ADAPT June recipe

Elderflower Wine

Ingredients

• Elderflowers 1 pint
• Sugar 1.5 kg
• Raisins 250 g
• Lemons 3
• Grape tannin 1 tsp
• Water 1 gallon

Gather flowers on a sunny day, trim from the stems until you have 1 pint. Pour boiling water over flowers and lemon rind, add sugar, raisins and lemon juice. When cool add yeast tannin and nutrient.

Cover and leave to ferment for 4-5 days, strain into demi john and fit airlock. When the ferment has finished and the wine clears rack off and bottle.

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