I love elderberry flower syrup in the summer. Very refreshing.

My polish friend, Kasha,  gave me a recipe and it came out really nice.

40 flower clusters
4 lemons
1 liter of boiling water (4.2 cups)
2 kg of sugar (4.4 lbs)

Kasha recommended not washing the flowers so that you can keep all the goodness of the pollen in your syrup.

Put all the flowers in a pan, take all the green stems off, just the little flowers....the not fun part!
put the juice of the 4 lemons on the flowers and the yellow peel of lemons.  Pour 1 liter of boiling water over it, and let it sit for 2 days.  ( I covered it because of flies)

After two days, put the sugar init and bring it to boil, only allow it to boil for 3mn ( or you'll loose all the vitamins).

Put it in your sterilized bottles ( it still need to find a good way on how to sterilize bottles). ( I had 2 bottles of one liter each)

It it pretty sweet to I put a little bit of syrup (maybe 1/4 of an inch for a  big glass of water), serve Very cold with lemon or lime.


I used brown sugar cane so the syrup looks dark brown.