Lavender Lemonade ... you'll autumn inwards honey amongst its beautiful together with calming shade of pink, together with its fragrant floral flavour of lavender.
I am absolutely enamoured amongst this lavander lemonade.
Isn't it beautiful?
Such a calming and comforting shade of pink. Like the inside of a polished seashell. You know, those large ones you concur upward to your ear together with you're supposed to hear the ocean?
On a recent mount cabin get-away girls' weekend amongst 1 of my friends, nosotros went poking around some shops inwards a footling mount town. I stumbled across a department inwards the dorsum corner of 1 of these footling shops dedicated to lavander products from Mountain Farm, a lavander (and huckleberry together with dairy goat) farm inwards the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina.
Since many of the products had to create amongst cooking, I ... of course of report ... 'got stuck' inwards this corner for quite some fourth dimension ... reading all the production labels, my heed swirling amongst ideas.
I'd never cooked amongst lavender. And I was intrigued. I swear I could convey bought every production inwards there.
I settled on simply three. Pretty adept restraint on my part, if I create tell together with hence myself.
One of them was this A Taste of Lavender cookbook from Mountain Farm, amongst a footling package of dried lavander inwards the back.
As presently every bit I got dwelling I gave Mountain Farm's lavender lemonade recipe a try.
And I honey it. Lemonade infused amongst the florally fragrant sense of savor of lavender. But not too much, together with hence it's overpowering. It was simply correct to me.
Over ice, a tall drinking glass of lavander lemonade is perfectly refreshing on a hot summertime day. Yup, I'll endure making lavander lemonade 1 time to a greater extent than ... for sure.
Lavender Lemonade
Ingredients Source: Adapted from A Taste of Lavender: Culinary Delights from Mountain Farm compiled yesteryear Linda Thompson & Marilyn Cade
- 4 sprigs fresh lavander (flowers & stems) or nearly 1 T. dried lavander flowers
- 1 1/2 c. granulated carbohydrate
- 1 c. fresh lemon juice (about vi lemons)
- 1/4 c. fresh lime juice (about ii limes)
- 2 quarts water
- Bring H2O together with carbohydrate to a boil inwards a large saucepan. When carbohydrate is dissolved, take away from heat.
- Add lavender, lemon juice, together with lime juice. Cool to room temperature, strain, together with chill.
- Serve over H2O ice garnished amongst lemon slices together with lavander sprigs.
Enjoy!
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