What do I do with Elderberry Syrup?

Straight up: Like a shot!

Cocktails: Especially good with vodka, gin and bourbon.

Mocktails: 1 ounce of syrup to 6 ounces soda water

Yoghurt: Mix with plain or vanilla

Overnight Oats: Mix with whatever milk you use

Smoothies: Any recipe you would use blueberries in

Tea: To sweeten, instead of honey

Add to Yoghurt

Scoop up a bowl of your favorite plain yoghurt.

Then drizzle on a tablespoon or so of elderberry syrup and top with a little granola, cashew nuts or flax seeds.

Make Elderberry Soda

This couldn't be easier. Combine fizzy water + about 2 Tablespoons of elderberry syrup.

It's incredibly beautiful and refreshing.

Elderberry syrup in a bottle and mixed with soda water

Make Salad Dressing

Combine equal parts

oil of your choice (we like avocado),
apple cider vinegar
elderberry syrup.

Give it a good stir or shake and dress your salads, pour on a grain bowl or use as a marinade for meat or fish.

Make a Cocktail

Give your martini a health boost by adding a splash of elderberry syrup. Or try this Vodka Collins recipe.

Vodka Collins

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With fresh or frozen Elderberries you can make

Elderberry Jam

1.5 cups fresh elderberries
3/4 cup filtered water
1.5 cups blueberry, grape, cherry or apple juice
3 teaspoons pectin (we like Pomonas)
sweetener of choice, to taste.

Bring berries, water and juice to a boil.

Remove one cup of mixture from the heat, add pectin and sweetener and stir until smooth.

Return to the pot and bring to a boil again. Reduce heat and stir for ten minutes until it starts to thicken up a bit (it will start to cling to the spoon).

Remove from heat and pour into canning jars. Keep refrigerated. It will thicken up as it cools.

Recipes for Garlic

Garlic Scapes

Scapes are the tops of the garlic plant, which savvy growers remove so that the garlic plants puts all of its energy into creating a beautiful head of garlic.

Lucky for us all, they are delicious!

You can eat them fresh, cook them like a veggie or make scape butter.

Scape Butter

Chop 7 or 8 scapes into 1 inch pieces (compost any tough bits)
Use a food processor to mince the scapes into tiny pieces (or do by hand if you're old school)
Mix the scapes with 6 ounces unsalted, room-temperature butter (by hand or in processor)
Add salt, pepper and other spices to taste
Add a splash of lemon

Store in an airtight container in the fridge and use within three weeks