Elderberry syrup
For the season when everyone is coughing
$36
A traditional black elderberry syrup, simmered slowly with ginger, cinnamon and raw honey. For the first signs of a cold.
Ingredients
Black elderberry (Sambucus nigra), raw honey, ginger root (Zingiber officinale), cinnamon bark (Cinnamomum verum), clove (Syzygium aromaticum), water.
How to use
One teaspoon, three times a day, at the first sign of cold or flu. Not for children under one year (because of the raw honey).
Size
Made to order — ships within 3 days.
From the herbalist
Notes on elderberry syrup.
This is the formula my grandmother made every fall. The recipe hasn't changed.
Cook the elderberries down slowly with the spices, strain, and then — only after the liquid has cooled below 110°F — stir in the raw honey. Heating raw honey breaks the enzymes that make it medicinal.
Refrigerate after opening. Use within two months.
Sourcing
Where it came from.
Black elderberry
Sambucus nigra
Wildcrafted in eastern Europe, dried whole.
Raw honey
Local — from a beekeeper twenty minutes from our workspace.
