Elderflower 50g bag -suggestions?

[mctoon]

As the title says, i have a bag of "youngs" 50g elderflowers, any ideas of a recipe with using grape juice from the supermarket

Cheers Mal

[waggoner]

I bought a bag of those myself a few weeks ago...

I made a No1 wine up,with apple and grape juice,then added a couple of teaspoon fulls when the sg dropped to 1020.... wait and see now how it turns out??

[mcblades]

Hi

If these are dried elderflowers I tried (against Bobs advice) to use these in an elderflower wine (wn1 + 2tsp dried elderflowers).

In short, should have listened to Bob. They do have the bouquet but leave a bitter finish in the mouth. Maybe more useful as an adjunct to a hoppy bitter!

good luck

Mark

[lockwood1956]

I've been thinking about this.....

I'm not keen on the bitter aftertaste dried elderflowers leave in a wine....but I wonder if you made a syrup with them, and used this to backsweeten, if it might not improve things


worth a try I reckon.

better still, collect the sweet smelling elderflowers in the spring and make a stock of elderflower syrup and use that for sweetening or adding bouquet to finished wines


regards
bob

[mctoon]

I will ask the silly question,

Bob, how do i go about making a syrup with the dried elderflowers?,,

Cheers Mal

[lockwood1956]

1 litre water
1 kilo sugar
heeat to dissolve sugar, add elderflowers, soak for about 24 hours, rack aand strain...Bob married your auntie