram citric acid
3 lemons
1 kilo sugar
1 litre boiling water
Half a teaspoonful or one teaspoonful Atamon depending on how long you plan to keep it in before drinking it.
How to do:
Gather the 30 Elderflowers the same day as you begin making the elder flower lemonade since they become “dull” if left overnight after they have been cut off the tree.
Put the elder flowers into the pot.
Note I
An elder flower consists of a thick centre stalk from which springs several thinner stalks upon which the actual flowers are. Cut the all the smaller stalks and thus all the flowers loose from the centre stalk and put them into a large pot, which you have a lid for. The centre stalks are not poisonous or anything it is just that cutting the flowers loose from the CertEd stalk will give you a “flower mass” which is easier to work with. That which gives the elder flower lemonade it’s elder flower taste is the flowers and not the stalks so you do not loose anything tastewise by removing the centre stalks.
Note II
After the elder flowers have been put into the pot you should look for insects which also like elder flowers and which will probably by accident have found their way into your pot. In Denmark none of these insects are poisonous and it presents no danger to let them stay. Yet, I have always felt pity for them and try to remove the majority of them before going any further in the process.
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I forgot to mention
That I we use to filter it through a piece of cloth, but other ways will work equally well such as coffe filters and such. 'Tis just a little harder to handle.
That I we use to filter it through a piece of cloth, but other ways will work equally well such as coffe filters and such. 'Tis just a little harder to handle.
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