Heal Your Thirst! Beautiful cordials with the accent on tradition and quality. There are soft drinks as they are, and soft drinks as they were meant to be. Only a few slightly potty individuals like Guy and Sheila Woodall refuse to bow to commercial pressures and carry on making the best drinks they know how to. Drinks like Elderflower Cordial, Pink Ginger Cordial, Cranberry & Hibiscus Cordial and many others, all have their roots in herbal healing, and taste just as great as you would expect from drinks made with such natural materials, often gathered fresh from the wild or from our own organic plantations, all now based on pure fruit juice without added refined sugar. Thorncroft is a small family business that started out on a small farm near Leatherhead in Surrey in the 1980's. Thorncroft specialise in making cordials mostly from old recipes and often using fresh natural ingredients gathered from the wild, or from our own organic plantations. Herbal drinks have always been associated with health benefits, and in earlier times these were the main reason for consuming these drinks. Many of these benefits have been investigated by modern medical science. Thorncroft Traditional Cordials are extremely concentrated. Many dilute-to-taste plant based drinks are thin and watery, sometimes as low as 3 parts cordial diluted to 1 part water, and rarely above 8 to 1. Thorncroft Cordials are so concentrated they only need to be diluted at a rate of between 12 and 15 to 1. This means that a bottle of Thorncroft Cordial is great value, as it makes as much as 5 litres of drink. Elderflower Thorncroft Elderflower Cordial is based on an ancient recipe at least 400 years old. It’s special aroma recalls lychees and Muscat grapes, and it is thought by many to be the most deliciously refreshing drink known to man. Thorncroft Elderflower however tastes unlike any other, because Thorncroft use only the petals of the elderflowers, and those in large quantities to give a uniquely floral flavour with none of the herbaceous flavour derived from the flower stalks. Thorncroft has a unique process for separating out the petals from the green parts of the flower umbel, which was recently featured by BBC Good Food Live. Elderflowers are picked from Thorncroft plantations at Leatherhead and in Hampshire, and from the wild by a large team of mainly Gypsy pickers. Thorncroft need twenty tonnes of elderflower petals every year to keep up with demand. Thorncroft Elderflower Cordial won the number one drink accolade in the BBC Good Food Awards, being voted best drink. But it’s not just a pretty taste. Like most old herbal drinks elderflower cordial is also said to have remarkable beneficial properties		Thorncroft elderflower cordial - now in stock!   Thorncroft Traditional Cordials are plant based drinks, not fruit cordials, with a hedgerow theme and an emphasis on fine natural flavour. They are all also associated with health benefits – hardly surprising as most of them have their roots in ancient herbal medicine.                 not all varieties shown are in stock - check for current availability

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