Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Champagne Anyone?

It's been just over two weeks since I made the Elderflower Champagne, and it had to be opened to check that the alchemy has worked correctly..... I can confirm that it has!

Townies; eat your hearts out!
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  1. Cro Magnon24 May 2011 at 05:31

    Over the weekend, one of my more avid readers declared somewhat irrationally that my writings were ALL LIES.

    So, I would like to reassure my more 'normal' readers that the above photo was not falsified, that no shop-bought bottles of fizzy pop were substituted, and that no children or animals were harmed in any way in the making of this delicious soft drink.

    I quite expect my detractor also believes that the world really did end on saturday.

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  2. Susan Heather24 May 2011 at 06:43

    That does look good - cheers!

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  3. Jane and Lance Hattatt24 May 2011 at 07:54

    Hello:
    How very extraordinary. And, if he/she really does feel that about your blog, then why read it, let alone comment?!!

    As for the Elderflower Champagne, count us in!

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  4. Tom Stephenson24 May 2011 at 08:44

    If she wants lies, she should come over to my blog. Meanwhile, us townies have to make do with Krug or Bollinger, as sent over by your near neighbors.

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  5. Jimmy24 May 2011 at 10:41

    you say soft drink? Not hard?????? Champagne??????

    (watching the Scots-man play tennis at the French Open, 5am ET)

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  6. Anna at the Doll House24 May 2011 at 11:35

    Hello Cro

    Have just found your blogg and seem to have stumbled into a good old fashioned cat fight: what fun.

    Your reader has presumably never come across Elderflower Champagne: how sad is that. I think it's wonderful stuff, though I have never made it myself.

    On the other hand, I have made ginger beer, sometimes with quite spectacular results. I remember once, when I probably overdid the yeast, corks started popping. So we felt obliged to drink up the rest of the cache before it ended-up all over the cellar. It took several years for my appetite for ginger beer to return.

    Cheers
    Anna

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  7. Anonymous24 May 2011 at 12:02

    Looks cool, refreshing and very fizzy. My husbands dear old auntie used to make dandelion wine (and she WAS a townie).

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  8. Tess Kincaid24 May 2011 at 12:28

    Yes, pour me a glass, please, oh great sorcerer.

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  9. Amy Saia24 May 2011 at 13:26

    It looks wonderful. Hard to believe that it could be ready after just two weeks, but pictures don't lie!

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  10. elegancemaison24 May 2011 at 21:18

    Looks good enough to drink. May I beg the recipe? I live in a city centre with a huge elder bush covered in blossom, climbing all over our back wall. Admittedly from the hotel car park behind so presumably full of lethal exhaust fumes - but what the hell - you only live once.

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  11. John Going Gently24 May 2011 at 23:33

    impressive!!!!!!!!!!

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  12. Cro Magnon25 May 2011 at 06:54

    Elegance: 6 heads of Elderflower, 600 gms sugar, 6 litres water, juice of 1 lemon, zest of 1 lemon, and 2 tablespoons of clear vinegar. Combine in clean bucket, leave for 24 hrs, then filter into flip-top bottles (see above). Leave for 2 weeks before drinking. It's as simple as that!

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