This weekend we spent working on the wild elderberries on the lot. Its been
two years since we last preserved these tasty fruits. It has been a great year for all sorts of berries and the tiny elders are no exception. Saturday, David trekked to the bush - and brought home lots of snipped clusters.
We spent all afternoon removing the tiny berries from the tender vines and sorting them into 2 pound bags. In the end, there were 17 pounds of fruit. I stored 4 pounds in the fridge for Sunday and put the other 13 into the freezer for this winter.
After breakfast on Sunday, I transferred the fruit into elderberry syrup (
recipe on my RecipeBoxMemory Blog).
This was our first attempt at using the press - and it extracted every last bit of liquid from the softened berries.
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3 comments:
That looks great! I love the berm - recipe blog union here :-)
I think that press is called a sausage stuffer by most. So if you got a meat grinder and a smoke house, you could make your own sasuage too. That's a quality sausage stuffer to boot!
Yes sir - we have the grinder :)
but I am much more into the fruit and veggie side personally.
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