Elderflower Vinegar is an extremely rare creation that will delight all who try it, but it is limited in supply by the very nature that elderflowers are not commercially available to buy, you need to pick them by hand. To do this we shut up shop each year and head to the hedgerows, often locally in Galloway, to gather madly for a day. A few Demijohn cocktails at lunch generally make it quite a popular sport!
Our vinegar has a similar flavour to a traditional elderflower cordial, but is it definitely sharper and more exciting to taste. It makes a tremendous dressing for salads, either on its own or mixed with a little light Extra Virgin Olive Oil, or a wonderful Elderflower Vinaigrette with our Lemon Rapeseed Oil. It is also good for dressing fruit salads too, and seriously delicious over ice cream! Like our other fruit vinegars, it can be used as a cordial. One third fruit vinegar, two thirds sparkling mineral water and a little ice is all you will need to keep the stress of hard day at work at bay. Please note that our seasonal Elderflower Vinegar is very popular and we sadly never have enough to satisfy demand.
Picking is really quite a pleasant and realaxing activity, apart from the habit of elder to grow within patches of nettles and brambles. The result is a very prickly and stingy day with a good lunch required to restore morale of the volunteer pickers. Watch our short elderflower picking film to get an idea of what all the fuss is about. The harvested flower heads are then steeped in malt vinegar and sweetened exactly according to Anne Sinclair's carefully crafted recipe.
Elderflower Cake for the Pickers
Contains gluten.
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The elderflower vinegar has the most wonderful subtle flavour. Having used it now for years I find it hard to beat in any combination of oils and vinegars for dressings and marinades. Not sweet but not too acidic...wonderful
Dear Ethel thank you for your enthusiastic words about our Elderflower Vinegar, most kind. We love picking the elderflowers each year and we love dressing our salads with the vinegar!
Here is a link to our picking page and some little films we made of us picking elderflower and sloe if you are interested:
https://www.demijohn.co.uk/pages/picking-our-products
Best wishes, Angus
If I ever find another vinegar as delicious as their elderflower, I shall be shocked,
Sourcing and developing new products often involves us heading to the hedgerows
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