How-To: Elderflower Cordial

Food & Beverage

Instructables user writes:

From mid-June to mid-July you can’t turn the corner in the area where I live without seeing an elder tree in flower.

At this time of year the fist sized bunches of tiny white flowers make a great cordial which is really tasty with sparkling water, ice and a slice of lemon. Be sure to leave some flowers on the tree though as come Autumn the berries make a great wine!

The resulting cordial has a sweet, floral, refreshing taste which is one of my favourite summer drinks.

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Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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