Alright fam, today is the day. The elderflowers are blooming and yours truly left the house. I proudly present: How to make elderflower pancakes 1. Collect some elderflower. Ideally, it shouldn't have rained a couple of days before because rain washes away the pollen and pollen is the tasty part. image 2. The most important step: Start your favourite podcast. image 3. Prepare pancake dough. Here's my ingredients for this batch: - 300g flour - 3 eggs (general formula: 1 egg per 100g flour) - 50g sugar - half pack of baking soda (for fluffyness) - milk (until the dough is relatively liquid - you will soak the flowers in it) 4. Heat pan. When hot, turn down to medium heat. Put some oil in. image 5. Take flowers, soak them in the dough, put in pan. Repeat until pan is filled. 6. Cut off the 5 main stems from the flower with a scissor 7. Flip them the first time before the upper side becomes solid so the sticking out green stuff bakes in - no worries if the bottom is still too pale, you can flip them again later image 8. Enjoy your tasty elderflower pancakes - e.g. with sugar & cinnamon. Or selfmade elderflower jelly :pog cacodemon: PV! Note: It seems all images are offset by 90 degrees. Sorry about that! Rotate your phone. Or head. @Brisket Finally fulfilling my promise ^^

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I did it very similarly to you but I used my tallow deep fryer to cook them in. This made something similar to Dutch pancakes. They were basically clusters of crispy fried batter around the elderberry flowers. I then let the remaining flowers turn into fruit & I made an elderberry syrup. In the end I was so impressed by the syrup that I felt disappointed that I'd used so many flowers to make pancakes. ๐Ÿคฃ I've cut back the elderberry & planted a few more cuttings. Hopefully next summer I'll have more plants, flowers & fruit to work with. Very very cool plant!
No apology necessary. It was my first experience with elderberry & we enjoyed the pancakes. The whole experience now has me growing more elderberry plants. It may be a little while before I make the flat elderberry pancakes though ๐Ÿซ‚
Hehe, seems like a nice outcome then. Sorry not sorry anymore ๐Ÿ˜„ If you have some flower to waste again this year, I would recommend trying flower syrup, it's peak syrup imho. ๐Ÿ˜… The only reason I didn't do it is my limited material, I collect from the places around I discovered and don't have own plants (yet).
I'll see what I have spring up. My main plant is getting bigger & a few cuttings have sprouted. The elderberry plant has gone from an interesting experiment to something in really like & enjoy. It might take another 18 months to get a few plants humming along well.
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