What is elderberry honey?

Every person needs vitamins and trace elements to maintain their health. For this we must have everything on the table. Or, in extreme cases, in every city and village there is a network of pharmacies where you can buy any vitamin or supplement. But the question is, is it useful?

To great regret, to take those or other vitamins, you need a consultation of an experienced doctor. And he, in turn, can recommend taking them in a complex with some other additive. Only in this way your body will be able to get the whole complex of valuable elements. And besides all this costs not so cheaply, as we would like.

Natural vitamins

And now think about the fact that Mother Nature gives us all the vitamins with the help of various berries, fruits, vegetables and herbs. So why do we torment our bodies, spitting incomprehensible pills and bioadditives? After all, we need to know how and from what it is possible to prepare a product containing a huge number of such vitamins necessary for man. And help us in this, for example, a black elder.

There is also a red elderberry, but it is poisonous to humans, it does not make medicines and does not consume it. So, back to black, she, like all such vegetation, blooms in season, and then gives fruit. That's what we need to make honey from elderberry. We use only flowers, they are white and cream, very fragrant. They contain many useful substances, essential oils, sugar, tannin, vitamin C and many more elements.

Properties

Honey from elderberry flowers is very useful for colds (flu, tonsillitis, upper respiratory tract diseases), because it has sweaty and antibacterial properties. It can be taken in children and adults in moderation, but only if there are no contraindications or individual intolerance to the ingredients that make up honey from elderberry.

It can be used in cooking, add to pastries, and also eat for prevention one teaspoon every day, thereby maintaining its immunity in the cold season. Honey from elderberry blossoms can heal wounds if its small amount is applied to a sore spot. They are disinfected and delayed fairly quickly.

Good to know

There is a very interesting legend about the black elderberry. And she says that this plant has unique properties that prolong the life of a person and preserve his youth. Honey from elderberry very well removes swelling, they treat pancreatitis.

They are relieved by pains in the stomach, and also by means of it they help to strengthen lactation to nursing mothers. The acids, which are part of the flowers, have a diuretic effect and remove excess fluid from the body. This allows you to use elderberry for medicinal purposes in order to cleanse the kidneys.

What do you need?

And now, when we have learned in detail all the useful properties of this plant, you can return to how to make honey from elderberry. This therapeutic treat is very easy to cook, but first you need to prepare the devices that we need in the process:

• From the dishes you can use an enamel saucepan. The volume you choose is the one that will be more convenient for you;
• Spoon in order to stir our honey from elderberry, it is better to use wood, it does not oxidize.

Be sure to thoroughly rinse all used dishes, prepare containers, where you will drain the contents of the pan.

Cooking honey yourself

And finally, the very recipe for honey from the elderberry flowers:

• Water - 1 liter.
• Sugar in relation to the amount of broth 1: 1.
• Necessarily - citric acid for 1 teaspoon per 1 kilogram of sugar. Or as you like more, you can add less or more - to taste. You can use a fresh lemon instead.
• And, of course, flowers of a curative plant - 300 grams.

Be sure to put them in the pan and rinse them, before removing them from dry leaves and insects. Then we lay them tightly on the bottom, pour cold water and cover from above with any plate. A pan of flowers should now be left for a few hours. It can be done at night. In the morning, you should bring the water to a boil and cook for about twenty minutes. After that you need to cool them and leave to infuse for a few more hours. When the broth cools, you need to wring out the flowers, you can use a colander for this. We estimate the amount of the resulting liquid, return our flowers back to the pan and again bring to a boil.

Next, in the broth, add sugar in an amount equal to the volume of the broth. All carefully mix and long cook. Burning syrup should not boil. Do not forget to interfere with it. Readiness is determined by density and reduction (about twice) of the volume of the broth. At the very end, add citric acid or lemon. While honey is being cooked, you need to prepare cans or any other containers with tightly closed lids.

All you need to thoroughly wash with boiling water and sterilize. And only then we pour the ready honey into the banks and tightly cork. Keep it preferably in a cool and dark place.

Conclusion

Well, here we have prepared our elderberry honey. The benefits of it are simply enormous, you will see for yourself when the time comes to use it for your intended purpose. Try to bake something using this delicious treat. It is very good honey combined with ice cream, if you pour a dessert from above. Do not forget to treat your relatives and friends. Share with them the recipe for this unusual treat, believe me, they will be very grateful to you.