Lavender Lemonade ... you'll autumn inwards dear amongst its beautiful as well as calming shade of pink, as well as its fragrant floral season 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 check upwards to your ear as well as 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 trivial mount town. I stumbled across a department inwards the dorsum corner of 1 of these trivial shops dedicated to lavander products from Mountain Farm, a lavander (and huckleberry as well as dairy goat) farm inwards the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina.
Since many of the products had to produce amongst cooking, I ... of class ... 'got stuck' inwards this corner for quite some fourth dimension ... reading all the production labels, my require 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 only three. Pretty proficient restraint on my part, if I produce nation as well as thus myself.
One of them was this A Taste of Lavender cookbook from Mountain Farm, amongst a trivial package of dried lavander inwards the back.
As shortly equally I got habitation I gave Mountain Farm's lavender lemonade recipe a try.
And I dear it. Lemonade infused amongst the florally fragrant gustation of lavender. But not too much, as well as thus it's overpowering. It was only correct to me.
Over ice, a tall drinking glass of lavander lemonade is perfectly refreshing on a hot summertime day. Yup, I'll hold out making lavander lemonade 1 time again ... for sure.
Lavender Lemonade
Ingredients Source: Adapted from A Taste of Lavender: Culinary Delights from Mountain Farm compiled past times Linda Thompson & Marilyn Cade
- 4 sprigs fresh lavander (flowers & stems) or nearly 1 T. dried lavander flowers
- 1 1/2 c. granulated saccharide
- 1 c. fresh lemon juice (about vi lemons)
- 1/4 c. fresh lime juice (about two limes)
- 2 quarts water
- Bring H2O as well as saccharide to a boil inwards a large saucepan. When saccharide is dissolved, take away from heat.
- Add lavender, lemon juice, as well as lime juice. Cool to room temperature, strain, as well as chill.
- Serve over H2O ice garnished amongst lemon slices as well as lavander sprigs.
Enjoy!
