Elderberry Cordial
Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Ingredients
- 8 quarts elderberries
- 2 quarts cold water
- 4 lbs sugar
- 1 tablespoon whole allspice
- 1 tablespoon whole cloves
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 quarts whiskey or 2 quarts brandy
Recipe
- 1 stem and wash berries.
- 2 cover with water and cook until very soft; strain.
- 3 measure juice; for each quart, add 2 cups of sugar.
- 4 return to saucepan.
- 5 tie spices in bag and add to sugar/juice mixture.
- 6 cook until thick.
- 7 cool, remove spices and measure again.
- 8 add 1 pint liquor for each quart of syrup.
- 9 bottle and cork tightly.
- 10 let sit in cool dark place for at least three weeks.
- 11 improves with age.
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