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Foraging Elderberry
Flowers late spring, berries late summer. Cook berries — raw are mildly toxic.
What to do with it
- Cook the berries — never raw
- Simmer into syrup for colds
- Elderflowers: cordial & fritters
Ways to keep it
- Elderberry syrup
- Elderflower cordial
- Elderberry wine or soda (ferment)
- Elderberry vinegar
- Dry the berries
About Elderberry
Sambucus is a genus of between 20 and 30 species of flowering plants in the family Viburnaceae. The various species are commonly referred to as elder, with the flowers as elderflower, and the fruit as elderberry.
From Wikipedia.
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