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Elderberries for the Natural Medicine Cabinet

Friday, October 23, 2020 0:04

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For the past couple of months, I’ve been working on late summer and autumn harvested herbs to fill my herbal medicine cabinet. One of those is elderberry (Sambucus); actually a fruit with medicinal properties. It’s well-known for it’s healing support for colds and flu.

August was my month to harvest the berries. I was thrilled that my berry nets worked and I harvested so many clusters of elderberries.

I froze quite a few and dehydrated some too. Of the fresh berries, I made two preparations: elderberry vinegar and elderberry tincture.

Herbal vinegars are nice because they can be used as culinary vinegars: as salad dressing, in cooking, marinade, switchel, etc., or wherever vinegar is called for. Yet they contain the medicinal goodness of the herb. They’re also very easy to make.

Fill a jar about ¾ full of fresh elderberries and cover completely with your choice of vinegar. The vinegar should cover the berries with about an inch to spare. Give the jar a shake once a day or so.

Compare the photos above and below. Above is freshly made, below is about a week later. You can see the color change in the vinegar.

It’s stored in a cool dark place for a minimum of two weeks. I made a quart and strained out the first pint after two weeks.

I’ll strain the rest after we use up the first.

I also made elderberry tincture. It has a longer shelf life than the vinegar, and is used for medicinal dosing. I finally strained it the other day. You can read how I make an herbal tincture, here.

Squeezing the berries with a wine press.

One other preparation folks like to make is elderberry syrup. I thought about it, but it has a shorter shelf life than either the vinegar or tincture. I wasn’t sure we could consume it in a timely manner, so I didn’t make it for now. I figure I can always do it later from my frozen berries.

Of the frozen berries I’ll make jelly this winter (a favorite). And who knows, maybe I’ll try my hand at elderberry wine(?) I certainly have an abundance to experiment with.

Elderberries for the Natural Medicine Cabinet

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