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.
Father's Day. The idea for an official Fatherâs Day celebration came to a married daughter, seated in a church in Spokane, Washington, attentive to a Sunday sermon on Motherâs Day in 1910-two years after the first Motherâs Day observance in West Virginia. The daughter was Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd.