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gz



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Mistress Rose



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My MIL managed to 'repaint' the inside of a cupboard with bramble wine she had plugged lightly with cotton wool instead of an air lock as she didn't have a spare one. Not as bad, but it went off in the middle of the night, so her and FIL had to spend half the night clearing up.

Jonnyboy



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 20 9:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

gz wrote:
I have just made a batch of Elderflower cordial using Nicky CiG 's recipe this time..for me I found it sweeter than I expected..I must have used a scaled down version of Minamoo's recipe before.
Looking at all the recipes I could see online, the sugar/water proportions vary greatly.
What do others use?


I find that generally with cordial recipes, Rhubarb is the same and you risk losing the unique flavour and ending up with a generic sweet syrup.

Personally its elderflower champagne all the way for me, the alcohol content is pretty low so I can have it with breakfast, whilst driving, operating machinery, or give it to kids etc.

tahir



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 20 9:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Do the kids drive or operate machinery once they've had it?

Jonnyboy



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tahir wrote:
Do the kids drive or operate machinery once they've had it?


well, they think they can.

tahir



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 20 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Excellent, I've always found confidence is key when driving or operating machinery

gz



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 20 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jonnyboy wrote:
gz wrote:
I have just made a batch of Elderflower cordial using Nicky CiG 's recipe this time..for me I found it sweeter than I expected..I must have used a scaled down version of Minamoo's recipe before.
Looking at all the recipes I could see online, the sugar/water proportions vary greatly.
What do others use?


I find that generally with cordial recipes, Rhubarb is the same and you risk losing the unique flavour and ending up with a generic sweet syrup.

Personally its elderflower champagne all the way for me, the alcohol content is pretty low so I can have it with breakfast, whilst driving, operating machinery, or give it to kids etc.

I have done the maths, compared all the recipes' sugar:water ratios and included the HMSO recipes..I have just started an Elderflower and Rose cordial, with reference to the Minamoo and River Cottage recipes. Hopefully this will retain the flavour over the sweetness

dpack



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tahir wrote:
Excellent, I've always found confidence is key when driving or operating machinery


crystal meth and wormwood potcheen help as well.

sgt.colon



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PostPosted: Fri May 27, 22 11:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm making some Elderflower cordial and I have bought some citric acid. I'll have about 300gms left over. Can anyone make use of it?

tahir



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PostPosted: Fri May 27, 22 11:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I've got about 300 grms too

Mind you I will eventually use it

Nicky cigreen



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PostPosted: Fri May 27, 22 11:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I also have about 300g leftover

I will use it up though

sgt.colon



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PostPosted: Fri May 27, 22 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    



If someone has got 100gms free then there is a whole kilo on offer.

dpack



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PostPosted: Fri May 27, 22 2:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    



a duckduck suggested there are a lot of uses for the stuff

iirc we used a spoonful in a horrible cake recipe, so we probably have another 95 g

i vaguely remember some sort of nonsense with mixing buffers to test Ph meters that involved accurate wt of analar dry crystals to put in the mix

probably not much help

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Sun May 29, 22 8:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It can be used instead of lemon juice. Not sure how much you would need though.

dpack



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PostPosted: Sun May 29, 22 11:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Mistress Rose wrote:
It can be used instead of lemon juice. Not sure how much you would need though.


why?

wood sorrel does "lemon and salt"
dont over spice with it, as it also does oxalic

sweet, savoury or used on an emergency sunday to make tequila slammers in a net above gravity and sharp rocks it is splendid

if citrus was no more , crystals are not my go-to cupboard ingredient

malic is very ok as well, crabs work ace dried and powdered

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