Elderberry

In the south the elderberry is almost ripe, just pray for calm weather over the next couple of weeks.

What you going to do with them Mikey?

On the rear occasion the birds & weather leave us enough. We make elderberry vinegar.

Still green here although it looks like some have already been stripped by birds.

Wash, And strip berries into a bowl with a fork. You want equal quantities of sugar to berries, boil and mash them to remove as much juice as possible. Drain through a muslin cloth overnight to make a syrup. Bring back to the boil and bottle in sterilised containers. Jam jars, bottles it doesn’t really matter as long as you can pour it onto a spoon.

Elderberry has recently been found by the herbal medicine fraternity, Renamed Sambucol, as it is a huge immune system booster, and taking two teaspoons a day are supposedly more effective at warding off these symptoms than commercial alternatives.

I’ve been making it for quite a few years now, and can’t remember the last time I was off I’ll. I take it daily throughout winter either just on a spoon or over some yoghurt or porridge.

It’s a very tasty medicine.

Still green here although it looks like some have already been stripped by birds.

It’s not the birds V it’s the wind and rain that knocks them off. That is why we need mild weather for the next couple of weeks to minimise the loss.

I'm sure they're being knocked off by the pesky pigeons - they're so clumsy.

Do you have them in the garden V?