I wasn't totally sure about Elderflower Cordial I made a month ago, at the time I had said I thought it tasted too sweet and needed a bit of tartness. After a bit of experimenting with adding lemon juice I decided to go for it and add citric acid to the whole lot.

Citric acid wasn't the easiest stuff to find but I eventually tracked some down it a local independent cookery shop. They had small 100g tubs in the brewing section, but when I took 3 to the till the assistant kindly offered me a 500g bag from under the counter. I didn't realise it was such a sought after ingredient until I was looking round for recipes and found out that others were having trouble finding it too. You can buy it online if you're prepared to wait a few days for delivery.

The amount to add varied from recipe to recipe, so I plumped with an approximation to the one we got off our friend Sarah which was about 50g a litre.

  Click here for the Elderflower Cordial recipe.

Recipe Costs

In addition to the costs from the previous recipe

£0.65 100g citric acid

Out the bottles came from the fridge,  and it was all brought to a simmer on the stove again and the citric acid dissolved in. Back in the bottles and fingers crossed.

Taste Test

Much nicer, still has the scent of elderflowers but isn't too sweet.