After spending a wonderful weekend at the Lavender Festival in Sequim, Washington I found many new and exciting ways to cook with culinary lavender. This is a quick way to turn your favorite lemonade into an extra special, cooling and calming summer treat. It works equally well with lemonade made fresh or from concentrate. My preference is fresh lemonade because I can better control the sweetness and have a chance to get some pulp too.
Be sure to use culinary lavender when cooking, it has a lower camphor and resin content than the fragrance lavender. The fragrance lavender smells great but doesn't taste very good.
Lavender Festival Lemonade
Ingredients
1 quart lemonade (fresh or from concentrate)
1 Tablespoon dried culinary Lavender
1 cup boiling water
sprigs of fresh lavender, mint (optional garnish)Directions
Put lavender in boiling water and let steep for 20 to 30 minutes until the water is cool. Strain out the lavender pieces (they have already given up their best flavor) and add the lavender water to the lemonade. Serve chilled over ice. For an extra special presentation, put a sprig of fresh lavender into each glass right before serving.
This would also be good with a little fresh mint, slightly crushed and added to the lemonade while mixing so it has time to mingle before drinking.
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This would also be good with a little fresh mint, slightly crushed and added to the lemonade while mixing so it has time to mingle before drinking.
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