First gallon of elder champagne bottled - with some left over.

Filled 5 bottles, and the half-bottle or so left over went down very well with the first of our homegrown strawberries. Cheers, Pamd! :-))

Cheers David it looks a nice colour, hope it taste's good enjoy ......

Although not fizzy, as it should be after a couple of weeks' storage, the leftovers smelled, and tasted, great. Added some white wine to the glass, though. Cheers!

Cheers indeed David,well done. Mum used to make elderberry wine,sticks in my mind as when she took the cork off one year it shot up and smashed the light bulb-cheers all round !!!

Cheers !

Looks delish David....... now I'm tempted to have a go myself :o)

Here's to you David cheers that strawberry looks yummy too. :o)

Mmmm, looks good David :-)))))

I'll let you know what the finished product is like. ;-))

Aster, I've used screwcap bottles so that I can release the gas pressure occasionally. Explosions might be good "cannon fire" sound effects, lol, but wouldn't care to clean up the mess! :-))

Mmm,this was the 60's lol,not too sure if screwcaps were available then. Home brewing has come on a lot since then.
Mum made cough medicine from the elder flowers,jam and wine from the berries.Alas I don't have those recipes :(
The young un's at work wonder why I never catch any bugs,I think that medicine set me up for life lol !

looks good David....

Was around then, Aster, but far too young to know about such things, lol!

Help is very close to hand, however, with a recipe for elder syrup posted by Amy. To the right of the pic above, click on "elder" next to "Featured on".
This takes you to the Goypedia elder page. Photo 12 is a pic of Amy's syrup. Click on the pic, scroll down, and Amy has written her recipe!!!!!! Ain't this place just wonderful????? :-))

I'm sure it will be when ready in 2 weeks, Holly. :-))

Thanks David,I wish Mums had been a syrup ! It was thin horrible stuff-the way medicine should be lol :) Will take a look at that :)

cheers david ,looks lovely ;o))

Think that adding a dash o' white/light rum might make this more to a pirate's taste?

yes your probably right there david lol

Strawberry daiquiris with ice it might be then, so long as we don't really end up "on the rocks". :-))

lol ;o))

~ used to make elderberry.parsnip etc~still got two demijohns under the sink from 30years ago~either vinegar or something quite nice?

Oh, Arlene! When will you decide to find out which it is???

like to give it a go myself ,recipe please

Hi Cristina,

The recipe was first posted by Pamd, and is now under GOYpedia page "Recipes from the Garden". I have, however, saved her 2 recipes on my homepage, under "favourites", if you want to find them there. :-))

thanks davey will have o look . post this to favs lol