Elderflower & Vodka Spritzer

Preparation info
  • Serves

    2

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Amber & Rye: A Baltic food journey

By Zuza Zak

Published 2021

  • About

This is a very seasonal cocktail, because you need to gather the elderflowers when they are at their peak — white and fluffy, without any discolouration — in late spring. If you have no time for picking elderflowers, you could use shop-bought cordial instead, but the home-made stuff tastes a million times better.

Ingredients

  • 50 ml ( tablespoons) vodka
  • 300 ml (10½

Method

For the elderflower syrup, put the elderflower heads into a stainless-steel pan with the sugar, lemon zest and water. Bring to the boil, stirring until the sugar dissolves, then turn down the heat and simmer for 15 minutes.

Strain through a sieve into a jug, pressing down with the back of a spoon to extract as much syrup as possible. Discard the elderflowers. Transfer the syrup to a 1 l