Soft Drinks
Elderflower Drink
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Romania
Elderflower heads fermented briefly with lemon, sugar and water into a lightly fizzy, faintly alcoholic summer drink.
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What it is
A closer look at Elderflower Drink.
Elderflower heads fermented briefly with lemon, sugar and water into a lightly fizzy, faintly alcoholic summer drink.
What to look for
Know it when you find it.
It ferments in a few days and keeps a week, so it is a genuinely seasonal drink. Cloudy and slightly yeasty is correct.
Where it belongs
Origins and
traditions.
Food rarely respects a border. These are the places the dataset connects most strongly to Elderflower Drink.
Romania
Country-wide tradition
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