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. 🤣
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!
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Sorry for wasting your flowers 😅 I personally do not like the berries at all for some reason - the syrup and jelly I made was from flowers too.
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 🫂
Hehe, seems like a nice outcome then. Sorry not sorry anymore 😄
If you have some flower to waste again this year, I would recommend trying flower syrup, it's peak syrup imho. 😅
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.
