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Lilac or Elderflower Milk

4 servings

Ingredients

• Lilac blossoms (black lilac) or elderflower blossoms (a little)
• 1 l Milk, boiling
• Sugar (to taste)
• 1 tsp Potato flour
• 3 pcs Egg yolks

Instructions

1. Lilac or elderflower milk is prepared in the same way as peach milk, but instead of peach leaves, use the blossoms of black lilac or elderflower: steep them in boiling milk, sweeten, thicken with potato flour, and finish with whisked egg yolks.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.