elderberry

Elderberry depends a little on the recipe, but for example elderberry soup I try to have every year.

But isn't it a deeper commentary into English culture with Gin since the elderberry is what is used to make Gin from just alcohol?

My understanding is that elderberry is not really the elder referred to in European folk stories.

There are important considerations for the correct use of the elderberry that this article omits.

Yup, this article actually inspired me to plant elderberry to my garden come spring.

Similarly, I thought elderberry was just a silly word that Monty Python made up to be funny.

My uncle has made elderberry jam and wine, both of which were fantastic.

I got the elderberries part because Elton John had done a song about elderberry wine.

They also claimed to have zinc (greenish) and elderberry (purple).

Literally the only reason anyone knows what the Hippocratic oath is is because Hippocrates was already famous at the time for promoting elderberry as the universal antiviral.

There's all kinds of native berries, blackberry, salmon berry, service berry, elderberry huckleberry.

I also have elderberry and coyote bush for wintering birds.

Why not "it means he ate too much elderberry strudel" if we're going for alternate explanations?

Elderberry wine smells no more like elderberries than wine smells like grapes, so getting from "...your father smelt of elderberries" to "he was a drunk" is quite a stretch.

Another good one of the Berries of Distinctive Flavour is The Elderberry..

Elderberry would be my choice - it has medicinal properties as well as being an enjoyable flavour, it's essentially unchanged in the history that we've known of it (5000 years), so wine production techniques won't have to change much, and it's a fairly fast growing tree/shrub so building up a large orchard won't be a big deal.