Another good recipe to try with Elderflowers, the flowers are just coming into bloom, they are best collected on a sunny day, have a smell of the flowers when you collect them if any smell like cat pee discard them as they have gone over.
You will need
12-15 Elderflower blooms
1.5kg of Jam sugar (the one with pectin)
1.5lt of cold water
Juice of 1 lemon
Pop your flower blooms into a bowl and add the water, leave for 3 days
drain through muslin or a jelly bag do not squeeze you will discolour the jelly
Add the liquid to a pan with the sugar and lemon juice
Bring to the boil and continue boiling for 8 mins,
check for a set, mine took 12 mins to reach setting point
then pour into jars and leave to cool.
This made 6 jars.
Elderflower Jelly has a very delicate taste and is ideal to have on toast, crumpets or toasted teacakes.
Enjoy
I might have to make some of this I think. I seem desperate to make some kind of jam at the moment but with very little to make it with!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post, I am going to start the process today.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds absolutely amazing! I wonder if I can find my jelly bag!
ReplyDeleteI took some of the Jelly into work yesterday for the lace group to try with some scones it went down very well and is so easy to make.
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