Elderflower Vinegar

The crafty cook recycles where he can - so does Oskar Marti. He takes the leftovers from elderflower syrup and produces a vinegar from it.

• 2 liters of apple cider vinegar
• the elderflowers from the syrup
• 5 new elderflower umbels
• 1 clove

Stir together, put in a pot with a lid and refrigerate for 10 days. Then filter and bottle. I’m excited! And report back in 8 days….

By the way, the syrup turned out very well! Fresher than the warm-tempered one, I think….

Addendum 20 June

Today I filtered and bottled the vinegar. It is… sour of course, it’s not balsamic, it’s still real vinegar, but the elderberry comes out well. I’ll try it once today with fennel….

vinegar of elderflowers, selfmade, some elderbush leaves