Elderberry Blossom wrote:
> wrote:
> > Elderberry Blossom wrote:
> >> wrote:
> >>> Elderberry Blossom wrote:
> >>>> Fried Coke!?
> >>>>
> >>>> http://tinyurl.com/uvfrp
> >>> I think I'll stick with a beer batter. dkw
> >>>
> >> Hold the whipped cream and the cherry
> >
> > Hey elderberry, your moniker...a few years ago when I was in the
> > army at Ft. Know, some oriental people came around the housing area
> > that was adjacent to a woods. It was spring, and the elderberry shrubs
> > were some of the first plants to get leaves. They were leaves and not
> > blossoms, but anyway these folks, I think they were Korean, were
> > collecting the very young, yet-unopened leaf buds by the bagful,
> > presumably to eat. I never tried them, but have often wondered if they
> > were planning to cook and eat them. Do you know anything about that? dkw
> >
>
> My Mom makes fried elderberry blossoms. The blossom heads are dipped in
> a think pancake type batter (no beer or coke) and deep fried. You only
> want to eat these once or twice a year.
>
> I found this about the leaves from >
> http://www.primary.net/~gic/herb/elderberry.htm
>
> > Elder leaves contain the flavonoids rutin and quercertin, alkaloids, vitamin C and sambunigrin, a cyanogenic glucoside.
>
> Fresh elder leaves also contain hydrocyanic acid, cane sugar, invertin,
> betulin, free fatty acids, and a considerable quantity of potassium nitrate
>
>
>
> My Ukrainian neighbors collect the young Linden blossoms in the spring
> and make tea out of the dried blossoms in the winter to prevent colds
> and viruses

Thanks blossom. Of course elderberry wine is made too. I've never
tasted it but I bet it has a nice color. I did taste an elderberry or
two and they are essential inedible by themselves, so it must be all
the sugar that's added that makes the elderberry wine. dkw