Indiana Wild Elderberries
Probably best known for wine, these bitter little berries make some
of the best tasting jelly you will ever find.  They flower in the spring
and that is one of the better times to locate these berries and take
not of their location.  In the fall, you can then find these purple
berries and pick pails and pails full in no time at all.

Cleaning these becomes a bit of a bother as each flower stem has
hundreds of small berries that need to be pulled of the stems.  
Each berry has a seed inside it.  We usually cook the berries down
a bit and strain them through a cheesecloth to remove the seeds
and leave us with the pure juice left over.

The elderberry plant, whether you call it a bush or a tree, is a very
hardy plant.  Just about any drive down a back road with a ditch or
fence row will have elderberries growing on it.  

Recipes coming soon!!!