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Elderflower wine
Has anyone got any good recipes for making Elderflower Wine. The Elder Tree on my allotment is just starting to coming into flower and I want to make some organic wine (in the hope that I'll get less hangovers from it!)
Cheers!!
Hi avery,
I too have fond childhood memories of my parents making elderflower wine - including one quiet Sunday afternoon the sound of exploding bottles in the pantry as the not quite finished fermenting wine, finding itself prematurely trapped in bottles, decided to escape...
I have their recipe, purloined over Christmas for this exact time of year It's from a 1971 book called "500 Recipes - Home Made Wines and Drinks" by Marguerite Patten.
Thanks for Reply,
Did you put it in ordinary wine bottles or proper champagne bottles with wired corks?
Ordinary wine bottles and corks are not strong enough to withstand the pressure of sparkling wines. If they were in champagne bottles...my...that was some wine! My parents explosions were because they hadn't intended to produce a sparking wine, but had bottled it too early whilst it was still fermenting
I picked elderflowers yesterday (surprisingly easy to pick more than enough) and have 4 gallons of wannabe elderflower wine sat sitting absorbing the flowers' flavours. Wednesday/Thursday I add the yeast and sugar and let the fermenting commence!
All the Best!!!
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