Elderflower Cordial Making Kits For Sale - SOLD OUT
Making Elderflower cordial is easy and Elderflower trees can be found growing wild almost anywhere, flowering heavily in May to June.
Our Elderflower cordial kits have all the bits you need to make 20 litres / 36 pints of Elderflower cordial that is suitable for bottling and keeping for at least a year.
Apart from this kit, you will just need hot water, fresh Elderflower heads, oranges, lemons and sugar.
When the Elderflower season is over, you can clean out the tubs out and store all the things you need to make more cordial next year.
The Ashridge Trees Elderflower Cordial Making Kit
The kit consists of two tubs, two sturdy sieve bags and the preservation ingredients:
- 2 x 30 litre food grade fermentation tubs with measuring markers on the sides
- 2 x Sturdy lids for the tubs.
- 1 x Tap for the tubs.
- Large Nylon Sieve Bag - Coarse: For the first straining of all the flower heads etc.
- Large Nylon Sieve Bag - Fine: For removing sediment before bottling.
- Campden Tablets stop yeast from fermenting alcohol and remove chlorine from the water.
- Citric Acid powder - 0.5 kg.
Refills for the Perishable Items & Ingredients
Once you have the kit, you can buy refills of the special parts & ingredients.
- 0.5kg of Citric acid and enough Campden tablets for 20 litres of cordial.
- Large & Small nylon straining bags.
How to make Elderflower Cordial:
Read our homemade Elderflower cordial recipe here.
The process just uses hot water to extract the delicious flavour of the fresh Elderflowers.
The mixture is left to blend with a bit of citrus fruit & sugar for 4-5 days into a cordial.
How much Elderflower cordial can I make with this kit?
You can re-use the tubs for life, making several batches of fresh cordial each season without any of the preservatives for drinking. This fresh cordial can be refrigerated, given away and drunk over the course of a few weeks.
Each kit & refill pack is enough to make 20 litres / 36 pints of Elderflower cordial that will last for the whole year without refrigeration, so drink up the fresh stuff first and save the preserved cordial for later!
What is a Campden Tablet?
They are widely used for making wine, cider and beer as well as non-alcoholic drinks that will be stored for a long time.
They do 2 things: stop the growth of wild yeasts that ferment sugar into alcohol and force out chlorine from the water.
This makes the Elderflower last for a long time without going fizzy and taste a bit better.
They are totally safe, but do not use more than the required dose or they will affect the flavour.
For making Elderflower cordial, one tablet per gallon (8 pints or 4.5 litres) is the correct amount.
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