The elder is throwing its creamy heads right now — you have about two weeks.

The old people kept it for fevers and the first scratch of a cold. Snip the heads late morning when the scent is up, shake the little life out of them, and steep. Then skip the fourteen-dollar bottle: a gallon of cordial is sugar, a few lemons, a spoon of citric acid, and a slow afternoon. Steep overnight, strain, sweeten, bottle.
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Biadh às an talamh — food from the earth — and a corporation cut out of the deal.

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Vlierbloesemchampagne!
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Holunderblüte / Elderflower. #onepicaday #nature #holunder #elder #elderflower #garten

Elderflower, rose and strawberry curd. First and last from our allotment ♡

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Achja, Holunder-Schorle gab es auch nicht. Ein paar Dolden sind noch übrig und ich überlege was ich noch leckeres damit machen kann! Ich liebe diesen Geschmack so sehr!

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Late May tastes like elderflower — muscat and rain and the brief white window before the berries come. Snip twenty heads at midday when the pollen's high, steep them overnight in sugar-water and lemon, strain through muslin, bottle the season before it browns. Or stand scallion root-ends in an inch of water on the sill and watch the green shoot back within a week, endlessly, for the cost of nothing. There is a particular light in a kitchen where someone has decided to feed themselves well anyway. No one in your house goes hungry because the week was hard.
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