Elderberries Review (+ Juice recipe) - Weird Fruit Explorer Ep 113 

Your intro is like a vintage PBS documentary. Which isn’t bad.

My Family has made elderberry products through 4 generations. I would say the absolute best thing to make is Elderberry wine, It's a lot like late harvest Riesling. Then elderberry jam, then bread. The best way to separate them from the stems is swish them around in water. Also a few green berries wont hurt you.

If you end up ever doing this again, the "popping the berries off" step is made a helluva lot easier by freezing the inflorescence first. Each berry gets solid like a bb and the stems become more brittle.

I love elderberry preserves, soda and syrup

I collect these every year. They are very earthy tasting, and they make a nice jelly. Use a fork to remove them from the umbellifer.

My grandmother use to make elderberry jam and elderberry cobbler when I was a child but I do remember it tasting very good.

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I still make elderberry syrup. It's great for coughs and sore throats.

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When you cut an elder tree traditionally you are supposed to ask it "old girl, give me some of your wood and when I become a tree, you can have some of mine". Otherwise the spirit of the tree will git you or something :P

I love Elderberry-Juice, especially mixed with apple juice. Also the elderflower can be made into a great syrup, or you coat them with pancake dough and fry them - very nice!

Elder wood is light and filled with pith that runs down the middle. It was traditionally used to make wind instruments.

This intro music instantly remained me of M*A*S*H!!!!

We used to pick this by the lug boxes full. Pick them off and cook them. add sugar and we had gallons of elderberry juice. Nobody ever became ill. The cooking made it taste better and sugar helped a lot too.

Oh, you got the black ones, they are good, and spring time you shall try the blooms. Honestly, I never been aware of the harm effect of the black elder/ Sambucus nigra/, but there is no question about the red species/Sambucus racemosa/; in my childhood we used to have it for a weird celebration to save the farm animals against sickness. It was an absolute insane ritual. But I always liked the jam, syrup from it, and my elders made wine, and liquor both from the berries and the blooms. The sort of dessert, such as crepes or beer battered blooms were tasty treats in springtime. I think, some pagan tradition has magic related properties with elder, but the I believe the wands were rather made from sloe bush wood. Indeed the magic in the elder is the sound it can be created by it when one makes the six holes flute. Actually I have some of them from the old country. The local, here in Alaska is the red, and only edible with cooking, it is abundant and my chickens pick them gingerly. It has a lot of medical benefits, and I clearly remember for the rest of my life, for one treatment I got for my inflamed tonsils. Gam boiled some black elder berries in a fresh mare milk with honey and after that I was done for ever and a day. The combination was swift and effective and because the smell of the berries, taste of honey I did not pass out, neither gag. So you guys have in that area Hawthorns? Elder, Hawthorns, Blackthorn (sloe) are the magic bush of the Celts be that in Transylvania, or Ireland. The Elder at some point was the home of the fairies of the forest. Mind me, in the time of Pliny the Elder, the fellow who perished in the Vesuvius eruption, ladies dyed there hair with the berry juice. I would bet, the one you had could be for that, because you mentioned being rather dry which was not what Pliny wrote, or i remember. Both the ancient and I have been using the very juicy kind that can make skin, rather dark. I bet, mint and elder berry with some apple-cider vinegar and water would make the hair darker, and excellent conditioner without harm chemicals. And then again I went off like a rocket, and just have to cut it off or might write a book:)) Though thank you for the inspiration.

Old folks say the fruits can make you crazy. We use only flowers after we wash them to ferment with sugar*(1-2kg) 10-12 lemons using small ammounts of yeast, in a huge jar filled with water, it is mixed well at start. After 5 days of fermentation result is a soda juice refreshing small alchool content that is incredible good.

Fill up the elderberry juice with apple juice and add sparkling water - this is awesome

Over here in Germany people use them a lot to make jelly, juices and lemonade out of them. There are also some comercial products you can buy at most grocery stores. Also the flowers are used to make tea out of them. Commonly is is drank to help with the cold. But the flowers have a nice, mild taste to them, so they are also used to make jelly and lemonade (which are also sold comercially). Also there is is a recipe, where the flowers are pushed into a pancake (look up "elderflower pancake" or the german name "Hollunnderblütenpfannkuchen" on google). I really liked those as a kid.

They were mentioned in Monty Python "Your mother is a hamster and your father smells of elderberry". Because it was generally used to make an alcoholic drink

Another common plant/tree that grows in the same regions as elderberry is the Sweet Gum tree. There is documented usage of it for preventing and treating influenza

My chickens love my black elderberries. We have a native blue elderberry around here, can't say I've ever tasted them. The good thing about cyanide is that it is quickly metabolized so you need a larger single dose to do harm, many small doses over time will not build up. Also cooking tends to denature the cyanide in many foods, raw bamboo shoots for example will produce hydrogen cyanide when in contact with stomach acid but not after cooking.

Elderberries are very productive. I had an black elderberry shrub that was 12 ft. tall that produced what must have been 40 lbs. of berries one year. Back then I didn't know what to do with them unfortunately. Besides jelly elderberries are supposed to make excellent pancake syrup. Fritters can be made by dipping the flower clusters in batter and frying them.

There are a few varieties (actually, species) of Elderberry and while one of the more common is edible, some are not The two most common types of elderberry plants are the European elderberry (Sambucus nigra) and the American elderberry (Sambucus canadensis). Sambucus canadensis, a subspecies of Sambucus nigra, can be found in almost any state in the lower 48 United States. all of the Nigra MUST be cooked. There is also a red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa), which is similar to the American species but with one important difference. The brilliant berries it produces are poisonous.

We had these growing in our yard when I was a kid I remember my dad repeatedly warning me only eat the black ones. Back then of course I didn't really know why but I do remember checking each one to be sure before I ate them.

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The more grey/silver bloom (but not mold) there is on them, the more antioxidants. The study your referred to is from Israel. I was told never burn the branches, btw, as that is bad.

We get this growing wild in most lowland areas of Britain. I love eating them off of the elder trees in the late summer. You can also turn the blossom, elderflower, into a cordial for drinking. People. Make elderberries into a wine.

If I ever found an elderberry bush in the spring(/summer) the flowers would go towards elderberry wine. If I ever found enough bushes than I would try the berry juice as well. I grew up- a relative term- in southwest UK and there were elderberry bushes everywhere.

Great video it made me want to walk around my house and pick the wild elderberries that are ripe and make some juice.

Elderberries grow wild in the area where I grew up and currently live so I have never seen them as truly "weird" more of a curiosity really. My family always regarded them as a quasi-medicinal, (or as part of black Sambuca liquer - my personal favorite) or something that one of my uncles would occasionally make wine with. Glad to see some of these wild edibles of my childhood enjoying a renaissance. Fun video , interesting as always Jared. - Out of curiosity, any advice for someone interested in venturing into uploading videos of their own? (I would ask this via Direct message, but .. I honestly don't think RU-vid's has that working correctly lol)

Some types of Elderberries have sweet smelling flowers for making a honey like herb tea that you have to try. The others have white flowers with no smell or taste at all are grown for the larger clumps of berries. That is often the case if you mail order them for your yard.

There's this variety of Fanta from the Balkans called "Shokata." It's elderberry-lemon flavor and it's amazing

I haven't found black elderberries, but have found red ones in Oregon along the coast mountain range. I cooked them to make a jam and burnt it a little making it taste and smell like burnt tires. It was bad, but they were pretty tasty fresh. Luckily the body of healthy people breaks down cyanide very well. I have eaten many foods that contain it and have never had any ill effects from it.

You can order Elderberry bushes however it is bread for larger berry production. The flowers however are insipid (tasteless). It is a different genetic bush that you have to get for the Elder blow that has the wonderful smell and produces one of the best herb teas. But it is sold at any health food store anyway.

My mother made jelly and wine from them every year when I was growing up. I was not old enough for the wine, but loved the jelly!!

I always wanted to try the wine because of the old ladies in Arsenic and Old Lace...

I love elderberry tea when I have a cold, with a little honey. Not sure if it has much over any other tea for soothing a cold but it is nice and comforting.

I've had awful flu and started taking this and been better in like 2 days.

This one was useful. Elderberries grow wild down here

love these, grew up picking them wild in the summers with gramps in upstate new york. :-) gram made jelly and wine. in england i had some elder flower wine :-)

Between those berries & the poke berries, bird poop is very colorful in the south in early fall/ late summer!

I am very much a fan of elderflower cordial. I now have some seeds so hopefully there will be elderberries in my future ;)

"elderberry juice" is pretty popular among the things that people would make with foraged plant material over here (it's not something you'd find at a store but most people have a grandma or know someone who'll provide them with elderberry syrup). but we always use the flowers and never the berry for this.

Made Elder jelly and didn't die .Wonderful color.

You can use the flowers for cordials and even make a sparkling wine out of them. Delicious!

The kind we have in my area are Sambucus cerulea. They are kind of juicy, and if you let them dry a bit they are easier to remove from the stem. They are delicious in a pie, and I made a nice syrup from them as well. I have also made many flutes and whistles from the stems.

Grandma's wild elderberry jam was so good!!!!!

We had them in the area I grew up in, but they were uncommon enough where I'd get excited when I found them. Glad I never ate any unripe ones, I hadn't known about the cyanide

We sometimes make jam from them if you wait for the stalks to be bright red you can just shake the berries into a bucket from the tree.

I have these plants in my garden in my country is considered a poisonous fruit . In autumn i will try these fruits ty so much man ! you have my sustain !!

Great video Jared. I'm wondering if you were thinking of doing a video on Aronia, chokeberry as opposed to chokecherry? I've tried it before and think it's worth a shot. :)

I'm actually allergic to elderberries, we found out when I was a kid and a cereal I ate had dried elderberries in it.

I grow these myself!

I ate elderberries on a childhood exploring trip with my uncle in Alum Rock Park in California... I liked them, and that started me as a local forager... Didn't know about the cyanide!

Sorry to comment on such an old video, but what song is in your intro? New viewer, love your videos.

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Here in sweden its really popular to make juice out of the flower and its soooo delicious (like a concentrate, we call it "saft" and i guess it falls into juice as a category). But then again it migth be a diffrent species of elderberry.

Thanks for mentioning my foraging tours. For more info, please visit www.wildmanstevebrill.com, where I also have an elderberry page. Here's some more info: It's the elderberry flowers (which are also edible) that have been shown to be helpful for the flu, not the berries, as far as I know. I find elderberries excellent in pancakes and muffins. Cooked, the flavor is strong and very pleasant, and the seeds become crunchy. Except for requiring a sweetener, you can use them like raisins in recipes where they're cooked. It's true that separating the berries from the stems is labor-intensive, but this is compensated with the ease of collecting them. You can break off lots of clusters in a few minutes. Many other berries take a long time to pick. Also this species is common elderberry, Sambucus canadensis, common in the NE. There are other species in other regions, with some overlap.

Never had the berries but elderflower is one of the best tasting lemonades you can have.

Maybe do one about rowan berries: they are very high in vitamin C but some people think they are poisonous, perhaps because of the tart/bitter flavour. Some trees produce sweeter and juicier berries - go for the one that birds favour. They make really nice juice and jam, not as hard work as elderberries and no need to worry getting poisoned - but watch out for bugs!

If you freeze them first they come right off

IKEA sells an "elder flower" drink. Do you know if this is derived from the same plant as elderberries (the flowers as opposed to the berries, I would guess)?

It is time to make an updated video on Elderberries. Interest has grown for Elderberries since SARS and Coivd, university research papers from around the world are being published almost daily. To learn more; see what the Universities of Missouri And California have published on Elderberries. Also see the Midwest Elderberries Coop's web page for the latest Elderberry information and great links to learn more. Yes, Elderberries are not worth eating raw or just cook. However, when cooked [to degrade and make safe the cyanide compounds and sterilize for storage] and sugar and lemon juice is add to get a good 'sugar/acid', their great Elderberry flavor comes out! Elderberry in used for jelly, flavorings, food colorings, wine and even pies. Bon Appétit ~ We now anticipation your great new Elderberry video! Bon Apite'

In the final scene, we get the human brain on the shelf on the left, and the Candid Press cover on the right, headlined "Headless Lesbians Attack World". I can be diverted by the elderberry demonstration but these two objects are far more intriguing.

Use a fork... (i use a steam juicer and use the whole with Stem. Then i make a Sirup, with 1:1 sugar, for cold days. Do a Tiny little Sirup into a cup an fill it with boiling water, Yummy)

I love the intro song, what is it called?

Snaple, mango madness has elderberry in it. I always thought that is what gave its unique flavor? Are you getting that with you cooked batch? If you know what i mean?

My grandfather told me that his mother used to make elderberry wine but from the flowers not the berries.

Pull berries off with a fork. I add them to strawberry jam, makes it much, much better in flavor!

the flavor is excellent in syrup.

for your at home videos, is that picture always a part of the background? i JUST noticed it and it is amazing.

Have you ever given fresh Schisandra berries a try? The dried berries are excellent but I have no idea how to get a hold of some fresh ones.

the most i do with elder flower is make elder flower cordial

To me elderberries have a really odd flavour I personally don't like them much raw. When they are cooked on the other hand that is a different story my favourite thing to do with them is to make elderberry wine also known as "fairy wine" it's really tasty.

What's with the blood curdling scream at the end!?! Darn near dropped my phone! 😅

To neutralize the poison in the berry, you need to boil them for 20 min, also the black ones...but then thy are very delicious and healthy. Ind Europe they are very common and you can buy elderberry juice in the stores and drink it ase juice or make elderberry soup.

I got elderberry poisoning, around ten years ago. I had no energy the next day, after eating few uncooked berries of blue and dark blue.

where can I find elderberries?n be grown in the north? they are very good for health & illnesses. high in vitamin C, antioxidents.

You to try the blossoms of the Elderberry tree. Here they are used in jams, pies and especially in drinks. You can also batter and fry them but I haven't tried them this way.

I know this is a few years old, but I know people who really go out of their way to collect elderberries locally for a winter cough syrup. I have even seen some people who collect them to make a syrup for teas and flavoring other things. (united states)

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Got a bottle of elderberry wine in West Virginia. It had a warning label that it was not to be takent out of state. No explanation. It was okay fruit wine, not really special.

My Grandmother used to make Elderberry Pie. Made one once. Verrry seedy and a real pain to clean as you need quite a lot for a pie. Juice stains. But the pie was delicious. Also, if you find a bush, watch it closely or the birds will get the ripe ones first.

Maybe elderberries have become more noxious in modern times. In the 1940's and 1950's everyone made elderberry jelly, some made elderberry pie (it wasn't nearly as good as blackberry pie), some made elder flower wine, and we made deep fried elder flowers. We'd hold them by the stem, and eat the deep fried flower heads. Maybe God takes care of kids and fools, but none of us ever got sick eating any of these things. You can pick a years worth of berries for jelly in about 20 minutes. It takes 10x that much time to pick wild blackberries for the same amount of jelly.

You failed to mention the elderberry flower. The umbrel of awesomely fragrant flowers that precede the berries can be dipped in Aunt Jemima pancake batter and fried in oil to make a wonderful fritter. In the heat the flowers will separate from the central stem and stay in the fritter to make a wonderful treat. And by the way, I don't give a damn if Aunt Jemima is suddenly politically incorrect, because that's one of the craziest and stupidest things I've ever heard. Long live sweet old Aunt Jemima in all her kerchiefed and aproned glory! Try the fritters.

Those unripe ones are very sour too.

So it makes me wonder how on earth they actually ate them back in the day before sugar from India and before someone worked out you could boil beats and add calcium hydroxide and filter to get rid of all the crap from it and turn it to sugar water :P Maybe honey, but I don't imagine they'd have anywhere near as much honey as fruits from this thing...

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Those elderberries haven't properly ripen, the stem has to turn red, the elderberries will be black, really black, probably shiny too, they taste sweet and somewhat like blackberries or blueberries, still poisonous if you eat too much, the jam made from them is really tasty, but also recommended not to eat too much might cause some people to feel nausea

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I think elderberry sauce is supposed to be quite nice on red meat.

Yeah, the berries of this shrub is so bland and not worth the work. Not a fruit techincally, but elderflowers (the blossoms) are much more tasty and sought after. Pretty common to transform it into cordials or St Germain liqueur.

You can kind of 'comb' them off the branches with a fork

the term you were looking for might be "umami" (sp?) to describe that savory component

Use a fork to pluck the stems.

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Iknow.. THERE s this guy named raven and hes making this juice right.. now... hes a cool guy... hes FROM Germany.. i have a crush on him.. LOL ANYWAYS yea ... i want to make SOME one day... 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

My grandma has fake elderberries everywhere

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