Have just bottled my first ever homemade elderflower cordial

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Not food exactly but didn't know where else to post this.Feel quite chuffed with myself! Picked the elderflowers at the park the other day and have made around 2 litres. It's bottled in 3 beer bottles we brought back from France last week. It even tastes quite like the stuff you buy. That's it just wanted to share!

My god. Have you nothing to do?

Well done I guess

Well done, I am planning to do mine this week, novice here aswell, any tips?

I was ready for the nothing better to do comments. five finding out where you can get citric acid before you pick the flowers is probably handy! I phoned several chemists before finding one that did (apparently it's used for bomb making too). Apparently some Wilkinsons sell it in the wine making section. I will try to find the recipe I used and link to it, it was fairly straightforward.

I did my first ever batch today too! I second finding citric acid first. I stupidly picked the elderflowers on weds and didnt find the citric acid until friday (the 5th chemist I tried were able to order it in for me). Had the flowers in an airtight bag in the fridge. Feeling very chuffed now its done. Bottling it tomorrow.

www.cottagesmallholder.com/judys-elderflower-cordial-recipe-340#comments
this was the recipe I used.

That's not the website I got my recipe from but it's basically the same so I won't bother linking it!

I have recipe from River cottage book, agree that ciric acid will be the most problematic, have a huge tree just outside my garden.

Well done you. I made some last year but I must have done something wrong as it tasted like cats piss.

fivegomad didn't know citric acid grew on trees....

If only .....

You can add extra lemon juice if you can't get citric acid. Citric acid is also used to cut drugs.

How much lemon juice to litre of water used or flower heads?

Google elderflower cordial recipe -citric acid.

Thank you for that, also never thought of freezing it to last the winter.

Freezing is really good because an ice cube is the perfect quantity for a glass