The recipe : “The flowers of elderberry jelly”
Fausto Delegà
Collect the flowers of Elderberry is a gesture that has great joy and fills the nose with an intense aroma and unique. The magic is done then the possible transfer of aroma and flavor in all preparations in which the flowers of elderberry can be used. A kind of eternalising spring that you can do to break out again every morning at breakfast, in any meal marrying this jelly with cheese.
Caution: the plan of the Elder, excluding flowers and fruits, is a toxic plant.
Even the fruits are to be avoided raw, for their high laxative property that retain in part also from cooked, in the form of jam, for another exquisite. Scurissima, con colore intensissimo e che marca in modo quasi indelebile ogni cosa che tocca. Attenzione anche a Do not confuse the normal Elder with the ebulus, by herbaceous larger fruits, inedible and toxic, true purgatory deadly.
I close with some curiosity ...
- The generic name Sambucus could arise from a woodwind musical instrument, known in Latin as “sambuca”.
- From the fruit you get a blue dye and an ink.
- The juice of the root is used to dye hair blacks.
La gelatina di Sambuco
A complete maturation collect 20 Elderberry flowers possibly sunny days, warm and dry.
Soak them in a liter of water with the juice of one organic lemon for three days, then strain through a special paper and add to the liquid, filtered and perfumed, a gelled kg of sugar per liter. Boil over medium heat for 8 minutes.
Remove the white foam which generally form a bit’ in surface, and then invasettare hot.
Immediately close, Leave to cool and store at room temperature. You will get a perfect jelly that capped, and vacuum, will keep up to a year. Once opened, keep refrigerated.
