This an excellent recipe which can be adapted to accommodate almost any hedge (and its fruit).  Please remember to check that something is safe (if you are not sure) before cooking and eating it….. With the exception of Elderberries (you can buy Elder trees seperately from us at Sambucus nigra), all the plants that produce the berries in this recipe are likely to be in a pack of Conservation Hedge Mix hedging.

Ingredients

Normally we would not advise planting Elder (Sambucus nigra) in any form of hedging. It is a bit of a thug. But a couple of bushes – Elderberry Trees – planted in hedging or elsewhere will produce enough flowers to keep even a gluttonous family like ours in elderflower cordial all year (by the way, the gluttony includes giving bottles to our friends and family).

This is our family recipe, and we think it makes the best elder flower cordial we have ever tasted.