Honey from elderberry - recipe

Going to the pharmacy, you can buy vitamins, which are designed to maintain the body's immunity, both in the form of prevention, and when you are already sick. But why spend money on artificial vitamins, when nature gives us everything you need. Everyone knows the fragrant elderly is quite capable of helping us.

Useful properties of elderberry honey

There are two types of elder:

• black;
• red.

Red elder is considered poisonous to humans. Black, on the contrary, is a storehouse of vitamins and trace elements.

Honey from elder flowers has a diaphoretic, antibacterial property, so it is good for them to cure colds in both adults and children. The only thing, always check if there is no individual intolerance or contraindications to the use of medicinal syrup.

For the preparation of honey from elderberry you need only take flowers. They contain a lot of useful for our body elements - vitamin C, ascorbic acid, various essential oils, tannin, sugar, choline, glycoside and other substances. For broths and tinctures, berries, leaves and even bark of the tree are also used, but we will talk about colors.

A recipe for making elderberry honey

Try one of the oldest and most trusted recipes for making honey from elderberry blossoms.

A recipe for making elderberry honey

Ingredients:

• elderberry flowers - 300 g;
• boiled cold water - 1 liter;
• sugar - 1/2 kg;
• half a lemon (or 1 teaspoon of citric acid).

Preparation

Flowers are pre-cleaned from dry leaves, green twigs and insects. Then tightly tamp them in a liter jar - get exactly 300 grams. Pour the contents into an enamel saucepan and pour in the prepared water. You can give the night stand, covering the pan with a plate, and you can immediately start cooking. After this, bring to a boil and cook for 20 minutes. Turn it off, let it cool down. Filter the syrup, you get a greenish broth. Add sugar and languish on low heat for 20 minutes.

If you like thick honey from elderberry, the recipe is this:

1. Cook for longer - at least three hours.
2. Stir with a wooden spoon until thick.
3. Remove the foam, otherwise the honey will not be transparent.
4. Next, a half of the lemon is ground in a meat grinder and added to honey. If there is no lemon, use citric acid. Lemon is needed in order that honey does not become sugar-free and does not become a glassy, ​​insoluble mass.
5. Filter the contents of the pan from the lemon, roll tightly into jars and wrap it until it cools down completely. Unique fragrant honey is ready!

A simple recipe how to quickly cook honey from elderberry home (simply, syrup):

1. Stir any bee honey with gruel from elderberry blossoms to a uniform composition.
2. Transfer to a jar, tightly cover.
3. Store in a cool, dark place.

Benefit and harm of elderberry honey

Honey from elderberry - an excellent recipe for everyone, but there is not only good, but harm.

The list of useful properties of artificial honey from elderberry is quite large:

• very effectively helps with coughing;
• removes the inflammation of the upper respiratory tract;
• removes nasal congestion;
• diaphoretic;
• has antipyretic properties;
• strengthens the immune system;
• acts as an expectorant;
• removes swelling, acting as a diuretic ;
• Cleanses the kidneys;
• helps in the treatment of pancreatitis;
• relieves stomach pain;
• acts as a sedative;
• helps to strengthen lactation in nursing mothers;
• relieves pain with rheumatism, radiculitis;
• Used for skin diseases, as a remedy against pigment spots on the skin;
• helps with gout;
• prolongs life, helps to preserve youth.

The list is far from complete.

However, for all the wide range of miracle properties of honey, there is a category of people to whom such an elderberry syrup contraindicated are those people who suffer:

• colitis;
• diabetes insipidus ;
• with acute kidney disease;
• Bladder;
• stomach;
• intestinal tract.

In rare cases, allergies occur.

In addition, as mentioned earlier, red elderine is not suitable for use - it is a poison.