Elderberries are loaded with flavanoids, which are good immune system builders, so Susan has been processing berries into juice and preserving it to use over the next year. We don't have an elderberry thresher. Susan freezes the berries in a paper grocery bag, then shakes it up real good to separate the berries from the stems. We will be planting Sambucus cuttings next spring and may have to improve our processing in a few years. Back To The Old Grind!
Bottles of Sambucol in the freezer since the 'real thing' isn't as easily available as it used to be. Elderberry and blackberry cordials were my favorite 'medicine' long before Dimetapp. There was a processing plant 1/2mi down the hill from where I grew up in PA. They'd process tens of thousands of pounds every year. They grew wild around that area, sadly choked out by the trees that were left to grow. I had plans on putting in a few hundred bushes on the farm...but that deal fell through along with a lot of other dreams.
ReplyDeleteBottles of Sambucol in the freezer since the 'real thing' isn't as easily available as it used to be. Elderberry and blackberry cordials were my favorite 'medicine' long before Dimetapp. There was a processing plant 1/2mi down the hill from where I grew up in PA. They'd process tens of thousands of pounds every year. They grew wild around that area, sadly choked out by the trees that were left to grow. I had plans on putting in a few hundred bushes on the farm...but that deal fell through along with a lot of other dreams.
ReplyDeleteWe drive the backroads to gather ours, but we are going to plant a few rows next to our garden.
ReplyDeleteIt's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
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