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Well I sterilised everything - I'm used to making jams, chutneys etc so used to doing that - but I did use my (well-scrubbed) fingers to take the flowers off - a fork just wasn't working for me. It's because I used my fingers that I know there isn't any wood in there! Obviously something went wrong ...

Edit - it's actually very dark green. Any ideas?

No, it's an enamelled stock pot, and the flowers are from the same trees as I made cordial from a few days ago - which is a perfectly normal colour! I don't understand...I thought that recipe would work but I'll go somewhere else next time. Ah well...

Hi all, I went out this morning to collect elderflowers, determined to make wine. I'm using Andy Hamilton's recipe as written in the Guardian, just done the first stage so far - adding plucked flowers to boiling water and lemon zest. I did that about 5 hours ago, went to take a look, and the whole m...