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You're making a fragrant homemade elderflower syrup that starts with steeping fresh elderflowers for a full day — the main time investment is the waiting rather than active hands-on work. The key trick is keeping everything cool and unheated to preserve all those beneficial properties, plus you'll want to give yourself a bit of prep time upfront to clean the elderflowers and lemons thoroughly.

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Prepare the elderflowers

Boil the water and let it cool. Add the elderflowers, which you should have left spread out on the table or floor for a while beforehand, so any little bugs or insects can crawl out.
Ingredients
- 2 liter Water
- 10 piece Elderflower
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Prepare the lemons

Wash the lemons very thoroughly under hot water and slice them. Remove the pips.
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- 2 piece Lemon
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Leave to steep

Put the elderflowers, citric acid, and lemon slices into the boiled and cooled water. Leave the whole mixture to stand in a cool place for 24 hours.
Ingredients
- 25 gram Citric Acid

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Strain and stir in the sugar

Strain the mixture, ideally through a cloth, then stir the sugar into the elderflower water. Keep stirring until the sugar has fully dissolved. We don't recommend heating the mixture, so that the syrup retains as many beneficial compounds as possible.
Ingredients
- 1.5 kilogram Granulated Sugar
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Storage

Pour the finished syrup into bottles and store in a cool place. If you like, you can seal the bottles tightly and preserve them by heat-processing, which will help the syrup keep for longer.

Wonderful Homemade Elderflower Syrup

Name: Refreshing Homemade Elderflower Syrup
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1510 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: European
Ingredients: 25 gram Citric Acid; 2 liter Water; 1.5 kilogram Granulated Sugar; 2 piece Lemon; 10 piece Elderflower

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Prep 20 min Cook 40 min

5 Ingredients

5 Steps

Medium Difficulty

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What's in it?

1481 kcal

Calories

381 g

Carbohydrates

0 g

Fats

1 g

Proteins

The nutritional information is an estimate and may vary based on the specific ingredients used.

About this recipe

We've been making this syrup at home for as long as I can remember. But now that it's become trendy again, it's high time we got brewing! There's a short window each year when you can make this fantastic homemade syrup that helps with all sorts of ailments — think coughs, congestion, or the common cold. And it also tastes absolutely wonderful, so you'll be all set for summer lemonades too.

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