{"id":2192,"date":"2014-09-14T20:36:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T19:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2014-09-25T16:35:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T15:35:39","slug":"elderflower-liqueur-take-st-germain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/14\/elderflower-liqueur-take-st-germain\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderflower Liqueur: my own take on St.Germain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>This spring I was looking to make another brew from the hedgerow, I love the fragrance of elderflower, but didn\u2019t want to make more wine, and elderflower cordial although lovely is readily available in supermarkets which one can buy and use without the fuss and effort of making it at home. But I had read about St. Germain an elderflower liqueur which apparently is currently very fashionable in cocktails. Well, I had to have a go at that.<br \/>\nA short walk in the lovely countryside with a carrier bag and a pair of secateurs, and a trip to the local supermarket for a bottle of own brand Vodka, a bag of sugar and a lemon, and I\u2019m good to go.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2193\" style=\"width: 682px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_6933.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2193\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_6933-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"elderflower\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_6933-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_6933-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_6933-150x225.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_6933-600x900.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_6933.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">elderflower, headgerow pickings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A pint of elderflowers were picked from the umbels, put into 1.5ltr jar with 75cl of vodka, and topped with several pieces of greaseproof paper weighted down with slices of lemon to prevent the flowers rising to the top and going brown with oxidisation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2194\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_1606.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_1606.jpg\" alt=\"elderflower liqueur\" width=\"1200\" height=\"937\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_1606.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_1606-300x234.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_1606-1024x799.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_1606-150x117.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_1606-600x468.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I had to buy some St Gremain to compare<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I did not agitate this brew but allowed it to steep for 3 months, on the cool windowsill in the downstairs loo, then strained off the elderflowers and added sugar.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2195\" style=\"width: 197px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2134.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2134-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"elderflower liqueur\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2134-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2134-674x1024.jpg 674w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2134-150x227.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2134-600x911.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2134.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 85vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">clear as crystal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It then stood for another week or two while the sugar slowly dissolved, before I strained it again and bottled it\u2026 and wouldn\u2019t you just know it, yet again there was just a little over to taste it. It tastes divine, I put aside what little was left to take to my sister to share a little tipple with me, but next time I looked it had gone, about three shots of Elderflower liqueur necked by my Dearest ( written with gritted teeth) in one go. And then he has the brass neck to tell me he doesn\u2019t like elderflower, grrrrr. I&#8217;m making more Damson Gin, He likes that.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2196\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2138.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2138-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Elderflower liqueur\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2138-576x1024.jpg 576w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2138-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2138-150x266.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 85vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elderlflower liqueur bottled and ready for drinking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn\u2019t you just know it, yet again there was just a little over to taste it. It tastes divine,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,5,735],"tags":[815,816,541,606,996,817,630],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}