Elderflower Cordial

Preparation info
  • Makes

    3 pt

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

  • About

If I had a large country kitchen, I would experiment with dandelion wine, and with elderflower wine which sparkles like champagne. Instead, I content myself with trying a little elderflower milk punch and using the dandelion flowers in fritters and small omelettes. I also make several bottles of very concentrated elderflower syrup or cordial, of which I never seem to make enough. It makes the most exquisite sorbets and refreshing summer drinks, flavours fruit salads, creams and custards, an