Elderberry : Making Syrup & Canning Juice from Wild Elderberries

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Жыл бұрын

Join along as I make 47 half-pints! I can elderberry juice from wild blue elderberries for shelf-stable storage, make elderberry syrup, explain some different varieties of elderberry and explain WHY elderberry is SO good for you! Fight off any virus with Elderberry. The ultimate cold and flu remedy!
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A double blind study demonstrating that people given elderberry recovered from the flu an average of 4 days sooner than those given the placebo -
Randomized Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Oral Elderberry Extract in the Treatment of Influenza A and B Virus Infections - Z Zakay-Rones, E Thom, T Wollan, J Wadstein, 2004 (sagepub.com)
A study that demonstrates it’s ability to suppress viral replication.
Anti-Influenza Virus Effects of Elderberry Juice and Its Fractions (jst.go.jp)
Flavonols and anthocyanins of elderberry fruits (Sambucus nigra L (researchgate.net)
#canning #foodpreservation #elderberry #elderberrysyrup #homesteading #cooking #foraging #coldandflu

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@nehemiahsart9680 Жыл бұрын

Excellent! I can't wait until my elderberry bushes have enough berries to make some juice and/or syrup. Thank you for making these videos!

@HomesteadWithTessa Жыл бұрын

I’m excited for you! What variety of elderberry did you plant? I would love to plant some as well. Thank you for watching my videos!

@morethanfarmers Жыл бұрын

Nice thumbnail 😁

@HomesteadWithTessa Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I’ve been trying to improve.

@morethanfarmers Жыл бұрын

@@HomesteadWithTessa Titles and thumbnails are my nemesis 😏

@HomesteadWithTessa Жыл бұрын

I am learning that the thumbnail is *everything* and it's so hard to get it right. I don't even want to tell you how may pictures I took trying to get this thumbnail, so thank you so much for the encouragement!

@sarahkay6560 Жыл бұрын

Never thought to make juice and can for future syrup making. Thanks!!! P.S. Love your channel!

@southernblkbarbie Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love your content - especially this video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge about Elderberries*,,, I never knew that there were so many different types!!! ✨️

@HomesteadWithTessa Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching! Elderberries are incredible. I add some of the juice to my daily water 😁

@AlleyGal Жыл бұрын

Excellent video. I need to forage some next season.

@HomesteadWithTessa Жыл бұрын

I was over the moon excited to have found these!

@nickenthechicken2 Жыл бұрын

I remember you showing joey and I an elderberry tree that time we hiked to the garden of Eden in Santa Cruz

@HomesteadWithTessa Жыл бұрын

Actually those, if I remember right, were huckleberries! I was surprised that the huckleberry bushes by the bathroom were absolutely loaded with ripe huckleberries in spite of so many people being there. When I started snacking on them people looked at me wide eyed and said ‘those are edible?’. That was a fun day! That poor guy that jumped off the rope swing into the river though 😬 He didn’t quite clear the rock under the water. ouch. Other than that, great day hiking and exploring!

@tntnutty 8 ай бұрын

Great video. I just did the process. Just wondering about storage and shelf life of the juice and syrup? Thanks!

@sharonellis1251 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. I will be looking to plant some. I can use the benefits at my age. I am a 55+ year canner and still learning.

@HomesteadWithTessa Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! I add some into my daily lemon water 😁

@rachelwitte06 Жыл бұрын

Did you water bath can or pressure can? I thought water bath with the added lemon juice but I wasn’t sure. Thanks!

@heathersmith8677 9 ай бұрын

What's the shelf life for the canned juice? I have some frozen elderberry I need to process.

@donellepetty2654 10 ай бұрын

After water bathing how long is the juice shelf stable ?

@annanivid798 Ай бұрын

Do you need the lemon juice? And why? I have someone allergic to lemon can I substitute it with something else?

@cadecorneliusen3047 10 ай бұрын

You still use the old pressure cooker? or you just set the lid on top.

@kimberlygarner3539 Жыл бұрын

Can you do these recipes with dried elderberries?

@HomesteadWithTessa Жыл бұрын

Yes! You can absolutely do this with dried elderberries. That is what is most commonly available for purchase.

@anmanning Жыл бұрын

What is the reason for needing to add some acidity to the juice? also, maybe a dumb question but, can you just drink a glass full of elderberry juice? Thanks!

@HomesteadWithTessa Жыл бұрын

Hey! Great questions. The addition of acidity ensures it is at a pH below 4.6 which prevents the bacteria Clostridium Botulinum from producing the neurotoxins that cause the illness botulism. It’s just a fail safe. And yes! You can totally drink a glass full of elderberry juice.

@anmanning Жыл бұрын

@@HomesteadWithTessa Thank you

@user-zlxelaZz Жыл бұрын

Elderberry juice is getting popular these days .... but pure elderberry juice is very expensive! I just buy the cheaper mixed elderberry juice which who knows how much real elderberry is in it mixed with blueberry or pomegranate? Maybe 5-10%....? When you say syrup, do you pour this on pancakes? or do you pour this syrup with maybe tea or shaved ice? Thank you for sharing

@HomesteadWithTessa Жыл бұрын

I believe that is due to our recent viral events, ya know? I have seen elderberry syrup going for $15/ half pint! Which means my 47 half pints was well worth the effort and why I was so very excited to find wild elderberry! So, I take the elderberry syrup as a daily supplement. I take 1 tablespoon a day as a preventative and either just drink it straight or mix it into my coffee. It tastes a lot like blackberries, it’s delicious. If I am sick I take 1 tablespoon 3x per day. You absolutely could pour it over pancakes, in tea, or over shaved ice though!

@user-zlxelaZz Жыл бұрын

@@HomesteadWithTessa Thank you for replying. That's a great way to stretch the Syrup for my mom/grandma since it costs so much. They love natural remedies like this. I hope one day you will brand your Syrup/Pickles with a Tessa Sticker on the bottle and sell it as Merch. We trust you more than Wholefoods!

@HomesteadWithTessa Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! That means the world to me!

@jimgilbert9984 Жыл бұрын

I thought when you said that you were going to make a syrup, I thought that you'd be using sugar. But honey does make more sense, especially if you're planning on using your elderberry syrup in its traditional manner, to help with colds. After all, honey is used in making homemade cough drops (you should use your syrup to make cough drops) or in hot tea to help throats aching from coughing. I put honey in hot Celestial Seasoning Lemon Zinger tea when I get an achy throat. The honey helps, but there's stuff (like lemon) in the tea that's good for fighting colds, too. Concerning studies about the benefits of herbal remedies and supplements: You have to take some of those studies with a grain of salt, particularly those studies that downplay the benefits. The research that is done by independent groups usually touts the benefits of herbal and natural remedies. However, the so-called "research" that tries to denigrate the benefits of herbal and natural remedies is invariably done by the pharmaceutical companies. Now I'm all for the advances of modern medicine, but for pharmaceutical companies to say that herbal and natural remedies are bunk, it just means that they're trying to stamp out the competition from traditional kinds of medicine. I brought this up because another such big pharma backed "research study" was released recently, and of course, it said that there were no benefits to be had to using medicinal herbs. I guess the pharmaceutical companies have forgotten where they originally got (and still get) many of the medicines they produce (like aspirin, which started as willow bark tea). Anyway, let's leave my ranting behind for a bit of personal nostalgia... I remember my mom making all kinds of jelly and preserves. Her plum jelly was not for use in sandwiches or biscuits. She made it ONLY to use as a glaze when she baked a ham. When I buy preserves, I am always disappointed. Even preserves made by farmers for sale in their own farmer's market are disappointing. When my mom made preserves, they were big chunks of whatever fruit she was using. Preserves made by other folks (especially those available commercially in your local grocery store) are nothing more than jam, if not just a jelly, and called preserves. Sigh.

@HomesteadWithTessa Жыл бұрын

Hello again Jim! I just want to start by thanking you for being such a faithful viewer of my channel and for always having something thoughtful to say. I can tell you put a lot of thought into your comments. You are very correct - unfortunately money rules the world, it takes money to conduct research, and very often the pharmaceutical companies have significantly more money to fund biased research that benefits them, so that their corporations and share holders make MORE money. That’s the same reason we have very few ‘tested’ canning recipes available, because it takes money to fund the process and no one is making money from helping people produce their own food. They make money by selling you food and convincing you that you can’t do it yourself. They further restrict who can sell food via endless red tape and regulations, but I digress. Do you have your mom’s plum jam recipe? That would be a great thing to recreate! We’ve lost so much generational knowledge on food preservation, seasonal eating, and and so much more in the last few generations. My mama has a yellow plum tree and I’ve made a lot of plum jam over the years. Thanks again for watching Mr. Gilbert!

@jimgilbert9984 Жыл бұрын

@@HomesteadWithTessa Thank you for your nice reply. I'm afraid that I don't have my mom's plum jelly recipe. She rarely wrote down her recipes, and there are so many I wish she had. When she passed, I was able to get her old cookbooks as my sisters didn't want them. While she drew from those cookbooks, her best stuff was her own and she didn't write it down. Fortunately, there is one place down here in Georgia that does care about the "little guy." Hillside Orchards started as a canning company for their own produce, but they expanded to can the fruit and vegetables of local farmers under those farmers' own labels. They don't do it for free, of course, but it's a big help for those farmers. Hillside has their own label, canning their own produce as well as the stuff they buy from the previously mentioned farmers so that they can sell it at the store on the farm. There's a bigger operation closer to me, they don't help out the other farmers in the area like Hillside does, so I spend more of my money at Hillside. I first got disgusted with big pharma about 30 years ago. They put out a pill that supposedly cured one, specific type of cancer (I don't know which one), and they were charging $500 a pill. Worse, this was a common veterinary medicine used for dogs and cats that was sold for only $0.05 a pill! So people were taking the prescriptions written by their doctors and going to vets to get the medication. Even worse, big pharma lobbied Congress to pass a law that prevented people from getting the medicine from vets, and Congress went along with it! Big pharma claimed that they had to make back the money they spent in research to learn that the pill was effective against cancer. I've hated and not trusted them ever since, and their actions thereafter have only justified my distrust. And please, call me Jim. My students called me Mr. Gilbert. I look forward to your next video.

@HomesteadWithTessa Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jim! I think few of us really trust the pharmaceutical companies anymore. More and more are seeing through the veil. That's great that Hillside is able to preserve the harvest of local farmers! And ok, you got it Jim! Thank you again for watching.