I also made a batch of Pineapple Sage Cordial from the flowers of the Sage which you can view here.
Aunty Milly's Lemon Cordial OR 50:50 Cordial
(Aunty Milly is one of my Nan's sisters)
The rind and juice of 6 lemons OR (for 50:50 cordial use 3 lemons & 3 oranges)
4lb (800g) Sugar
1 ounce Tartaric Acid
2 ounces Citric Acid
1 ounce Epsom Salts
1 litre of Boiling Water
Put all ingredients into a basin, Stir well until sugar is dissolved. Strain overnight and bottle. Makes approximately 2 1/2 litres.
Rhonda also makes her own cordials using sugar water. I recently used her method as a guide to make a quick batch of cordial after finding some strained passion-fruit juice in the freezer
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| Looking at the photo: I just realised I wrote Pineapple...lol It was definitely Passion-Fruit |
1 cup of strained passion-fruit pulp
Juice and zest of 3 oranges
Juice and zest of 1 lemon
1 kg sugar
1 litre water
Make the sugar water, by boiling the water and dissolving the sugar. Allow this to cool slightly before adding the other ingredients.
Leave to steep overnight, then strain and bottle the cordial. I recommend storing the straight cordial in the fridge. Dilute to 1:4 or 1:5 cordial to water.
This recipe made just over 2 1/2 litres of cordial.
You bet I will be freezing the leftover pulp for some muffins
I think I might use some papaya pulp from the freezer to make my next cordial
or maybe some mango pulp..........
Do you make your own cordial? What's your favourite flavour?
If you haven't tried making your own,
Will you? Now that you've seen how easy it is?
