Elderflower Jelly

AUTHOR
Eunice Scott
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3.3 3
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 6-8 large elderflower umbels
  • 1 l clear apple juice
  • 100 ml White wine
  • 7-10 Tbsp thinly peeled rind of 1 untreated lemon
  • 1 package (500 g) Gelling sugar 2:1

Directions

  1. 1

    Carefully wash and drain elderberry flowers. Boil up apple juice, white wine and lemon peel. Add the elderberry blossoms and let it steep for about 30 minutes. Then pour through a cloth, collect the juice and measure 900 ml.

  2. 2

    Mix elderflower juice and jam sugar and bring to the boil. Cook for at least 3 minutes until bubbly. Rinse 4-5 preserving jars (250 ml content) hot and dry. Remove lemon zest from the jelly.

  3. 3

    Fill the jelly into the glasses up to just below the rim. Close with twist-off lids, turn upside down, turn upside down after 5-10 minutes and let cool.

Categories & Tags

Miscellaneousexotic