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Try our fresh frozen wild elderberries! These antioxidant packed treats are wild foraged each Summer, then same day individually flash frozen to lock in all the flavor, aroma and nutritional value for your dining pleasure and ease. Shipped frozen straight to your door. Order today!
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Our wild elderberries, also known as sambucus nigra, and are of the European variety. They are small, round black-blue berries which have a distinct sweet-tart flavor with a light earthy accent. When cooked, the berries become even more tasty and are hence ideal for processing into food and drink. Elderberries go extremely well in wines, jams, syrups and pies to name a few. As well as being an excellent, tasty addition to your regular diet, elderberries are also extremely good for your health. For centuries elderberries have been used in folk medicine from Europe and North America, to Western Asia and North Africa. As recently as 1995 elderberry juice was successfully used to treat a flu epidemic in Panama. As an excellent source of vitamins C, A and B, as well as quercetin, flavonoids, tannins, amino acids, and anthocyanins, elderberries possess powerful antioxidant properties which help aid in immune, eye, and heart health, as well as lowering cholesterol and treating flu, coughs, viral and bacterial infections. The health benefits are numerous and great. Our fresh frozen wild elderberries are hand harvested in Europe at peak ripeness, then same day flash frozen to lock in all the nutritional value, flavor and aroma for your taste bud pleasure.
Sambucus cerulea is a large, deciduousshrub, which can grow to be 9 metres (30 ft) in height and 6 metres(20 ft) in width. It is distinguishable from other elderberries by the glaucouspowder coating on its bluish-black berries. It normally grows ratherwildly from several stems, which can be heavily pruned (or even cut tothe ground) during winter dormancy.
Harvested at the peak of ripeness, these versatile 22 lb. IQF elderberries boast a uniquely bright, earthy, and slightly tart flavor profile. Adding these elderberries to your menu allows endless versatile options while saving on the cost of labor. Since raw elderberries must be cooked before consuming, they are perfect for both your sweet and savory menus. Add a deep indigo blue color to your pastries by using these to swirl into tarts or pavlovas for gorgeous creations to fill your bakery case. Bake into pies, cobblers, crisps, and galettes for rustic, house-made baked goods, or serve as a slice of warm dessert with vanilla ice cream in your restaurant or cafe.Macerate these elderberries into jam and offer it as a side option to your breakfast pastries, or use it to fill danishes, hand pies, and cake fillings for a fun fruit flavor! The jam can also be used to fold into meringues for a beautiful swirled effect, and can even be incorporated into buttercream frosting to add a more diverse and unique flavor profile to your cupcakes and cakes! Creating homemade syrup is another wonderful and easy way to cook up this frozen fruit. Drizzle over waffles, pancakes, and crepes, or fold into yogurt and ricotta for breakfast items. Plus, as a syrup base, this can be added into shaken specialty cocktails for a fun, fruity way to mix things up! With so many creations to be discovered, your next signature menu item will benefit from these IQF elderberries.When fruits are first picked, they start to lose their nutritional value, and freezing in masses lumps the fruit together. Using the IQF method prevents this from happening, and instead keeps the fruit's flavor, structure, nutritional benefits, and natural appearance intact, letting your dishes look and taste their best every time. Thanks to their preservation, the elderberries taste deliciously fresh; customers will never guess they were actually frozen!
Orchard-grown in Moretown, Vermont, these elderberries are bursting with all of the antioxidants you could wish for. Although not certified organic, they were grown without the use of chemical fertilizers Frozen, so you can use a little at a time, or make a big batch of syrup at home.
Ion chromatograms for cyanidin-3-O-coumaroyl-sambubioside-5-glucoside anthocyanin initially and after 3, 6, and 9 months of frozen storage (left to right). The retention time (min) and integrated area used for quantitation are listed at the top of the peak.
Elderberry syrup is a potent flu and cold-fighting drink that also happens to taste great! You can make this elderberry syrup recipe from homegrown or foraged elderberries (fresh or frozen). A serving size can be as little as a single tablespoon or as much as a shot glass.
Our recipe calls for 10 pounds of fresh or frozen elderberries. 10 pounds of elderberries can yield about 20 cups of elderberry juice, which you can then cook down to a thicker, more concentrated final elderberry syrup. 1 tbsp of citric acid divided over 20 cups would just be a small pinch of citric acid per cup of elderberry juice.
I just came across your blog a few days ago, and you guys are awesome! I had a few lbs of elderberries left in my freezer from last summer, so I made a batch of this syrup today, and the black strap really adds a nice depth! How long do you think this will last in the frig?
Each 7 oz. jar provides 42 one (1) teaspoon servings. Keep Frozen until ready to use. Refrigerate to thaw. Each jar keeps fresh up to 6 weeks after thawing in refrigerator. When you arrive to the farm, ask for our FREE Frozen Ice Bottles to pack w/ your syrup to keep it frozen until you get home.
As you probably already know, elderberries have long been a popular folk remedy for colds and flu, and several small studies of human subjects have found that elderberry can shorten the duration and severity of a cold or flu.
For instance, fresh elderberries can be used in muffins, pancakes, oatmeal, fruit crisps, pie, or jam. Elderberry syrup can be used to flavor gummies, smoothies, popsicles, and numerous delicious drinks. Read on for more details.
One of the best places to find high-quality herbal products is Mountain Rose Herbs. They carry dried elderberries and elderflowers, as well as extracts and many other useful herbs at competitive prices.
You can freeze some of your elderberries as well, but research has shown that the compounds in elderberries degrade over time in the freezer. Aim to use them within the first three months if possible.
Hello!I just got my dried elderberries from Mountain Rose Herbs and will be making some syrup next week for the first time. I was wondering how much ginger and/or lemon you would put in? do you find that kids like ginger or lemon better in this recipe?Thank you so much for your sharing your knowledge with us!
There are several types of elderberries native to North America and Europe. The blue-black varieties are used for medicinal purposes (Sambucus Nigra). The varieties with red berries are not.
To strain the elderberries, we set a fine-mesh stainless steel strainer lined with either a nut milk bag or cheesecloth, set on top of a glass mixing bowl. We like this organic cotton unbleached cheesecloth.
Because elderberries naturally contain vitamins A, B, and C, they naturally stimulate and wake up the immune system. This makes it a great remedy for seasonal illnesses such as colds and the flu. Boosting your immune system when the weather begins to change can actually help you fight off those germs.
Buying elderberry syrup at a health food store or online can easily cost over $15 for a small 4-ounce bottle. This recipe will make 2-4 cups of elderberry syrup and cost under $10 (depending on the cost of your elderberries and honey). What a deal!
Elderberries are powerful medicine to have on hand yet there is much controversy surrounding the elder. To heat or not to heat? Are elderberries poisonous? These are the questions for which I do my best to give thoughtful and well researched answers.
In order to easily separate the elderberries from the rest of the plant material, freeze the harvest overnight. Garble the berries from the stems while they are still frozen. Once the berries thaw out, it becomes difficult, time consuming, and messy to remove the stems.
When processing elderberries, care must be taken to ensure that the medicinal components are kept intact. While immune supporting magnesium, potassium, niacin, viburnic and shikimic acids and other health supporting constituents and nutrients in elderberries can withstand heating and drying, the ascorbic acid, anthocyanins, and many other flavonoids (AKA antioxidants) may not. Heat and drying, whether it is stove top heat, or drying in dehydrators, microwaves (!), or any other heat source can degrade to a degree to destroy many of the flavonoids in plants (1). Process temperature is a critical parameter that impacts on the food matrix, altering heat-sensitive compounds such as anthocyanins, in strong relation to magnitude and duration of heating (2).
The antiviral and anti-inflammatory actions of the anthocyanins in elderberries are reduced with heating. 10 minutes in a hot water bath reduces the anthocyanins by up to 10%. Rather than steeping elderberries in hot water, most people boil (212 degrees F) their elderberries on the stove for much longer than 10 minutes at a much higher heat, which destroy a greater percentage of the healthful actions.
Personally, I use only fresh elderberries in my remedy making. Why heat the elderberries to lose even a small percentage of its medicine? I honor the plant giving itself to me by utilizing as much of the medicine as possible. Additionally, I microdose, so never have to deal with the possible lectin issue. I take only a teaspoon of an elixir, tincture or oxymel per dose and space each dose out a few hours in between.
Hi and thanks for the great information and sprit. do you recommend making an alcohol extraction from dried elderberries ? I read about your alcohol extraction of fresh berries, but all the talk of dried berries is of heating in water. Thank you! 041b061a72