Followed the River Cottage recipe and tasted it today - turned out like syrup, really thick and very sweet - checking other recipes on the net and no 2 seem to be the same? The River Cottage recipe has the least amount of water by far to the amount of sugar?
Have we done something wrong??
Thinking of trying the following as a compromise to 3 I found, this time ignoring the River Cottage version:
25 Elderflower heads
1 Kg sugar,
3 lemons
4 Tablespoons of white wine vinegar
12 litres of water.
The method in all recipes seems similar but again an important point it seems which is not mentioned in the River Cottage method was the regular stirring during fermentation.
Your experiences and suggestions would be very welcome,
Cheers, Nige.
