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Peter Patajac, owner of an idyllic small restaurant called Ruj in Karst (Slovenia), awarded chef few years ago with a title Delo's cook of the year (Delo is a daily Slovenian newspaper with the second highest circulation) is not only a great cook but he also creates so to speak ingredients for cooking. Which you hardly compare to anything-so delicious they are.

It seemed like a destiny has brought him to us because he is well aware how important quality ingredients are for a good cooking and behind every product of his stands a great story with which food becomes alive and tempting.

Peter Patajac is making these delicious products mainly out of nostalgia and sentimentality. He has very nice memories from his youth of tastes, smells, which are nowadays unfortunately not present on the store shelves anymore. He misses homemade, genuine masterpieces from the past. So he decided to revive them for his own joy first and then later on he started to share them with others as well.

In the video you can see Peter's suggestion from a top of his mind for the best use of elder blossom syrup.

The most popular way to use elder blossom in Slovenia is to make elder syrup out of it for a refreshing summer drink. Some people used to fry elder tree's blossom dipped into pancake dough. This time Peter offers it in a form that you can have a taste of elder tree throughout the year in different ways. Yummy.
Blossoms are soaked in sugar syrup, heat up to boiling and then sealed in a sterile container, where they rest at least for one year. Then Peter moves them into smaller jars for future use.

Elder blossom in such form go great with cooked meat: try cooked beef with this delicious product. Also very nice with a ham, otherwise it is indispensable for the desserts: add elder blossom in sugar syrup to a cherry pie instead of plain sugar. Or exchange caster sugar for elder blossom syrup – adding it on any kinds of fruit pies and cakes at the end. Peter says that life is more beautiful by adding it. And we are adding this: mix Preserved Elder blossoms into a pancake mixture and pancakes will be very special and delicious especially in combination with quality lemon marmalade.