Elder Syrup

Many families in Croatia make homemade elder syrup (which is later mixed with water and drunk as juice or mixed with white wine and mineral water), it's a perfect summer drink.

This is Jamie Oliver's version, it's not exactly like one which is common in my country, but it seems tasty :)

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Ingredients
30 elder tree flowers
3 kg brown/white sugar (as you wish)
3 big lemons
4 dag of lemon acid
3 l ordinary water

Method
first you clean up elder flowers a little bit but not too much since you don't want to lose small parts of the whole flower.

then you take big bowl (or rather than that big bucket because when you'll add sugar amount of juice is getting bigger) and put in elder flowers, cut in to pieces lemons (don't need to peel them) and water. Leave it for at least 30 hours and don't mix it. After the time is up, take flowers and lemons out and mix in sugar and lemon acid (be carefull - sugar have to be rendered).

that's it! then from the bucket overflow juice into the bottles..and you are ready to go!

If you like less sweet you put less juice and more water, if you like it sweet you put more juice and less water!