WATCH: Elderflower drinks for the young and the old

Valerie O’Connor give two recipes for the medicinal flower which is about to go over — so make them soon.

FOR many years now, I’ve been making tasty drinks from the delicately-coloured, yet pungently-fragranced elderflower.

It never occurred to me that these pretty blossoms might have any therapeutic properties other than being a great thing to add to a gin cocktail, but how wrong have I been?