DIRECTIONS: 1  Pour water into saucepan and add elderberries, ginger and cinnamon. 2  Bring mixture to a boil. 3  Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for about 40â45 minutes or until the liquid has reduced by about half.  Remove from heat and mash the 1  berries. Pour through a strainer or cheesecloth into a glass bowl.
In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge recognized Fatherâs Day as the third Sunday in June of that year and encouraged states to do the same. Congress officially recognized Fatherâs Day in 1956 with the passage of a joint resolution.
Fatherâs Day: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know. June 21, 2015 is Fatherâs Day in the United States. It was invented by Sonora Smart Dodd, whose single father, American Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, raised her and her five siblings. It was first celebrated on June 19, 1910 in Spokane, Washington, two years after the first Motherâs Day was celebrated in Grafton, West Virginia.