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Recipe for elderflower champagne

This entry was written by Mike, posted on June 22, 2012 at 10:46 am. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

7 Comments

  1. Helen Lynn
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 10:49 pm | Permalink

    The most unexpectedly lovely thing I have ever made was elderflower fritters – just the flower heads dipped in a light batter and shallow-fried, then dredged with caster sugar and sprinkled with lemon juice. But I only made them once, more than half my lifetime ago now. I suspect the consistency of the batter is critical and I’ve no idea what recipe I used for it now.

  2. Zack
    Posted June 24, 2012 at 7:00 pm | Permalink

    “Mike on the toilet” is becoming a worryingly common theme on this blog.

  3. Mike
    Posted June 24, 2012 at 8:43 pm | Permalink

    Bogshank!

  4. Zack
    Posted June 26, 2012 at 4:23 pm | Permalink

    Ha!

  5. Mike
    Posted June 27, 2012 at 1:09 pm | Permalink

    If anyone’s looking for more of Mike on the toilet, here’s another:
    http://blogshank.com/2008/02/190208/

  6. Mike
    Posted June 27, 2012 at 1:11 pm | Permalink

    By the way, here’s an elderflower recipe I meant to try since I first read it in the River Cottage Hedgerow book, but haven’t yet — Elderflower delight:

    http://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/elderflower-delight/

  7. Mike
    Posted July 3, 2012 at 1:34 pm | Permalink

    If anyone’s trying this, just to be clear: normal screw-topped wine bottles will definitely explode so don’t use them! I use plastic soda water bottles.