Capturing Summer
- posted 30th August 2024
It is great to grow a beautiful food forest garden but even more satisfying to savour the produce for the future weeks and months. Here we do all sorts of preserving to save our harvests for enjoying later. In the autumn it is mostly making jams and jellies, but summer gives the chance to make delicious elderflower cordial, which just tastes of summer and preserves some of that summer magic.
Elderflowers can be foraged if you don’t have your own tree and the cordial is great used just like fruit squash or as a mixer with fizz or your favourite tipple. It is easy to make – check online for a recipe – and if you miss the flowers, elderberries can be used in autumn like other soft fruit but you may have to be quick as the birds love them too.
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