Elderflower drink is especially popular among Danes. Flower-based drinks and syrups are available in almost every Danish store.

This drink is very easy to make. First, concentrated flower syrup is made, which can then be diluted with water to the desired concentration. Homemade syrup can be stored in the form of frozen cubes. Thus, it is very convenient and simple to prepare a light soft drink at the right time.

Elderberry Syrup - ingredients

Flowers for a drink

Of course, you need to collect flowers for a drink only in clean places, away from roads. For the preparation of syrup, it is advisable to collect inflorescences in the morning. At this time, the aroma is more intense and there are fewer insects on the inflorescences. The collected inflorescences must be gently shaken off, or slightly doused with water if insects are on them. It is better, of course, not to wash the flowers in order to preserve as much fragrant pollen as possible.

It is desirable to cut off the flowers from the stems, which otherwise give a bitter taste to the drink.

I cut flowers with scissors

Lemons for a drink

For the preparation of the drink, you can use only ecological lemons with an unprocessed surface. In most citrus fruits, the surface of the fruit is treated with various means that extend the shelf life. In this case, the peel of the fruit is not suitable for consumption. If the packaging indicates that citrus fruits are grown in an ecological way, then this is not a guarantee that the fruit surface is not processed. Therefore, if the fruits are used in cooking together with the peel, then you need to be sure that the fruits are not processed.

The packaging indicates that the surface of these lemons is untreated (ubehandlede citroner)

Syrup preparation

Pour granulated sugar into a large pot. On low heat, stirring, bring to dissolution. Add lemons, sliced. Then pour the elderberry flowers and bring to a boil over low heat. Remove from heat, cool. Put in a cool room for 1 day.

Syrup with lemons and elderberry flowers

After a day, strain the syrup. From the remaining flowers you can prepare a delicious aromatic jam.

The syrup is stored in glass bottles for several weeks in the refrigerator. Can be frozen in cubes.

Syrup with elderberry flowers must be filtered. Can be frozen in cubes.

The syrup is ready to eat. To prepare a drink, dilute it with water 4-5 times or as desired. It is best to serve the drink chilled or with ice cubes.

Black elderberry is a shrub whose fruits and flowers are used in cooking for preparing various drinks and other dishes, as well as as a medicine:
  - with a cold;
  - coughing;
  - rheumatism;
  - skin diseases;
  - for the prevention of diseases and strengthening immunity.

Recipes of delicious black elderberry drinks

Elderberry juice:
  - 1 kg. black elderberry;
  - 0.5 kg of granulated sugar.
  Wash the elderberries, scald them with boiling water and leave for 10 minutes. Then squeeze the juice from the berries, pour it into an enameled pan, pour sugar into it, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Bottled drink and store in a cool dark place. For the treatment and prevention of diseases, you can consume 30-50 g of juice daily.

Elderberry juice with lemon:
  - 1 kg of black elderberry;
  - 2 tbsp. granulated sugar;
  - 1 tbsp. water;
  - juice of 1 lemon.
  Rinse the berries, fill with water and boil for 15 minutes. Then squeeze the juice from the elderberry, add the juice of one lemon and granulated sugar into it and cook for another 10 minutes.
Black elderberry kvass:
  - 8 liters of water;
  - 12 elderberry inflorescences;
  - 4 lemons;
  - 1 kg of granulated sugar.
  Wash the lemons, dry and cut into circles. Boil water with sugar, cool, put lemons and elderberry flowers in it and leave for a week for fermentation. After the specified time, pour the drink into a bottle with a screw cap and put it in a cool place. You need to use such kvass as soon as possible, you can not store it for a long time.

Aromatic elderberry juice drink with spices:
  - 1 tbsp. water;
  - 1 tbsp. elderberry juice;
  - 1 lemon;
  - 2 tablespoons honey;
  - 1 clove bud;
  - 1 stick of cinnamon;
  Rinse and dry the lemon. Cut the zest with half a lemon, and squeeze the juice from the pulp of the whole fruit. In a saucepan, mix the elderberry juice with water and lemon juice, add honey, zest and cloves with cinnamon. Mix everything well, then bring to a boil over medium heat and remove from the stove. Serve the finished drink in warm glasses with hot.
Black elderberry syrup:
  - 1 liter of elderberry juice;
  - 0.5 kg of granulated sugar;
  - juice of 1 lemon.
  Mix the elderberry and lemon juices, add granulated sugar and bring the mixture to a boil in an enameled pan. While heating, constantly stir and remove the resulting foam. Bottled syrup ready.

Black Elderberry Wine:
  - 4 l of water;
  - 1 kg of granulated sugar;
- 10 elderberry inflorescences;
  - 2 lemons;
  - wine yeast.
  Rinse the flowers, separate from the stalks and leave to dry briefly from the water (can be knocked over in a colander). From syrup and water, prepare syrup, cool to a warm state and fill them with flowers in a glass bottle. Wash the lemons, cut into circles (you can not peel them), remove the seeds from the pulp and put the circles in a syrup with flowers. Add the wine yeast there. Cover the bottle with gauze and leave for 7 days for fermentation. After the specified time, carefully drain the liquid, strain it and pour it into a clean bottle. Build a water shutter and leave the wine to ferment. When the fermentation process is over, pour the drink into bottles with screw caps.
Elderberry refreshing drink:
  - 1 liter of water;
  - 2 elderberry inflorescences;
  - 4 tsp honey;
  - juice of half a lemon;
  - a branch of lemon balm.
  Dissolve honey in water. In a glass jug, put elderberry flowers, lemon balm, add lemon juice and fill everything with water and honey. Then put the drink in the refrigerator for a day.

Healing drinks with elderberry

Strengthening drink:
  - 1 liter of hot water;
  - 5 tbsp honey;
  - 2 tablespoons dry elderberry
  Pour the berries with hot water, bring to a boil, boil for about 5-6 minutes and add honey. Then strain. Use moderately hot throughout the day.
Elderberry tea for colds:
  - 10 g of black elderberry;
  - 10 g of chamomile flowers;
  - 10 g of linden flowers;
  - 10 g peppermint.
  Mix the above ingredients, take 1 tablespoon of the mixture and brew it with 1 cup of boiling water. Cover the drink with something warm and leave to insist for half an hour. Then strain and drink hot.
Black elderberry healing drink:
  - 250 ml of vodka;
  - 1 tsp buds or flowers of black elderberry.
  Pour the kidneys with vodka and leave to infuse for a week. Take the finished tincture in 30 ml before bedtime for 2-3 weeks. Then you need to take a break for 2 months and you can repeat the course of treatment. It is especially good to use this medicine, combining with elderberry baths (15 minutes after the bath).
  Bon appetit and stay healthy!

Fragrant elderberry branches delight the eye with a magnificent color. But did you know that you can make real kvass from elderberry umbrellas? Just do not take the clusters from the red variety of the bush - it is poisonous. Dishes and drinks with the addition of black berries have excellent taste and healing properties. The elderberry kvass recipe was developed and distributed by the Ukrainian healer-sorcerer Bolotov, and we can only learn how to cook it.

CLASSIC KVASS RECIPE FROM ELDER FLOWERS

Stock up on inflorescences of fragrant shrubs from spring. Then you can make kvass at any time. But if you did not have time to collect the raw materials or learned about this recipe too late, pick enough fruits. Any raw material should be at least 2 glasses.

Additional ingredients:

Thoroughly mixed composition for fermentation in a warm dark place. After 3 weeks, kvass from elderberry will be ready to eat. Pour the drink into glass containers and seal. Drink it in 10 minutes. 100 ml before meals. A refreshing drink not only quenches thirst, but also relieves menopause, diseases of the digestive system, kidneys and blood vessels.

WITH CITRIC ACID

If you want to get a lot of kvass from inflorescences or elderberry at once, use a 10 liter recipe:

• Sugar - 1 kg;
• Fragrant "umbrellas" - 12 pcs;
• Citric acid - packing 25 g;
• Water (mineral without gas, sedimented or from an artesian well) - 1 large bucket.

Soak the thoroughly washed inflorescences in a bucket of water and add sugar with citric acid. Cover the dishes with gauze or clean rags and wait 2 days. On day 3, filter the liquid and pour into brown plastic bottles. Take the container to a dark room for 40 days. From day 41, drink kvass at any time.

OPTION WITH MINT

Dissolve 300 g of sugar in 3 l of water and boil. Add 1 tsp to the sweet liquid. citric acid and pour the syrup into a bowl with elderberry flowers and sprigs of mint (100 and 5 g, respectively). Let the future kvass roam for 5 days, but every morning visit him and mix.

On day 6, strain the drink and pour into a convenient glass container, which can easily be placed in the refrigerator. The lids on the dishes should sit tight so that no air gets inside. This drink is useful for bloating and disorders of the nervous system.

KVASS FROM ELECTRONES OF ELDER AND LEMON

Take 3 liters of water:

• Sugar - 300 g;
• Inflorescences - half a glass;
• Citric acid - 1 tsp;
• A small lemon weighing about 100 g.

Boil the sugar syrup in 5 minutes and dissolve the lemon powder in it. Cool. Then cut the lemon together with the skin as finely as possible, eliminate the seeds. Pour citrus with flowered syrup and cover. Kvass should be infused for 4 days, but it should be shaken daily. After filtering the drink, it is bottled, leaving a little space to the necks.

When you start tasting, do not shake the dishes. Otherwise, kvass will “shoot” like champagne. Keep the drink in the refrigerator or basement for no longer than a week so that it does not lose its taste.

In the hot midday heat, one of the wonderful drinks for refreshing, quenching thirst is kvass from elderberry flowers, the recipes of which were infused for many years from grandmothers to granddaughters, and then appeared in mass print.

A drink made from elderberry flowers tastes very good. Sparkling and effervescent like champagne, it has many medicinal properties: kvass improves general immunity, and it is especially useful for people with diabetes, liver disease, kidney failure, and lung diseases.

It is important to remember: any remedy prepared on medicinal herbs, no matter how valuable they are considered, it is better not to take in large quantities.

For 3 liters of water you need to prepare 1 teaspoon of citric acid, 300 grams of granulated sugar, a lemon weighing within 100 grams, ½ cup elderberry flowers.

In 5 minutes, cook the sweet sugar syrup. Then you need to dissolve citric acid powder in it and cool. After that, the flowers are poured with syrup, cut into small pieces lemon with the skin, without stones. Dishes with a drink should be left for 4 days in a dark place under the lid.

It is important not to fill the container with kvass to the top, it is necessary to leave free space for prolonged fermentation.

To make a drink made from elderberry flowers tasty, you need to mix it in the cooking process daily, and then carefully strain it, carefully pour it into glass bottles, under ground stoppers, without adding to the necks.

It is obligatory to store such “lemonade” in the refrigerator or underground, for no longer than 7 days, therefore it is better not to cook a large amount of kvass right away.

When you start to open, keep in mind that a shot can be no worse than a bottle of champagne, so it is advisable not to shake the kvass.

Healing drink from elderberry flowers - recipe for kvass the healer Bolotov

200 ml of sugar, 2 cups of black elderberry flowers, 30 grams of sour cream are taken in 3 liters of purified water. All products are thoroughly mixed, left for a fermentation process in a dark place for about 14 days.

Be sure to mix every day. Then it is poured into glass bottles. Cork tightly. Drink a drink of 100 ml before meals. It is believed that this kvass can cure many serious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, lungs, and kidneys. The drink perfectly helps elderly women with menopause and vascular diseases.

Elderflower soothing drink: recipe for kvass with mint

Stir 300 g of sugar in 3 liters of water and boil. Pour 1 tsp. citric acid powder, pour 100 g of elderberry flowers and 5 branches with this sweet syrup. Set for the fermentation process for 5 days.

Be sure to mix kvass every morning.

Then strain, pour into glass containers - bottles, cans that need to be placed inside the refrigerator. The lids of the containers must be worn tight enough so that there is no air access. Soothing kvass has a very beneficial effect on the cells of the nervous system and is indispensable for bloating. In addition, kvass from elderberry flowers is an excellent means of soothing all kinds of headaches and getting rid of fever.

There are quite a few options for recipes for medicinal kvass from black elderberry, but remember, without consulting a doctor, it is not advisable to self-medicate.

The drink can have a harmful effect on babies, pregnant and lactating mothers. For some chronic diseases, as well as allergies to black elderberry, it is strictly forbidden to take. Any medicinal herb can be harmful if consumed uncontrollably.

From elderberry flowers, it has long been learned how to prepare various miraculous wellness teas. But did you know that the flowers of this plant can be used to make lemonade, wine and even champagne!

What drinks can be prepared from elderberry inflorescences?

Freshness lemonade.

You will need:

• elderberry inflorescences - 25 pcs.;
• sugar - 900 gr.;
• lemon - 2 pcs.;
• citric acid - 5 g.

Cooking Technology:

Elderberry flowers must be washed carefully to remove dirt and insects. In a large saucepan, put sugar and pour 3 liters of boiling water over it. We stand on fire for about 5 minutes, until the sugar dissolves, and let cool.

Add finely chopped lemons and acid to the resulting syrup. Then we put elderberry flowers. Cover with a lid. Set in a cool place for 24 hours and stir occasionally.

After a day, the drink must be filtered through cheesecloth and poured into previously sterilized cans.

Serve the drink better with ice and lemon slices.

Elderberry Wine

Wine recipe

You will need:

• elderberry flowers - 1 kg;
• sugar - 1.5 kg;
• raisins - 1 kg;
• lemon - 2 pcs.;
• alcohol yeast - 100 gr.;
• water - 5 l.

Cooking Technology:

Rinse the elderberry flowers and separate them from the pedicels. Let them drain thoroughly and pour warm water, previously boiled and diluted with sugar.

Cut the lemon into circles (remove the seeds) and, together with the washed raisins and spirit yeast, put them in a bottle filled with syrup with elderberry flowers.

After fermentation, pour the liquid into bottles, firmly corking the stoppers. Keep wine in the refrigerator or cellar.

Champagne from elderberry inflorescences.

You will need:

• elderberry inflorescences - 10 pcs.;
• sugar - 500 gr.;
• wine vinegar - 1.5 tbsp. spoons;
• zest and juice of 2 lemons;
• water - 1.5 l.

Cooking Technology:

Mix all the ingredients in one dish, heat to a boil (but do not boil) and leave to infuse for 48 hours. Stir infusion periodically.

Strain the infusion. Pour the resulting drink into plastic bottles and put in a cold place for a couple of weeks.

Advice!

From time to time it is necessary to test the bottles "for strength." If they become very tight, you need to slightly open the lids and bleed a little air. This will help to avoid an unexpected and unsafe “explosion”.