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gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 20 4:11 pm Post subject:

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 20 7:15 am Post subject:
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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Location: under some rain.

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 20 9:50 am Post subject:

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

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 20 9:54 am Post subject:
Do the kids drive or operate machinery once they've had it?

Jonnyboy

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Location: under some rain.

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 20 9:59 am Post subject:

tahir wrote:

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

well, they think they can.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 20 10:08 am Post subject:
Excellent, I've always found confidence is key when driving or operating machinery

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 20 11:03 am Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

gz wrote:

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

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 20 1:48 pm Post subject:

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

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Fri May 27, 22 11:27 am Post subject:
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

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Fri May 27, 22 11:32 am Post subject:
I've got about 300 grms too Mind you I will eventually use it

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Fri May 27, 22 11:49 am Post subject:
I also have about 300g leftover I will use it up though

sgt.colon

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Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Fri May 27, 22 12:38 pm Post subject:
If someone has got 100gms free then there is a whole kilo on offer.

dpack

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Location: yes

Posted: Fri May 27, 22 2:13 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Sun May 29, 22 8:36 am Post subject:
It can be used instead of lemon juice. Not sure how much you would need though.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Sun May 29, 22 11:13 am Post subject:

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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