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gazza1960:
Ok it's that time again and after dodging around 100 cars as our best elder trees are along the reservoir roads so Gazza dodges the traffic to pick a big bag of heads.
So,I use standard recipe....elder flower heads...water...lemon and orange peel ....Plus citric acid .........and of course the diabetics friend..Mr sugar...it's the last bit I wanna change as I was wondering if anybody had tried to make it with sugar substitute....?

Or if you peeps have tried any tasty alternative elderflower cordial recipes you might want to divulge.

Cheers Gazza

gwynleg:
Havent got other recipes to offer but hope others have. I am waiting for the sun to shine when I am up the lottie so I can pick the new elderflowers without the cat pee smell - hoping this weekend might be the time. I wonder if stevia would be worth trying?

gazza1960:
I've read a bit about stevia solution that can be used instead of things like Splenda it's just working out a stevia amount that equals 2kg of natural sugar......

Cheers ill look into it gwynleg..... :wave:


Gazza

galina:
Interesting to swap with stevia.  I guess you need to either freeze or heat sterilise/preserve the cordial with stevia, because it won't have the same preservation power as sugary syrup? Can stevia powder/liquid extract be heated?

I found a conversion chart to US cups.  1 cup equals 200gr sugar.

http://www.stevia.com/stevia_sugar_substitute.aspx

I wonder whether yacon syrup could be flavoured with elderflower?  Wrong time of the year, so either the yacon syrup or the elderflower would need to be frozen and mixed later.  Can dried elderflowers be used?  How does one make elderflower extract?  Yes please post what you come up with Gazza and good suggestion Gwynleg.


PS - the website does answer my question - duh! should have read it all first - Stevia is heat stable and can be used for cooking and baking. 

gazza1960:
Interesting link Galina.,,,,,,,,,

1 cup = 4 oz = 2 tsps,,,,,,

So on that basis the 2.5 kgs of nat sugar should be around 20 tsps of stevia......ye gods

Blimey,sounds Alot even if the quantities are correct.

I did read of folks using it in tea and coffee ...1 drop per cup being enough to sweeten it but if you overdose the amounts it takes on a bitter twang.
So my concern was to over sweeten the elderflower cordial with stevia and end up making it bitter.

Oh joy,ill just have to experiment......watch this space.

Cheers for the link Galina x

Gazza

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