[/caption]I was poking around Pinterest, in the name of finding fun things that can be made with ingredients from ACE - have I mentioned I love my job?
I found lots of fun projects including painted plastic animal figurines as place settings, mason jar lanterns and decorated chalkboards. And then I came across Lavender Lemonade.
Now, if you're anything like me (or even nothing like me, really) you probably like lavender. And if your mom is anything like mine, you know that people actually cook with lavender. As an herb. Imagine!
So when I saw that there was such a thing as lemonade enhanced with a bit of lavender simple syrup, I actually took pause and thanked the elves at Pinterest for placing this delicacy in my path.
Then, I promptly copied the URL for the recipe and was about to email it to my mother, when I thought, wait. There are way more people who need to know about this. And so, I share it with you.
Enjoy!
INGREDIENTS
1 cup sugar
About ¼ cup fresh lavender blooms, stripped from their stems*
1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice, strained.
DIRECTIONS
- Make a simple syrup by combining the sugar with 2 ½ cups water in a saucepan and boiling until the sugar dissolves, about 1 minute. Remove from heat, add the lavender blooms and cover. Let stand for 1 hour, or up to 4 hours. Strain syrup and discard lavender.
- Pour lavender syrup into a pitcher. Add lemon juice and 2 ½ cups water. Stir, taste, and adjust to your liking, adding more lemon juice or water if desired. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
* Culinary lavender can be found in farmer’s markets if you aren’t lucky enough to have some growing behind your garage.
Note: If you’d like to make Pink Lemonade, add a splash of grenadine.
Recipe and Image taken directly from Shindig411.com, credited originally to Elizabethwgiftbaskets.com though I couldn't find the recipe or the image on that site.
- Jocelyn Broyles
