Elderberry Blossom Sirup

Not only is the elderberry blossom sirup the most delicious drink ever (along with cherry sirup, elderberry sirup, etc.) but it is also very healthy. Partly because elderbery blossom is one of the herbs used as a flu treatment in the liquid form of a tea, parly because it is void of artifical aditives and therefore organic. On top of that, preparing it with your own hands is fun. After a nice walk in nature, where the elderberry bushes are in abundance, and picking around 30 blossoms, shake off all the insects and put the blossoms into a 4l jar. Wash lemons and/or limes, squeez the juice over the blossoms, and put the lemons cut in pieces into the jar as well so that the jar is nearly full. Pour water over the contents, cover it to prevent the air from getting in. Leave it for 24 hours to soak. It is supposed to look this way...

Quite a pretty decoration for a kitchen or a livig room. :) After a day, take a cotton cloth, which is used for seiving the juice. When pouring the blossoms into the cloth, squeeze the jusice out of them properly. Measure how much juice you squezze out of it and for 1l add 1kg of brown sugar. It seems to me redundant to use so much suggar. I use only half of the recommended amount. Boil the juice with suggar until it thickens. Then pour into bottles.

The outcome is yellow, sticky, yummy. Besides, when winter comes, the nice fragrance of lemons, elerberry blossoms and spring coming from the glass is like a first snowdrop pushing itself through the melting snow.