(no subject)
When I was a child, there used to be elderberry plants in front of our house. We'd make elderberry blossom juice by cutting the flowers off and boiling them with lots of sugar and some other magic in a pressure vat. At some point the municipal services that maintained the patch in front of our house cut down the elderberry plants so we were forced to stop making the stuff.
A few months ago I walked into the park near our new flat with fuzzie and noticed an elderberry plant. I got curious as to whether you could buy elderberry blossom juice concentrate anywhere. None of the local organic food stores (Delft, Leiden, Alphen) seemed to have it - they all had elderberry juice, but no elderberry blossom juice.
I ended up finding the stuff at the most unlikely place: IKEA. They sell it under the name Flädersaft, which I assume is cognate with the Dutch 'vlier'. Interestingly enough, three of the six languages on the label incorrectly identify it as elderberry juice.
A few months ago I walked into the park near our new flat with fuzzie and noticed an elderberry plant. I got curious as to whether you could buy elderberry blossom juice concentrate anywhere. None of the local organic food stores (Delft, Leiden, Alphen) seemed to have it - they all had elderberry juice, but no elderberry blossom juice.
I ended up finding the stuff at the most unlikely place: IKEA. They sell it under the name Flädersaft, which I assume is cognate with the Dutch 'vlier'. Interestingly enough, three of the six languages on the label incorrectly identify it as elderberry juice.