Blueberry Streusel Loaf | Elder Syrup Refresh

{ blueberry streusel  loaf }

3 medium eggs

3/4 cup sugar

1 tbsp lemon zest

4 oz butter 

1/2 cup yogurt

1 1/2 cups cake flour

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

a pinch of salt

1 cup fresh blueberries

regular butter tea cookies 

for topping

{ elder syrup }

1 kg  elder flowers (whole flower)

3 l  boiling water

1 kg  sugar

2 lemon zest

method:

Bring the water to boil, turn off the heat

and put all the flowers down to the water

and cover

Let stay in infusion for a night

Then strain the water with a clean cotton cloth

and bring again to a boil, add sugar and reduce heat

let boil for a couple of hours, stir occasionally

 until it cover the spoon

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Piled deep below the screening apple-branch 
They lie with bitter apples in their hands: 
And some are only ancient bones that blanch, 
And some had ships that last year's wind did launch, 
And some were yesterday the lords of lands.

In the soft dell, among the apple-trees, 
High up above the hidden pit she stands, 
And there for ever sings, who gave to these, 
That lie below, her magic hour of ease, 
And those her apples holden in their hands.

This in my dreams is shown me; and her hair 
Crosses my lips and draws my burning breath; 
Her song spreads golden wings upon the air, 
Life's eyes are gleaming from her forehead fair, 
And from her breasts the ravishing eyes of Death.

Men say to me that sleep hath many dreams, 
Yet I knew never but this dream alone: 
There, from a dried-up channel, once the stream's, 
The glen slopes up; even such in sleep it seems 
As to my waking sight the place well known.

My love I call her, and she loves me well: 
But I love her as in the maelstrom's cup 
The whirled stone loves the leaf inseparable 
That clings to it round all the circling swell, 
And that the same last eddy swallows up.

 - Dante G. Rossetti

May, it's already May