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elderberry & elderflower sweets, fritters & baked goods recipes

  • elderberry ice cream (John Kennett)
    Requires: elderberries, lemon, sugar, cream, egg whites. Time: several hours.
  • elderberry pie (Autumn Fruits)
    Requires: elderberries, pastry crust, sugar, salt, flour, lemon juice. Time: 1 hour. (Note: I made this one, and recommend taking great care to strain the berries well before adding to the pie, as mine came out quite runny.)
  • grandmother’s favorite elderberry pie (Mother Earth News)
    Requires: elderberries, pastry crust, sugar, salt, cornstarch or tapioca, lemon juice, butter. Time: 1 hour. (Note: the recipe starts at the very bottom of the page and continues on the next page. The next elderberry pie I make will be this one, as it sounds delicious.)
  • elderflower fritters (Recipezaar)
    Requires: elderflowers, flour, sugar, baking powder, milk, eggs. Time: 9 minutes.
  • simple elderflower fritters (Alan Joellenbeck)
    Requires: elderflowers, pancake batter, oil, powdered sugar. Time: 10 minutes.
  • Hollerküchln, or elderflower fritters (Delicious Days’ grandma)
    Requires: elderflowers, dark beer, eggs, flour, butter, salt, cinnamon sugar. Time: 15 minutes. (Note: exact proportions are at the bottom of the post. Includes gorgeous photos!)
  • elderberry and apple crumble (County Down Recipe Secrets)
    Requires: elderberries, apples, sugar, brown sugar, flour, butter, bicarbonate of soda, ginger. Time: 45 minutes.
  • elderberry scramble (Just Berry Recipes)
    Requires: elderberries, plums, pears, bread, butter, milk, sugar and cinnamon. Time: 30 minutes.
  • elderberry twirls (Cyndi Lewis)
    Requires: elderberry jam, butter, sugar, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, rum extract, flour, baking powder, pecans. Time: 1 1/2 hours.
  • elderberry muffins (Pat and Pearl)
    Requires: elderberries, elderberry wine, cinnamon, flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, citric acid, eggs, shortening, vanilla, lemon. Time: 45 minutes.
  • elderberry mush (Just Berry Recipes)
    Requires: elderberries, sugar, milk, butter, flour, salt, honey, bread cubes (optional). Time: 20 minutes.
  • elderberry dumplings (Mother Earth News)
    Requires: elderberries, sugar, flour, water, lemon, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, milk, egg. Time: 45 minutes.

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  • 1 deb // May 11, 2008 at 11:19 pm

    Hi-
    I want to order elderberries to bake a pie or two for my husband’s birthday.

    Can you email a list of places that I can order elderberries from?
    thanks, debra

  • 2 lynne stewart // Sep 4, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    What joy! To Find elderberries at my local Northern NY farmers’ market and then to find your website as I attempt to duplicate my mom’s pie!

  • 3 Me // Jan 6, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    What, no recipe for baked elderberry smelt?

    There must be one somewhere.

  • 4 K Hammer // Jan 10, 2009 at 10:49 pm

    Here is a link to several elderberry recipes, notably a canned elderberry pie filling recipe:

    http://extension.usu.edu/files/publications/publication/FN_252.pdf

  • 5 Bertha Swartz // Apr 3, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    I would like enough elderberries for a couple of pies. Can you tell me where I can get them from. Also can I use dried elderberries? Thank you, Bertha

  • 6 Will Truth // Apr 29, 2009 at 9:10 pm

    I would kill for an elderberry pie. Why out of all the things in creation that have been cultivated and that we have been cajoled into believing are new, do we not have elderberries?
    They grew wild when I was a kid.
    I live in San Francisco but would take a long drive for some elderberries, I want my friends to know what I am forever bragging about. Anybody know of a place that raises elderberries in Northern California?

  • 7 kh // May 29, 2009 at 11:57 pm

    Wow, I grew up in rural Massachusetts and elderberry bushes grew all over the place. I always wondered what they were and whether they were edible. Unfortunately, I no longer live in the area…if I had known I would have tried out some of these recipes!

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