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 in the United States. Father's Day in the United States is on the third Sunday of June. It celebrates the contribution that fathers and father figures make for their children's lives. Its origins may lie in a memorial service held for a large group of men, many of them fathers, who were killed in a mining accident in Monongah, West Virginia in 1907. Father's Day is a day for fathers and father-like figures.