HOW TO MAKE ELDERBERRY SYRUP FROM FRESH BERRIES | HOMEMADE ELDERBERRY SYRUP RECIPE | DIY ELDERBERRY
Elderberry has been used for centuries to boost the immune system and help lessen the effects of the common cold and influenza. This homemade elderberry syrup recipe is so easy to make and definitely something you want to keep well stocked all year, but especially during the winter months. Learn how to make elderberry syrup from fresh berries.
The winter time can come with a lot of challenges for families, between the cold weather causing us to stay indoors a lot more than we should and of course the sicknesses that seem to run rampant during the winter months. When a sickness strikes someone in our family, those of us with larger families know just what it means; weeks of sickness, potentially. As it slowly and painfully makes its way from child to child it can be such a drag. It keeps us from fun activities and church. We miss school and our routines are thrown off. Ugh.
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Alright, let's get right into the recipe.
3.5 C filtered water, we use our berkey water filter to filter all the nasty out of our city water https://amzn.to/386ff1G
1.5 C fresh elderberries or 3/4 C dried elderberries - https://amzn.to/30v96cX
2 tsp freshly ground ginger
1/2 tsp ground cloves(https://amzn.to/35UCF94), or 1 drop of clove essential oil
1 cinnamon stick
1 C local raw honey, or at a minimum raw honey like this - https://amzn.to/38dVSDV
Start by adding your water, elderberries, freshly ground ginger, cloves and a cinnamon stick to a saucepan and put it on the stove on high heat. Bring to a boil and then reduce to low. We are going to let this simmer for 45 minutes or until it is reduced by half. Stir mixture occasionally and I like to use a potato masher to mash the elderberries while it's simmering.
Once the mixture has reduced by half, or simmered for 45 minutes, remove it from the heat. Pour your honey into a large glass container and while the elderberry mixture is still warm, we are going to pour it on top of the honey. Grab a fine mesh strainer for this step, we don't want to keep the elderberries, cinnamon stick or ginger pieces in our finished syrup. Strain the elderberry mixture right into the glass container with the honey and then give it a stir. After the honey has melted into the elderberry mixture and created elderberry syrup, it's time to pour it into whatever jar you are going to store it in. I like to use these wide mouth mason jars to store mine because they can be put in the freezer when I make larger batches. I also like to keep a batch in a flip top bottle like this for easily pouring over pancakes and just daily dosing.
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