Honeysuckle Cordial
This nostalgic Honeysuckle Cordial recipe offers a blend of honeysuckle blossoms, tart lemons, and sugar. Perfect for cocktails, sodas, or desserts.
Ingredients
- 4 cups honeysuckle blossoms picked over & rinsed
- 3 cups water
- 3 cups sugar
- 1 tsp citric acid I found this in the supplement section at Wholefoods
- 1/2 a lemon zested & sliced thin
Instructions
- Bring water & sugar to a boil, stirring to dissolve all the sugar.
- Pour hot syrup over the flowers in a heatproof container.
- Stir in the citric acid, lemon zest, and the thin slices of lemon.
- Let steep, covered, on the counter until it reaches room temperature then place it in the fridge and let it steep over night, totaling 24 hours.
- Strain through cheese cloth or a very fine mesh sieve. Store in the fridge.