Summer holidays = Elderflower Cordial

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It's festival time, Wimbledon and “surely the warm weather will hit Scotland soon” - it's properly summer.  

Here is a fave summer recipe, and helps keeps the kids busy too!

Get: 20 heads of Elderflowers (come on kids!), 1.5kg of sugar, 2tsp of citric acid ; 1 sliced lemon, 1.2L of boiling water (adults, or adult supervision). Mix them all together in a big bowl until the sugar has dissolved. Remove any residue off the top. Cover with a tea towel or pillowcase, and leave overnight, stirring occasionally. Strain and bottle. It is ready to drink - diluted**. We found ours a little sweet, so will try a little less sugar next time.

Serving suggestion: Make a virgin Pimm's by adding ice, strawberries, lemon, apple, mint etc with still or sparkling water.

Also goes very well with a G&T. But that's less child/driver friendly.

Serve with your Lil forever pint cup

* With thanks to the wonderful recipe book: Andy Hamilton's Booze for Free