Traditional Homemade Elderflower Presse vs Mürver Şerbeti (Elderflower Sherbet)

Both drinks steep fresh, unwashed elderflower heads in hot sugar syrup with lemon for a day or two, yet they end up in different places. The presse is a concentrated cordial, with 500g of sugar per litre plus the zest and juice of two lemons, meant to be stretched with sparkling water into a fizzy, bright, sweet-tart glass. Mürver Şerbeti uses fewer blossoms and far less sugar, leaning on pith-free lemon peel and just half a lemon's juice for a gentler, delicately floral drink served chilled and diluted only if you like.