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    just got back to the house with loads of elderflowers and have started some wine off in the kitchen , if any one else is thinking about making some dont hang about the flowers dont last long espicially in the warm weather

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    And I recommend you sniff before picking. Some are fragrant and delicate and some smell like cat wee. You can't tell till you get your nose in!
    Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

    www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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    • #3
      We have several elderflowers up here near Stirling, so I'll have to go a-picking soon Though I reckon up here they will be flowering a little later than south of the border.....

      Adam

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      • #4
        I have elderflower champagne and cordial on the go, the kitchen smell beautiful at the moment!
        Hello to kalimna, my inlaws live in Alloa.
        Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become.

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        • #5
          Greetings returned
          If your inlaws happen to be interested in an allotment, PM me, as we're setting up a new one in the area.....

          Adam

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          • #6
            Originally posted by kalimna View Post
            Greetings returned
            If your inlaws happen to be interested in an allotment, PM me, as we're setting up a new one in the area.....

            Adam
            Really? That's interesting, they may well be. They're on holiday at the moment but I'll call them at the weekend, thank you!
            Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Flummery View Post
              And I recommend you sniff before picking. Some are fragrant and delicate and some smell like cat wee. You can't tell till you get your nose in!
              I find that even if they smell delicate and wonderful on the tree,as soon as they've been in a bag for more than five mins the aroma switched to cat pee
              Must get some cordial made this year,I missed them last year.
              the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

              Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xx

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              • #8
                They go brilliantly with gooseberries in jam.
                Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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                • #9
                  has anyone tried storing the cordial as icecubes? i read this somewhere andd thought i might give it a go- whenever i have made elderflower cordial in the past, it is so delicious that i tend to drink all i have made very fast ( all of that sugar is not good for me) tend to think icecubes would help dole it out for longer as i can tuck it away and forget about it.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by lindyloo View Post
                    has anyone tried storing the cordial as icecubes? i read this somewhere andd thought i might give it a go- whenever i have made elderflower cordial in the past, it is so delicious that i tend to drink all i have made very fast ( all of that sugar is not good for me) tend to think icecubes would help dole it out for longer as i can tuck it away and forget about it.
                    I frose mine in small plastic pop bottles last year. Worked well, but still didn't last long once the hot weather arrived!
                    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                    Diversify & prosper


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                    • #11
                      I think it is the sap (from stems and leaves) that smells a bit odd if you keep freshly picked flowers in a polybag. That distinctive smell of the sap is the thing I know best about elder. It deters flies somewhat (not the pollenating ones, just houseflies and horseflies etc).
                      Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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