Home made citrus cordial.

@Mr Clothmama have just made this recipe as couldn't find my mum's one.

ORANGE CORDIAL - you can use this recipes for many types of fruit
8 oranges or about 1 litre of any other fruit juice - either juiced or squashed.
Finely grated zest of two oranges.
Sugar syrup, 1 litre water to 1 kilo sugar - sugar syrup is always equal quantities of sugar to water - boiled until the sugar has dissolved.

Mix juice and zest with the sugar syrup and allow to cool completely. Will store for a month in the fridge. Serve diluted with water and a lot of ice.

It is a bit sweet with my oranges so next time will do less sugar. Also made Lemon and Lime marmalade and Orange marmalade yesterday.

Just juiced my lemons for my lemon slice I will start in a little bit.

We had a wet and wild night last night and 12 oranges were on the ground this morning so I juiced them or the cordial. It made about 2 1/2 litres.

[MrC]

Thank you Bernadette. That sounds really nice. I'm going to try to make it right now as my pile of citrus is starting to look a little in need of use and Louis is off school sick and seems excited by the project . I'll try it with a little less sugar and let you know how I go.

We had a wet and wild night last night and 12 oranges were on the ground this morning so I juiced them or the cordial. It made about 2 1/2 litres.

Can't believe the wild weather. We've got it here too. My dentist was surprised to see me this morning it was raining so heavily!

[MrC]

Well, thanks again! That's really really nice and it smells divine throughout the house now. I improvised a bit as my fruits are a bit mix and match:

I used 500ml mixed lemon/orange/mandarin juice
Zest of 2 lemons and 1 orange
I cut the sugar syrup down to 400ml water/ 400g sugar

I used muscavado sugar as it makes poor delusional me feel slightly less guilty. It gave the cordial a lovely brown natural colour.

1 cm in a 300ml glass, seems about right. It's not overly sugary but really surprisingly zingy and full of flavour

[clothmama]

I had a sip (can't have cordial ) and it was yummy!! Thanks for the recipe @Bernadette

I am glad you both like it.

It is great in summer with ice cold water and ice!

[clothmama]

Split to it's own topic as this cordial is so lovely it deserves its own post