<div align="left">I have just filled a 4 gallon pail with beautiful elderberries. (They were 30 yards from my house!!) All the recipes say to destem, How picky do I have to be? I'm usung a fork to pull the elderberries off the stem but some stems stay attatched. Do I need to pull off those teeny tiny stems too? They will eventually go into a strainer bag.
The birds have been in then!
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The birds have been in then!