Elderflower Gin – a recipe - Me & Orla (2024)

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What gin is best with elderflower tonic? ›

#4: Mediterranean G&T with Elderflower, Apple & Mint

The herbaceous and zesty notes of our Mercato Mediterranean Gin pair deliciously with a premium Elderflower tonic, which gives it a lovely floral, light and refreshing taste. Grab a large copa (aka balloon) glass.

The terms elderflower syrup and elderflower cordial are used interchangeably: they both mean a concentrated elderflower extract. This extract can be used in drinks, liqueurs, creams, and any other number of food items as an additional flavor profile and sweetener.

Secret Garden Distillery's best-selling gin in our new 70cl bespoke bottle. Our best-selling gin. Hand harvested Elderflower and Jasmine are distilled and blended with Juniper, Coriander, Angelica Root and Winter Savory to create a gin that is perfectly balanced.

Elderflower cordial is a soft drink made largely from a refined sugar and water solution and uses the flowers of the European elder (Sambucus nigra L.). Historically, the cordial was popular in Northwestern Europe where it has a Victorian heritage.

Aside from other gin co*cktails, you could also pair it with vodka, champagne, and white wine. Or add a splash of elderflower liqueur to a fruit salad or other desserts where you want to add a fresh, lightly floral taste.

Other beverage alcohol products like hard cider and liqueurs are the perfect base for elderflower, as are non-alcoholic drinks like tea, iced tea, seltzers, and blended fruit juices. Tea, in particular, has become the popular go-to healthy beverage during the pandemic.

For those suffering with constipation, elderflower can help relieve the symptoms due to its diuretic and laxative properties.

St‑Germain is a French liqueur made with fresh elderflowers, hand-picked once a year in the late spring. To accomplish its exquisitely natural flavor, every bottle of St‑Germain contains up to 1,000 of the very best elderflower blossoms, resulting in a finely crafted, perfectly balanced and refined liqueur.

There is enough yeast in the flowers of the elderflower to cause it to ferment, go fizzy and become (very slightly) alcoholic. The solution is to freeze your cordial in small batches, and defrost as and when you need it.

A deliciously refreshing aromatic gin that harmonises tangy goosberry with sweet, floral elderflower. Tastes like plump, velvet berries plucked fresh from the farmer's field. Inspired by the wonder of succulent, bountiful soft fruits of Scotland.

What is the alcohol content of elderflower gin? ›

Cambridge Distillery - Elderflower Gin Liqueur - Sweet Alcoholic Liqueur with Complex Floral Flavours - Perfect for Gifting - 21% ABV, 50cl.

Elderflower is POSSIBLY UNSAFE when used in excessive amounts. Some parts of the elderflower plant contain a cyanide-producing chemical which can cause nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Cooking removes this chemical. Not enough is known about the safety of applying elderflower directly to the skin.

It takes many pounds of flowers to produce a small amount of raw “liquor”. That is used to produce the flavoring used in cordials. Dried flowers are again smaller than the fresh, (all that water, you know) so it takes many flowers to make a pot of tea. If you take the flowers, there are no berries.

Common elderberry or American elder (Sambucus nigra L. ssp. canadensis or just Sambucus canadensis) is a shrub that's commonly found throughout most of North America. Its characteristic cream-colored flowers, or elderflowers, are often seen on the road-side in late spring and early summer.

Fill a co*cktail shaker with ice cubes, add Hendrick's, lemon juice, sugar syrup and bitters and shake well. 2. Strain into a gin glass filled with Super Cubes and top up with elderflower tonic.

Elderflower is a sweet and floral aromatic scented tonic that will compliment any orange and citrusy dry gin, much like delicate sweet floral and zesty flavours in Dockyard Gin brought about the use of ….

A citrusy, floral adaptation of the classic Gin & Tonic; Bombay Sapphire is complemented by the addition of a freshly squeezed lemon wedge and a thyme sprig, then topped with herbaceous Fever-Tree Mediterranean tonic water.