Elderflower Cordial recipe

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Does anyone have a good one? I'm getting myself all confused at the wide variety of recipes online! I don't have citric acid but will chuck in an extra lemon or 2 it'll all be frozen anyway & am replacing the sugar with slightly less honey. Roughly what ratio of flower heads to sugar/water works best? TIA

I use this one and it always works well, very low maintenance recipe.

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To help preserve the cordial you can put bottles of cordial in pan filled with water (cloth under bottles) and heat to 80 ish degrees for 30mins (lids off) and then lids on, and let cool

Ooh place marking.

Thanks Jelly. We now have 2 carrier bags full & am about to send DH out to buy all the honey & lemons he can find! Daft question, since I've never made it before, do I need to remove all the flowers from the stalk or does the whole lot go in?

Anyone around to answer my last question? I'm assuming I do have to strip the stalks but I don't want to be sat up all night doing it if it's not necessary!

I would put the whole head in to soak.

I think I love you! I've spent half an hour & only got through stripping 4 heads!

Yes, there's no need to remove the stalk, it all gets strained later anyway

I'm hoping to make some elderflower champagne this week, I have had good results with that in the past

Anyone got a good recipe for elderflower champagne, I fancy a go at that, explosive or not!