Sparkling Elderflower Wine |
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Prep Time: 10 Minutes Cook Time: 1440 Minutes |
Ready In: 1450 Minutes Servings: 16 |
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Something a little different that I found in a cook book of mine. Sounds very easy and well worth trying! Times are rest times until drinkable. Ingredients:
10 bunches elderberry flowers (an umbel is a flower cluster all starting from the same point, literally a little umbrella) |
1 lemon |
350 ml water |
8 tablespoons apple cider vinegar |
4 tablespoons honey |
1 lemon, juice of |
Directions:
1. Rinse the elderberry flowers- they must be just in bloom.
2. Cut the lemon into thin slices and mix with the flowers and the remaining ingredients in a reasonably large container.
3. Stir.
4. Cover the container and leave in a warm place.
5. The juice can be drunk after 24 hours.
6. If necessary add lemon and honey to taste.
7. After 2-3 days the drink will begin to effervesce.
8. Then sieve, put into screwtop bottles and store in a dark room.
9. The juice will turn into sparkling wine in around 4 weeks.
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