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Homemade Elderberry Syrup with Raw Honey

10/28/2018

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I like to make homemade organic elderberry syrup with local raw honey, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves! I just made a huge batch (tripled this recipe) for family and friends. It's so much better than the store-bought because there's no sugar, it's sweetened with just raw honey, and it's all organic! I bottle it and keep it in the fridge for up to 2 months or it can also be frozen right away and used for up to a year!

Besides the fact that the ingredients are so much higher quality than store bought, you can't beat the cost to make it yourself.  I mean seriously, it's $10- $14 for 4 oz at the store! You and your family get all organic, fresh, delicious elderberry syrup for a fraction of the cost.

In our family, adults take one tablespoon a day for maintenance and the kiddos take one teaspoon per day. You can multiply that by 4 if anybody's fighting anything!

I give my leftover cooked elderberries to my chickens :-)

​Lastly, the recipe is so simple and requires very little work.  With the exception of the elderberries, I always have all of the other ingredients on hand.  I buy my elderberries from Oregon's Wild Harvest and love many of their other products as well.  Reasonably priced elderberries can be hard to find during the fall and winter, so if possible, buy in the off season.

Here are just a few of the incredible benefits of Elderberries from healthyhappymama.com:
  • Boost the immune system
  • Fight and protect against bacterial infections
  • Fight and protect against viral infections
  • Reduce the symptoms and duration of a cold or the flu
  • helps clear sinus infections
  • has natural diuretic effects and promotes bowel movements
  • anti-inflammatory properties
  • anti-carcinogenic properties
  • eases symptoms of allergies
  • high in antioxidants
  • high in vitamin A, which makes it great for healthy skin

It's obviously worth it!

Ingredients:

3/4 c. dried organic elderberries
3 c. filtered or spring water
1-2 organic cinnamon sticks
1 TB organic ginger, peeled
1 tsp organic whole cloves
3/4 - 1 c. organic raw honey
Optional: Replace the cinnamon, cloves and ginger with drops of food grade cinnamon, clove and ginger essential oil.

Instructions:
  1. Order your elderberries ahead of time!
  2. In a large saucepan, bring the elderberries, cinnamon stick, cloves, ginger, and water to a boil.
  3. Cover and reduce heat to low.  Allow to simmer for 50-60 minutes.
  4. Cool the syrup base, but not completely.  Just enough to handle so that the honey will dissolve, but not so hot that you lose the raw benefits of the honey, 
  5. Mash the berries with a fork while still in the pan.
  6. Drain the liquid using a nut milk bag, cheese cloth, or fine mesh strainer.  I prefer a nut milk bag.
  7. Be sure to press all of the liquid out of the berries
  8. Add the raw honey and mix well.
  9. Pour into glass containers or jars. Store in an airtight glass container in the refrigerator for up to two months or freeze immediately for up to a year.​

Note: Homemade elderberry syrup is not thick like syrup, more like elderberry juice!

Stay well!
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4 Comments
Jerry Frieson link
9/2/2021 10:12:48 pm

Want to try your recipe. But, how do you dry your berries. I just realized I have trees growing o m my fence line. So excited to get started

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Shekinah
1/18/2025 06:21:58 pm

Please do not dry your elderberries if you have fresh ones. The original version would be with fresh elderberries. There is nothing better then having them fresh buy most people do not have fresh ones unless they live in a country like Europe. That's way the recepy uses dried but it has never the full flavour and also No idea some quality during drying. Be very happy you have fresh ones I would be. Just use a bigger lot and fill it up with the berries

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5/5/2023 01:48:45 am

Looks good. I want to try your recipe. Thanks for sharing this yummy blog.

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Carol
11/16/2024 04:54:16 am

I was wondering if I could use a thick raw honey in this recipe. Will it dissolve in the juice?

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