syrup 1

Ingredients

20 elderflower heads

1 sliced lemon

2 tsp of citric acid (ask at your chemist)

1.5 kg (3.5 lbs) of white sugar

1.2 ltr (2.5 pints) boiling water

 

Method

Boil a kettle for the water.

 

Fill a bowl or small bucket with all the other ingredients.

 

Pour the water over the other ingredients and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Skin the surface of the water to get rid of the scum that can arise. Cover with a cloth (mine has a pillow case over it).

 

Stir twice a day for five days.

 

Strain though a fine sieve though a fine sieve or through muslin cloth and decant into sterile screw topped bottles. Refrigerate.

Done