Anyone got a good elderberry rob recipe?
Take the berries off the stems with yiur hands or by combing with a fork. The stems are emetic.
Put them all in a heavy bottomed pot with enough water to let them be wet and floaty, not enough to make it soupy (you’re going to be reducing the water afterwards, so don’t put too much in at the start)
Put the pan into the oven on a low heat for about an hour.
Allow to cool enough so you wont get scalded. Use a potato masher to squish all the berries.
Strain through a colander, then a sieve. Press out the remaining berries, the marc. I sometimes rinse them through to get as much colour as possible (the colour is the anthocyanin, which is good medicine).
Put the menstruum, the cooked berry juice, into a large panover a very low heat. Don’t boil it.
Reduce it, evaporate off the water. Once you get down to a quarter, check the setting consistency by allowing some to cool off, as with jam. You want it to be somewhere around the treacle, marmite level. Not peanut butter level.
That’s it. Put it in sterilised jars, label, and keep.
One teaspoon in hot water when you feel poorly. It will help you to sweat and ward off an impending URTI, and treat one too. Excellent for colds, flu etc.
I keep it simple and add in anything else at the time of taking because everyone has different tastes. Some people add in the extra during the cook. So while it’s in the oven you could add cinnamon, ginger, black pepper, any other herbs you might want to include, orange peel... Remember that you’ll be concentrating it down, so don’t make it too strong.
If you want to add honey or sugar, do it at the very end of the evaporation. Bear in mind that the consistency will change when you add in the honey/sugar. Again, I don’t do this. I keep my rob very simple.
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