Elderflower Champagne
16/June/2007 Filed in: Jottings
Our annual Garden party is little more than a month hence, but the hedgerows have been full of good things for some weeks past and we have a satisfying amount of Elderflower Champagne bubbling away in the monastery kitchen, ready to slake the thirst of our guests. The smallest quantity we would ever think of making is 5 gallons, so, if you would like a taste of monastic Olde England, here is our recipe (with apologies to those who can only work in metric measures):
- 50 heads of elderflowers
- 6lb sugar
- 11 tablespoons of white wine vinegar
- 11 large lemons
- 40 pints of cold water