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1838, Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, 22nd edition, enlarged, p. 27,
A poultice of elder-blow tea and biscuit is good as a preventive to mortification.
1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret, Boston: Jordan and Wiley, Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 274:
I wouldn’t tech it sooner a cow’d eat elder blows.
1876, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Poetry and Imagination”, in Letters and Social Aims, Boston: James R. Osgood, page 33:
What are his [the writer’s] garland and singing robes? What but a sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow, or the timber-yard and corporation-works of a nest of pismires is event enough for him,—all emblems and personal appeals to him.
1893, Louise Imogen Guiney, “Peter Rugg the Bostonian”, in A Roadside Harp,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 2:
[…] the long highway broidered thick With elder-blow and rose;
[…] the elder was all in bloom now; and Anna wanted to make elder-blow wine.
1989, Cathy Johnson, The Nocturnal Naturalist: Exploring the Outdoors at Night, Chester, CT: Globe Pequot Press, page 42:
Elderflowers glow like incandescent seafoam in the darkness. They, too, are good to eat. We make a fine tea of them to serve with elder blow fritters on the deck at night.
