Insusadia in the drink
- We just enjoyed one of the most beautiful shows of the year: flower chamomiles. Thousands of apples that bleached the landscape, red and red. What the apple tree, Malus x domestica, has given us for so many years, we will never thank it as it should; I am glad that this flowering is being praised in more and more places. I have often heard Pello Zabala say that the white hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna, comes when the authentic spring flourishes. The apples await that moment for their show. But it doesn't flourish by itself. Also Intsusa, Sambucus nigra, is the partner of flowering.
The willow flower is also beautiful in many ways. Spectacular, you can see from afar in large white groups. Exhale a soft smell, no intoxicating. And it's very useful, whether it's the flower itself, or the little black paintbrush that will grow after fertilization. With these pinares, sweet preserves are elaborated, such as jam, jelly, reximenta, etc. Try it, you won't regret it. As from the sweet, you can also make wine with the fruit of the elderberry. Once ripened, press and let the must boil. One of the routes is to squeeze 20 kilos of mature laces and remove the must; add a kilo of honey and 35 grams of salt; mix 20 liters of water and let it boil in a temperate place. The first fermentation will generate foam; when calmed, without an underlying mother, it is transferred to another container and, for a second long fermentation, it is left closed in a cool place. After a few months, tasting the moment you are best to drink. I have never done so, but if someone wants to, they would like to taste it.
Without having to wait for the fruits, wine is also made with the flowers. Heat five liters of water and two and a half kilos of brown sugar, add the juice of three lemons, mix the kilo and medium of willow with the flowers and leave it covered for a day, filtered with a fabric and deposited in sterilized bottles or containers with a pink cap. It will be a sweet must. Allow the filtered must to be fermented and bottled after boiling. You can drink empty or with water, heat or cold. That's right, I've tried it. excellent!
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