Can anyone identify these berries (I'm hoping they're elderberries)
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Swift work, chaps. That took, ooh, all of 30 seconds to reply. It's better than carrying Richard Mabey around with me (and lighter too). Thank you. M.
ooh i love elderberry - grandma used to make wine and jelly from them - used to love collecting them when i was a kid - haven't been across any yet in our regular places - must make an effort to find some i think.
if you have not been exposed to elderberries before the age of 14 (or pubity) a few people can react to it, get a skin rash or swelling of the face. so be careful.
I react to elderberry wine every time.
I lose my sense of balance and start talking too loudly for some peculiar reason.
I alsu lse mi abilty to splll prepily......
I lose my sense of balance and start talking too loudly for some peculiar reason.
I alsu lse mi abilty to splll prepily......
Yeah those are elderberries.
I've been out for a daun'er this morning and picked a bag load. I know my local trees and one of them is sweet, juicy, tasty. Probably why the old folks call them eldercurrants. Other trees can be vile :shudder:
Safe than sorry with them, I agree, but they are very good food.
We call the Elder the Bourtree. The children's rhyme is
Bourtree, Bourtree, crookit rung,
Ever weak and never strong,
Flower and Fruit, baith sae sweet,
Ne'er trust a stick beneath y'r feet.
Basically, don't clamber up the tree, it'll break beneath you.
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I react to elderberry wine every time.
I lose my sense of balance and start talking too loudly for some peculiar reason.
I alsu lse mi abilty to splll prepily......
I have a very simerlar reaction.
I always put it down it being the liquor of a fairy tree. There is an Irish legand of a fairy that smells alchol on the breath of a passer-by and then creeps up behind you, whacks you with spade on the back of the head, and then steals your money, and your memories of the last few hours. Now everytime I drink elderberry wine I feel like something has hit my on head most of the next day. I have asked permisson before picking and still I get hit with a spade.
Used to catapult these at each other when we were kids ! They make a right mess lol Never actualy tried one, or the wine...Will do soon tho as i see them all the time
Just reminded me ive got some elder berry vodka in the cupboard from last year will give it a go right now
I made a batch of Elderflower cordial, but totally forgot a bottle or three in the shed. Opended it last night and it's bloody good stuff 
It has fermented i nthe bottles and matured to a quite strong beer. Very nice indeed. I shall be making a lot more of that come May next year! Wahey for the elder!!
It has fermented i nthe bottles and matured to a quite strong beer. Very nice indeed. I shall be making a lot more of that come May next year! Wahey for the elder!! Similar threads
