Sugar Free Elderflower Cordial Recipe💮

Hello everyone. Welcome back. Today we are making some elderflower cordial. Hooray. It's that beautiful time of year. The elderflowers are here. Oh my goodness. This is my favourite thing to forage. Out of everything. The elderflower. Absolutely gorgeous. It's beautiful. It's making our whole kitchen smell of elderflowers right now. And the smell brings back so many happy summer memories. So elderflower cordial. Come with us and we'll show you how to make it. Now for this recipe you're going to need a bowl of lovely elderflowers. Hey, Alice. Hey. Oh so much fun this morning gathering these for the kids. We're going to make sugar-free cordial so we're going to use xylitol which is actually quite good for your teeth and one lemon. So a really important step when it comes to elderflower cordial is we're not actually going to wash the elderflower because we don't want to wash away all that beautiful elderflower scent. We want to encapsulate that in the cordial. So first thing we do is leave your wildflowers on the side out in the garden on the windowsill for about 20 minutes, half an hour and let all the little bugs escape. And then before you put in each umbel, you give it a little check to make sure there's no bugs or bits on it. Then Chop off the largest bit of the stem and repeat. Four cups of water, chip chop your lemon, you can also use an orange and you don't even need one. We just put one in because it helps to preserve and adds a little bit of flavour but we do get a lot of comments from people who are allergic so just want you to know you can make this lovely sugar-free elderflower cordial without your lemon too. Pop your lemon in. Oh, I'm so excited. Blooming Marvelous! Add half a cup of your xylitol made from beech trees and birch trees. Now if you haven't got this you can just use sugar instead. Add that to you. Beautiful. Stir it up, pop your lid on and bring it to a boil. Now bring it down to a light simmer and be sure to keep your lid on guys because you want to keep all of those lovely elderflower juices inside your pan. Simmer it for 30 minutes. Smells amazing, the whole house now smells elderflowers. Look at that, it's been infusing and simmering for 30 minutes, now it's time. Whoa, to strain it. Check that out, elderflower cordial. Squish out all that elderflower goodness to get every last bit of that, and then leave it to cool before you put it in your bottle. Then take your elderflower cordial, Now it's all cooled down. And transfer it into whatever bottle you've got. This cordial is one of our favourites, it's Steli's actual number one favourite, it's so nice, the kids love it, we love it, and in the shop it cost a fortune, and this is where we make it ourselves, it's organic, full of all the good things that we know that we've put in it. Lovely Cheers! Hooray, summer's here Elderflower cordial. Ah, that was my first sip of elder... Oh my goodness! It's the best. Oh it's amazing. I love it. And sugar free. I love it. Beautiful. Can't wait to give some of this to Bruce. Try some. That's awesome. It's good, isn't it? I'm not doing it. Thanks so much for watching, guys. If you have a go at making this yourselves and have any questions, just pop them in the comments below and we're happy to answer. Yeah, follow us on Facebook or Instagram and you can stay up to date because we bring out new videos every single week. Like, hmm. And if you believe in what we do, then check out our Patreon page where you can support us, help us keep bringing these videos out for everybody for free. We'll see you all next time. Peace.