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Elderberry Cordial Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1.5 lbs elderberries (or however many you have!)
Demarara sugar or Turbinado sugar
Cinnamon Sticks
Lemon
Directions:
Directions:
In a saucepan, cover the elderberries in water (just enough to cover them). Bring to a simmer and let cook for 20 minutes. The berries will become very soft and the liquid will be dark red.
Strain out the berries, reserving the juice. (Be careful with the juice, it stains!).
Measure the amount of juice.
Pour juice back into empty saucepan. For each 2 cups of juice, add 2 cups of demarara sugar, 2 cinnamon sticks, and the juice from 1/2 lemon.

Bring mixture to a boil and boil for 15 minutes, stirring regularly (to ensure all the sugar is dissolved). Remove cinnamon sticks. Let cool while you prepare the bottles.
I store my cordial in the fridge so I don’t do an ‘official’ bottling. Take your bottle(s), and clean them well with hot, soapy water. Then, rinse them with boiling water as a final step.
Once the bottles are cool, fill with cordial, cap, and store in the fridge. Will keep for at least 6 months.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Using 1.5 lbs. of berries I yielded 3 cups juice.

 

 

 

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