Welcome to jACKrABBIT! Here you can buy seeds for growing your own produce and ingredients for cooking and baking, you can find recipes for everyday and for preserving home-grown food and find activities and ideas for getting you and your children out of doors and enjoying nature. We also sell native wildflower seeds to encourage those important bees and butterflies into your garden.

*Elderflower Cordial

~The elderflower cordial infusing.~

Elderflower cordial is so easy to make and tastes amazing. Me and Nial made this from elderflowers that we picked locally, and there are loads of them in the area. We got about two litres out of this recipe, and you can freeze it in smaller batches to preserve over the year.




YOU WILL NEED
20 elderflower heads, with minimal stalks
1 lemon, sliced
2 tsp citric acid
1.5 kg sugar
1.2 ltr boiling water
METHOD
Place all the ingredients except the boiling water into a large bowl (we used a large pan).
Pour the boiling water over the ingredients and stir until the sugar has dissolved.
Remove any scum from the surface of the water.
Cover the container with a cloth and leave for five days stirring twice every day.
Strain through muslin and decant liquid into steralised bottles.
Keep refrigerated and best used within two weeks, freeze if necessary.

Elderflower growing wild.
Please use a professional book to identify elderflower, I suggest Food for Free, which you can find at Amazon.
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