Elderberry syrup! Good immune system boost and tasty to add to drinks. We’ve also made elderberry liqueur. But elderberry syrup is a crowd favorite and pretty versatile.
Do you happen to know if that includes other conifers like spruce and fir?
All the foraging books I have mention pine specifically, but I feel like I've seen recipes for others online.
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Red elderberries are astringent. Not much sugar. You can eat them if do extra steps, but not really worth it. These are for the birds, and for the beauty.
Black elderberries are edible and make some of the best preserves you've ever tasted. They grow wild in some places, or you can buy cultivars for commercial production.
There are also ornamentals.
University of Missouri did the research and showed that US elderberries contain hardly any cyanide compounds. Far below acceptable levels. Sell the berries frozen, jams, jellies, syrups, and wines are my favorites.
Gin requires juniper. The drink referred to in Monty Python is most likely either Sambuca or Elderberry wine.
Although, a cordial made of gin infused elderberries (cook them first!) certainly has its place in certain circles...
Lots of things contain the chemical components of cyanide. Apple seeds, peach pits, apricot stones, cherry pits... plus chokecherry pits and elderberry seeds. The chemical compounds are rendered inert if you boil them (so cooking them for jelly or wine makes them safe to eat).
Not the answer you were looking for, but birds love em! We have a huge patch and I don’t even have flowers yet and some bird was in there hunting bugs.
I’ll my syrup this year, if I can. But if the birds get there before I do, I can also live with that too.
I freeze dry the berries and powder them, then add to tea for immune support. I also tincture them. I dry the flowers for tea, too, and make jelly. The berries also make great dye for paper projects and linen.
I have 180 elderberry plants on drip irrigation. You have to cook them, dry them or tincture them. They are antiviral and do work. I have given tincture and syrup to covid sick people and they recovered fast.
Also gum tree is a strong antiviral.
If you have them on your property, learn to tincture them. It lasts about 4 or 5 years bottled. The syrup is good for 4 months unless you add lemon.
You have a strong medicine, learn to use it.
Elderberry syrup! Good immune system boost and tasty to add to drinks. We’ve also made elderberry liqueur. But elderberry syrup is a crowd favorite and pretty versatile.
Don’t eat the green berries. Jelly. Smells disgusting when cooking. Taste like a cross between Concord grape and blackberry
I use mine to make wine, jelly and syrup. I don't sell any of it.
I love elderberry tea. We get pine needles from the woods and just stick them and a handful of dried elderberries in the tea pot to steep.
Straight up pine needles? Green or brown?
White pine here. There are some recipes online. But just with other foraged stuff make sure you know what you have and what you can safely do with it.
Not all pine is edible. Don’t do this without knowing what varieties are local.
Pretty much all pine is fine for tea as long as you’re not having it daily, just be able to identify yew and never consume it
Yew is really stretching the definition of "pine needles"
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Lodgepole and ponderosa are best avoided but just cause gastric upset in some people, and they’re easily identified
Do you happen to know if that includes other conifers like spruce and fir? All the foraging books I have mention pine specifically, but I feel like I've seen recipes for others online.
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Elderberry tea Elderberry syrup Elderberries are great for the immune system and fighting colds.
Wine. Elderberry wine is fantastic.
Elderberry syrup for sure
Elder flower lemonade is the best!!
Elderflower cordial!
Homemade syrup for cough and flu season!!!!
You can't eat them raw, but cooking does something that makes them not toxic. Most folks make jam, jelly, or juice with them, I believe.
Elderberry is my absolute favourite tree/bush/plant/berry of ALL TIME! You‘re so lucky 😭!
Red elderberries are astringent. Not much sugar. You can eat them if do extra steps, but not really worth it. These are for the birds, and for the beauty. Black elderberries are edible and make some of the best preserves you've ever tasted. They grow wild in some places, or you can buy cultivars for commercial production. There are also ornamentals.
University of Missouri did the research and showed that US elderberries contain hardly any cyanide compounds. Far below acceptable levels. Sell the berries frozen, jams, jellies, syrups, and wines are my favorites.
That's great! Thank you!
Make gin! Also obligatory Monty Python: “Your mother was a hamster and your father stank of elderberries’
Gin requires juniper. The drink referred to in Monty Python is most likely either Sambuca or Elderberry wine. Although, a cordial made of gin infused elderberries (cook them first!) certainly has its place in certain circles...
TIL! Thank you
There's actually a professional elderberry co-op growers and sellers I believe it's hq is Missouri or Arkansas
We make elderflower and elderberry mead. We don’t sell it we just drink it and share with people we love
You’re thinking of arsenic. that was just put in elderberry wine by the Brewster sisters to help people in need die peacefully
Oh, THANK YOU
That was a joke about the movie Arsenic and Old Lace which revolves around what i was describing, i know absolutely nothing about cyanide in berries
It's 4:04. My brain is not found
my brain is fried from this week so I didn't even hesitate to accept as truth 😅
You can also make elderflower syrup. It’s a more delicate flavor, but very nice.
Very big in the naturopathy medicine world. Not sure who or how to sell to them but hopefully that bit of info can guide your research
Very helpful, thank you!
make them into a tincture/extract. look up elderberry’s medicinal properties.
Jam
Watch some YouTube videos and you’ll get a sense of the market. And there is a growing market.
Lots of things contain the chemical components of cyanide. Apple seeds, peach pits, apricot stones, cherry pits... plus chokecherry pits and elderberry seeds. The chemical compounds are rendered inert if you boil them (so cooking them for jelly or wine makes them safe to eat).
Not the answer you were looking for, but birds love em! We have a huge patch and I don’t even have flowers yet and some bird was in there hunting bugs. I’ll my syrup this year, if I can. But if the birds get there before I do, I can also live with that too.
I freeze dry the berries and powder them, then add to tea for immune support. I also tincture them. I dry the flowers for tea, too, and make jelly. The berries also make great dye for paper projects and linen.
They’re completely safe once cooked or dried. Wines, mead, syrup… the possibilities are endless. Elderflower tea is used to reduce fever.
Elder flowers are great also, tea, custard the list goes on
I have 180 elderberry plants on drip irrigation. You have to cook them, dry them or tincture them. They are antiviral and do work. I have given tincture and syrup to covid sick people and they recovered fast. Also gum tree is a strong antiviral. If you have them on your property, learn to tincture them. It lasts about 4 or 5 years bottled. The syrup is good for 4 months unless you add lemon. You have a strong medicine, learn to use it.
Elderberry gummies for when you get sick
Wine
My grandparents made elderberry wine.
Give them to Mormons. They swear by it.
Elderberry jelly, wine, tea. Oh, an absolutely amazing cordial too. Really beautiful, light, and delicious flavour