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[Old Speckled Hen]

As we are all talking about elderflowers did you know that you can make "champagne" from lime flowers and it it absolutely wonderfully scented.

I kept a few bottles back for Christmas and it was a real taste of summer

Sadly there are few limes here in Cumbria but last year when visiting my daughter I picked loads of flowers from the trees in Bushy Park. They must be blooming about now.

[BeckyBoo]

Wow and apart from the lime instead of elderflower, is it the same recipe?

 

BeckyBoo

[Charlottechicken]

Sounds interesting, is it lime trees that limes grow on, or linden trees?

 

I was wondering if anything could be made from mock orange, I have loads and it smells delicious

[Old Speckled Hen]

Yes it's the Linden or Ornamental English Lime; common parkland and street planting.

They are the ones that drip sap all over cars parked underneath them. The flowers are very scented.

 

 

 

 

 

Lime Flower Wine

 

 

3 pints lime flowers, snipped from their stalks

2 lemons

3lb sugar

water to one gallon

wine yeast, yeast nutrient

 

Make a gallon of over-mashed lime flower tea; so, get a straining bag, put the lime flowers in with zest from the two lemons, dissolve the sugar and yeast nutrient in the water along with the lemon juice, boil it, pour it on, let it stand for half an hour. Add yeast when it has cooled, and let it ferment out as for any flower wine (four or five days in primary, then rack as normal).

 

Makes a very flowery wine its a very subtle, flowery brew.