Elderflower gin

morganlefay

I have just put some elderflower gin on to 'cook'. I used a recipe from the Telegraph, but then tweaked it from an online recipe. What I did was to pick a lot of elderflowers (the second recipe said to use as many as you could cram into a 250ml container, but the Telegraph said '25 flowers' which was useless - did they actually mean the tiny flowers, or 25 heads or what ?) - I used 250ml of flowers and snipped the little flower heads off the stems. I put them in about 700ml Mr T's cheapest gin (we drank the other 300ml) with about 4 tablespoons of sugar. I plan to leave it for about 3 days, shaking regularly, and then strain it.
Has anyone tried this/got any suggestions about what I might have done better - not too late to add other stuff perhaps - I did wonder about a bit of lemon peel?

motherkitty

Would this work with vodka?