Elder flower cordial

 This afternoon, Leopards joined with Tigers to go in search of Elder flowers to make home made cordial.

 We headed to the field behind school and were delighted to find 4 trees loaded with Elder flowers, ready to pick. The children carefully selected and collected the flowers ready to bring back to school. 





 

Preparing the cordial

The Leopards took charge, collecting all the equipment and and deciding which roles they were going to take after reading the recipe. 

They washed the elderflowers.


Grated the zest off the lemons.

  

Measured the sugar and added in to boiling water and stirred it until it dissolved. 


All that was left was to squeeze the juice of  the lemons and add it along with the zest to the syrup (to preserve the cordial) and add the Elder flowers to the syrup.

We will now leave the Elder flowers to infuse over night. Tomorrow, it will be time to strain and boil the syrup to sterilise it then bottle it up. 

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