Bottles for cordial...show me the light

[Monty]

Just contemplating making some elderflower cordial, even bought citric acid (and then proceeded to tell my parents I'm a heroine addict). But where do I get bottles?

I heard plastic bottles go better in the freezer, so I guess I'd need to buy some. Surely I couldn't just use my old coke bottles?

I love this man:

[marcherman]

Hi Monty,

When I need empty bottles for a cordial I wash and sterilise plastic, four pint, milk containers.
They are OK so long as there is no pressure and they will allow freezing. And yes, I am a cheapskate

[Monty]

What do you mean if there is no pressure?

You have to get all the air out?

And yes, you are a cheap-skate.

[ina]

I love this man:

That's Andy, you know... Better be careful that his girlfriend doesn't hear about this!

Anyway: Why do you want to freeze cordial? Isn't the point of making cordial that you can bottle it and use when needed - i.e. the sugar and citric acid should see to keeping it right? I would just bottle it, boiling hot, in screwtop glass bottles or jars, like jam.

Anybody else experience with that? I know my niece had hers in screwtop jars; but I don't know how long she kept it for.

[ina]

Oy - still no edit button, and there's a misprint!

[Andy Hamilton]

there should be one there now

I froze some a couple of years ago, it was nice to have it in December.

as for the other comments

[ina]

there should be one there now

Yes there is - cheers!

My point is - making cordial should in itself be the way to preserve whatever it is you are using. After all, when you buy cordial it's not frozen - so why give it the double whammy and freeze it as well?