Sparkling Elderflower Wine (from dried Elderflowers)
The Elderflower Season appears to be over - around this way in any event for this year. But that doesn't mean the end of Elderflower Wine. This wine so the recipe says can be made at any time of the year, it makes a delicately fragreant sparkling wine. Dried elderflowers if you haven't dried them yourself can be obtained from most winemaker supply stores, herbalists, health food stores and some chemists. This recipe might also give those of you a chance who have missed out on this year's harvest with a lovely wine. In fact Elderflower is one of my all time favourites, along with nettle, plum and gooseberry wines. Ingredients: 1oz/30 g of dried elderflower 1lb/450g minced sultanas or 1/2 pint/280ml white grape concentrate 1 1/2 lb/675g granulated sugar 1 teaspoon/5g of citric acid 1 teaspoon/5g pectic enyzme or liquid equivalent Pinch of Tannin powder 1/3mg Vitamin B Tablet Champagne or Perlschaum yeast Method Make a syrup with the sug...